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Dark Souls II Box Art Revealed

This is the cover we got in the uk.
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Wow, that's bad ass!
 
There's a clear difference between the Dark Souls cover and CoD/Infinite/Army of Two/etc.

The fact that the protagonist has his back to us and doesn't seem to be showing off how "badass" he is like all the other covers of this ilk says a lot.
 
It looks like someone new to Photoshop fired up a black/white filter and rendered some smoke.

The craftsmanship looks fine to me. The concept however is pretty cliche. Change the outfit and this could be for pretty much any game. It's a solid cover but nothing special.
 
Yes, another walking, lifeless husk on the front cover.

Well, sums up what you'll be doing for most of the game.

Controlling a walking, lifeless, husk!

Even has the view we'll be seeing a lot, the back of our character!!

But I think it's the best box art of the 3, Demon's Souls US box art sucked, and Dark Souls US was passable.
 
dark souls is not a colorful game. not loving the black and white, but it shouldn't have a colorful cover.

the grayscale complaint always shows a lack of visual acuity. it's a popular but arbitrary criticism.

it's a good looking image, but it's obviously not challenging any standards.
 
the grayscale complaint always shows a lack of visual acuity. it's a popular but arbitrary criticism.

it's a good looking image, but it's obviously not challenging any standards.
wot?

black and brownish and grey and white would be accurate enough for you?

my problem with is is that it's boring, uneventful and uninspiring, it's just a dude walking towards some mist, he doesn't even have a shield or looks strong or weak or anything.

it doesn't evoke anything from me as the demon's souls or dark souls 1 or dks pc covers did, in which they showed interesting characters in cool poses that piqued your curiosity and whatnot.

then again imma buy this on steam so what does the cover matter, really.
 
quick paint job, someone with Photoshop skills can improve on it.

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Damn it, figures someone would be doing the exact same cover as me. :P

Oh well, here's mine:
[IMG]http://www.majhost.com/gallery/TheCongressman1/Art/dark-souls-2-cover.png

If anyone knows where to get a higher resolution of that pic, let me know. I'm gonna do a full cover for the alternate cover thread for when this come out.
 
Sort of boring. If he were holding a gun instead of a sword, people would be going apeshit. :P

Really, it's a CoD/BF/BS/Gears/ETCETERA game cover with a sword instead.
Yup. It's quite cool, but I often like the CoD/BF ones like that. I think MW2's cover is boss.

But yeah, I wonder how much of the praise in here is because it's cool to like Dark Souls, because it is basically incredibly generic, even if it is rather gorgeous along with it.
 
Nice cover, simple and effective. My favourite cover is still the asian Demon Souls cover, always makes me chuckle when I see it as it communicated the game so well in one picture.
 
If they are trying to establish Dark Souls and its whole gameplay formula and identity as the industry's swordy fantasy equivalent to the modern shooter model, in terms of being a concept which is accepted by mass audiences and repeated and refined and attempted to be duplicated by many other developers for years to come, well then I wholeheartedly accept our new cruel overlords.
 
Looks kinda dull imho, everything is grey and it kinda reminds me of those FPS covers except that the knight has his back turned against the viewer.

Damn it, figures someone would be doing the exact same cover as me. :P

Oh well, here's mine:
dark-souls-2-cover.png


If anyone knows where to get a higher resolution of that pic, let me know. I'm gonna do a full cover for the alternate cover thread for when this come out.

This is would be great though!
 
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