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Cover art mysteries Anonymous Sun Mar 26 04:23:20 2023 No.9771740 [Reply] [Original] [archived.moe]

Why did they originally chose orange color for MGS3 cover art? Every other region including later Japanese release is using green as accent color.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps2/914828-metal-gear-solid-3-snake-eater/boxes

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps2/437029-silent-hill-2/boxes
Is there any reason they changed SH2's cover art colors? Both US and PAL cover arts change color depending on system. I'm guessing they chose red to make it look sinister, differentiate, and gain attention for Xbox US. They used green for EU because green wasn't used in original version unlike US. PC is in between color in both cases. Greatest hits EU is red for most likely to get attention.

Silent Hill one seems to be random decision for advertising, but MGS 3 one is confusing. Green is the first color comes to mind when people think of MGS3.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 26 13:08:54 2023 No.9772369 You need to get a life, brah

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 26 13:12:46 2023 No.9772376 >>9772369 What should he post about on /vr/ then

Anonymous Sun Mar 26 13:15:33 2023 No.9772382

>>9771740
It's sepia-toned which fits the retro cold war aesthetic compared to the rest of the games in the series. They probably changed it because it doesn't pop on the shelves the way green does and makes the text bleed into the artwork.

It's brown in the NTSC cover because all NTSC covers legally have to look like shit.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 26 13:43:12 2023 No.9772434 >>9772382 japan is NTSC as well

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 26 14:25:33 2023 No.9772510 >>9772434 Japan is NTSC-J

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 26 14:29:32 2023 No.9772520 >>9772510 and North America is NTSC-M

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 26 14:34:54 2023 No.9772534 >>9772382 >NA: November 17, 2004 >JP: December 16, 2004 >EU: March 4, 2005 Green was already released before JP art but I see your point. I guess they were experimenting.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 26 14:39:20 2023 No.9772543 >>9772376 /vr/ games where you play a life

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 26 14:47:18 2023 No.9772562 File: 1.42 MB, 491x1685, MGS2 boxarts.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9771740 Kinda reminds of how there's like a million different variations of MGS2's box art

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 26 15:00:33 2023 No.9772584 >>9772520 Okay then all NTSC-M covers legally have to look like shit. Thanks for your service.

Anonymous Sun Mar 26 15:06:37 2023 No.9772596
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>>9772562
Yeah, and they are all interesting cover arts as well.
Still they went with original JP cover arts for HD collection worldwide. (MGS3 Green instead of sepia) I'm guessing that's the one they consider true cover art. Looking at HD collection I also have questions about Peace Walker's cover art as well but that doesn't fit in /vr/.

Your pic::
US
JP
JP (Shareholder)
Korea
Subsistence (Xbox US only)
Subsistence (Worldwide)
Subsistence (Korea)

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 26 21:19:18 2023 No.9773298 >>9772562 Japanese premium package also comes with that xbox cover, but it's reversible and has Raiden in a similar pose

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 26 21:24:51 2023 No.9773307 >>9772562 I like how the orange color field blends into the shading on Snake on the US release. Good cover.

Anonymous Sun Mar 26 22:33:49 2023 No.9773461
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>>9773298
That makes sense on to explain why another cover exists. I found the premium edition but couldn't found reversed version. However, strategy guide also use it.
>>9772562
I'm not sure red Japanese one (second row left of Korean one) was released. It might be stock version.
I'd rate it as:
JP>SubstanceJP>Korean>SubstanceXbox>US>RedJP(non released?)>KoreanSubstance

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 07:27:48 2023 No.9774483 File: 373 KB, 1600x1200, s-l1600.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9773461 Korean artwork was also reused for the chinese PC port

Anonymous Mon Mar 27 07:52:36 2023 No.9774502

>>9774483
Box looks amazing. Looking at it at a higher res, it's nearly as good as original JP art. It captures Raiden fighting together with Snake part very well.
I think other Chinese and Korean versions generally use same cover art as Japanese version. Maybe Asian region has same marketing divisions? I wonder why they went with another art here. I'm glad they did though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 27 22:08:39 2023 No.9775901 File: 396 KB, 1263x800, 4148432-half-life-platinum-windows-front-cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Cover art mysteries Half-Life Platinum had this weird low poly version of Counter-Strike cover on its box

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