/vr/ - Retro Games

americans are retarded and unable to like anything unless it's "badass and full of crazy explosions and tough guys"

>>5011276
Everything is driven by the retailer and marketability. The hope is to attracted your "average consumer" to impulse buy your product. I'm sure tones of market research shows people impulse buy based off of CG man walking towards cover with gun. and they must be right or they wouldn't waste the money doing it. and of course Americans are far more brain dead about consuming. a lot of other countrys have laws to limit the amount of ADs say, on TV where America is basicly one big corporate AD at this point.

>>5011281
this

Europoors and Nips are far less capable of understanding something grounded in reality.

>>5011281
No, why even post something this ignorant. It offers no discussion and will just be made fun of.

If "badass" was an important metric to NA, OP wouldn't be asking why NA covers are not as badass as they could be.

>>5011276
>europoors are gay as fuck and need everything to reflect that
>japs are bland as fuck and need everything to reflect that
>ameritards are dumb as fuck and need everything to reflect that

>>5011304
if "badass" wasn't an important metric to NA, you wouldn't see half a hundred game covers change a cute character into a tough guy

>>5011309
>a game where you play as a character who consumes and otherwise massacres every living thing in sight shouldn't have an angry face desu

>>5011276
Post more comparison shots please

>>5011372
not retro but I hated this change

>>5011372

>>5011376
diddled again!

no girls allowed on American covers

>>5011376
Both are bad, the claymation one is better though

>>5011356
The flaw in this image is that the habit of adding X to the end of a title is definitely Japanese. Can anyone think of a western developed game that has an X at the end that is not a roman numeral?

>that one time North America, Europe and Japan all got a nice cover

>>5011402
NOT ENOUGH BADASS BRO

>>5011504
>assface american Sonic
>nice

>>5011473
they're honestly both shit but people will pretend the left one is a masterpiece

>>5011565
t. ameritard

>>5011493
both are pretty based

>>5011276
They get what they deserve.

>>5011504
Is sonic Italian in Japan?

>>5011380
Jesus Christ SEGA

>>5011504
Is Sega trying to warn people away from video games on the bottom of the JP box?

>>5011276
anime>toons in most cases

implying

>>5011380
>Outrun
>Not Outrun the Mega Cartridge

This bothers me more than anything else in that image

>>5011380
Someone, somewhere, thought these redesigns were a good idea that would help sell more games.

That's frightening

>>5011276
>Implying Americans only gets the worst covers.
God, you're pathetic. Have you ever try BETTER research?

>>5011276
>implying US cover isn't the best.

>>5011428
Here's one off the top of my head:
Game cover not as good as original arcade marquee. bland ass boxart.

>>5011721
That Uncharted cover is great though.

>>5011304
>ignorant
Go cry in your truck you fucking pussy

>>5011504
Except that the Japanese cover is obviously shit.

>>5011587
he's Mexican

>>5011402
The U.S. one is actually the best here, if only because the cel they chose in the other ones is just kind of shittily drawn in general. Plus the colors are awful in the JP one and the title looks like something out of a PowerPoint presentation in the EU one.

>>5011735
>Based Japan manages to turn crappy 'TUDEY Murican Kid into some half decent, pretty bearable generic 80s anime boy

>>5011919
the jp cover is the same as the euro those colors are just a bad scan

>>5011276
We have a big flight sim market so the box art needed to show that's not what the game was

>>5011727
I know the "odd" pun doesn't translate, but you can't tell me they couldn't have gone with something that was a -little- closer to the tone of the game. Even if they called it "ABE NO DENSETSU," it wouldn't be right, but it'd get the point across. They didn't have to totally fucking abort and make it look like Parappa the Rapper.

>>5011669
Not just someone, but a group of people had to collectively agree on this mass stupidity

>>5011735
Even the framing is better on the PAL

>>5011721
>Snow white's corpse
>Toothless midget
What.

The Japanese algo got horrible covers from western games. I mean, look at this shit

>>5012228

>>5012234

>>5011661
Maybe Outrun fits in less than 128K?

>>5012228
That's not a real cover you dumdum. Spyro 3 never got a release in Japan.

>>5011504
>Jap Sanic background

>>5012261
Hmm... something just occurred to me.
Are they even going to bother releasing the remastered Spyro Trilogy in Japan, and, if so, are they going to acknowledge those shitty camera and speed changes in any way?

>>5011721
Correct me if I'm wrong, but these are all american-developed games...
There's still a connection.

>>5011276
they were probably thinking better show explosions and planes flying or else people won't understand what type of game it is. The marketer is probably a gamers that severely underestimated the intelligence of Americans or maybe they are targeted at good ol grama who thinks harry potter is evil. Driver is another example where the euro version shows the main character and a picture of a car while the amercian one shows the car driving and being chased or else customers might think its like doom or something.

Nintendo games tend to have good covers compared to japanese games such as with pokemon.

>>5012406
marketers are non gamers who have no clue the games are different from cartoons

>>5011276
their sense of fashion and aesthetics in general is subpar

>>5011276
The US cover is better than the JP cover. The JP one looks boring as hell, it's all blank white space. I wouldn't even bother looking at the back of the case.

