I so dislike that intrusive PS3/360 bar they've imposed on all game covers. Sure, it's easy to distinguish what you're dealing with, but it's a big chunk that could be used for extra art. And a more cohesive look.
Well Fumito Ueda has admitted himself that the cover was imspired by De Chirico. Specifically "The Nostalgia of the Infinite":
I hadn't read that Ueda mentioned the De Chirico work as his inspiration - if that's the case, then i'd definitely retract the 'stolen' sentiment and replace it with 'good idea'.
Oh god it's like Hard Man's trying to squeeze a ham out of there
And since I'm posting here, something related to some of the covers I've seen in here: am I the only person who immedietly thinks that anybody on a cover doing the whole "I'm king of the world" thing like the dude on the Another World cover is a douchebag? Just curious.
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Why does Spark Man and Needle Man (I think that's their names, right?) have normal robot faces, and everyone else has those fucking awkward people faces
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Why does Spark Man and Needle Man (I think that's their names, right?) have normal robot faces, and everyone else has those fucking awkward people faces
Why does Spark Man and Needle Man (I think that's their names, right?) have normal robot faces, and everyone else has those fucking awkward people faces
It's kinda creepy staring at their indifferent indistinguishable faces. It's like they are just programmed to kill you, and they don't mind being destroyed in the process. There's no emotion or attitude involved, just another worker (which they were, in the spirit of that universe) in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Going to post a bunch of epic 80s/90s cover art. Sadly, this style has been lost in the echoes of time, replaced with floating heads and torsos.
And just so people don't miss it
Best cover art ever.
Cherrn I am simultaneously angry with you because those are my favourite covers dammit and I was literally just coming in here to post them, especially Transarctica - and also very relieved that I don't have to upload them all to ImageShack.
Holy crap, this guy is amazing. Every game that's set in space should license his art.
Man, this guy is awesome.
I don't know why but they somehow remind me of the Ender's Game book covers.
If these are the covers you're thinking of:
... Then the guy who did them is called John Harris, and he's one of my all-time favourite painters. The book covers look similar to Roger Dean and John Berkey's stuff because they're basically all from the same 70's/80's airbrush art period. I really really miss that aesthetic. I mean, compare those fuckers to Fallout 3's cover, which couldn't look more like it fell out of Photoshop if it had half a dozen lensflares. Yawn.
The AWESOME cover above is the only of Harris's paintings that I know of that was used on a videogame.
Cherrn I am simultaneously angry with you because those are my favourite covers dammit and I was literally just coming in here to post them, especially Transarctica - and also very relieved that I don't have to upload them all to ImageShack.
Well, I'm glad you did post, because I forgot all about the Awesome box art. I was trying to remember the name, but I came up empty.
... Then the guy who did them is called John Harris, and he's one of my all-time favourite painters. The book covers look similar to Roger Dean and John Berkey's stuff because they're basically all from the same 70's/80's airbrush art period. I really really miss that aesthetic. I mean, compare those fuckers to Fallout 3's cover, which couldn't look more like it fell out of Photoshop if it had half a dozen lensflares. Yawn.
The AWESOME cover above is the only of Harris's paintings that I know of that was used on a videogame.
Can you recommend any artbooks that feature this kind of style? I tried hunting down John Berkey's stuff, but it seems to be out of print and fairly expensive.
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... Then the guy who did them is called John Harris, and he's one of my all-time favourite painters. The book covers look similar to Roger Dean and John Berkey's stuff because they're basically all from the same 70's/80's airbrush art period. I really really miss that aesthetic. I mean, compare those fuckers to Fallout 3's cover, which couldn't look more like it fell out of Photoshop if it had half a dozen lensflares. Yawn.
The AWESOME cover above is the only of Harris's paintings that I know of that was used on a videogame.
Can you recommend any artbooks that feature this kind of style? I tried hunting down John Berkey's stuff, but it seems to be out of print and fairly expensive.
I'm afraid I'm on the same hunt myself - all I've found so far in the way of proper artbooks is John Harris's Mass, which I was surprised to find had been sitting, slightly damaged, in my local library this entire time. It was cool but ultimately disappointing, because there were really only one or two images in it that I didn't have on my harddrive already. I haven't seen anything else available yet that tackles the same kind of stuff. Roger Dean has a few books out which include his stuff for Psygnosis but I've never gotten my hands on them.
