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

I am guessing Yakumo does not have any PSX games :smt043

 

You guys want to see Box Art horror?!? THIS ONE TAKES THE CROWN!!!



ITS FUCKING PSX PORT OF GUNBIRD!!!! GREAT SHOOTER! BAD BOX ART!!

In fact. If you have the software, you can view the art gallery and videos that the Saturn GunBird has. At least the US got a GOOD shooter but in order for it to come here it had to had shitty decieving box art. When I looked at it for the first time, I thought it was a crappy Tomb Raider like game. But the second time I looked at it, I looked at the back and saw the screenshots and it turned out to be a shooter, so I bought it. Then I bought Mobile LIght FOrce 2, yes it has the same art cover BUT it has another great shooter, which is Shikigami No Shiro!!, here's the picture:.



and heres a screeenshot of the game:

 

I've gotta stick w/ Yakumo on this one. While I make no claim as to quality (I own not one NA/UK game, as I sold them all before moving) the box art, especially in the 16-bit era, has always been horid. I think US Dreamcasts covers are an abomination (doesn't have to say Sega Dreamcast on the cover), and I think while some Japanese stuff is WAY ugly, that whole bigger is better attitude in NA bites it in the ass internationally. It's always been this way. Before I was into games, I worked in a record store. US CDs came in long boxes -- UK ones didn't.

You could write a dissertation on this. It could very well be due to the fact of Japan's cramped lifestyle -- they've gotten good at making due with limited space. While there is definitely some really bad Japanese art/advertisements gone to the full extreme, the US stuff seems to go to the extreme in a totally different way.

If I can ever get the FTP account at JG working again, I might have to do a special article on this.

 

How the fuck did the idiots who made that shite cover think it had any resemblence to GunBird. It doesn't even look like a shooters cover.

Even worse,why is the SAME cover used with the SAME stupid name for a completely different game by a completely different company ? Pure shite and that's all there is to it.

The Real Gunbird cover


The Real Shikigami No Shiro II cover
GAME CUBE

DREAMCAST

PS2


Can people now understand why the US Box are is internationally known as crap. There are quite a fair few shitty Japanese box arts but I've never seen anything as bad as changing two great shooters in to what looks like a cover for a porno Charlie's Angels :smt071

Yakumo

 

The average dumbass american buys games that has chicks with guns. Like Tomb Raider. Thats the only way that game would've been noticed in this country, that or in a big box hence the term "Bigger is better".

 

I honestly do feel sorry for people like that :smt009

Yakumo

 

FYI, the PAL version of Gunbird 2 (DC) had the proper box art, I'm pretty sure. Shame the Bangai-Oh and SF3:TS covers sucked balls compared to the original, imho. (still surprises me to see how many Japanese-style DC games made it over here though)

 

Oh, I don't know, maybe I should start on the quote where you likened anyone disagreeing with Yakumo's "American boxart=crap" idea to arselickers? I certainly didn't find that remotely funny or very truthful, either.

Gosh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to piss you off by not joining in on the "American art is shit" debate - I actually play the games inside the cases, not just stare dully at the covers and worry about if they are better or worse than the covers in another world region. I was under the illusion you were a grown man and beyond this sort of thing, but I suppose that must not be the case if my opinion should be enough to piss you off and cause you to launch into another tirade.

There are cold hard facts, Nintendomad, and there are people's opinions, and you consistently confuse the former with the latter to the point where anyone disagreeing with you is met with the full brunt of your impotent fury for daring to say something different, and as one who has had that happen time and time again, I've got to say it gets rather tiresome, and does not contribute at all to a remotely enjoyable OR mature environment on this board.

Suppose one day I steadfastly claim that the PS2 runs on an 8-bit processor with 640k of total RAM? Fine, lay into me, let me have it, I'd deserve to take some guff for that. But don't fucking try to make me feel stupid or belittle me for saying I don't like Zelda, or I don't mind/don't care about US game box art, or any of the other points where you've blown your top while I've been a member of this board. I don't deserve that shit.

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And just so you have your facts straight, Yakumo, the name change from the MegaDrive to the Genesis here in the US was not due to the 'brutish American thinking' you suggest but to the far more mundane fact that the name MegaDrive was already trademarked here under a vacuum cleaner or something, hence the name change.

 

Touchy touchy mate. Calm down.

 

It does. If I had the cases for all my DC games here with me I'd probably be able to manage a photo (living in a tiny box sucks).

