Finally, a thread dedicated to the failures of video game box art.

From the early days of inexperience and incompetence:



Through the beginnings of the 'screw traditional art, we've got to make everything 3D now' era:


And up to the modern era of bland soulless FUCKING SHINY METAL BADASS YEAH macho bullshit:



Anything you can think of that deserves to be in this thread?

that drawing of megaman jsut amde me lol a lot...

Damn. I like the way the man's just sitting there with a 'I don't know why I'm here either' expression on his face.



Ico UK, bold, eyecatching and original. It clearly communicates the nature of the game, and looks good while doing it.


Ico US. Ugh.

Also DAMN:

im so sorry

Wrong thread man. This is the the crap box art thread.

There are some games with awesome looking CG 3d rendered box artwork... but before them we had to live with crap like this:



I bet they wished they'd gone with a painted cover after seeing that.