The worst part is that the most prominent person shown, (Madison) is the least important character to the plot.mParadox said:
Bioshock Infinite: The latest victim of the Stupid-American-Box-Art Virus.
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But he has an ascot! No generic soldier has ever been manly enough to have an ascot!
Plus, this is Irrational we're talking about... Knowing how subversive they tend to be, this could very well be purposefully ironic. I'm not saying that's what it IS (it probably isn't), but we don't know what this one is "about." The first BioShock was about player agency, maybe this one is about generic spunkgargleweewee?
Plus, this is Irrational we're talking about... Knowing how subversive they tend to be, this could very well be purposefully ironic. I'm not saying that's what it IS (it probably isn't), but we don't know what this one is "about." The first BioShock was about player agency, maybe this one is about generic spunkgargleweewee?
That's pretty hideous.
First thought upon seeing it:
Cool guys don't look at explosions, they blow things up then walk away. Who's got time to watch an explosion? There's cool guy errands that they have to walk to! Keep walkin', keep shinin'! Don't look back, keep on walkin'! Keep struttin', slow motion! The more you ignore it, the cooler you look!
First thought upon seeing it:
Cool guys don't look at explosions, they blow things up then walk away. Who's got time to watch an explosion? There's cool guy errands that they have to walk to! Keep walkin', keep shinin'! Don't look back, keep on walkin'! Keep struttin', slow motion! The more you ignore it, the cooler you look!
I dunno, the way the angles are going he could be looking down and to the side whilst walking towards us.CrossLOPER said:Nono, this is completely original; he's not walking toward the viewer in the Bioshock cover.hazabaza1 said:If you look closely, you can see that his left hand has a slight orange tinge to it...
Ingenious!
We'll never know... ever.
I cant say. I only buy something after hearing reviews of it. The boxart tells me nothing. Even if it was spectaclular looking.Sepko said:
EDIT: I remember why I didn't buy Bioshock for so long. I thought the suit on the front meant it would be full of swimming levels.
It's not a huge deal, just funny. This features two things that have been talked about for a few years now: The hero posing dead center in the box art, and the hero being a brown haired white man with a 5 O'clock shadow. Welp...
Despite all that, it's not like I can say the game with the philosophical story based in a city in the sky resembling the 1910's America is lacking imagination. It's just weird how these two particular things keep repeating themselves.
Despite all that, it's not like I can say the game with the philosophical story based in a city in the sky resembling the 1910's America is lacking imagination. It's just weird how these two particular things keep repeating themselves.
Why not one of these instead?
Then again, hopefully with being European, I won't have to look at that cover.
Then again, hopefully with being European, I won't have to look at that cover.
After two games with really good, atmospheric box art... what the hell is this?
It doesn't feel representative of the game at all.
Why not use a Handyman, like the use of Big Daddies for the previous games? Or an image of Elizabeth being pulled into the shadows, a la that really cool part from the trailer [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw1N2tna4Ss&feature=player_detailpage#t=118s].
It doesn't feel representative of the game at all.
Why not use a Handyman, like the use of Big Daddies for the previous games? Or an image of Elizabeth being pulled into the shadows, a la that really cool part from the trailer [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw1N2tna4Ss&feature=player_detailpage#t=118s].
From the US - I understand why we do this: it's more about making a summary of the characters in the game than it is about the setting, plot, or theme. Also, the Bioshock seems to be aping the "Gruff male hero with a gun walking towards the camera" thing from all the spunkargleweewee games as of late intentionally. It's essentially meant to sell to people on a cover-only basis.
What does this cover art say? It says "this is a game with a gruff male protagonist who fights tyranny or something with gratuitous amounts of gun violence in fashion similar to CoD and MoH, you know, those games you all like - so please buy it".
Still, it is very fucking stupid and I wish we would stop. Hell, I'm also sick of how we always have to staple fucking "angry eyebrows"/"angry-face" to every main character to make it "MOAR INTENSE, BRAH!".
Every time I see my country's game box art and then see it compared to what everyone else did fort theirs, I wish I had acromegaly, or whatever Andre the Giant had, so I could have hands and a forehead large enough to facepalm to the fullest potential.
What does this cover art say? It says "this is a game with a gruff male protagonist who fights tyranny or something with gratuitous amounts of gun violence in fashion similar to CoD and MoH, you know, those games you all like - so please buy it".
Still, it is very fucking stupid and I wish we would stop. Hell, I'm also sick of how we always have to staple fucking "angry eyebrows"/"angry-face" to every main character to make it "MOAR INTENSE, BRAH!".
Every time I see my country's game box art and then see it compared to what everyone else did fort theirs, I wish I had acromegaly, or whatever Andre the Giant had, so I could have hands and a forehead large enough to facepalm to the fullest potential.
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The box art for the game should be a big shot of the floating city with the song bird sitting on one of the towers looking over it, maybe having a distant shot of the protagonists running from a mob down a street or something.
