[General Discussion] Game cover/packaging/artwork thread

Besides the game not actually having anything to do with "Suikoden", that is. It's really this game:

Which actually doesn't seem that good a cover either



I personally really like the Children of Mana cover. Not only is the artist terrific, but the picture is so vibrant and well set, it easily brings out the "look" of the game. I hope they use the same cover for the European release, it'd be such a waste otherwise.


I'm really fond of old Zelda game covers. The NES ones really simple yet effective, just like Link to the Past and Link's Awakening. Ocarina of Time also continued the tradition (the golden one looks nice, but I actually prefer the regular black/gold version I have. Wind Waker was so different visually I guess the GC cover was fitting. The old covers held that certain graceful majesty to them, much like the PAL Final Fantasy covers with only the original logo (though many non-Europeans seem to prefer the character-filled US covers instead)






The non-platinum FF9 game discs were nice too, featuring the original character drawings by Amano.


Each disc with different color, different characters.

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Originally Posted by Darkcomet72

They are different

Oh my GOD, I didn't realize they used that exact same shitty cover for Mobile Light Force 2, and they're not really even part of the same series!

I want this job, I seriously want this job so much. Do these people win these employments in the lottery or what? I mean look at these!





It's like no one's actually checking what they put on the covers. Or maybe they think shock advertisement works with the finished product as well =/

Originally Posted by Timberwolf

I've never seen the PAL version of Silent Hill 2. It's cool.

I really like the PAL SH2. Not just the cover, but the packaging too. It was one of the first "fancy" game packagings I can remember (at least since the SNES days of cloth maps and posters).

The thick cardboard slipcase held another case inside which opened up, like a fancy "collector's edition" DVD case. The bonus DVD with documentaries was nice too, though it was removed from the Platinum release.



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Originally Posted by aesop

Qwarky, the Silent Hill2 package came with a collector's card too right, or maybe a sticker?

I don't think it did. Just the bonus DVD and the fancy case as far as I remember.
Oh wait, I just checked and you remembered right, there really is a big sticker there. I'd forgotten all about it. "Welcome back!" it says, with a picture of the zombie nurse
I'll see if I can get a picture of it later if anyone wants.

Originally Posted by Timberwolf

On the topic of Silent Hill, here is the Japanese cover of the original Silent Hill, which is much more subtle and abstract than the US version.

I've always liked the PAL Silent Hill cover, it had that diseased, disturbing feel to it that carried over to the game, but now I really like the Japanese cover better. Very effective, at once more powerful, yet doesn't give that "oog, monsters!" feel the JPN and US covers of SH4 do.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Infernal Monkey

I remember feeling so ripped off with this. ;__; Not only because it was $10 more than any other PS2 game at the time, but because the DVD was Region 2, yet the Australian PS2 only plays Region 4. By the time I got a real DVD player with no region lockouts, I no longer had the game. It shall forever remain a mystery!

You should have gotten one of these babies ;_;



(though I have the version which makes a tiny file on the memory card. It's still better than the first version which used its own card you had to put in the slot =x )

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Speaking of Panzer Dragoon Saga, lololol at the awful PAL and US cover again


The US version came in a case that much bigger than the PAL! Honest!

compared to the Japanese cover



I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Infernal Monkey

The Ratchet covers remind me of the recent slew of Prince of Persia's.





The next Ratchet needs just a bit more generic rage though!

Haha, you know, set together like that, it's like that Paris Hilton collage where she has the same look on her face in every picture. That, or the covers make me think the Prince just kept squeezing into every picture.

"Who the hell is this guy?!"

"I don't know, but he looks angry! Those bread knives look dangerous, he might be about to break!"

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My god, even when they try a "ok, let's do logo only" for the US they manage to fail =x

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