It most closely resembles the box art for Gunbird on the Saturn as I remember it - the disc, at least, has a similar image on it. I like it, though it manages to be shorter than either of the Gigawing games on DC :smt042

 

Gunbird 2 PAL Dreamcast


Gunbird 2 Original Japanese Dreamcast


Gunbird 2 US Dreamcast (Got one at least that looks good :smt023 )


And back to that laughable heap of shit.
Gunbird , err sorry Mobile Light Force on the PlaySatation


Yakumo

 

:smt023

 

Back to the car part of this thread. My car just broke down :smt043 . I'm thinking its just the spark plugs that need to be replaced since they are due for one I just dont have the tools to change them. Its in the shop and tomorrow they'll take a look at it and change the plugs. Even if I owned a japanese or european car spark plugs still break down ;-) .

 

Uh, no, Nintendomad DESERVED a Pwning.

EDIT: And oh yeah, If everyone wasnt from another country, we wouldnt have confusion and these half baked assumptions. I really wish you people would do your homework. :smt023

EDIT, again: above not aimed at Antipasta.

 

C'mon, let's keep the Gamefaqs/Neo-geo.com lingo out of here, shall we ;-)

Oh and madhatter, I do remember one of the spark plugs in my parents' Toyota Starlet breaking down (on Christmas evening even, we had to drive 150km to visit family)... so it does happen.

 

Saw no 'pwning' going on, only GSL being touchy to the point of girlish whining and your own usual ignorant comments about 'foreign' ignorance. Your own posts regarding geography in the past pretty much point out who here very much needs to 'do their homework', self-styled-anti-fanboy-man.

North American boxart tends to suck ass, and Europe is no exception. Japan's boxart just plain sucks far less. Face it, people. No one is thrashing your bloody country as a whole, just as thrashing the actions of your brutal tyrannical government/army in no way is thrashing your entire population or nation, nor is thrashing the traditional idiocy of North American CORPORATIONS in designing boxart thrashing you, or your entire country, or even your mother and her wonderful apple pie.

Calm the hell down.

 

"Girlish whining"??? I think it is more like stating facts about an idiot who is always slamming GSL's opinions, as if he is not entitled to one.

Yeah, but we don't need it shoved in our faces in every other post. It gets really old, really fast.

Completely irrelevant and idiotic. Do you try to turn every topic into a political discussion?

I think you are the one that needs to calm down.

 

Not at all irrelevant but another example of where Americans here tend to perceive thmselves as being attacked and insulted on a personal level. Just as when I thrashed Bush and your armed forces' abuses in Iraq and you yourself admitted you were wrong to cpntinue citing this as an attack on *Americans*, the same is happening here, with many of you seeing as this thrashing North American boxart as an attack on Americans themselves. For crying out loud. No intention whatseoever to turn this into a poltical discussion, and any *idiot* can see that; your idiocy is further complimenetd by the fact that I have rarely since ever posted a political comment on this board, so take that mentally deficient comment right back where it came form - your idiotic ass.

Citing a comparable example is hardly 'irrelevant'. As for idiocy, turn that right back on yourself, for once again being so idiotic as to completely misjudge what was said and idiotically, cry idiot.

Congratulations, was that one very difficult to think up? Every single of you Americans who is taking so much bloody offense over the insulting of North American boxart designed by retarded companies or marketing firms is hyperventilating like a complete idiot and perceiving it as an attack on you, yourselves, as Americans. Get a grip.

 

Well, that person didnt know his facts about video games, not what the continents are. Anyways this is a gaming board and im really tired of assumptions of American butching when it comes to games. I dont know, but maybe its because I own some good games without sucky boxart, that im missing on something good...

Man, im sorry, I guess since i messed up on that geography thing, everyone else can do no wrong critically-acclaimed-flame-war-starter-man.

 

What 'facts' did he not know about video games? Thsi whole damn thread is opinion.

I personally think blanket comments like 'US packaging and artwork sucks ass' are grossly inaccurate. I'm not the only one who thinks the Saturn cases are excellent, rather than plain-jane JP CD cases and the horrific crap that were those European Saturn cases, and that Dreamcast PAL cases are far better than NA/JP ones because they are unique to the DC. NA boxart is not always crap, but the majority of the time, it is beat out in pure style by Japanese boxart. Then there was the DC European packaging and colour scheme, which kicks ass on both Japanese and US variations.

Again, WHY do you people see this as attacking/insulting Americans themselves? People, get a grip. Horrific boxart is the fault of retarded marketing departments, not the general bloody American populace, those who diss North American boxart know this, why can't you see this?