Box Art

[Austin]

What are some of your guys' favorite video game box art/cover art? Are there any designs that you think are particularly terrible? Which ones do you love?

I always like Heavy Rain's cover. It not only displays an important element of the game, but it does so artistically and conveys the overall mood of the game without adding too many details.

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[thedestinedblade]

A few favorites just off the top of my head:

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I feel like I'm missing some obvious ones, but these ones are that I clearly remember liking. That ICO cover is only for the Japan/PAL versions as we in NA got an ugly alternative, lol. Imported a PAL version just because I think that cover is beautiful.

 

[Desert Stream~]

OH MY GOODNESS I LOVE BOXART
Sometimes I go into stores and just stare at boxart and it makes me so happy and excited and I have a boxart collection and....
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I like Bravely default/Bravely Second, and also the two FE fates games look cool when you put them together.

 

[Alfieri]

Always a fan of this one

 

[JJ Styles]

As a connoseur of vidya game box art both above and beneath the casing, i have the pleasure of presenting my favorites from muh personal collection:

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Doom 2016 (LUL), Painkiller: Hell and Damnation, Overwatch, and Diablo 3 reaper of souls.

As for Painkiller: H&D, the big black case complements the colors. Its just a magnificent boxart especially with the physical copy at hand.

Now there is more to these boxes than what meets the eye:

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Overwatch Origins Edition when opened up is such a visual pleasure to me. D.Va greeting me is always a pleasure.

Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls.

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Opening the box to see that mighty crusader still reminds me of the good few years i played D3 as a source of stress relief, and that manly crusader over there was quite the guy to tell those customers to play his class and join the crusade.

And finally of course last and the BEST:

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DOOM 2016. Obviously the original boxart of the game was mocked for being overly generic compared to its classic conterpart yet it still grew on me. The Cyberdemon on the manual isnt too bad.

However with the power of reversible Box covers, i managed to do this without ripping and tearing the box:

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The REAL DOOM box art. Channeling the spirit of the classic art piece from 20 years ago that immediately told its viewers about what you are about to do - shoot demons on Mars!. A huge improvement over the original "just the Doomguy" one.

Great box art, at and below the surface, is the reason why i still buy physical copies of PC games and even PS3 and PS4, as well as 3DS ones because they are such a joy to have around the house. They remind me of the good days where great boxart mattered so much.

 

[CidHazard]

Hmm...

Ultima VII Black Gate

Diablo II

 

[JJ Styles]

Theres something about Destiny 1's box art that makes it so appealing to me.

 

[wolf]

Some of my favorites that I can remember:

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And for bad cover art:

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[JJ Styles]

Ballistic Overkill

I look at Ballistic Overkill's promotional and cover artwork and I compare that to the hundreds of these F2P Military themed online shooters out there and I can easily get suckered into playing this game compared to garbage others such as Combat Arms, Blackshot, and Cross Fire (all of which I've played), and i can see why. Just looking at 3 REALLY MANLY characters and with a name like "BALLISTIC OVERKILL" which basically takes the very cliche Military shooter name but dial it up to 10 + f**kin 12.