Incline Favorite cRPG cover art/boxart/promo art

[mediocrepoet]

There are some really great boxes in here and some of my favourites have already been listed. Here are a few others though:

 

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[Strig]

I came here to post Dark Sun: Wake of the Ravager but I was late. Shattered Lands' composition may not be as appealing but it's still Gerald Brom and his art fits this setting like a glove.

Any idea who the artist was?

Yup, the name's Jerry Bingham and he has a few more pieces with Buck.

 

[Sotomonte]

 

[mediocrepoet]

This is something I really miss. I remember seeing these on the store shelves and being instantly sold on the games.

 

[SlightlyRadioactive]

Always thought this one looked really cool, even though I've never played it.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Nothing but the 90's equivalent to clickbait. Here's proper prestigious box art.

Dennis Loubet a bit back did a remake of his classic U7 cover. And the U7 cover was pretty epic. Anyway
The Cover that Never Was:Ultima VII:The Black Gate

Pity this expansion was never released:

Ultima VIII - The Lost Vale
Worlds of Ultima [3] -Arthurian Legends

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

SSI had an immense advantage in being able to re-purpose existing TSR D&D/AD&D artwork as box covers for their games:

Clyde Caldwell's cover illustration for Knight of Illusion" Endless Quest (CYOA) Book #33 became the cover for SSI's Pool of Radiance, the associated adventure module FRC1 Ruins of Adventure, and the tie-in novel.

Clyde Caldwell's cover illustration for the AD&D novel Curse of the Azure Bonds published in 1988 became the cover for SSI's game of the same name as well as the associated adventure module FRC2.

Larry Elmore's cover for the Paul Jaquays setting book FR5 The Savage Frontier became the cover for SSI's Secret of the Silver Blades

Keith Parkinson's cover illustration for the adventure module compilation GDQ1-7 Queen of the Spiders became the cover for SSI's Pools of Darkness

Keith Parkinson's cover for DL4 Dragons of Desolation, one of the twelve adventure modules in the original Dragonlance series, became the cover for SSI's Champions of Krynn

Keith Parkinson's painting "Lord Soth's Charge" for the 1987 Dragonlance calendar became the cover for SSI's Death Knights of Krynn

Clyde Caldwell's painting "The Dark Queen" for the 1988 Dragonlance calendar became the cover for SSI's Dark Queen of Krynn

Clyde Caldwell's cover for AC4 The Book of Marvelous Magic became the cover for SSI's Gateway to the Savage Frontier

Rather bizarrely, Clyde Caldwell's cover for the non-D&D/AD&D fantasy book The Jewels of Elvish, published by TSR in 1989, became the cover for SSI's Treasures of the Savage Frontier

Clyde Caldwell's cover for adventure module I11 Needle became the cover for SSI's Neverwinter Nights on-line multi-player RPG

Clyde Caldwell's cover for the setting book FR6 Dream of the Red Wizards became the cover for SSI's Unlimited Adventures Fantasy Construction Kit, though the woman shown in the crystal ball was replaced with an ominous-looking castle

Jeff Easley's cover illustration for Dragon Magazine #138 became the cover for SSI's first Eye of the Beholder

Jeff Easley's cover for setting book FR4 The Magister became the cover for SSI's Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon

Keith Parkinson's cover for Lankhmar/Nehwon adventure module CA2 Swords of Deceit became the cover for SSI's Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth Drannor

Gerald Brom's cover for Dark Sun novel The Crimson Legion (2nd book of the Prism Pentad) became the cover for SSI's Dark Sun: Shattered Lands

Gerald Brom's painting for the cover of Dark Sun setting book DSR1 Slave Tribes became the cover for SSI's Dark Sun: Wake of the Ravager

SSI also re-used existing TSR artwork for about 15 other games, most of them non-RPGs.

 

[Darth Canoli]

 

[ShaggyMoose]

I was always partial to SSI game boxes. However, it was a Darklands poster that I had on my wall for more years than I care to count during my childhood.

 

[ShaggyMoose]

Apart from those already mentioned, I was quite partial to the box for Arx Fatalis. Not an epic piece of art, but quite effective at evincing a mood of danger and exploration.

https://www.mobygames.com/images/covers/l/138566-arx-fatalis-windows-front-cover.jpg

 

[Rincewind]

I love how psychedelic these old Epyx cover arts look:

 

[Rincewind]

And one more:

 

[unseeingeye]

Here are four that I really love, even if they aren't the best games the cover art is glorious.

