Games you would NEVER play just seeing the cover art alone

[JarlFrank]

Am I the only one who thinks this cover is cool?

 

[Disciple]

I find edgy stuff like the Borderlands games very off-putting.

Spoiler

 

[Trithne]

The Mystery of the Druids is the only acceptable answer.

If I didn't know, the cover for that would honesty make me want to play the game just to find out what the fuck it is.

As for my entry:

While I absolutely get what they went for now and appreciate it, at the time I remember thinking "the fuck?" and passing it over, sadly.

Bonus round to this version I also found:

 

[Berekän]

Wut? The Arx Fatalis cover is p. cool, who would pass on that? I would just change the font

 

[Trithne]

Wut? The Arx Fatalis cover is p. cool, who would pass on that? I would just change the font

I never said it was a wise decision.

 

[markec]

Am I the only one who thinks this cover is cool?

I think it's cool if you know the background of that picture and the game. But as a kid seeing it at a shelf I would not be inclined to buy it.

 

[JarlFrank]

Am I the only one who thinks this cover is cool?

I think it's cool if you know the background of that picture and the game. But as a kid seeing it at a shelf I would not be inclined to buy it.

I genuinely like the cover. Nice color scheme, dark blue and dark orange fit well together. Exudes a mysterious atmosphere and makes me wonder what it's about. Definitely more intriguing than most "face dude" covers where the dude is way more generic and the background is non-existent.

 

[InD_ImaginE]

Nowadays? Anything without anime girl is a hard pass

 

[Filthy Sauce]

It's a good game

 

[JarlFrank]

It's a good game

 

[Jack Of Owls]

I had to look at this one 3 or 4 times to make sure it wasn't one of those obscure, pornographic gay indies. Kinda lavender.

 

[Jack Of Owls]

It's a good game

I look at this cover, with that ape's expression, and I immediately think: "Where's Dian Fossey's head?"

 

[Blutwurstritter]

Am I the only one who thinks this cover is cool?

I skipped it back in the day, thinking that it shows a black person with dreads in a night club. The cover isn't good especially when you're just taking glances at covers in a store.

 

[Glop_dweller]

Writer and game designer Guido Henkel produced the original Planescape: Torment game, and was roped into to being the model for the mask that would provide the basis of the game's box art. Here's Henkel in costume.

Spoiler

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

For some reason I've never liked Darklands cover.

 

[SumDrunkGuy]

Spoiler

Dear designers, a snarling young woman doesn't motivate, influence or compel me in any fashion... save to turn away.

That is the face of a LGBTQ they gazing upon a straight white male.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/ugly-game-box-cover-art.90220/

And from the same thread, this piece of cover gore too

And the cover that might be the biggest case of not giving a single fuck about the art. You need to mess up real bad to make it hard to recognize Batman.

Alternate version without Harley Quinn, because that 3D render was using too much valuable text space.

Divine edition

 

[Viata]

Implying this doesn't look cool as fuck.

 

[Glop_dweller]

Implying this doesn't look cool as fuck.

The graphic artist in me can't look past the bad perspective.

Also...

 

[Jack Of Owls]

Btw, I found the gameplay video for the game in my OP, and to (mis)quote Fred Gwynne as Jud Crandall in Pet Sematary (1989): "Sometimes untranslated is better."

Spoiler

 

[SilentSeeker]

Anything with a character that has his back turned looking over his shoulder.

Spoiler

Really?

Or is the relevant word "his"?

 

[KörangarTheMighty]

Or is the relevant word "his"?

Didn't play it, but yes, the only time I'd accept the over the shoulder fuck-me eyes is from a broad.

 

[Melcar]

Because when a guy does it it's like "check out my gains Bro, this back is huge; I just totally owned this FUCK YEAH!" and when a chick does it's "check out my nice ass; want to fuck it?".

 

[mondblut]

Anything with a character that has his back turned looking over his shoulder.

Not even this?

 

[Viata]

Implying this doesn't look cool as fuck.

The graphic artist in me can't look past the bad perspective.

Also...

wow, this is worse than shit.