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Concept art thread?

Whats the best concept/design book you've read related to vidya? Double plus good if you can provide a link to it.

What was the biggest disappointment when you discovered an idea that was dropped from a game?

>> No.4163052
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>>4163046
>What was the biggest disappointment when you discovered an idea that was dropped from a game?
finding out that the countryside in Daggerfall was supposed to look like this and that the cities were supposed to have balconies through which you could break into the buildings.

the final game just feels rather flat in comparison.

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>>4163052
>tfw you can't get Arena or Daggerfall to work on your shitty Win7 PC

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>>4163064
You should be able to.

Bethesda even spoonfeeds you on how to set up dosbox to play them.

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>>4163046
GTA2 had some pretty sharp concept art. I don't know of any artbook, though.

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Tons of Mega Man concept and production art in the MM25 Anniversary book, which you can download here

https://mega.nz/#F!G8VjXSjY!HigLekH1YRxozZQwgsu7EA

Thank /mmg/

The Legacy Collection also has some, a lot that you can see in the book but in higher res, and some stuff that's not in the book too

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MGS artbooks are always good. Shame the MGS3 one never got released.

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>>4163046
here's another RE one for you.

>> No.4163819

>>4163052
Binbag man from manhunt

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>>4163814
whoops, meant to post this.
RE was originally meant to be more futuristic or something.
cyborgs and all that.

>> No.4163835

>>4163367
Can't believe how expensive those things are. Like $150 on ebay right now!

>> No.4163840

>>4163826

This has me picturing a survival horror game set in a world similar to blade runner.

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>>4163835
News to me. I've got the MGS2 one somewhere. I'll hold onto it.

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>>4163329
Woah, thanks anon. I don't know if this is already in that book, but here's an article with some concept art from Megaman Legends.
http://www.themmnetwork.com/blog/2011/05/30/the-unseen-worlds-of-mega-man-legends

Looking at the concept art for games without the technology to really accurately represent the initial vision before it gets scaled down is always very interesting. And there's a ton of 8 and 16-bit era games with very cool concept art and very underwhelming in-game graphics derived from them.

>> No.4166749

>>4163840
They ended up using these character in Dino Crisis as NPCs.

>> No.4166771

>>4163367
>>4165430
fucking love yoji shinkawa,
did he do anything outside mgs worth checking out?