If this is really the new Doom box art, it sucks

DTOID:
Conan O'Brien will be playing the latest iteration of Doom on his show's Clueless Gamer segment tonight with some players of the sports ball who are in the big game. In a tweet promoting the show, the box art below was shown, though it hasn't been confirmed as the final retail version just yet.

[-Foxtrot]

I was hoping for something which felt a bit retro.

Maybe an updated old school style cover. Hell they could have least done that for the Steelbook version. The artwork for that is just as bad. To be honest if the statue you got with the game was Doom guy in that retro pose firing at demons that would have been epic

It's not that hard to update it

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawk...

[crazychris4124]

Looks like Master Chief's cousin. Your idea sounds better. But not really a big deal, the gameplay is what matters.

[Bdub2000]

That's what I was thinking... Master chief is the hero?

[breakpad]

if this cover is true is not only a bad cover but is also an indicator that these developers have an ultra generic mind which may be also a bad indicator for the quality of the game it self (already this saturation with yellow is emetic)

[madpuppy]

It's almost an exact ripoff of the boring cover from "Section 8: Prejudice" a PS3 digital title.

https://upload.wikimedia.or...

[Jayszen]

@Foxtrot

Your suggestion of retro is far preferable to this generic boxart! I was just looking at my original Doom boxes and they look so much better, maybe they should just use the same artwork - it would not look any worse than the design and artwork they have at present.

If Bethesda and ID have gone back to the roots of Doom as they say and have a game that gives us that same feeling of dread, panic and being overwhelmed like the first two Doom games did, why ruin it with such run-of-the-mill artwork? Come on, give us something really original, scary and jaw-dropping for a change. This is Doom after all - I and most gamers I know grew up on these and other games like Hexen, Quake, Wolfenstein and Unreal, spending the better part of our teens and twenties playing these stellar games along with cool strategy games like C & C and X-Com (the original Microprose ones) for a change.

I will buy Doom on May 13, with whatever art there is on the PS4 and PC versions, but with the likelihood that this will be the last Doom for some time at least, I hope Bethesda and iD give us editions that have something different for box art.

[3-4-5]

Looks 80% like Halo.

Not original at all.

[-Foxtrot]

I just think it's funny they are trying to say "DOOM'S BACK" but then present such generic artwork with looks like most other FPS covers.

Doesn't really scream "the king is back" does it

[Pongwater]

Halo's character design was original?

OT - Couldn't care less about box art myself.

[showtimefolks]

i don't know but cover art really doesn't bother me at all

[Kombatologist]

It looks a lot like the Mortal Kombat X box art, which wasn't all that great either. If this is all it takes to make box art now, then someone please hire me. I can easily slap some text over a render in Photoshop.

[TWB]

I would have been fine with just "DOOM" on the black background... like the placeholder has been up to this point.

[OhMyGandhi]

I really don't get why publishers feel the need to make such a boring cover art. There has to be some science behind it.

Isn't a game's cover art supposed to stand out and NOT blend in with the crowd?

[Paytaa]

I really don't like it. It just looks like every other game with that box art. They need to add some early 90's flare to it.

Hell, even having a Cyberdemon on the cover rather than Doom Guy would be better.

[DivoJones]

Hell I liked the generic black background and the word DOOM more than this. It looks like literally every other shooter title.. uncharted, bioshock infinite, halo, etc.

[Activemessiah]

I think it's fine, I would want it to be clean, less conspicuous and no real indication of what's inside so that those who first time it is to play Doom would get a shock of their lives due to the graphic content lol

[I_am_Batman]

I doubt that many people buy games based on box art without knowing what they are getting into anymore.

[Activemessiah]

Anyone buying it digitally doesnt even get to see one either.

[Walter_Official]

As a kid thats all i did.. lol

[2pacalypsenow]

Not sure if Doom or Halo ?

[Sciurus_vulgaris]

Doom guy looks a lot like master chief . In the alpha mp the soldiers moved and looked liked Spartans. The alpha mp felt like halo mixed with quake.

[Kleptic]

but...'doom guy' was a dude in a green suit with a helmet and visor...in 1993...so isn't it the other way around?

[Sciurus_vulgaris]

@Kleptic The original doom guy didn't have power armor. Classic Doomguy's look might have moderately influenced the look of MC. Now it looks like Master Chiefs design may have heavily influenced the new Doom guy's armor.

[Kleptic]

Still feel like its a reach (no pun intended)...

