ICO IS ART

The Jap cover for Mass Effect 1 is better but I don't really mind the new one.

Anyway... why complain about the box art... The game itself is the most important thing.

Mass Effect 2 box art is fine.

Remember when box art was good?

>>47394999
That ICO box art is atrocious, especially compared to the other one. But let's not start a PAL vs. NTSC thread. Not today. We can all agree that when a game arrives 2 months later it has better box art.

>>47395107

That's like saying if I go to a restaurant and buy an expensive dinner, if I find a speck of actual excrement on my silverware, I should shut up and eat.

Fuck off if you don't have anything intelligent to say.

"Waiter, I do not like this bowl. It makes the soup taste bad."

>>47395293
No, it would be like given a fork that you didn't like the colour of.

>>47395356
no the fork is the controller god you are dumb

ME1 box art is good

>>47394999
Thanks, will do.

>>47395403

then the knife is the chair.

this is confusing.

Man I loved that lord of the rings game

>>47395403
The controller doesn't have shit on it, does it?

Covers have to appeal to the average joe who knows nothing about the product. Unfortunately, that's usually means slapping a bunch of floating heads on a background and calling it a day. This is even worse with DVD covers, since they want everyone to know that Brad Pitt is in the movie.

Special Edition covers are always better, since the target demographic values good design a bit more.

I don't see many problems with any of those pieces of boxart, Ico could be a little less goofy-looking though.

I do not like the shape of this building, it is too symmetrical.

The food is fine though, and I don't look at the exterior of the building much. So I don't really give a shit.

>>47395337
>>47395356

"Waiter, this bowl has numerous large cracks running through it and was, I think, kind of dirty before it got to me."

"Is the food to your liking?"

"Yes, but--"

"Then there's nothing to complain about, is there?

You two douches are the waiter.

>>47395879

no, you mean it's a good restaurant, but looks like a crack-den from the outside

that is the most accurate "food-analogy"

>>47395958

This.

I agree with the OP, but ME1's cover wasn't *that* bad. ME2, definitely, but the first one's fine.

>>47395958
"Waiter, this bowl is orange and I don't like orange."

"Well it isn't cracked or dirty, it doesn't actually impact the food"

Another example is Kotor2.

I love kotor2, but I hate the cover art.

If they had just used... i dunno, Nihilus standing ominously in the background being angry i would be pleased.

but i guess there's really nothing we can do on the subject.

Also, this

>>47396263
That's like saying you don't like the palette of a particular cover. My post was about the technical and stylistic quality of the thing.

Which is, y'know, what we're actually talking about.

>>47395958

I agree purely because I appreciate style, but your analogy is bogus.

You'd be more accurate saying: "Waiter, this food is displayed in a fashion that makes it look unnappetizing."

>>47396590
So "It LOOKS dirty to me," then?

>>47396683
It looks messy, dirty implies that it is unhygenic, which breaks the metaphor.

We know what games are like without the covers because we are basement dwelling low-lifes who know everything about a game before it is released. The average consumer does not, they need to be able to understand the game and it's focus just by looking at the cover.

There is no room to be artistic.

>>47395958
hurr durr a dirty fork/plate whatever impies bad hygene, which should be intorable in an expensive restaurant. Boxart is just opinions, bitching about that is for hipster faggots OMG I KNOW SO GOOD HOW REAL ARTZ LOOKS LIEK