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>>9452156
>most likely Spiral Mountain
Nigga, Mumbo's Hut and the monkey from Mumbo's Mountain are RIGHT THERE on the cover.

>>9452159
Okay and why is Gruntilda there?
Also it's not night in Mumbos Mountain.
Also Boggles in the tree? He's a character you see in Spiral Mountain.
A huge Grunty head is famously in Spiral Mountain, too.

This will be the least autistic thread on thid board, calling it now

>>9452183
It's not hard to understand the cover is conveying the light happy world (mumbo's mountain) contrastingly being overtaken by the darkness of Gruntilda and her minions. It is using artistic license to portray a basic yet eye catching summary of a large game in relatively small space. The boxart being a single random screenshot from the game wouldn't be a good idea.

getting the obvious out of the way

>>9452283
not arguing it should be a literal screenshot. But showing scenes/things on the cover that aren't possible or present in the actual game could be / is misleading

>>9452315
Or you can remove the stick from you ass and stop taking everything so literally.

>>9452297
>he didn't make it to the banjo player
ngmi

>>9452363
a zoomer wouldnt understand

>>9452156
Finally a thread like this. I think you might have discovered something zoomers can't relate to.
It always pissed me off how the AI racers in CTR bounce less when hit by a missile/rolling bomb while the player bounces like 5-6 times when hit, losing precious time. I used to try pressing buttons when that happened thinking there was some sort of trick to recovering faster from a hit.

Another N64 example:
There's no scene where what is portrayed on the cover actually happens. There are minecart levels but you never get to play as more than 1 Kong and you never see K.Rool in-game until the bossfight (which is not a minecart level) outside of cutscenes.
I understand the devs wanted to make a cool cover that is representative of the game and not 100% picture perfect (ie screenshots) but if a scene is shown on the cover, is it actually representative of the game or is that false advertising?

>>9452492
Bitch, please. Zoomers are the ones that lack imagination and take everything at face value.

There are no enemies like the ones in the cover in the game

>>9452156
>>9452554
why are these old 3d renders so cool

>in-game brosnan model is missing the huge mouth the box art brosnan has

>>9452156
this is obviously a composite image, it's a slice that represents the game as a whole not a single instance

you're being pedantic

>>9453027
Fun gaming fact: they based this box cover on an early model of Bond where the programmer had accidentally lengthened his right cheek by 1000%. The model was fixed, but the boxes were already printed.

>>9453048
Your mom is pedantic about the smegma on my dick.

>>9453013
In-game, Peach's castle is not actually located on a small planet that Mario can fly around. And there are no Goombas or Boos in front of it.

>>9453256
customers could be potentially misled by this

>>9452554
>There are minecart levels but you never get to play as more than 1 Kong
imagine wanting to show off the entire cast of the game on a boxart

>>9453256
>Peach's castle is not actually located on a small planet that Mario can fly around. And there are no Goombas or Boos in front of it.
it is in my personalized copy

>>9453260
so as a kid in the 90s, how would you know what the game was about?
for all you knew it couldve been a racing game. The boxart would make you think the game is centered around minecarts when there are like 2 short minecart rides iirc.
Keep in mind we had no internet and while magazines did exist, most people didnt buy them.
So all a kid could go by was the boxart and maybe small screenshots on the back of the box itself.
In contrast to pic rel, that shows something entirely different from the actual game, the example in the OP shows something plausible that absolutely could be in the game but isn't.

>>9453260
and why not show them on DK Island or the treehouse in the start of the game or in the Angry Aztec level in the desert or in a boxing ring. Instead they specifically chose to depict a scene that simply isn't in the game. This amongst other examples misled kids and made them think things were possible / achievable in-game when they weren't at all.

>>9453256
>Peach's castle is not actually located on a small planet that Mario can fly around
>he doesn't know
To be fair though, it does show mario flying are there really aren't a lot of flying sections

>>9452156
I love that there are these beautiful prerendered characters through this, then randomly they just chucked in a few shitty low poly in-game models of Bottles and some bad guys. Even as a kid that set off my autism.

>>9452156
>Pick up Japanese version of Perfect Dark
>No casting couch level where sexy polygonal Jo shoots and kills her would-be rapist during a power-out
>Returned for full refund

>>9453380
lets flip the script, because you seem a little insane. Can you show us boxart of a game where the thing does happen?

>>9454285
what is shown on the cover can be recreated within the game: mario idle, bowser neutral b, pikachu side steps, Link comes down with his dair on the temple stage.
>flip the script
it's not like you showed anything so far.
More covers that arent pure "composite pictures" show something that is possible in-game than showing places, stages, enemies >>9453010
(!!) actions that are not present in game

>>9454578
In-game, you'll notice that there aren't tabs on the side of the screen which show Yoshi, Zelda, Kirby, Samus, Peach, Fox, DK, Falcon, Icies and Ness. This is very poor marketing and could mislead kids.

>In-game, you'll notice that there aren't tabs on the side of the screen which show Yoshi, Zelda, Kirby, Samus, Peach, Fox, DK, Falcon, Icies and Ness. This is very poor marketing and could mislead kids.

