I'm not american so that's why I'm asking: As an american kid was this cover appealing to you? Now that you are older and knows how the original cover looks like do you prefer the japanese version or the american version? In general, did those american versions of game covers worked for you?

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Anonymous Mon Oct 15 04:57:40 2018 No.5103803 [Reply] [Original]

I'm not american so that's why I'm asking: As an american kid was this cover appealing to you? Now that you are older and knows how the original cover looks like do you prefer the japanese version or the american version?

In general, did those american versions of game covers worked for you?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 05:12:37 2018 No.5103818 are you japanese? i'm french and i had this same cover. i liked it, but the jap cover is definitely more stylish

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 05:19:47 2018 No.5103825 THUNDER THUNDER THUNDERCATS HOOOOO

Anonymous Mon Oct 15 05:22:33 2018 No.5103826

>>5103803
>In general, did those american versions of game covers worked for you?

considering I bought the games every goddamn time, yes. It's not like we had the Japanese box art to compare it to at a quick google back in 199fuckwhenever. And this one at least gives off the sense of a hype ass fantasy adventure with an asshole dog man.

babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY Mon Oct 15 08:19:24 2018 No.5103973
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>wanting to be this faggot

At the time, I probably would have preferred the Japanese art partially because back then partially because I thought everything with this style art was porn.

In hindsight though they're both pretty crap desu.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 08:45:53 2018 No.5104005 >>5103825 underrated

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 09:17:27 2018 No.5104056 >>5103803 American boys grow up with the idea of being tough and badass, this cover gives that idea.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 10:57:30 2018 No.5104202 When I was a kid I loved Robotech, so anything that looked like Japanese cartoons was highly appealing to me, and stuff like that cover wasn't.

Anonymous Mon Oct 15 11:10:02 2018 No.5104219

They did their best to hide "japanimation" style art in the early to mid 90s because it was strongly associated with porn and violence at the time.At my local video store in 1994 all anime was 18+, regardless if it was akira, ranma 1/2, or legit porn. In the comic stores it was mostly the lewd and violent manga that found it's way to the store shelves but to be fair even tames series had titties in them at the time.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 11:15:02 2018 No.5104224 >>5104056 I thought that was a common trait of boys in general.

Anonymous Mon Oct 15 11:16:07 2018 No.5104225
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>>5104219
Forgot pic, but this is what everyone immediately thought japanimation was like at the time BOF was released. On the local news channels and shows like "hard copy" or "indside edition" they would do scare tactics warning parents to keep their kids away from all japanese cartoons due to their explicit nature.

Anonymous Mon Oct 15 11:29:04 2018 No.5104250
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>>5103803
>I'm not american so that's why I'm asking: As an american kid was this cover appealing to you?
That cover? Yes, a bit. It's not particularly appealing but probably not for the reasons you think. The Japanese one wouldn't have been any better.

That cover looks like it's trying to cash in on the popularity of Conan the Barbarian, which is fine except Breath of Fire came out a decade too late for that. When I saw that, I saw a He-Man rip off several years after nobody gave a shit about He-Man. Plus it conveys the kind of desolate and sun-blasted wilderness typical of 80s Conan settings. I'm not usually a fan of that particular type of setting (though I don't hate it), so for that reason the cover wouldn't be especially appealing.

Basically, this cover tries too hard. The style itself isn't bad. I like the presentation of the characters. But it doesn't match what's in the game. If you flip the box over you'll see a couple of screenshots of bog standard top-down JRPG gameplay.

pic related was much more eye-catching to me.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 11:36:51 2018 No.5104258 File: 49 KB, 640x352, 51261_front.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] To be fair even in japan they did western style covers for some games and they were terrible s well.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 12:11:56 2018 No.5104318 File: 119 KB, 640x928, 48991_front.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5104258

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 12:15:09 2018 No.5104321 >>5103803 As a kid I really didnt care about the cover a whole lot. The only game I almost didnt buy due to its shit cover was Suikoden for $40. Glad I didnt pass that up.

Anonymous Mon Oct 15 12:19:51 2018 No.5104329

>>5103803
I'd often see the original covers (or just art in general) out of copies of EGM a few months before it would come out in the states, and it always confused the fuck out of me why when I found the game on store shelves that it had some super ugly art in stead.
America's box art never sold me on games as a kid, I always wanted the original. It did make me apprehensive for some titles that were actually fantastic games otherwise.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 12:38:56 2018 No.5104353 >>5104258 >>5104318 Man, that's terrible.

