Whole Elder Scrolls series has two nice things: Morrowind and Battlespire's cover.
>>12394048Battlespire was such a beautiful train wreck.
>>12394374>Quarantine coverthat's all i need to know you are a pretentious ''artsy'' fag
>>12394374shadow of the beast is so fucking shit how could it win any awards?it's like 30 minutes longthe satanic story in the manual is better than the game propercover is also a fever dream that has nothing to do with the game, I do agree it is fucking sick though
>>12394551Nuh uh!The idea of having so much blood on your windshield from running people over that you need to flick on the wipers is cool, dudebro, and the contrast is nice. Trust me, I'm too stupid to care about that crap.Also, fun fact! That is my own scan from my own copy :)
Do I have good aesthetic taste /vr/?
>>12394374MGS covers are GOATed, just amazing even if I'm not into those games. I love Doom but the cover is cringe. The rip on his shirt revealing his six pack is just painfully gay, like something out of a biker themed gay club from that movie Cruising.
>>12394768>Cruisinglol
>>12394760>guy on the cover and thats itno, you have good taste in games though
>>12394607what's with the pear head on the left
Fuck you, I liked it better than the tryhard "I ze artiste" shit.
>>12394790It's crazy how Japanese movie posters are much cooler but American game covers are far superior to Japanese ones.Pic related is so much scarier than the boring abstract Japanese cover.
>>12394374Beat me to it, love that red RE cover for the ps2. So simple but so sweet!
This one always stuck with me
>>12394827>American game covers are far superior to Japanese onesCome on now, kek
>>12394560it's a shit game but the graphics and art direction were insane for 1989. what's that about a satanic story tho?
Tails Adventure is always what my mind goes to when I think of my favorite box art. I love the sense of excitement and adventure in this cover, and it was right of Sega not to change it for international markets. Great artwork for a fun handheld platformer.
...and, likewise, I consider Super Mario Land 2's boxart to be the pretty much best VG illustration ever made.
>>12395526Genuinely scary looking, damn
The frog is my favorite part, but the whole thing is great. That artist did some of the best vidya covers ever, in most cases surpassing the JP art or at least being equal. Golden era for Konami in the west.
>>12394038The cover art for the Japanese windows 98 port of Sonic CD, like just look at this thing, its fucking majestic. I love how serious Sonic is and how intimidating eggman is holding little planet chained in his grasp, such an awesome cover.
>>12395889That cover art could legitimately pass as a promotional poster for an anime...
>>12394038Gunstar Super Heroes, specifically the Japanese box art. The North American and European art looks too plain by comparison.Sadly the anime redesigns of each character are the only good thing about GSH. It's somehow an overly faithful remake of the original Gunstar Heroes and inferior to the original Mega Drive game in almost every way.Try playing through the game on Normal or Hard Mode (which you have to do for the full story) and you'll see what I mean. Moon 2 is practically impossible to get through unless you exploit a very specific dead-zone on the miniboss.
>>12395889For me it's still the US longbox cover art. Iconic as fuck and great background artwork as well.
>>12396035I love it myself, never understood the hate for it since it shows you actual gameplay elements (the background is the first special stage, sonic is jumping on a UFO in said special stage, he's holding a time stone establishing they're Sonic CD's version of the chaos emeralds, has an iconic and simple logo, and shows metal sonic in opposition to sonic like europe and japan did)
>>12394760No, this is the kind of crap a school shooter would think is cool
>>12396037Yeah also the color disposition, how little planet on the upper right balances with the Sega CD's blue strip format to the right, with Sonic and Metal also being blue, great contrast and composition along with the background.It's just iconic and has a different feel from the Genesis game covers, like this is a special thing, a sort of OVA or gaiden sort of deal.
>>12394790>white outline with black bevel and white gaussian blur outlineAmericans and their gaudy covers
>>12396116Go play your mascot slop then you giant vagina.
>>12396254That's an emboss + gradient overlay + stroke, then they rasterized it and applied a 100% opacity drop shadow, then they rasterized it again and applied an outer glow. The whole thing is done with Photoshop's blending options menu.You'd use smart objects or something instead of rasterizing in modern photoshop, but that's how you had to do it back in the day.
>>12394551That's artsy? It's a windshield wiper wiping away blood, from the car being coated in blood from ramming some fucker. It's violent as fuck and hints at the game's content.
This one isn't a cover, but I always loved this style of advertising, playing at the violence.
>>12396551>mascot slopthis is the most queer insult i've ever seen lol
>>12397373Lmao pathetic. It's clear you're a bing bing wahoo manchild loser.
>>12397373>queer You can say gay here, bro. Shit, you can even say faggot if you want to
>>12397526You're a faggot who has to put "slop" at the end of anything you don't like because forming an actual opinion on a topic is to hard for your thirdie brain to comprehend, 4cuckers are just as brainrotted as zoomers while trying to act superior its laughable.>>12397560I use whatever words I like.
You don't get stuff like this any more
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>>12397809Hmm, y'know I'm not really sensing a common theme here...Sports??
I bought a new Dendy off of AliExpress and it came with AI art of the games in its main menu.
>>12398415Yuck.
I love how this one basically says "Eat shit and die you alien scum"
Game covers rarely achieve high art status because they're effectively movie posters made to draw the eye while details get overlooked.
>>12400787My name is Duke Nukem, and I approve of this message.
>>12398415Just because you got shit in the mail doesn't mean we want to see it.