They're all 'space marines'...they're all roughly the same...I was only meaning that I don't think MC influenced this any more than the cryo-suit did, the myriad of armor options in Dead Space, or...what it was originally over 2 decades ago...etc.

MC's significance is that parts of the suit are green...but so was the original doom guy...and so was Doom 3...I more find this new aesthetic a natural progression mostly due to rendering technology...not iD sitting around saying 'lets make him look like Master Chief, even though he sort of always has anyway...'

[Morgue]

DooM. But in this day and age you have too wonder if MS had anything to do with this ( which I highly doubt ) but who knows; you gotta lure that customer somehow. Just like in the first Dead Space where the crates you stomped on looked like old Xbox's which I thought of every time I stopmed on one.

[Dark_Crow]

I personally think it's fine.
When you think of DOOM and how they're trying to respect the game and bring it back then the title is most important.

They've respected and paid homage to the title. So DOOM nice and big in the front seems well done in my opinion.

I think that with a limited edition they could bring back the look of the old style doom covers and replace imagery with what they have.

[franwex]

A space marine holding a shotgun? What's wrong with that? They created that concept anyway.

[Tzuno]

That's stupid, this is the yellow guy from Sin City movie, move along.

[PygmelionHunter]

Errrr... Click on the article to see the actual artwork and then try that comment again, ok?

[Tzuno]

i saw the halo alike one at first time but that doesn't change who the yellow guy from photo is, happy? this article is looking for attention and he used that fake yellow guy to get it, why the hell do i bother...

[wellard]

I'm assuming tzuno is making reference to the fact that the site is using a non doom related picture in order to gain hits.

[PygmelionHunter]

Oh, I see.

I just assumed you hadn't bothered to click on the article like a good amount of users on this site usually do. Sorry.

[Nivekki]

Yeah I was wondering about that, what the hell has the picture got to do with Doom? It's completely random.

[Duke19]

Very boring - looks like a budget mashup of Halo, COD, and Crysis.

[PygmelionHunter]

Oh look! It's the main character holding a weapon in the center of the cover! How wonderfully original!/s

[InMyOpinion]

Lol. Almost as bad as Fallout 4.

[josephayal]

it looks cool to me

[gangsta_red]

That screams Master Chief, Id can do better than that.

For DOOM they should really have something bat sh!t insane on the cover to draw attention.

[Jmanzare]

That looks hideous looks like someone just slapped the logo on some concept art.

[annoyedgamer]

I see no problem with it unless they put a demon on it. Maybe a cross of two sawed of shotguns.

[Der_Kommandant]

It needs more Cyberdemon!

[Kleptic]

I'm all about this new Doom...and don't really care about box art to begin with...

but...I will say...the cyberdemon in the E3 gameplay...looked...awful...it was like a big walrus or something

[Trilithon]

piss filter

[Eiffel]

Needs more hell.

[Ninja_G_Aidan]

I quite like it! It's unique in a boring good way. (Sorry very confusing)

[porkChop]

The boxart isn't that bad, but I would have preferred a modern take on the classic cover of the original game.

[Sciurus_vulgaris]

Agreed; Doomguy just looks too much like Master Chief(or a spartan).
Now this is bad box art. https://upload.wikimedia.or...

[gangsta_red]

I'll raise you this box art as worse ever...

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawk...

[RedSoakedSponge]

tbh the cover isnt there for hardcore gamers. its there to attract the casual crowd as hardcore gamers know what doom is.

[Ratty]

I agree that it looks generic. But then again it's just a boxart.

[Perjoss]

There is no shortage to talented artists, they really should have gotten someone to work on an updated version of the original:

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawk...

Even just comparing the lettering, lots of effort went into creating the original, the new one looks like a 20 min job in photoshop.

[Pozzle]

Yeah, that's what annoys me. It's not a huge deal that the box art is generic, but it sucks there are so many talented artists out there who can create amazing eye-grabbing art, yet they never get to show it because generic boxart like this is always used.

[Kyosuke_Sanada]

Geez, imagination is truly at stand still when it comes to modern boxart . I was expecting something a bit more..........Metal.

[Reefskye]

Don't judge a book by it's cover comes to mind, so what if it sucks you will be playing the game not sitting there glaring at the box all day.

Mainly game on PC again these days and 99.9% of my games are digital so box art doesn't even matter to me.

[Morgue]

Dr. Dinosexual......

Am I the only one whop saw this guys code name?

[JasonKCK]

Who cares? Digital doesn't come with a box anyway.

[ZaWarudo]

Yeah, not a fan. Would prefer a demon on the front.