Anonymous Mon Oct 15 12:45:02 2018 No.5104365
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>>5103803
That's just how pulp art looked back in the 80s and early 90s, and it was fucking rad. For example I owned pic-related since I was a kid and it's always been one of my favorite cover-arts.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 12:50:59 2018 No.5104376 File: 246 KB, 850x1096, uncensored cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5104365 That is the censored version too. Game magazines advertised it with the original art.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 12:52:58 2018 No.5104382 File: 84 KB, 640x773, double-dragon-ii-the-revenge_229232.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5104376 And Americanized art for some versions. They changed the faces but kept the ass.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 12:59:36 2018 No.5104393 >>5104318 >>5104258 The shit quality of those images has little to do with its western style. Conceptually they are fine. See >>5104365 for an example of what it could look like.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 13:00:45 2018 No.5104395 >>5104393 But the example you pointed to is manga style.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 13:52:56 2018 No.5104508 >>5104365 >>5104376 That cover used to get my hyped as a kid. Its so dynamic and action packed, the art is just awesome.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 13:53:54 2018 No.5104510 >>5104508 And the ass was one of the hottest things you would see in gamepro magazine

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>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 16:41:52 2018 No.5104753 >>5104250 >pic related was much more eye-catching to me. >A blank cover with just a title >More appealing Now that cover doesn't try hard enough.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 16:51:48 2018 No.5104768 >>5103803 >Nobody mentions BoF 1 artwork was done by Todd MacFarlane near the the peak of Spawn's popularity and this is a continuation of that style.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 16:54:11 2018 No.5104778 File: 831 KB, 2100x1560, 2363668-snes_breathoffire[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5104768 >pic related

Anonymous Mon Oct 15 17:07:41 2018 No.5104802
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I can't decide if I like Phantasy Star II's US or JP cover more. The US cover looks like a cool sci-fi novel cover while the JP cover is more representative of the game's arts type and has pretty cool Moebius-esque backgrounds.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 17:08:45 2018 No.5104805 File: 258 KB, 1024x652, phantasy-star-ii-jp-cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5104802 JP cover for comparison, also check out those legs unf

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 17:10:06 2018 No.5104810 File: 50 KB, 429x600, 1410231708902.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >not liking patrician western style covers

Anonymous Mon Oct 15 18:14:27 2018 No.5104908

>>5104753
I said ""eye-catching" though I guess reading is not something I should expect from someone who needs pictures on his box art. But it is also appealing.

The font is tasteful and elegant, rendered in shimmering gold 3-dimensional letters. No other box art text in this thread comes close to this level of detail. This is the kind of detail ignored by plebs, who see "just a title on a background." There's also an image of an ornate sword with a crystal orb embedded in the pommel. The only real issue is the fuzzy light effect looks kind of bad.

Also, the red background sure stood out on the shelves. It was "eye-catching."

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 18:17:13 2018 No.5104916 >>5104908 A picture is worth a thousand words. The FF2 box art is lazy and bad. It's not elegant and it tells me nothing about the game. And that is the most pitiful sword I've ever seen.

Anonymous Mon Oct 15 19:09:35 2018 No.5104984
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>>5104250
I love the classic FF logos before we made the switch to the Japanese numbering, they really nail that fantasy book feeling. Though that would be a bit out of place in the more modern sci-fi direction the series started to take with 7 (and to a much lesser extent, 6).

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 19:11:50 2018 No.5104987 >>5104984 Well see this one has a cool crystal ball, airship and floating castle. This screams exciting adventure.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 19:19:37 2018 No.5104997 I also loved FF 1-6. After that it that medieval theme dies, but the core mechanics still good.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 19:24:44 2018 No.5105002 >>5104376 What censorship? I see how Marian's skirt is less ripped here, but is there anything else they changed here?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 19:30:15 2018 No.5105007 >>5105002 They edited the art to extend her skirt by 8" to completely cover up her nopan ass.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 19:32:58 2018 No.5105010 >>5103803 It looks like the he man or conan cartoon. It was made to appeal to american youths who were into manly men in tights with bulging muscles and not that gay effeminate male that japanese youths were into.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 19:36:29 2018 No.5105012 >>5105010 At the time young japs were into dragon ball which is just as manly.

Anonymous Mon Oct 15 20:27:15 2018 No.5105082
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>>5104916
Nice try, pleb. Not every box needs pictures on. Honestly the Japanese box art for Final Fantasy IV looks dumb. It looks like they wanted to do a text-only cover with one graphic (that silhouette of Kain that would become iconic), but some marketing droid said they needed some more graphics, so it has a bunch of Chibi characters on the front half of which don't even appear in the game.

The FF3us box added only a cartoon picture of a Moogle (the same one that had appeared in the magazine ads) and a shadow of a monster. Another great box. It's memorable, distinctive, and stands out from other games sitting on the shelf. It also trades on the popularity of the name and brand.