>>5011721

>>5011276
Always liked this one though.

>>5012509
Its good art, but its definitely not as good as the original cover. There's tons of great Boris covers for Genesis games, but that's one of his weaker ones.

>>5011276
Better question: Why does the US get the worst versions as well?

>>5012526
nothing's worse than PAL 50hz

>>5012407
>marketers are non gamers who have no clue
You could have stopped here

>>5012328
SQIJ is a ZX Spectrum game, so it's probably a EU game.

>>5011735
I like this one, because it's depicting the same thing either way.

>>5012483
Jesus christ, what the hell?!

>>5012542
Ace Combat 3 is gutted with most of its content missing in the US release, though.

>>5012602
Except EU's version is the same and is also worse because it's PAL.

>>5011402
>Europe: MOAR SATURATION
>US: LESS WOMEN MORE DANGEROUS ANIMALS

>>5012635
American art quality is way better

>>5012635
Part 2

>>5012637
Didn't ask for your faggot opinions.

>>5012637
>American

UK.

>>5012641
Jesus that jap art looks like it was done by a 14 year old on deviantart circa 2003

>>5012642
>calls others faggot
>prefers 80s chinese slave labor animation camp art style to classical western oil painting

>>5012648
You know I always post that flyer and you always post the same exact comments for the past 6 years

>>5012653
You have pleb taste, both are equally great.

>>5012656
You're right, they're equally great in different ways. The JP art is great at looking stupid and making your dad think you're gay, and the Western art is great at looking cool and making you want to play the game.

>>5012659
I always post that flyer and you always post "american looks better" followed by "that looks like it was drawn by a 12 year old". I'm not criticizing just admiring how these threads always repeat the exact same pattern. And someone always posts phalanx.

>>5012654
Then there's a consensus, because I've never seen that image until today.

>>5012654
>>5012662
If you mean me specifically, nope. I guess many people think that way.

My favorite example is the Panzer Dragoon cover. Can't post right now.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/saturn/914514-panzer-dragoon/images

>>5012654
Just letting you know that I too replied to this with the same reaction at least once.
We are many.

>>5012234
The actual box art and title screen for Super Donkey Kong is great though

>>5011565
Not a masterpiece, just way better than the goblin on the other one

>>5011565
>de Chirico
>shit

Poor faggot.

>>5011276
Which one do you prefer? Why?

>>5011276

I see many american games destroy by japanese marketing and many japanese games destroy by america marketing.

Americans are sadists at heart. They're only happy when they hurt others, especially when they can twist their inflicted suffering into a noble, quasi-religious purpose.

>>5011669
They probably though people would already know the arcade versions and that a clean, consistent style of cover would be better for display than something wild.

>>5012328
Sqiq, Sonic 3D, and Ninja Scooter Simulator are all British and the Snow White one is technically a Polish cartoon that's been repackaged as a game.

>>5012228
The Japanese version of Spyro was just fucked with in general.

>>5011276
Because Americans want to advertise what's in the game (ps1 and up). Jp wants to let you use your imagination. Eu who knows wat those crackers want?

who won

>>5011473

Subtlety? HELL NO! Look at this game, it has SCARY MONSTAHS!!

>>5013941
euro cover is pretentious, american cover is accurate as the game is pretty fucking goofy. I don't think it's possible to have a less relevant cover, even the iconic joke that is the Phalanx cover has more to do with the game than the euro one for amnesia.

>>5013932
JP cover is 2deep4me if I'm being honest.

>>5011504

Don't forget about the Sonic 1 Canadian box art...

>>5013941
Did they really put pewdiepie on the US cover

>>5013971

The Canadian boxart also made the weird mistake of calling the Genesis "Mega Drive".

>>5011721
That tennis game cover is so fucking hype

>>5012824
based Votoms poster

>>5013932
they're all pretty shit at representing the game, i guess JP at least says it's a horror game so that's something

>>5014251
EU cover is way better

>>5011607
One player only - attempting to play with a controller in the second port may cause explosion.

>>5012956
Lawyers said we had to give the cyclist a helmet and knee pads, but they never said anything against having him assault pedestrians.

>>5012859
>right
>left
>right
>right
>right
It's mostly the composition or dynamism, these are more pleasant to look at for me.
Landstalker is an exception, I don't like either one, the Japanese box is just slightly less ugly.

>>5013975
yes

>>5011281
Don't blame us for asshole localizers who have to piss their own names onto other people's works no matter how stupid it is.

>>5011380
God I hate the master system boxes in North America, that's why I only collect the Japanese versions

>>5012859
All right

>>5013971
I wish Canada got its own versions, why are we stuck with the ESRB?
R rated movies in America constantly get rated 13-14 here, GTA would probably be rated 16 here.
Maybe we would also have nicer covers

>>5011301
This.

>>5012328
Wrong. Sqij, Ninja Scooter Simulator, Centre Court Tennis, and all of Phoenix games are European games.

>>5012485
Technically, it's not really bad, but feels meh comparing to the US version. The only plus is Drake's "fuck me" eyes.