In terms of artists to look up on the net, well, there's Roger Dean, but there's not much to see. There's Chris Foss, who you might try. You might also like Syd Mead's more painterly stuff, but I've found precious little of it.
I'll be frank: we've been spoiled. There ultimately isn't that much stuff in that style that's as good as Berkey, Dean, and Harris. At least, that I've come across. If you find anything cool, let me know.
edit: You might like the more contemporary Sparth; he has a lot of cool concepts but his style is a lot more digital than you seem to be looking for.
edit: You might like the more contemporary Sparth; he has a lot of cool concepts but his style is a lot more digital than you seem to be looking for.
Nah, this guy is pretty awesome, though, yeah, clearly a different style. Thanks for all the other stuff, I'll be sure to check it out. There is another dude, who used to do concept art for NASA or something along those lines in the 70s. He made some pretty awesome concepts of space colonies and the like. I forget the name, but I'll see if I can't dig it up.
Haha I changed it as soon as I posted it, for some reason it popped into my head that they one of the websites that don't like images being hosted on forums.
At this point I'm convinced that Moby Games and Impawards exist solely to trip up people that want to hotlink images of game boxes or movie posters, because that's the only context I've ever seen those two websites in.
SpiralJacobs, I'm just wondering. Have you even looked at your previous posts to see if the linking works? I mean, I'm not even bringing up your triple posting, but at least just your, you know, post quality.
And since I'm posting here, something related to some of the covers I've seen in here: am I the only person who immedietly thinks that anybody on a cover doing the whole "I'm king of the world" thing like the dude on the Another World cover is a douchebag? Just curious.
I think he's actually screaming at them, "You alien FUCKS! Why dont' you have any TOILETS?" Thinking he's king of the world doesn't make since since
he dies at the end of the game.
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this guy also was the cover art of pretty much ever Ender novel ever.
woops, I am drunk and far too late.
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And since I'm posting here, something related to some of the covers I've seen in here: am I the only person who immedietly thinks that anybody on a cover doing the whole "I'm king of the world" thing like the dude on the Another World cover is a douchebag? Just curious.
I think he's actually screaming at them, "You alien FUCKS! Why dont' you have any TOILETS?" Thinking he's king of the world doesn't make since since
he dies at the end of the game.
But he doesn't. Well, not officially at least. Another World's ending is open-ended.
If you take into account the non-creator-approved Heart of the Alien, then yes, Lester is very dead.
I find these two kind of cool even though they're very much more on the camp spaceships-and-lazers-and-aliens end of the scale:
Protostar had some gorgeous in-game pixelwork, too.
Now this one. I really love. Nothing says speed like a huge wake fanning out behind you. I want to see this game now.
Knock yourself out. It was basically a "Star Control"-esque game - trading, diplomacy, exploration and war - and spiritually the third installment of the Starflight series. Which I was raised on. I swear, in many respects the character portraits - and their animations - in that game were years ahead of their time.
In cover art fail, I have the Wii version of Okami - complete with IGN watermark
Speaking of which, did they ever send those replacement covers? I don't think I ever got mine.
Oh, also:
The original US box art is so bad. (Rest of this post is spoiler'ed. Don't click if you don't want to see the original US box art or hate Amato's art for whatever reason.)
Original US:
The original US FF releases all used a sword for the 't' in "Fantasy" for whatever reason. While it at least has art on it (compare to the FF4 (2 US) art), it's a relatively minor character and a silhouette of Kefka, maybe? I don't know.)
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I found a slightly bigger version of it:
Youtube Channel!
I love the Ico cover, but always felt they blatantly they stole it from De Chirico:
I hadn't read that Ueda mentioned the De Chirico work as his inspiration - if that's the case, then i'd definitely retract the 'stolen' sentiment and replace it with 'good idea'.
Regardless, it's still an awesome game cover.
Come on. It's not that bad.
And probably one of my fav games.
And I loved the American version better. It's on the right.
GROIN SHOT!
