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[PropellerEar]

 

[Beer Baelly]

Angry looking cis male is my favorite

 

[alabtrosMyster]

That game will make people screech and die as on ResetEra as it is anti-woke.

It's not anti-woke, it just is guy(s) doing guys stuff (I assume).

 

[synchronicity]

i don't buy a game to stare at the artwork. shit, i don't even buy physical games. i don't care about artwork. if all game cases looked like this i wouldn't mind it at all:

How about if it just said "Game".

 

[22•22]

Both! Doesn't really matter to me if the design of both is to my liking =)

 

[Nezzeroth]

It depends. I used to like Final Fantasy covers more before, when they were white and clean (Europe). But usually artwork is better.

 

[Garnox]

Anesthetically, I like just the logo. Nice and clean.

However, as a consumer, I like the artwork, gives you some insight as to what the game is about.

Like a bookcover.

So I ultimately voted artwork.

 

[Fahdis]

Cool. I've got into GOG for the first time since Christmas with some cheap ass games. Didnt know you can make your own game icon.

You can sync all your games from different game stores like PS, Xbox, Epic etc and also add games manually; then apply the artwork. I'll take a pic or host a pic of my example when I can.

 

[junguler]

most of the logos are boring and ugly, i prefer stylized artworks better.

 

[Fbh]

Definitely art work.
If anything I'd love for all games to have a reversible cover that's just art work.
We actually had a thread around here with a ton of cool fan made custom covers

With stuff like:

Though it's not a general rule. For example I prefer the logo cover of Ni No Kuni on ps3 over the art work one

 

[mortal]

Logos for games are also considered artwork.

Do you mean like an illustration?

 

[Fahdis]

Here's the example Promised, this is what my library looks like:

Yes, I like to put narrative driven games in a Chronological order.

 

[SF Kosmo]

Just the genre, please.

 

[R6Rider]

Artwork....

The problem is most western games use very boring ass CG art work for the cover.

I guess this is that box art thread I mentioned before. This will do.

 

[R6Rider]

Just the genre, please.

I remember this game. It was legit fun to play. I also had the one called Bowling.

 

[SF Kosmo]

I remember this game. It was legit fun to play. I also had the one called Bowling.

It was a whole line of them. They had Racing, Shooter, Billiards... It reminded me of Atari games days.

 

[SF Kosmo]

Lighting bolts are also very important. You need lots of lighting bolts so people know your game is cool and exciting.

 

[Hypereides]

Something that sets the tone. Usually, a still logo or graphic title that conveys the worldsetting or something key will do. Something like this:

Does the first Bioshock logo with the City icons count as Logo or Cover art?
The City icons under the logo look like they belong ias letters in the Logo.

I'm honestly still kind of miffed that Take2 went with this instead:

It really doesn't convery or envoke nearly the same tonality of the game's atmosphere. I would've preferred the visually stand alone descriptive title.

Artwork can be fine too, but most the time its not very exciting. "Tough-dude-walking-or-facing-towards-you" can only stay cool so many times. Its pretty clear most covers go through a checklist by some business marketing department. I prefer it when the developers themselves grace it with their own personal touch. If its an original idea then they usually understand the core of the game itself better than some unimaginative suits would.