Editorial What’s in a face?

[Serious_Business]

I liked the box cover.

Yeah. It definitively screamed "fuck you!", and I like fucking people.

 

[Gondolin]

I liked the box cover.

 

[JarlFrank]

Worst box cover ever, probably cost them a million bucks.

The fuck is it with so many people saying it's a bad cover.

I like it. It's a good cover. It's got nice coloring that grabs attention, and it has a badass dude on it. Maybe the fact that he doesn't look like a fag and doesn't wear ridiculously impractical armour makes it unpopular with most people, though...

 

[Toffeli]

What's wrong with your face?

 

[betamin]

I didn't like the cover or the in-game 3D drawings of people, it has such a childish style for such a mature game.

 

[CrunchyHemorrhoids]

Undead smurf fetishists.

 

[Excidium]

I think the cover is ok, just the colors that are awful. Orange and blue, really?

 

[Reptilian Shapeshifter]

I think the cover is ok, just the colors that are awful. Orange and blue, really?

 

[Derper]

Worst box cover ever, probably cost them a million bucks.

The fuck is it with so many people saying it's a bad cover.

I like it. It's a good cover. It's got nice coloring that grabs attention, and it has a badass dude on it. Maybe the fact that he doesn't look like a fag and doesn't wear ridiculously impractical armour makes it unpopular with most people, though...

Doesn't look like a fag? How so?

 

[Thrasher]

It's the face you wish you could forget. Motivation to play the game.

 

[golgepapaz]

I think the cover is ok, just the colors that are awful. Orange and blue, really?

well the orange-blue is widely used nowadays because of the contrast , That game was a pioneer indeed.

 

[PorkaMorka]

I didn't like the cover. If you recall, dreadlocks on white people were a bit of a fad at the time. They were associated with undesirable segments of society, like fans of "alternative music".

TNO may have blue skin but he's clearly Caucasoid, so it's basically the same thing.

 

[Kz3r0]

Guido Henkel (of Realms of Arcania fame, in case you still remember those games) describes<...> how he was involved with the box art of Planescape: Torment.

Interesting, thanks.
















PS:
Fuck the haters.

 

[Erebus]

I'm used to the cover art now, but that doesn't change the fact that writing "Planescape : Torment" in Courier 48 on a completely white background would have been more likely to attract buyers back when the game was released. I already knew and loved the Planescape setting, but the cover art still made me hesitate for a moment.

 

[someone else]

If I am a girl I will find the box repulsive.

 

[Marobug]

I think the cover is ok, just the colors that are awful. Orange and blue, really?

Looks a lot better actually.

 

[flabbyjack]

Thinking of it, a clean box design with the symbol of Torment on the front would perfectly suffice.

I mean,

How cool is that? Instant sale!

Wow! That'd make a pretty badass tattoo. If I get one I'll post it.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Wow! That'd make a pretty badass tattoo. If I get one I'll post it.

http://planescape.outshine.com/crap.pla ... attoo.html

 

[sser]

For me, the box design is pretty interesting, but it is a massive failure as far as marketing goes. It is simply horrendous. A disaster. The only one I can think of that is worse is the "Mob Rule" box where the cover art truly could not be more different than how the game actually is:

=

 

[Gerrard]

Thinking of it, a clean box design with the symbol of Torment on the front would perfectly suffice.

I mean,

http://i.imgur.com/Mt6TY.jpg

How cool is that? Instant sale!

It may be cool from your point of view (or mine), but the marketing guys don't care.

Also, I don't have anything against the PST cover.
Unlike the gay cover for TWitcher 2.

I think the cover is ok, just the colors that are awful. Orange and blue, really?

http://i.imgur.com/NJgmu.png

Looks a lot better actually.

Thank god I'm not color blind.

 

[golgepapaz]

Wow! That'd make a pretty badass tattoo. If I get one I'll post it.

I've been entertaining the same idea for almost ten years now, just afraid that how to explain it to some chick ."Oh, this is just a graphic art from a computer game" sounds very nerdy ,although I can go with "it's an artists interpretation of shahmeran(who is a goddess of wisdom in Anatolian mythology) " . And still cannot answer the conundrum " it sounded like an awesome idea back then ,but now I am sober and am I sure?"

Still.. go for it

 

[DwarvenFood]

I'm still looking for a suitable tattoo.

 

[Gord]

I don't buy games based on the cover art. Why would I?

 

[Jaesun]

I don't buy games based on the cover art. Why would I?

I would by 10 copies of this game if it had this cover.

 

[torpid]

I think the cover is ok, just the colors that are awful. Orange and blue, really?

Bright orange and fluorescent blue, at that. And the Nameless One would be more badass without the little beads in his hair.