>>5104987
... which was not an advantage Final Fantasy 1 enjoyed. Indeed, when Final Fantasy 1 came out, JRPGs were not a recognized genre.

Anonymous Mon Oct 15 20:34:06 2018 No.5105091

>>5103803
Honestly, if you ignore the fact that this is a hilariously unfitting style to represent the game with, it's not too bad. Very blatantly inspired by Conan, who was popular as fuck at the time, and that's not a negative if you want to attract customers.

Anonymous Mon Oct 15 21:45:20 2018 No.5105189

>>5104219
>At my local video store in 1994 all anime was 18+, regardless if it was akira, ranma 1/2, or legit porn.
The blockbuster near me back in the day did that too. I remember going in there a few times and having to show them the back of the video case where it said the movie was for 12+ or 15+

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 15 21:58:19 2018 No.5105205 >>5104802 >>5104805 These two look really great indeed.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 08:19:45 2018 No.5105787 File: 204 KB, 250x427, Brandish_The_Dark_Revenant.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Brandish had nice cover art, remake is a fine game desu, pretty addictive if you like dungeon crawling autism.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 08:30:24 2018 No.5105804 File: 886 KB, 2048x1365, brandish.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5105787 original cover

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 09:25:46 2018 No.5105840 >>5104224 It was pushed hard in America till the mid 90s. In the 80s stuff like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone were boys idols, thus slot of companies pushed this visual on boys

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 09:57:32 2018 No.5105872 >>5104778 >>5103803 I like the cover for 1, but 2 feels lame. I blame the lighting more than anything, but the roid-raging Blackthorne doesn’t help.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 10:03:44 2018 No.5105880 >>5105002 punk female grunt also had the abs covered for reasons abs 2 lewd

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 10:04:47 2018 No.5105886 >>5104224 americans tend to lift weights to have their arms double in volume so that they can look like an action man when they go to their office job. sadly it doesn't fix their abominable nasal creaky voice

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 11:29:46 2018 No.5105987 >>5105886 I need an actual audio example of this supposed voice, because a I have no idea what you mean.

Anonymous Tue Oct 16 12:07:03 2018 No.5106060

>>5105987
The american nasal voice is regional, mostly western states and at it's worst in southern california. For british and australians the easiest way to impersonate a SoCal accent is to just pinch their nose. A lot of the women on foxnews with fantastic legs and short skirts have that accent which makes it especially difficult to watch, while Actors from those areas work hard to eliminate this.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 16:52:16 2018 No.5106604 >>5106060 Aussies and Brits are in no position to call anyone's way of speaking nasally

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 17:00:49 2018 No.5106615 >>5104056 who doesn't want to be tough and badass?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 21:33:14 2018 No.5107149 >>5105804 God that game sucks

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 16 22:41:20 2018 No.5107231 >>5103803 >Be brazilian >go to my favorite Locadora >have been playing a pirated copy of BOF2 for ages now >See an original one, brand new. >See that fucking cover >RAND IS NOR A HUGE WHITE HORSE? I cried in my way home

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 17 00:04:18 2018 No.5107354 >>5107231 If you where playing the game you'd know he's an armadillo. Fucking Pele.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 17 00:38:26 2018 No.5107415 >>5104318 It's just Andre Agassi with a whip instead of a racquet Anyway you all need to go check this site out http://videogamesdensetsu.tumblr.com/ Yes it's a tumblr but all it does is post a shitload of artwork by eastern and western artists.

>>	babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY Wed Oct 17 00:58:15 2018 No.5107440 File: 265 KB, 1080x1080, DNbS9qQXUAENeUI.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Tfw

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 17 03:50:50 2018 No.5107631 >>5103803 Yes, it was appealing and "cool". And I still prefer it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 17 07:21:36 2018 No.5107816 >>5107415 >It's just Andre Agassi with a whip instead of a racquet can't unsee

Anonymous Wed Oct 17 14:14:51 2018 No.5108241

>>5103803
>As an american kid was this cover appealing to you?
No, this shit looked hideous to me and was a real disconnect from the actual art used in the game itself. I always knew something was wrong with these fucked up covers, but as a kid I wasn't quite aware they came from another country. Mostly I was offput by the huge disconnect in the art style, and the often superior quality of art in the instruction manual's or game itself.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 18 14:01:36 2018 No.5110041 >>5106060 Obviously you have never lived in America >>5106604 Truth

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 18 14:10:34 2018 No.5110059 can always count on someone on praise paint-by-numbers anime over western art of any sort no matter what the quality.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 18 14:32:01 2018 No.5110090 >>5104984 Such awesome art. And look at what you got with the game. A simple JRPG comes with that much supplemental material. Why did we let game companies get sloppy with included material?

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