Most difficult game to 'explain' from the boxart.

[GideonB]

Final Fantasy VIII: Your an angtsy emo twat that goes about emoing everyone until you realize the only way to win is to get laid by the crazy retard. Squall and Rinoa should both never be re-done again. Oh wait. (vanille in ff13 is crazy. and Emil in Tales of Symphonia dawn of the new world. nuff said)

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

So, you are a cybernetic bee with guns that shoot other bugs to prove that you are badass.

Ok, it's weird but it's an idea.

OR

You are a small, sentient, microchip that is forced to take over robotic animals in order to reclaim your real body.

......Riiiight.

 

[Sparrowsabre7]

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BetterThanItSoundsVideoGames

/topic =P

 

[xqxm]

Well San Andreas has a quite big problem in the bipolar disorder department.

"So you're this guttersnipe from the afro ghettos who has lost a little brother and now your mother too, and you come back to your home out of your incredible strike of grief. Then you f***ing murder entire building sites full of workers and bury their foreman in cement while he's taking a shit in the portapotty, because one of them said your sister has a nice ass. Also, you steal jumpjets from military carriers and jetpacks from top-secret bases with the help of a secret agent and an aging hippie. Yeah."

Other than that, i'd probably say Braid. If giving a shit about the story, anyway, but just like San Andreas, that's hardly why we're there in the first place.

 

[Fidelias]

(Points At Borderlands case) Its about a dude with a mask on?

Actually it IS about this dude with a mask on. And you kill him and his midget brothers about a million times.

 

[Cinnamonfloss]

Sims:
Well, you make people and let them live.
..
thats..pretty..much it really..
Why is it fun?
..
i dont know?

 

[Darkeagle6]

Hmm... Well, Harvest Moon is usually exactly what it says on the package. It's explaining why you'd want to play it that's the difficult part.

 

[Meggiepants]

Any Tim Schafer game really. He makes it hard to explain things to non game players. Hell, sometimes he makes it hard to explain things to game players.

"You're a roadie, and you need to use headbangers and groupies to save this heavy metal world. And it's kind of an RTS, but not exactly. It's also kind of a brawler. Look, you just have to play it to know"

 

[Jesus Phish]

The Final Fantasy Series. Every game I have (maybe the JPN and US versions have different box arts) are just the words Final Fantasy # with a different aspect of the game in it that you wont know what means until after you've played represented in about 3 colours and in some kind of ball/comet tail.

 

[StarStruckStrumpets]

Final Fantasy XIII:

So, you're like this girl, and she likes trying on clothes in the void. Yeah, it's pretty fun.

 

[AVATAR_RAGE]

Final Fantasy, simply because sometime I don't even know whats goin on

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I'll give Metal Gear Solid a try, ok basically you're Steven Segal's character in "Under Siege" and you have to stop this giant robot that launches nukes.

 

[omega 616]

Well you missed out major things from DMC, so I missed a few things out aswell otherwise it gets a little cluster fucky.

Teenage naivete? Plus I hadn't played it yet ;o)

Sum it up again, with the experience of playing.

 

[Drazeric]

Fable 2, Your this guy who gets killed as a kid, but you dont really die. Then You have to try and fight your way to the dude who tried to kill ya. Also on the way you can become good or evil...OH! and you got a treasure hunting dog

 

[Altorin]

sounds like your grandparents actually had a pretty good handle on things

try to explain Heavy Rain from the box art

"It's a game about origami. I assume that you fold paper to try and win first prize at an origami contest"

 

[dsmops2003]

Blaster master on NES

 

[Altorin]

Blaster master on NES

that's pretty bad

I was going to say Mega Man, but actually, Mega Man's does a decent job of explaining the game, despite being fucking HORRIBLE

"You are a guy in a colorful suit shooting a gun and going to different levels.. like a machine level, and a tropical level"

 

[Yureina]

Half-Life maybe. You are a dude with a nice goatee wearing some orange suit. What will you be doing, hmm?

 

[Altorin]

Half-Life maybe. You are a dude with a nice goatee wearing some orange suit. What will you be doing, hmm?

I'll do you one better in the Half-Life box

"You are a dude with a nice goatee wearing some orange suit. who doesn't even seem to be in this game. What will you be doing, hmm?"