Irrational Games revealed the reverse cover art for BioShock Infinite today. The art chosen won 38% of fan votes on the poll posted by studio head Ken Levine earlier this month as the result of displeasure from fans over the game's official box art.
The art, the full version of which can be found after the break, will be printed on the other side of the BioShock Infinite cover. Levine noted that other alternate covers will be made available for fans to print.
Now hopefully we've all learned our lesson: It's what's on the inside that counts.
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can't wait to play it, BTW no matter the art cover, my enjoyment of the game won't be any more or less because of the cover
I haven't been following this too closely. Was curious if the fans were demanding a change, or just voicing their displeasure over the original cover art? That's what makes a difference between an "entitled" gamer, and a passionate fan.
From my view since I saw this from the start here on n4g I saw an article dissing on the game cover I was like "okay so?" then soon enough as the days went by tons of other writers, blogsite, and almost everyone that reports on gaming started complaining along with some passionate fans so what happened was the generous ken levine responded to this issue and even made a youtube video bout the cover which them led to giving us the choice in short this overblown situation was responded by ken levine since he is one of the few top developers to listen to the fanbase but its from what I personally observed
I remember seeing the first articles about this, and I thought the same thing as you, so I never bothered to read it. I never played Bioshock, but have heard good things and was looking at getting BS2 since they have it used at Gamestop.
It seems to me...being that the game already has a known base that it's working from, that the fans would already know what to expect. The cover itself wouldn't really matter, as they likely already are ready to purchase it. The comments here pretty much reflect that.
The hate train can steamroll pretty quickly, and it seems people really like to latch onto these things, especially when something is popular. I think it's a shame that devoted fans' voices get drowned out by it. Honestly the reason most developers don't respond to this kind of stuff, or ignore it, is because a lot of times it is just because of this steamrolling effect, and sometimes responding to it just makes things worse. I give props to Ken Levine for being able to address the situation to appease the fan that were upset. I imagine though they weren't calling for a complete rework of the cover to satisfy their own tastes, or calling for a boycott of the game over it. Correct me if I'm wrong.
How about you get over yourself. Not everyone likes the cover, and they have every right to voice their opinions.
So being a little bit disappointed and expressing that disappointment on the internet counts to you as "butt-hurt"? What does that make you then? How about you just let people vent their frustration or disappointment, however small or insignificant your arrogant mind thinks it may be.
Here's a thought for you: next time you think about complaining about a game (let's say, call of duty), think about what you just said here now and APPLY IT TO YOURSELF. Just shut up next time you have a problem with a game, whatever the problem may be. You want CoD to change? Shut up and be quiet. Want Dark Souls to keep it's hardcore mechanics? Shut up and be quiet. Want a great sp centric game to refrain from adding multiplayer? Shut up and be quiet.
You are NOBODY to tell people what they should and shouldn't be upset about, no matter how insignificant you think the problem may be.
Progress/change is based ENTIRELY around complaining. It's people like you that are responsible for CoDs current success, people who are content with the way things are and shut down anyone who isn't.
You seem to have it in your head that the people who keep making these articles = every single person who is disappointed with the cover. You haven't considered that most people are simply responding to this individually for the first time, you group everyone who ever complains about the cover as if they're on some sort of 3 week long (or however long it's been going on) tirade and rant, people who just can't get over it. You group everybody together, because you're apparently not very bright.
I personally don't hate the original cover. I don't like it, but I also don't hate it, and I've expressed myself once or twice before that I didn't like it, and I'll go ahead for the first time and express myself on the reversible option: I don't like it. Now if those 2 comments upset you SO MUCH, if you find those to be such a waste of a comment that it actually influences you to write a comment about how angry and annoyed it makes you, then maybe you should just get off the internet right now. It's obvious you can't handle it since you can't simply ignore these types of comments.
I think vickers500 won that round. :)
I know it appears lame, but a well thought out petition is actually the best way to approach these type of situations. I don't think anybody enjoys hearing problems, I think you're bound to receive a better reception if you go in positive with a solution. We're not lobbying for human rights, we're just consumers trying to get value for our money.
the people who bitch about the people who bitch about the cover have become so annoying.
bahahahahahahahahahahaha
oh man, the original image is way better, and this only goes to show that entitled gamers don't know anything about art, and why devs should never let fans make decisions for them.
what were the other choices?
@ vickers500:
there's a vastly distinct difference between wanting a game's functionality to improve/wanting a game's integrity to be maintained and crying over the cover art. it's just the box art, if you don't like either one of the versions, well... in your own words, "shut up and be quiet."
Some of has that classic comic book look which looks great, but some other parts of it look sort of lazily done.
Not great composition either if you ask me... bit messy.
That one with Elizabeth reaching out to Songbird (#6 from the poll) would have been perfect. It was - is - so beautiful.
Ken Levine knew people didn't like the box art but he did it so that more people will buy the game.
I don't see the problem with this.
Thanks Irrational, you guys are swell.
I really like the art here.
Glad Drake isnt on it.