This looks fine to me. There's a lot of box art out there that actually deserves your hate. Go after those.
Bioshock Infinite: The latest victim of the Stupid-American-Box-Art Virus.
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Who looks at the box art more than the time it takes them to take out the disk after the first day you own it?
Buy it digitally I guess. Not a big deal.
Buy it digitally I guess. Not a big deal.
It's not that pedantic. Ken Levine posted it on Twitter asking for feedback, so obviously they consider it to be of some discussion value.DazZ. said:
Personally I think it looks pretty bad, but it's not like I am buying it for the box art. Most games have pretty average covers as it is, it's not like there is some kind of ratio between good games and good box arts.
Seriously people, the box art is bad, but box art is far form a selling point!
If you have any inclination of buying infinite, then the bad box art probably won't deter you. And any educated gamer would research a game before buying it, so its not going to make or break any hardcore sales. Not to mention the multitudes of digital sales, where box art is nonexistent.
If you have any inclination of buying infinite, then the bad box art probably won't deter you. And any educated gamer would research a game before buying it, so its not going to make or break any hardcore sales. Not to mention the multitudes of digital sales, where box art is nonexistent.
Not sure if sarcastic joke or serious. I'd like to imagine it's the former, but I've seen people fit into the latter in this subject (which is just sad).upgrayedd said:
I really don't care what the box art is. I'm not going to be sitting there looking at the box art, I'm going to be playing the bloody game.
And this is one thing I hate most about this forum. Someone hates on any other country? "Dude, what the fuck, chill". Anyone hates on the US? It's perfectly acceptable. Get more hypocritical, aye?
In a game like Bioshock Infinite where the setting is as important to the experience as anything else, this is indeed terrible box art. It may be technically sound, it's creatively lazy and doesn't tell you much about the actual game. "Oh hey, a guy with a gun, in America. That's not something you see in every other shooter out there. Wait...
Box art should tell you something about the game, and set it apart from other games. This does neither. I can't believe this box art completely ignores Elizabeth and her crazy time-and-space manipulation thing. AS I understand it, she's equally as important to the game as Booker here. And what about Songbird? Or the goddamned city suspended in the air on a series of massive blimps? That seems like something that might grab someone's attention. What about the Skyline monorail, or the tonics that let you do crazy shit like summon a murder of crows? These are what make Bioshock Infinite Bioshock Infinite, and not every other first person shooter on the market. And the absence of ANY of these things on the box is what makes this box art terrible.
Or it could have ignored all of these things an given you a symbolic representation of the overall message of the story. Something a little more abstract, like that classic games as minimalist book covers [http://www.flickr.com/photos/ollym/3289629265/in/set-72157612646893506/] project thing. All this cover tells you about this game is that there's a dude in it, and he has a gun, and he's involved in some sort of conflict in America. That's it.
Box art should tell you something about the game, and set it apart from other games. This does neither. I can't believe this box art completely ignores Elizabeth and her crazy time-and-space manipulation thing. AS I understand it, she's equally as important to the game as Booker here. And what about Songbird? Or the goddamned city suspended in the air on a series of massive blimps? That seems like something that might grab someone's attention. What about the Skyline monorail, or the tonics that let you do crazy shit like summon a murder of crows? These are what make Bioshock Infinite Bioshock Infinite, and not every other first person shooter on the market. And the absence of ANY of these things on the box is what makes this box art terrible.
Or it could have ignored all of these things an given you a symbolic representation of the overall message of the story. Something a little more abstract, like that classic games as minimalist book covers [http://www.flickr.com/photos/ollym/3289629265/in/set-72157612646893506/] project thing. All this cover tells you about this game is that there's a dude in it, and he has a gun, and he's involved in some sort of conflict in America. That's it.
Oh noes! Something that you look at for two seconds (that has absolutely no bearing on the game whatsoever) is not as pretty as you want it to be.
THE HORROR!
THE ABSOLUTE HORROR!
Have we really run out of things to complain about in this community? This is worse than "bottom of the barrel" material. This is "drill a hole through the bottom of the barrel all the way through the center of the Earth, back up through the other side and into the bottom of another barrel on the opposite side of the Earth"
THE HORROR!
THE ABSOLUTE HORROR!
Have we really run out of things to complain about in this community? This is worse than "bottom of the barrel" material. This is "drill a hole through the bottom of the barrel all the way through the center of the Earth, back up through the other side and into the bottom of another barrel on the opposite side of the Earth"
Well, it's not as bad as Portal 2's, but it still strikes me as a missed opportunity. I mean, we have a floating, steam-punk city, populated by giant robots, bird monsters, and science-magic, and instead we focus on Grizzled White Guy #9572? What a waste.
The least they could have done was follow the Bioshock tradition of putting giant monsters on the front. As it is, it's just...lazy. And tells you fuck-all about the actual game.
The least they could have done was follow the Bioshock tradition of putting giant monsters on the front. As it is, it's just...lazy. And tells you fuck-all about the actual game.
are you being sarcastic, or are you really that petty?upgrayedd said:
i don't care what covers look like. once i buy a game, i put the disk into a big CD case with all my other games. i never see the original case and cover again until i sell the game.
Yeah, I didn't think so. Goddamnit. I WAS going to quote someone but I guess the forum just fucking hates me right now, and I'm too lazy to go back and find the post to do it again. You can ignore this.
Just because nobody has even considered posting a direct image of the box art in two pages, here it is for anyone that doesn't particularly care to be forced to use google to be able to comment in a thread:
Looks pretty crappy, glad if I get the game it'll be through Steam.
Looks pretty crappy, glad if I get the game it'll be through Steam.
He put the image in the spoiler tag. It's a long caption in the spoiler box, so I can't blame you if you thought it was a quote box.Ickorus said:Just because nobody has even considered posting a direct image of the box art in two pages, here it is for anyone that doesn't particularly care to be forced to use google to be able to comment in a thread:
Looks pretty crappy, glad if I get the game it'll be through Steam.
It is pretty generic, and almost certainly made to appeal to the dudebros.
Still... At least there is some colour on there, right?
Still... At least there is some colour on there, right?
Wow, yah, that cover is just...awful. You would think with the imaginative artists at Irrational they would be allowed to come up with something not so boring, but, if im not mistaken, the design for a box art is under the umbrella of the publisher, as it counts as advertising, so damn.
Meh. That's the market for you. Spunkgargleweewee sells like hot cakes, so they're commercially forced to give Bioshock Infinite a CoD-ified cover. Gotta try and turn all the dudebros and the brahs' attention, after all. That's where the money's at.
Not that it matters, I don't tend to stare at a game's box art for very long.
Not that it matters, I don't tend to stare at a game's box art for very long.
