I hate the huge banners on every single game packaging ever. I'd like a small logo that doesn't take too much space away from the artwork. Is that too much to ask for?
The One Console Future is the only way this will come to pass. With a bunch of systems competing, you have to bludgeon the customer over the head to make sure they don't mistakenly buy for the wrong platform.
PS3 & PSP's new banner is pretty tiny in the scheme of things, though. Progress!
Funny. I just took a picture of the same spread yesterday, since I'm planning on selling the game. I disagree with PS1 cases though, they get banged up way too easily. I take care of my games, and almost all my PS1 cases have a few scuffs on them. I even had a few of them with broken parts when I bought the game.
Basically a DVD case cut in half, ridiculously sturdy but far less wasted space and plastic. Rather than cutting massive holes in the cases they should be using these beauties instead
Since we are on the subject "environmental friendly cases suck", anybody know a place where you can buy 360 replacements? I remember buying some on ebay back then...
Best: Japanese Gamecube boxes
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They are just so tiny, shows just how much wasted space there is in those DVD sized GC boxes.[/QUOTE]
My favourite thing about the cases is the memory card holder bit actually works properly (it is easy to fit the card in there, in the way it is intended, the western ones always jutted out for me or ended up in a iron grip).
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I also really like the style of the discs; it is a shame that Wii games had to use less tones (I think it went down to 1 or 2 plus the silver of the disc) and then went full colour...I liked the monochrome style
the only flaw is the cardboard can technically get tattered and 2 disc games I've heard have disc 2 on the manual side (I think in a mini-sleeve).
But I guess NoA went with DVD cases due to wanting reasonable sized text and (more importantly) shelf space.
Apart from that I like the design behind Wii cases and EU DS cases in the sense here are your games, the spine is white except for the text which is black. The only issue is the text itself SOME GAMES ARE IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS while others use Both Upper and Lower case plus throw in font size/type differences (though you only notice when you're up-close)...
Notice how the top font is slimmer and taller. Moving on, you also have games which use the logo instead (sometimes all of these things are done by the same publisher in a matter of months). I can understand why some would fault them as being bland (and the thick cases for the occasionally thick manuals) I prefer that to a explosion in the paint factory look spines of all difference background colours can look. Except when it ruins what would be a piece of art that starts on the front cover, continues to the spine and ends on the back cover but such things seem to be fairly rare.
I'ma have to agree on old PC games. Every time I bought a game I felt like opening a birthday present, even when the insides were just the CD and small booklet.
In 10 years, you will be able to find a complete copy of a Wii or DS game in great condition with an ease that SNES, N64, and GBA just can't compete with.
In 10 years, you will be able to find a complete copy of a Wii or DS game in great condition with an ease that SNES, N64, and GBA just can't compete with.
It's especially helped for casual purchases. Like, collectors can make anything last forever, but imagine if GameStop was as big as it was now and used games were as big as they are now in 1994?
Seeing walls of SNES games, no manuals, no cases, with marker written on them. Ugh.
regarding the current generation, I have PS3 games from USA, Canada, Germany, UK (some are PEGI/Europe) and HK.
In terms of standard versions, at least for the first party games the last has almost perfect packaging out of all regions, followed by USA.
I have Siren, Aquanaut's Holiday, Hakuna Matata and Toro Let's Party as the english HK versions and all have nice inside coverart, quite a thick fully coloured manual (including artworks for whole almost text-less pages) made of thick quality paper, no age rating on the cover and an art on the spine. Though (and this is why I said "almost") not all have the title on the spine in the game's font (and there is some kind of colour code on the lower spine?).
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Canada and the inconsistent PAL versions have some of the worst PS3 cases (=white spine with game title in black standard font, no inside art and a five pages b&w/grey manual).
One of the reasons I go more and more for CEs if available :lol
Orbients (Orbital) is one of my favorite Wii Ware games and quite possibly one of my most favorite games of all time. I with they would make a DS version of it so I could play that on the go.
In 10 years, you will be able to find a complete copy of a Wii or DS game in great condition with an ease that SNES, N64, and GBA just can't compete with.
I agree. earlier last year I wanted to buy all Castlevania GBA games, and it was a pain in the ass to buy them complete (manual, box) and in good condition.
Luckily, I found them all for under 50 bucks each. Along with the DS games, they look awesome in my drawer.
I remember some people converting their GBA boxes into DS cases, and the end result was pretty damn awesome. I wish i could find the actual thread where this is first bought up and discussed, but all i can find is Mejilan telling people how to do it (and not actually coming up with the idea)
Edit: Also, all my NES and SNes boxes are gone. They either got ripped apart, crushed or overall destroyed. I think on Mario Kart still survives. My genesis cases (which came in a hard plastic cover, like the DS ones) are all intact. I am also running out of space to keep them.
I wish games would come in a short digipack type case so I can store them easier, but then again I store all my game in boxes so I am probably the only person who would like that.
I hated the N64 packaging. It was nice when you first bought a game but after taking the cartridge in and out a few times something would ultimately always get ripped or crumpled. Perhaps it's just a symptom of how young I was at the time but I also disliked the PS1 packaging, found the cases were really easy to crack.
I actually quite like the PS3 cases on their own, I still kinda wish they were standard DVD size thought just for continuity sake. I have a tonne of 360 and PS2 games and only 10 PS3, they're a bit of a sore thumb on my shelves.
For me, It would probably have to be either the PS2 cases (when there WAS a memory card holder in the case) or the PS3 cases. The PS3 cases would be PERFECT, except, just like the PSP cases, the little tabs that hold the manual don't actually hold it in place, leading to situations where when I close the case, the edge of the manual gets fucked up. I also have had an issue with brand new PS3 games where the tabs that hold the case closed have broken, meaning I can't fully close it. I know, I'm completely anal about this stuff, but I love my game cases :/
Metroid Prime Trilogy has the greatest packaging I've ever seen for a standard game (at least in the US, I heard the European packaging was standard stuff).
I'm assuming that the answer is no, but I might as well ask: is there anywhere an American can order Japanese gamecube game cases without just importing Japanese GC games?
I'm assuming that the answer is no, but I might as well ask: is there anywhere an American can order Japanese gamecube game cases without just importing Japanese GC games?
Afraid not, unless NOJ used to sell them (ala. NOA) and someone has a bulk lot in storage you won't find anyway. It's not worth getting blank cases anyway since as far as I remember they have no front plastic cover to put artwork behind - since the JP boxes just used a cardboard slip case.
Afraid not, unless NOJ used to sell them (ala. NOA) and someone has a bulk lot in storage you won't find anyway. It's not worth getting blank cases anyway since as far as I remember they have no front plastic cover to put artwork behind - since the JP boxes just used a cardboard slip case.
Packaging and boxart is incredibly important to me. Sometimes as important as, or even more important than, the quality of the game itself. And I don't care if I'm called shallow for that. I have refused to buy good games due to bad boxart, and similarly bought average games because I liked the packaging art.
This is more of a recent development for me, probably when I became more of a collector and less of an actual gamer.
On the other hand, I love digital distribution of games. Since I find most western packaging to be ugly, I'd rather have no packaging at all.
