Best videogame cover art/boxart

[Zlaja]

 

[Zlaja]

These are decent by current millenium standards:

 

[Baron Dupek]

 

[Nifft Batuff]

 

[Valestein]

True story: As a kid in the 90s in toys r us i bought this game purely on the box cover despite not knowing anything about it. It turned out to be a pretty damn good blind purchase fortunately.

 

[Rincewind]

Technically not box art, but a poster made of the original cover. For some reason, this art stirs up strong emotions in me, especially if I listen to the title music while watching it. Maybe because it reminds me of Shadow of the Colossus.

 

[Ezekiel]

It's bizarre that no one has attempted a Frazetta-style action adventure with current tech, since it's such a good example of the escapism that video games are supposed to generally be about. Even fifteen years ago when most of the bigger studios weren't so woke that an idea like that would be considered so repulsive, none of them tried.

 

[AndyS]

It's bizarre that no one has attempted a Frazetta-style action adventure with current tech, since it's such a good example of the escapism that video games are supposed to generally be about. Even fifteen years ago when most of the bigger studios weren't so woke that an idea like that would be considered so repulsive, none of them tried.

It just hasn't been a mainstream-friendly type of fantasy for several decades, unfortunately. Even in prose fiction today, it's a niche within a niche type of thing compared to how it was from the 60s to early 80s when it dominated paperback sales. You have to rely on especially uncommon indie game developers to do that stuff now, like the guy who made Age of Barbarian.

 

[Late Bloomer]

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Dude. Some of these really take me back.

 

[Gilius Thunderhead]