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kodial79
kodial79


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How'd Phi's Lov't
posted February 16, 2011 08:20 PM

I don't see anything reminding me of anime on this cover.
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MrDragon
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posted February 16, 2011 08:29 PM

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lol, Box Art doesn't need to be informative.
As long as it looks awesome there are no problems. (here have some piece of awesome box art)


Actually that piece of Box Art is very informative, it very much conveys what the game is about, it's a simple yet rather effective design, the colours and images convey the feeling.
It's bold and aggressive yet simple and not to serious, it's a shooter and it's set in a modern/futuristic setting.

Or as Yahtzee would say it:
Bordlands is a game about shooting guys who look like Jason Voorhees, and sometimes his pet space lobsters.

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foxxxer
foxxxer


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posted February 16, 2011 08:31 PM
Edited by foxxxer at 20:34, 16 Feb 2011.

Jaba, what is this 'Property of Nightterror™'.
You cheer up me

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Jabanoss
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Property of Nightterror™
posted February 16, 2011 08:45 PM
Edited by Jabanoss at 20:47, 16 Feb 2011.

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Actually that piece of Box Art is very informative, it very much conveys what the game is about, it's a simple yet rather effective design, the colours and images convey the feeling.
It's bold and aggressive yet simple and not to serious, it's a shooter and it's set in a modern/futuristic setting.

So what's your point? American and European Box arts are just as informative as Asian.(if not more so)
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Jaba, what is this 'Property of Nightterror™'.

It's a long story...
Adrius offered me to give him my loyalty, but I told him it already belonged to Nightterror...
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Kenishi
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posted February 16, 2011 08:50 PM

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Man, that box art is so anime-ish, bleh. I REALLY hope it's an Asian cover for the game or something.


   My problem with it is not necessarily the art but the concept, it doesn't evoke any felling of epic or at list the interest of picking it up.
 And  are they trying to cut on printing budget by putting in on a white background ....

 So scale down the sword wilding dude put some background live up a bit the cover and at list make interesting enough for people (not necessarily the ones who know what Heroes is all about) and you might get some new people hooked on it.

  On the other hand I might not be the official cover so unless I see it on an official site I'll take it as a might be cover.

 And  speaking about anime and after reading the Heroes history and it's ties with manga art for the early games (read it in Chronicles Vol.2 - Celebrating 25 years of Might & Magic), I would like to see some prelunch movie like the ones that Dead Space 2, Dante's Inferno had, or after a game lunch like Dead Space and Halo had.

  Would be great to have some introductory movie that sets the background for the game, some bits of information presented in written lore could be used like the so called conflict that Sandro head that forced him to go to Pao Island's etc. I guess this is one for my wish list (considering where like a month away from a possible lunch of the game) but nonetheless for me it would be a pleasant viewing.  

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Charrclaw
Charrclaw


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posted February 16, 2011 08:57 PM

The cover will probably be with 5 children of Empire. OR, something bigger

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MrDragon
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posted February 16, 2011 09:01 PM

Quote:
Quote:
Actually that piece of Box Art is very informative, it very much conveys what the game is about, it's a simple yet rather effective design, the colours and images convey the feeling.
It's bold and aggressive yet simple and not to serious, it's a shooter and it's set in a modern/futuristic setting.

So what's your point? American and European Box arts are just as informative as Asian.(if not more so)



I said USUALLY, not ALWAYS.
Here I'll show you what I mean.
http://cdn1.gamepro.com/article_img/gamepro/213000-2.jpg?rand=08C80068-E16B-A19C-FBEFB782E90B117B
Mass Effect is a great game, dominated by dialogue, strong RPG elements and has a completely customizable main character.
What does this box art tell you?

The impression your average consumer would get from this box art is that it's a futuristic shooting game features a girl with tits, weird looking aliens and copy pasted generic human spacemarine guy from every sci-fi shooter since 10 years ago.

This is sadly what a LOT of American Box Art amounts to.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_x4zGGL9H3gE/TKLH96OOsVI/AAAAAAAAAKM/Yp0QbAgeyOY/s1600/Halo-Reach-Box-Art.jpg

http://www.gamercenteronline.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/gow2-boxshot.jpg

Even classics like:

http://www.geekosystem.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/golden-eye-new-550x376.jpg

Heck if you want it worded better, try this, this guy is a little more blunt but despite that very deep. (and very famous for those qualities)
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extra-punctuation/8631-Extra-Punctuation-American-Box-Art-Sucks

Now as I said, Borderlands has quite good box art, so it's not some kind of ironclad rule, but after reading this article, for laughs I started digging through my game piles, and comparing them to asian box arts..... it was quite shocking.

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Jabanoss
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Property of Nightterror™
posted February 16, 2011 09:12 PM
Edited by Jabanoss at 21:14, 16 Feb 2011.

Hmm funny you didn't show any of Blizzard box arts...
But personally don't find them to bu "uninformative" at all. First of all of them are boring That much I can say but they re informative, the mass effect one shows multiple characters and shooting/fighting both  which are present in the game, no?
And the other ones you showed stinks of shooter game so they are most certainly "informative", but yes they are boring.

Edit: by the way show me some "nice" Asian box art. Pretty much the only ones I know is Pokemon and Final Fantasy and those sucks

Anyway, On-Topic:
If that box art for H6 is the final one, I can say clearly that it sucks. Sure it has an awesome font and style on the text but that about it.
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Aosaw
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Author of Nonreal Fiction
posted February 16, 2011 09:40 PM

The trouble is that, for a lot of these games, the box art is being designed as "box art", meaning that somebody told the artist, "You have to create an image for the box for the game.  The game includes these elements, so each of them must be included."  Or they told him, "This is the most important thing in this game.  Put it on the cover."

When the philosophy behind box arts, ostensibly, should be:  "This game is expansive.  It tells the story of a hero trying to fulfill his destiny in the face of unthinkable opposition.  It's a fantasy game, so there are dragons and the like as well.  Do your thing."

Box art should be art, not a press release.  But at the same time, I'm not sure how important that is, when you get right down to it.  For a game franchise like Might and Magic, most of your consumer base is already established.  The really edgy, artfully done box art you want to save for the games that are trying something new, the ones that don't have a decade of games behind them, the games that have to be viewed on their own, so that the box art is literally the only thing the consumer knows about the game.

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MrDragon
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posted February 16, 2011 10:14 PM
Edited by MrDragon at 22:19, 16 Feb 2011.

Lemme see Blizzard Box Arts.
Wacraft I and II are pretty good, they instantly scream conflict, simple but elegant.
Warcraft III, as much as I love it, kinda sucks, single character's face won't cut it, it lacks the power of it's predessesors.
World of Warcraft is actually also quite bad now that I think about it... only stength is just like Starcraft's box art. (see below)

Diablo I and Diablo II actually have strong box art, Featuring Diablo and a skeletal image of The Wanderer respectively.
Diablo I was better though, the Diablo II box art required you to have played it to understand it.
Diablo I just features the primary antagonist, again simple, yet VERY powerful, "THIS DUDE IS DAMNED SCARY!" with an implied "be a hero go do something about it!" being an obvious train of thought after that.

Starcraft I and Starcraft II both aren't that strong, Starcraft I at least portrays the 3 races, though features only protoss clearly.
It does so in bland floaty head style.
It's only strength lies in provoking enough curiosity to flip the box and have a look at the rear side.
Starcraft II however has the benefit of being so god damned famous you'd have to live under a rock to not know what Starcraft is, Blizzard's immense popularity and media exposure causes them to make different decisions on even such a simple marketing element.

That doesn't take away that other then Diablo, Warcraft I and II, they don't have imho really effective box art.
Being a blizzard fan since the release of Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, I never really noticed, I bought all their games on a giant wealth of pre-knowledge.

But to the average consumer, even with the drastic internet exposure, there are always buys that will be effected by box art, namely new potential players that have not been tracking the product.

In light of that, I think MM:H VI should have stronger box art.