Edit: Holy crap, this site has lots of games, and lots of games have pics of each different box art.
http://www.retropelihuolto.com/kokoelma.htm
And since I'm posting here, something related to some of the covers I've seen in here: am I the only person who immedietly thinks that anybody on a cover doing the whole "I'm king of the world" thing like the dude on the Another World cover is a douchebag? Just curious.
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Because its awesome.
It's kinda creepy staring at their indifferent indistinguishable faces. It's like they are just programmed to kill you, and they don't mind being destroyed in the process. There's no emotion or attitude involved, just another worker (which they were, in the spirit of that universe) in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Cherrn I am simultaneously angry with you because those are my favourite covers dammit and I was literally just coming in here to post them, especially Transarctica - and also very relieved that I don't have to upload them all to ImageShack.
Still, man, the Amiga era was so...
(ironically this game was absolutely rubbish)
If these are the covers you're thinking of:
... Then the guy who did them is called John Harris, and he's one of my all-time favourite painters. The book covers look similar to Roger Dean and John Berkey's stuff because they're basically all from the same 70's/80's airbrush art period. I really really miss that aesthetic. I mean, compare those fuckers to Fallout 3's cover, which couldn't look more like it fell out of Photoshop if it had half a dozen lensflares. Yawn.
The AWESOME cover above is the only of Harris's paintings that I know of that was used on a videogame.
http://www.audioentropy.com/
Protostar had some gorgeous in-game pixelwork, too.
Well, I'm glad you did post, because I forgot all about the Awesome box art. I was trying to remember the name, but I came up empty.
Thank you. It's an, err... great piece of art.
Can you recommend any artbooks that feature this kind of style? I tried hunting down John Berkey's stuff, but it seems to be out of print and fairly expensive.
I'm afraid I'm on the same hunt myself - all I've found so far in the way of proper artbooks is John Harris's Mass, which I was surprised to find had been sitting, slightly damaged, in my local library this entire time. It was cool but ultimately disappointing, because there were really only one or two images in it that I didn't have on my harddrive already. I haven't seen anything else available yet that tackles the same kind of stuff. Roger Dean has a few books out which include his stuff for Psygnosis but I've never gotten my hands on them.
In terms of artists to look up on the net, well, there's Roger Dean, but there's not much to see. There's Chris Foss, who you might try. You might also like Syd Mead's more painterly stuff, but I've found precious little of it.
I'll be frank: we've been spoiled. There ultimately isn't that much stuff in that style that's as good as Berkey, Dean, and Harris. At least, that I've come across. If you find anything cool, let me know.
edit: You might like the more contemporary Sparth; he has a lot of cool concepts but his style is a lot more digital than you seem to be looking for.
There's also a few Harris images here.
Nah, this guy is pretty awesome, though, yeah, clearly a different style. Thanks for all the other stuff, I'll be sure to check it out. There is another dude, who used to do concept art for NASA or something along those lines in the 70s. He made some pretty awesome concepts of space colonies and the like. I forget the name, but I'll see if I can't dig it up.
Edit: Didn't take me long. Maybe you know of it already.
Told you everything you need to know.
You damn right Mobygames.com told us everything we need to know.
they've done it about 4 times so far in this thread.
They do have a mighty fine collection though.
http://www.audioentropy.com/
These are the games of my childhood dammit
Maybe you should stop doing it, Fuckwit.
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I like it.
Now this one. I really love. Nothing says speed like a huge wake fanning out behind you. I want to see this game now.
woops, I am drunk and far too late.
If you take into account the non-creator-approved Heart of the Alien, then yes, Lester is very dead.
Knock yourself out. It was basically a "Star Control"-esque game - trading, diplomacy, exploration and war - and spiritually the third installment of the Starflight series. Which I was raised on. I swear, in many respects the character portraits - and their animations - in that game were years ahead of their time.
Speaking of which, did they ever send those replacement covers? I don't think I ever got mine.
Oh, also:
The original US box art is so bad. (Rest of this post is spoiler'ed. Don't click if you don't want to see the original US box art or hate Amato's art for whatever reason.)
The original US FF releases all used a sword for the 't' in "Fantasy" for whatever reason. While it at least has art on it (compare to the FF4 (2 US) art), it's a relatively minor character and a silhouette of Kefka, maybe? I don't know.)
The simple, yet classy GBA versions: