Is Game Box Art Horribly Corny?

IGN - So many games packages follow the same old clichés.

Some weeks ago, an image was doing the rounds of Reddit, Twitter and games forums, that showed the gross ubiquity of a certain style of games box art.

The cliché (or classic-pose, if you are feeling generous) is of a combat-operative facing the viewer. Behind the character, there is a splash, a blurry conglomeration of chaos, a suggestion of violence and danger. A weapon is usually in evidence.

[sly-Famous]

What a dumb article, If the game is good who then cares about the box-art, If I am hyped for a game, the combat-operative could pulling a moon or the cover could be blank for all I care. No wonder IGN is going belly-up

[ATi_Elite]

What's a Game Box?

(sarcastic PC Gamer joke)

[caseh]

It used to be important to some extent way back before the interwebs come about. The only way you could find out about games was through magazines so you never actually knew what it looked like on the shelf.

Good box art on a game could draw someone to take a look at it out of curiosity and potentially lead to a sale.

[Quetzll]

When i was a kid, i picked games out based on how cool the box-art was. i remember choosing chrono trigger over starfox because the CT box was ultra badass.

[Wigriff]

Quetzll: Did you ever wonder why, on the U.S. Chrono Trigger box art, Marle (Nadia) was shooting fire from her finger? That bothered me endlessly as a kid. lol

[Kevin ButIer]

@Quetzil lol so true, great days

[Wigriff]

I love how people "disagree" with entirely factual, indisputable statements made on here.

"The sky is blue."

DISAGREE! :P

[Kalowest]

Most of them won't horribly corny.

[Kalowest]

Most of them weren't horribly corny.

[bubblebeam]

I'm just bored of the military covers. The same one guy on every cover with a different background colour lol.

[Xsteps]

But fictional soldier cover guy has to feed his fictional soldier kids.

[Heisenburger]

Exactly.

You know we don't give our returning veterans the care they have earned.... Sooo... gotta bring home the bacon somehow.

[Blastoise]

I like the Dark souls box art :(

Demons souls was cooler though

http://www.el33tonline.com/...

[Wigriff]

To quote Omar, the incredible character from The Wire:

"Indeed. Oh, indeed."

[ZeroChaos]

Not corny just unimaginative.

[newn4gguy]

Depends.

Look at Resistance 1/3, Borderlands 1/2, Ico (Japanese), Heavy Rain (Japanese or UK), or Shadow of the Colossus. They all have gorgeous box art.

[Xsteps]

Yup. Some people are uninspired some are just afraid to try something less "in your face" for the market.

Could still remember seeing that Resi 4 boxart differences and thought to myself I wish they'd chosen the "artsy" one.

http://danielprimed.com/wp-...

[Rauland]

this is a funny video about it http://www.gametrailers.com...

[pandehz]

bahahahaha good one

If you make the look while watching this video it does make it more funnier and BADASS

[jjb1981]

I don't care if a game like skyrim had boxart with mermaids swimming in a living room with kids climbing up mountains with rainbows in the background, I'd still buy it.

[CanadianTurtle]

Obviously box art doesn't predict the actual product, but I just hate it when I see a really ugly looking boxart. I think to myself "how on earth did they bring themselves to publish the game with that cover art?" It pains me.

Black Ops 2's box art makes me cry. No colour, no art. Just plain and bland photography.

[-Gespenst-]

Yeah this kind of art needs to stop.

[Hicken]

"Is Some Game Box Art Horribly Corny?"

Fixed that.

[stage88]

*Are some