Video game cover art can sometimes make or break it for the consumer looking for a pretty box. Being a graphic designer, I understand the importance of ascetics and how people do judge a book by its cover. I'm guilty of it too, passing up on a critically acclaimed game because the cover art didn't do it for me. Fans around the world have created their own cover art just to make sure that their favorite game gets the visual justice it deserves....
RPGs are often huge, sprawling endeavours. With limited playtime, we have to choose wisely, so here's the best western RPGs available today.
"I started playing games yesterday" the List... Meh!
How about a few RPGs that deserve some love instead?
1 - Alpha Protocol - Now on GOG
2 - else Heart.Break()
3 - Shadowrun Trilogy
4 - Wasteland 2
5 - UnderRail
6 - Tyranny
7 - Torment: Tides of Numenera
And for a bonus game that flew under the radar:
8 - Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
Not only glorious jank, but the idea that the story can completely change depending on what you do, or say, or side with, makes it one of the most forward thinking games ever. The amount of story permutation is the equivalent of a Hitman level but in Story Form. And it wasn't just that the story changed, no, it was that you met completely new characters, or missed them, depending on your choices. Made Mass Effect feel static in comparison.
Alpha Protocol was absolutely glorious, indeed. And it was, and still is, more Next Gen than most anything out there these days. In this regard at least.
Pity.
Wealth of Geeks explores some of the best gaming romances that have stolen our hearts over the years.
Not every Halo game has been a banger, but the franchise still has a raft of the greatest games of all time.
Infinite is a dumpster fire and as much as I like ODST, in no universe it ranks above Halo 2. This list is trash.
Best to worst: Halo 3, Halo 2, Halo Reach, Halo CE, Halo 4, Halo ODST, Halo Infinite, Halo 5.
not sure about the bayonetta covers.
HOW DO I DO THIS MYSELF DAMM THOSE ARE HOTTTTT!!!!!!!
These just look like game wallpapers that have been stuck on the box.
Just because they're pretty in general, doesn't mean they have what it takes to be boxart (although I'm sure some would be great as special editions). Although that's not to say there haven't been some atrocious attempts at box art.
Could you have done more Xbox 360 ones? I'd like to see an Alan Wake one or Fable, or a Kinect game cover.
Loving the Brotherhood cover, very subtle.
Of course game covers are designed for unsuspecting parents and uneducated grandparents, meaning the need to be colourful and in-your-face in order to be bought. Surreal, obscure and artistic covers just wont cut it in terms of marketing.