Welcome to the "We hate your style" Thread :)

I'm going to have to go with the Japanese cars in this case. My brother's Honda Accords are both nearing 200,000 miles, and so far he's only needed to have his transmission fixed (on his 1991 5-speed Accord, anyway), and that's because he's rather rough on the car.

My dad's Dodge, however, has been driven every day, and he's very gentle with his cars. His last Dodge crapped out at 200,000 miles (which isn't too bad) and never gave him much trouble. This new one, however (2002 I believe), has given us plenty of trouble. There have been transmission problems, air conditioning problems, and something else I don't remember (I don't think it was vital to the car running). I'm not much of a car person, but I think the Japanese are ahead of everyone else in the automobile category.

 

You can't beat a good old punch up on the board hehehehe. :smt071

Anyway's anyone who doesn't think US videogaming packaging is shite is probably mad or in desperate need of a psychiatrist.

Good on you Yakumo.....a bit of honesty never hurt anyone, no doubt I'll feel the backlash of a few arselickers for this post. :smt082 :smt042

 

Exactly. Also, for those of you who still think that Japanese cars are more durable, that gap has been closing since about the 80's. Yes, Japanese cars may still be ahead, but it is not nearly as drastic as it was in the past. I think the American companies have done well in such a competitive market.

@ Nintendomad
I like my shitty American box art thank you very much :-D :smt042

 

I like my big clunky saturn cases. It leaves more room for artwork! :smt023

 

Yeah, if the cars only have to race in a straight line! Those US cars aren't built for high speed cornering! :-D

 

Yeah, but lets not forget the Ford GT, Saleen S7, Vector W8, Vector M12, and the Mosler MT900 Photon. Oh, and Ford GT40 owned La Mans for like what, four years. As far as track cars go, Europe is teh bomb. It's hard to compete with Lotus, Porsche, etc. But if you want the best 1/4 mile cars, American muscle owns all.

Oh, BTW I am sorry for pushing this way of topic. :-D Yakumo that is an ingenious plan you have going. Are you going to be doing it with any of your other games, such as your PSX games?

 

I can't argue w/ the fact that American cars are getting better... I think Japanese cars are as well, but yes -- the gap is getting smaller. I'll still go w/ the name brands w/ the ass-romping track record any day though. My slams on the yank cars aren't to say "If you buy a Ford, it'll crap out early on you" but I do think it's more likely to.

One country that's creaping up as well are the Korean cars. Exporting cars to Korea is apparently getting tougher and tougher, as their cars are getting really good too.

 

Wow, that was really... how you say? Uncalled for.

 

So you think it is ok to be consistently papped off with shoddy cheap artwork, poor instruction booklets and overall horrible tatse in packaging then GSL??

It's no wonder that it never gets any better and poor people in the US who actually appreciate packaging for collecting reasons are forced to import nearly all Gamecube titles and the vast majority of ps2 stuff and don't even get me started on the GBA stuff.Stand up and be counted and state the opinion that it is just not good enough! :smt045

I persona;ly couldn't care less if the comment was called for or not, it's my opinion and the opinion of nearly every import gamer I know, in fact 99.9% of gamers I know period.What's so uncalled for about speaking the truth?

 

In fact your comment has pissed me off, let's compare shalle we

Family Computer boxes vs NES....don't make me laugh!

US GB Vs Jap GB....no comparison.

US GBA vs Jap Gba....don't make me laugh again.

Gamecube ......same again, the jap design of the box and artwork plus instructions are infinetly more stylish and imaginative.

Ps2....artwork again far better and instruction art again far better.

Snes vs the ultra stylish Super famicom stuff, again no contest.

So you answer me GSL, when were american boxes and packing not absolute crap compared to the other region????Name me one console cause I bet you will really struggle.At what point are you guy's gonna actually wake up and see the rest of the gaming world see's your packaging as utter tripe.

 

What games have you been buying?? You must have poor taste then :smt043

 

I guess we'll have to point you to the box art of horror thread.

 

I dont know why hes calling American boxart shitty. It must be because I own good games. You should have at least said shitty games have shitty artwork and packaging. But I can agree with you a little because crappy artwork has scared me away from many a good game IMO. But I just didnt know it...

 

Yakumo...PSX games... whaaaa??????

 

What Nintendomad is trying to point out is that almost nobody apart from Americans like American style. Europeans prefer the Japanese style in game boxes, art and instructions. In the late 90's many European games even started to keep the Japanese art work while the US games still keep what I have dubbed "Man-Li" style covers. Same goes for cars and almost anything else come to think of it. Take the Super Nintendo. The European version is the same shape as the Japanese but the US one looks like a breeze block. Now I'm being very serious when I say that the US SNES is a total disgrace in terms of design. Same for the Mega Drive. Europe keeps the same name as the Japanese with almost the same style while in the US it's name changes to Genesis and gets a big ugly Genesis sticker slapped on it. Oh, another one ! The Saturn Control pads. At first the European Saturn had the American style pads butthat soon changed in favor of the Japanese style pads long before the US did. Also let it be noticed that in the UK at least the very first Saturn games to be released before the console has the big American boxes. These games were from Acclaim. Can't remember the two games that were released before the machine but one was defiantly NBA Jam. I remember the outcry of disgust throughout the retail industry and that's probably why we ended up with those shitty card type boxes which finally changed to the best Saturn cases (out side Japan) that looked like DVD cases.

Basically my point is this, American people mostly like Big, Bad, Realistic and Inyourface style while the Europeans like the Sleek, Colourful, and fantasy (Not real since it's a game) style. So there will always be this US Box art or packing is shit from non-American players. This is not a dig at People in the US at all. It's to show that there are different tastes out there.

Yakumo

PS: My word "Man-Li" comes from the good old shitty Capcom art for the SNES Street Fighter in the US which makes Chun-Li look more like a man. Could I not stop laughing back then. :smt043

 

so off topic its like a train derailed...
I found a cool quote

"Fanboys don't realize that Sega, Sony, Nintendo, Xbox, etc. all make good and bad products alike."

If my sig wasnt all powerful as it is now, this would be it. :-D

 

I have to admit that the American packaging sucks compared to Japan (I've no experience with European packaging) in terms of style. It is getting better for the most part though with each new generation of systems. The one thing that I haven't seen brought up though is how much of this is the result of the Japanese perception of what Americans want? This is especially true of the 8bit to early 32bit era which to be honest is where the majority of bad artwork comes from. Yakumo cited the redesign of the Super Nintendo as an example but was that NOA or NOJ's decision? It was NOJ's decision to redesign the original NES (which I believe was the right choice considering the situation at the time) so I assume it was the same for the SNES. Can someone here with experience in the industry say how much input/independence the US subsidiaries have from their Japanese parent companies?

 

I believe chaging the NES design was the right choice period, the NES scene likes the NES case more than FC statistically. (I don't.)

I've yet to see ANY game released in both Japan and NA where the NA label/box/whatever art is more attractive. I even like Mortal Kombat's Japanese box more

 

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I prefer Japanese box art over American, definitely, although the quality of the manuals/cases and such are fine (as far as all the games I've bought).

Who made this into a separate topic? It nows looks as though I've made a thread specifically for telling off the Europeans of the board :smt014 :-D .

And while I'm thinking about it, I played Revolution X the other day. It's no wonder the game has horrible packaging. I sure wouldn't waste my money on that shitty game (as for collecting purposes, I'm glad you found it Yakumo ).

 

My bro played that game once. I thought the big fat guy in the chair was scary.
XD