>>9454629
you don't understand, the fact is that customers could potentially be mislead by this

This has to be one of the most retarded threads I have ever seen on /vr/.

>>9452156
It's from Project Dream

>>9454915
based
Imagine...

>>9452156
Well done. You’ve created the faggiest thread I’ve ever laid eyes on.

>>9454801
>>9454723
>>9455516
samefagging zoomers really are unbearable. better stfu than shitting up my thread when you never experienced these games the way we did.

Another example:
The cover of Pokemon Colosseum depicts the legendary Kyogre and Groudon, pic rel. Not only can these Pokemon not legitimately be acquired in the game without trading from the mainline entries, but they also don't appear in the story whatsoever.

If you zoom zooms keep shitting up my thread, I'll simply abandon it. You're neither being crafty nor is the trolling intelligent. You're just getting in the way of a comfy thread.

Holy fucking autism, OP. Either you’re a bad troll or you’re fucking maniacal. Each aspect of a game’s cover is supposed to represent pieces of a game. Let’s start with Banjo:
>banjo and kazooie carrying a jinjo to safety and reaching for a jiggy
This represents the game’s collecting aspect
>mumbo, bottles, and chimpy to the side
characters you will meet and might help you on your adventure, who fucking knows, play the game to find out, retard
>giant, menacing grunty reaching for banjo
obviously the main antagonist, especially considering she’s fucking repulsive and has a look of bad intent
Now we’ll do >>9456279:
>wes in the back
that’s you, dumbass
>legendary beasts up front
you catch them in this game, they’re there to let people know these mons you can’t normally find in ruby and sapphire can be caught and eventually transferred to them
>kyogre and groudon to the sides
if you pay close attention, which I know is hard for a special needs student like (You) it kind of looks like they’re battling. It represents the fact that you can hook up Ruby and Sapphire to your Nintendo GameCube™ via the Game Boy Advance™ Link Cable™ (sold separately in case you didn’t read the box you slobbering pinhead). Now here’s an example of a game box with actual false advertising. This is Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets for the PlayStation 2. Read the last bulletin under “FEATURES.”
>Interact with all your favorite characters, including Ron, Hermione, Hagrid, Dobby™, and Gilderoy Lockhart™
>Dobby™
If you’ve played the game you’ll know he doesn’t exist in the game in any way, shape or form. Not even passively mentioned by any character. I also don’t really care and just assume he was cut early on and the marketing team just forgot about it. Fuck your thread and fuck you for being a mouth breathing nigger.

>>9456279
I shudder to think that customers could be mislead by this post

>>9456279
Maybe it would have been better if you'd asked what covers you COULD recreate in-game. It would have got people thinking creatively, instead of shouting at you about symbolism and interpretation. Getting butthurt doesn't help your case though, try to avoid that.

>>9456279
33 year old speaking, you're getting goofed on for creating a hilariously autistic thread and for going nuclear on all responses that are rightly calling you a retard. take your licks

>>9456279
Kyogre and Groudon are on the front because Colosseum is a Gen 3 game, and Kyogre and Groudon are lead gen 3 legendries.
You know what's actually unbearable, people who nitpick at things that don't need to be nitpicked, and people who throw around the word 'zoomer' when it has no relevance to the topic.
There are retards from every generation, case in point (you)

>>9452187
It's been quite entertaining so far
Everyone is probably a larping faggot in here just to make fun of everyone else

>>9457032
55 year old here, you're getting goofed by replying to autistic bait. I've been on this rodeo before

>>9452156
>running away from the enemies
>running LEFT
what a fucking ripoff, these are in no way indicative of the games

>>9454578
this cover is pretty ugly though

>>9458262
also you don't fly straight with the racoon suit, i'm sure a lot of people got game overs because of that cover and then not knowing how to fly

>>9457831
Holy shit can I ask - what’s it like to know you’ll be dead very soon? Also is it worth spending time on 4chan discussing dead hobbies? Thanks old man

>>9452554
Imagine the final boss being a minecart escape from a self destructing Hideout Helm as King K Rool angrily chases you out. I guess a boxing ring is fine too..

>>9459093
boxing being the final boss battle was so fucking uninspired

>>9459006
I won't die anytime soon. If you feel already dead inside, stop projecting on me. I have a busy, diversified life, there's nothing wrong coming here once in a while to discuss an old hobby of mine. When you get more mature, maybe you'll understand. You're welcome, young kid.

cover shows a player looking in a different direction from his gun, which is wildly unrealistic.
also, you can't bash people with shotguns like the guy sneaking up behind him is doing
you can spray the lambda logo so at least that part exists

This thread is retarded. I stopped reading after DK64 was posted so I don't know if it got any better but holy shit I've never seen a thread this bad up until that point

>>9459245
Dad tell me about mom

>>9453256
That's what zoomers are missing about that old generation of games. Graphics were just abstract representations of worlds, not literal 3d models that had to be exact. Back then the art styles would leave room for imagination, something zoomers lack