But that's the last I'll say on it.
It's just my thoughts on the subject, and I have thought about it rather deeply, I think I've made my point.


Lets see what tomorrow brings, another siege picture wouldn't be horrible but I'd rather get a better shot of a crunchier element of the game.

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Dave_Jame
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I'm Faceless, not Brainless.
posted February 16, 2011 10:14 PM

When I look at the BA I instantly come up with 2 things
Dragon Age
And
Assassins Creed (2)
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Mitzah
Mitzah


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of the Horadrim
posted February 16, 2011 11:26 PM

I still think the box art sucks.

Also, I might have some news. Gameshop.ro has May 15th as the launch date. They were also the ones who revealed the contents of the Collector's Edition. They have close ties with Ubisoft Romania.
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alcibiades
alcibiades


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posted February 16, 2011 11:27 PM

Best game cover ever!
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Charrclaw
Charrclaw


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posted February 16, 2011 11:38 PM

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Best game cover ever!


HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAA, epic as hell!

Btw,I just hope that box art won't be a soldier staring at you and behind him a castle

And can anybody tell me who was the knight on H5 cover?

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yasmiel
yasmiel


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Former Chessmaster
posted February 17, 2011 12:20 AM
Edited by yasmiel at 00:31, 17 Feb 2011.

I usually prefer simplistic stuff, bordering no art at all.

PICTURE
This is what i would like for my boxart
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Wckey
Wckey


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posted February 17, 2011 01:04 AM
Edited by Wckey at 01:05, 17 Feb 2011.

Never saw that screenshot Nelgirith posted. I would say it was taken at the same time they showed for the first time the Mother Namtaru, because of the empty look of the screenshot.

Also, while I was "playing" with google images I found some pictures of the Igromir video (unfortunate I could only saw the video once and I didn't pay much atention), one of them shows some spells.
Due to obvious reasons, I won't upload the image here (unless I'm allowed to), but if I can read well (the screenshot is a bit blurry), the spells it shows are: Decay, Weakness, Quick Sand, Curse of the (I assume its netherworld, like in H5), Slow, Purge, and one I can't read the name.

But I guess you already saw the picture at the time of the video.
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DoubleDeck
DoubleDeck


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Look into my eyes...
posted February 17, 2011 07:43 AM

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about that new unseen screenshot

whats that number (1) in Anastasia's mugshot? her level?  


It's actaully Svetlana.....same hero from the early screenshots released....The number (1) is her level yes, if you saw the Igromir leaked video, Svetlana was a level 30 Embalmer and she had the number "30" in the mugshot....

Just something on previous discussion on who ressurected Archangel Michael and is he good or evil, we know this:

- He was killed in the Elder Wars between the angels and the faceless.
- Mysteriously absent for centuries from the face of Ashan, his recent return has been considered a blessing by the Emperor Liam of the Holy Falcon Empire.
- No one questions the motivations of his timely return from Ashan's past, for all know that an Angel cannot lie.

From this I think the following:
- The current Archangels (now Celestials) ressurrected him so he is part of the Falcon Empire (Haven) (the one artwork shows the King knighting someone with Michael behind him)
- He is not evil but good and he will be the enemy of the other factions (demons, necro, etc.) but ally of the Haven.

Just speculation, use it don't use it!





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Properkheldar
Properkheldar


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Keeper of books
posted February 17, 2011 11:05 AM

The sotd is beautiful....but furthermore...what the heck is that red haired creature?  It looks like it could match the face on the christmas tree. The red haired, pointy eared, sea shell adorned woman. Could be a siren. Perhaps a water elemental...but the red hair could speak against it. It could just be a neutral creature as well.

Exiting.

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admira
admira


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posted February 17, 2011 11:07 AM

Sexy cliff screenshot. What is the ones guarding the chest in the lower left?

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foxxxer
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posted February 17, 2011 11:08 AM
Edited by foxxxer at 11:13, 17 Feb 2011.

It looks like a siren but who knows

EDIT: It's confirmed - the dragon head is a entrance.
The text below the piture says "The Dragon head is one of the entry points to the Underground."

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