Best country for box art?

it sucks because pacman shouldn't be a character which his whole body turns into his head only. it just was never meant to be like that.

 

It dose look all the same now ps3 xbox360 euro/ jap /us wii is not to bad
i prefer some euro wii artwork i.g wario shake dimension euro is way better then japanese.

 

anyway..all the boxart since ca. PS2/xbox era kinda sucks. everything looks everywhere the same. no uniqueness, but yawness!

 

To true

 

Depends. Most older US boxart sucks, but I've seen some better ones lately.

 

Not necessarily, there are some very nice exceptions. I think the PAL Final Fantasy covers look nice (in contrast to those render faggots on the US PS2 titles though, lol). DoDonPachi Daioujou has probably the best shooter cover of all time, but that's just a personal opinion. But there are still lots of others, like Ka, Rez (us), Katamari Damashii, Zettai Zetsumei Toshi, Tekki (xb), 1080 Avalanche, Radirgy and so on.
In general I do agree with you, but there are still really nice exceptions that manifestate the current-gen era as competitive with older cover art

But then again there are such beautiful covers in the retro sector new titles just don't have in comparable quantity:




new style "science fiction action"-cover:



I don't get it... why??? ...... T_T

 

I love the Dead Space cover...

 

this was one of the most awful us/pal covers in the PS2 era:



and how we had continuously laughed about that one in the local game store back then :lol: :lol:

 

lol, maybe you should give the "Box art of horror!!!" thread a massive bump. :lol:

 

Japanese box art is a lot more varied and interesting. They're not afraid to go with something understated, whereas American console box art tends to go with the action pose whenever possible. A good (or, more accurately, bad) recent example - Shiren the Wanderer:

Japan:


Gorgeous. One of my favorite covers ever.

USA:



Someone in the art department took a look at the original and declared Shiren not angry enough. "Also," he asked to his intern, "since when are squirrels white? Fix that. Yeah, I'll pick this up after lunch."

 

Street Fighter Alpha (Both PS1 and Saturn) longbox are terrible too.

 

They also said, we can't have a fat bloke in the picture or anyone that looks like they appeared in Final Fantasy and that birds tits are too in your face. I suspect the person in charge of the change was a woman. :lol:

The real reason that Acclaim went bust is that the marketing department was spending far too much money on grade a weed. They must have been for the crap they put out.

 

That's not a squirrel, it's a weasel. But the US box art is terrible indeed.

 

I really hate XBOX360 cover art because i think all titles have to have that UGLY XBOX 360 LIVE inch border at the top!

am i the only one that hates this? =P

 

I wish the system-identification borders on game boxes weren't so intrusive. I hate both of the PS3's and 360's borders. The 360's because it's so green. The PS3's because I hate that ugly font. The Wii has the best border by far. It's understated and elegant, much like the physical console itself. When did borders become necessary? They cramp the art and make everything look the same. Can't they just stick an unobtrusive logo in the corner?

 

Probably when multiplatform releases started becoming de rigeur. Wouldn't want the Stereotypical Technology-Clueless Parent (TM) picking up the wrong version of a game for little Timmy's birthday, right?

 

ALL the western Bust-a-move and bubble bobble boxes are shite.:nod:

 

Shikigami No Shiro 2 USA XD

 

What the ????, how is that anything like what the American box cover is like. Did the artist get a brief, oh draw some women shooting guns?

 

Note what they did to Gunbird:



*wrooom* *transforming to an US version*