[Gaming_Since_The_80s]

Complaining about a game's box art seems a bit shallow... slow news day perhaps? With all that is going on in the World today, a box art that isn't to my liking seems uber-superficial to grumble over.

I get it, it's a gaming news site, this isn't lost on me... but we're not living in a bubble here either.

At the end of the day I say don't judge a game by it's box cover art, and DOOM looks like it's going to be a juggernaut!

[fanboysmackdown]

Who cares? I only give a shit that the game is good, not the cover art.

[Pongwater]

People love to complain about something, no matter how trivial, and when they do it can't just be "I don't like this", it has to be "This is garbage!". Overreaction and exaggeration.

[Kalebninja]

people who like buying physical copies of games prefer if the artwork on the box was actually good its not that complicated.

[Kreisen]

Doom paved the way for alot of shooters but its 2016 now, most will probably look at this and go ''Is this some kind of crappy Halo knockoff?''.

[Relientk77]

Literally looks like Master Chief, or like Master Chief and Samus had a baby

[just-joe]

Don't really care, I'm not gonna play the box.

[Moe-Gunz]

BOOOOOooooOOOO

[Kallisti]

Looks like Master Chief on steroids.

[masterfox]

Definitely the Boxart sucks cause is not a PS4 labeled box art :D

[BloodyMan12]

Would have loved to see Doom Guy stomping down on an imps throat on the ground while blasting surrounding demons with the super shotgun flanking from all around with a fire red background.

[joedom]

Who honestly gives a shit? This reminds me of when everyone was worried over Bioshock Infinite's generic cover art. It was all a big fuss over nothing, and it will be the same in this case.

[skratchy]

The point is it looks generic as shit. That looks like every other FPS character nowadays. It's getting old.

[skratchy]

Wow. Thanks dude bros for making EVERY FPS game nowadays almost IDENTICAL looking. Seriously, remove the title from the box art. Is this the image promoting Halo, Advanced Warfare, Titanfall, Arkham Knight or Black Ops 3? Can't tell.

[Drakul]

It is going to be one of the worst game covers of all time which sucks.

[fanboysmackdown]

Yes and it'll make the game unplayable..........grow up already.

[Drakul]

"cover art" google it.

[dogga94]

Its 2015 boxart is irrelevant now. The amount of trailers, videos, gameplay you can see makes it so useless. Why put lots of effort into it?

[GrimDragon]

I personally don't see master chief in the box art, as the visor is significantly different. The helmet visor looks very close to Samus Arans helmet. And the body armor looks like an updated version of the original marines armor which was light around mid section heavy along the chest and shoulders. I don't see master Chiefs armor at all as his was heavy armor all over with no shoulder blade spoilers as doom marine has. I like the cover its simple and still cool gets its point across subtly. Doom 3 had a demon on the cover so nice to see the marine back. Would've been cool to actually use the same pose from original doom cover with this updated look.

[mogwaii]

"with the gross Doom 2016 piss-colored filter"
"You're a generic soldier guy walking through piss clouds." ......tears right now, pmsl.

[mixelon]

It's not supposed to appeal to us. Box art is to appeal to undecided folk and mainstream/casual/bro/parent/f riend gamers who could make impromptu/gift purchases. Gamers who know what's up aren't going to be swayed by box art at all. Impromptu purchase gamer doesn't want to feel judged when he/she takes his game to the counter, so they make the box art as vague and inoffensive as possible.

It also has *nothing* to do with the developers, and doesn't in any way reflect the creativity or ideas in the game itself. PR, marketing and box art aren't done by the developers.

Remember the bioshock infinite box art? It's not for us. Personally I'd like some more fitting metal album cover inverted pentagram demonic battle scene silliness but I can see why it's not what they'd go with. (Would be nice if it was reversible though!)

[Clown_Syndr0me]

Looks fine, even better if it was just that yellow faced guy haha.

[monkeyfox]

A humanoid figure wrapped in armour is always going to look a little like master chief (visor, helmet, body amour etc) Master chief himself was a copy of previous 'amoured human' art.
Just to be different, i would say the box art looks ok, probably took some guy weeks to create.. jeees guys...

[Matology]

Damn I'm getting old, I remember me and a mate going down to Game and buying the first DOOM, he installed it on his PC first, then around to mine to do the same.

Floppy discs and an Amstrad 486 SX 25.

[Knightofelemia]

I'll take the Master Chief looking guy over the little yellow dwarf from Lord of the Rings there. personally I like the cover to the new Doom game.

[NeoGamer232]

I would rather them spend the money on the game vs. box art.