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Boxart. Name your favourite.

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Divinity: Original Sin 2 Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
Lol, saw that and thought "wtf is this weeb shit?". Then I noticed the m&m title.

They were made by Akihiro Yamada who made more contributions to the gaming world as artist, plus many manga works. He was also a character designer in Wizardry I and II, and he later became Graphic Director in Wizardry III and IV - the separate versions for TurboGrafx. His portfolio is enormous.

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Rabbid

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Thanks for the info. Unique artworks for sure (given the origin). Still largely weeb though.
 

Kev Inkline

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A Beautifully Desolate Campaign Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Pathfinder: Kingmaker Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
I dont think Biz was yet featured in this thread, if he was, sorry for doubleposting, but his work lasts a second serving.

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Delbaeth

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More moe games
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Lol grognards!™
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Just for the subtitle:
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Take that Nobunaga's ambition!
 

Delbaeth

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I don't think so, the First Queen series debuted around 3 decades, and is a RTS-RPG.

Although maybe Two Worlds II took inspiration from it? Didn't try the Two Series, sorry.
 

SwiftCrack

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The most awesome and misleading box art goes to....

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Disclaimer: Have never played it myself but according to wiki the boxart seems to fit the game somewhat?

- Story: The spacecraft of Officer Trepliev, a member of the fictional Alien World Exploration (AWE) department, is sabotaged to crash land on a prison planet called Zarathustra.

- Gameplay: The player has to explore and survive in a hostile alien environment, while using the game's systems to monitor the player character's health status, perform surgery and create makeshift tools.

I mean, that is a ship crashing in what appears to be a hostile (alien) environment :obviously:


I guess it's just a chore/bore to play while the boxart makes it look appear cool
 

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The most awesome and misleading box art goes to....

robinsons_requiem_d7.jpg

Disclaimer: Have never played it myself but according to wiki the boxart seems to fit the game somewhat?

- Story: The spacecraft of Officer Trepliev, a member of the fictional Alien World Exploration (AWE) department, is sabotaged to crash land on a prison planet called Zarathustra.

- Gameplay: The player has to explore and survive in a hostile alien environment, while using the game's systems to monitor the player character's health status, perform surgery and create makeshift tools.

I mean, that is a ship crashing in what appears to be a hostile (alien) environment :obviously:


I guess it's just a chore/bore to play while the boxart makes it look appear cool

Take a look yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ_hZBW6glk
 

Beastro

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Still wouldn't say I would feel robber by the box though :troll:

It's got A werewolf, a T-rex, giant bugs and buffalo type animals that charge you along with some robots at the end.

That and the look of the planet gives me the impression it has more in common with adventure novels like King Solomon's Mines than it does with "a hostile alien environment"The ship too on the cover looks like an old 30s style rocket ship while the intro...

All of that gives you the impression that you're going into a game that's a mix of Buck Rogers and the above mentioned adventures games when it's not, at all.

I still love the hell out of the FMVs though.
 

Beastro

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Very stylized, and yet very accurate depiction of the game. Screenshots on the back let ya know it's a top down RTS:

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I always loved this cover. Looked like the guy has a little, gimpy robot arm:

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This one looked like it just got sent out on its first mission and is it's death throws trying to balance its long arms while under fire:

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Super lazy stock mil picture. Love the game though, best bargain bin game my bro bought and the good ones were damn rare, it's why its here:

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A-10 on it so I really fell for this game. Was good too. Only reason it's here is the ending goes from fucking up Saddam to realizing aliens are behind Gulf War 2.0 :D.

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Your images were Goldfist material (not that I can give them) until the "Plok" image. Way to kill a combo there. :)

So regular Brofist is all you get. :)
 

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