Game News Bloodlines box art - sex sells?

[Sol Invictus]

It doesn't look very sexy to me. The model's fine, but the pose doesn't exactly exude sexuality, and her clothing doesn't quite make me lust for her.

This is the Bradstreet painting:
http://download.white-wolf.com/download ... ile_id=167

Why the hell isn't this being used on the box?

 

[Anonymous]

just removing the girl would make the box awesome, empty street with a lone guy and his vampire shadow.

 

[Fez]

Don't you know that every healthy male is supposed to lust after anything resembling a school girl? No doubt the cover art of future boxes will just be images of naked school girls in various compromising positions. The titles of all games will be "SEX" or "CUMSHOTZ" or something similar. When you actually install it you'll find out it is a pretty decent TBS with a mecha theme.

I have to say that I don't find the grey slut freak much better on that image either. But it is better drawn at least.

 

[Sol Invictus]

Yeah, that wouldn't look bad. But where the hell is the Troika logo, or the Source logo? I thought they wanted to sell this game?

Anyway, here's another good piece by Bradstreet which looks 100% better than the current crap they're using as the 'official box':

http://dilapidation.com/files/felixx/bl ... 280x10.jpg

 

[plin]

Personally, I'd think the average joe would find those two paintings far more unattractive then the final box art.

 

[FireWolf]

Don't lose sight of the issue, its not really whether you find the picture attractive, its whether there's much point in it being there. The way it is, it looks out of place. Ah, well.

 

[Sol Invictus]

Since when was Vampire: Bloodlines a game for the lowest common denominator? It's a niche product, and it should be targetting Vampire fans, of which there are many.

 

[Stark]

the girl's in probably upon the insistance of the marketing people.

i'm glad she's in. without her the box would look too empty. (try covering her away and you'll notice how empty the rest of the art is, no matter how cool the shadow logo is)

they could have used one of the pics Exitium posted though. it's much better, and probably sold them more copies no less.

 

[Sol Invictus]

She just looks totally out of place. It's like someone pasted a clipart of her on a background without bothering to even blend her into it via layering. Someone has no photoshop skills.

Even my stupid signature looks better than that box.

 

[Stark]

She just looks totally out of place. It's like someone pasted a clipart of her on a background without bothering to even blend her into it via layering. Someone has no photoshop skills.

Even my stupid signature looks better than that box.

now that you mention it... your new sig is pretty cool. where did you get that mecha robot thingy? mech warrior?

Troika used to have a pretty good artist that did the ToEE box art, but if I'm not mistaken he left later? A pity.

I've always think the ToEE box art help them sold quite a few copies. Now that is what I call a good box art. It fits the DnD theme very well.

 

[Diogo Ribeiro]

Don't you know that every healthy male is supposed to lust after anything resembling a school girl?

I know I do!

 

[Diogo Ribeiro]

Even my stupid signature looks better than that box.

Shameless plug :razz: Aging filters, scanlines, and Photoshop? Nice.

now that you mention it... your new sig is pretty cool. where did you get that mecha robot thingy? mech warrior?

Warhammer 40k. It's a Dreadnought. Some details on what it is here.

 

[Elwro]

The pose is sexy for me, but the face is abominable. I like the painting Exit posted, but I don't think any marketing department would agree to put that on a box for a game that is supposed to sell LOTS more than 100,000 copies.

 

[DemonKing]

I'm pretty ambivalent to the box art myself - the chick doesn't look particularly sexy or vampiric to me, unless we are supposed to assume that all chicks with tats on their lower backs are vampires.

I agree that the images Extium posted are much better, but Walmart probably won't be putting them on the shelf anytime soon.

Frankly though cover art really doesn't mean a lot unless it is incredibly amateur - most nerds will check out the screen shots on the back of the box if they don't know anything about the game - or at least that's what I used to do 10 years ago before the internet told me everything I needed to know about a title ahead of time.

 

[Stark]

Frankly though cover art really doesn't mean a lot unless it is incredibly amateur - most nerds will check out the screen shots on the back of the box if they don't know anything about the game - or at least that's what I used to do 10 years ago before the internet told me everything I needed to know about a title ahead of time.

I've always believed Planescape Torment's box art costs them quite alot of sales, despite raving reviews in internet.

for the record I've not picked up Torment either. the cover art looks too... ugly to me then. If they've removed the ugly blue face and put the guy facing a setting sun/city or something (just so the face is not facing you) it might have enticed me to buy then.

 

[Volourn]

Meh. The box art is better - much better - than either of Exitiums' links. The 2nd is of a guy - how gross - and the first, she just isn't as appealing..

 

[Transcendent One]

Like I said on troika chronicles, sexy or not, Jeanette simply doesn't fit in. Either get rid of her, or make the rest of it fit in with her somehow. P.S. She's ugly, and what's up with the tatoo over the ass crap? She's got a nice rack though.

And I've somehow felt they should include the symbol of Torment or at least the lady of pain head on the Torment cover. Would look much cooler.

 

[Fez]

I still don't know why they didn't just get one of the artist to fudge something up for P:T. I remember there were a few fans who made "alternative box art covers" in the hope that they'd take the suggestion.

If it is a plus to you Stark, you'll never ever see that cover image or the model in the entire game, the art is all rendered and touched up in the same ways as BG 1+2.

On the topic though I think that the box would need something if they took the vamp off of it. It is cover art after all, not just something cool for the wall and so it must catch the eye and draw people to it. Near black covers don't tend to do that. Thin and big tits do. Even if she isn't artistically placed.

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

Don't you know that every healthy male is supposed to lust after anything resembling a school girl? No doubt the cover art of future boxes will just be images of naked school girls in various compromising positions. The titles of all games will be "SEX" or "CUMSHOTZ" or something similar. When you actually install it you'll find out it is a pretty decent TBS with a mecha theme.

Well, schoolgirls should probably look a little more lively and not have that nasty blood crap on their chin. Nice ass, I guess, but overall.. I don't find it sexy.

 

[Fez]

Well, schoolgirls should probably look a little more lively and not have that nasty blood crap on their chin. Nice ass, I guess, but overall.. I don't find it sexy.

You're right of course. The schoorgirl should only have nasty crap on her chin after you've finished, not before.

Maybe she was eating a lollipop and she got all messy? I am sure that is what it was, she looks so innocent.

 

[Diogo Ribeiro]

You're right of course. The schoorgirl should only have nasty crap on her chin after you've finished, not before.

Maybe it was a leftover she forgot to get rid of her? Maybe she's not properly trained in it yet.

 

[Fez]

That's probably it, she is just so sweet and naive she forgot all about it. I know I was always forgetting the first few times.

 

[rasta_kid]

Very nice box art.

I'd undoubtly atleast pick up the box from the shelf to check it out.

 

[FireWolf]

I'm pretty sure if they put their thinking hats on they could come up with something a tad better than just plonking what looks like a heroine whore in a push up bra with a taste for jam sandwiches.

I remember the original VR box art. It had the upper face of a vamp. You could tell he was a vamp due to the teeth. Big indicator there. Subtlety seems to be lost in modern box designs.

 

[Diogo Ribeiro]

I don't think I'd qualify elongated canines as subtlety, but that is still preferable to a cover that, with the excpetion of the title, doesn't indicate vampires at all.

Anyone notice how she just seems tacked on? Look at the perspective.