And of course pretty much every cover art for any Atari ST or Amiga game from Psygnosis.

Edit - Sorry, the last two aren't CRPGs, I'm an idiot

 

[unseeingeye]

This has always been my favorite of his paintings, and ultimately my favorite D&D related painting overall, and has been used as my background for multiple desktops and phones.

 

[Rincewind]

This has always been my favorite of his paintings, and ultimately my favorite D&D related painting overall, and has been used as my background for multiple desktops and phones.

It's full of amazing little details, I just noticed the imp in that globe cage thing.

 

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[ShaggyMoose]

Its crazy how much box art I remember from this thread for games I never even played...

 

[Humbaba]

Nothing but the 90's equivalent to clickbait. Here's proper prestigious box art.

Dennis Loubet a bit back did a remake of his classic U7 cover. And the U7 cover was pretty epic. Anyway
The Cover that Never Was:Ultima VII:The Black Gate

Pity this expansion was never released:

Ultima VIII - The Lost Vale
Worlds of Ultima [3] -Arthurian Legends

Guardian looking fucking YOKED out his mind holy shit

 

[felipepepe]

Game is absolute garbage, but this cover art is amazing:

 

[unseeingeye]

It's full of amazing little details, I just noticed the imp in that globe cage thing.

Yea, I love that little imp! He almost looks like a green homunculus.

And as shallow as this may be, it is actually the main reason for why Gateway to the Savage Frontier is my favorite of the Forgotten Realms gold box games. Pool of Radiance is I believe, by most substantial measures, the genuine highlight of the series (at least from those that I've played, I'm still working on playing all of them) but Gateway has a special significance for me because of the art style and that cover art. The image is also endearing to me because of my abiding interest in medieval occult philosophy, ritual magic and alchemy.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

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Forgive me lads, it had to be done.

 

[Generic-Giant-Spider]

You know what I hate about topics like this? You always get those jokers who list like every gaddam box art known to mankind and it ruins everyone else's chance to get some grogclout. And you gotta brofit/prestigious them because they listed TRUE shit but you know they stole like 40 other peoples thunder in doing so.

Like I wanted to mention WAY more but doing so now would just be redundant and make me look like a tracer. Man, these the sorta niggas that when asked "what's your favorite ___?" they can't resist listing five things at minimum. They also pull that shit like, "oh these three choices could all be #1 depending on the day/moon cycle."

If I ever make a topic like this and some pumpkinheads try to kill it by taking all the good choices in one or two posts then I'm comin' to yo house, gettin' in the pantry, eatin' the snacks. Try me, neegee.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

You know what I hate about topics like this? You always get those jokers who list like every gaddam box art known to mankind and it ruins everyone else's chance to get some grogclout. And you gotta brofit/prestigious them because they listed TRUE shit but you know they stole like 40 other peoples thunder in doing so.

Like I wanted to mention WAY more but doing so now would just be redundant and make me look like a tracer. Man, these the sorta niggas that when asked "what's your favorite ___?" they can't resist listing five things at minimum. They also pull that shit like, "oh these three choices could all be #1 depending on the day/moon cycle."

If I ever make a topic like this and some pumpkinheads try to kill it by taking all the good choices in one or two posts then I'm comin' to yo house, gettin' in the pantry, eatin' the snacks. Try me, neegee.

You got no excuse. You've got like 8 limbs and you still fell short.

 

[mediocrepoet]

You know what I hate about topics like this? You always get those jokers who list like every gaddam box art known to mankind and it ruins everyone else's chance to get some grogclout. And you gotta brofit/prestigious them because they listed TRUE shit but you know they stole like 40 other peoples thunder in doing so.

Like I wanted to mention WAY more but doing so now would just be redundant and make me look like a tracer. Man, these the sorta niggas that when asked "what's your favorite ___?" they can't resist listing five things at minimum. They also pull that shit like, "oh these three choices could all be #1 depending on the day/moon cycle."

If I ever make a topic like this and some pumpkinheads try to kill it by taking all the good choices in one or two posts then I'm comin' to yo house, gettin' in the pantry, eatin' the snacks. Try me, neegee.

You got no excuse. You've got like 8 limbs and you still fell short.

To be fair, he's using 6 of them to masturbate at any given time.