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[Windu]

did you just grab all those images from my wii fanboy post? i spent hours finding and resizing those -- glad they could be of use to someone else!


much better!

ha yeah most of them, thanks for the hard work!

 

[Error]

lmao at angry kirby

 

[probune]

I love these boxart threads whining about NA covers like all PAL/Japan covers are awesome. Not always. Sometimes we get screwed and sometimes all the covers are hideous.

Oh yeah and angry kirby always makes me lawl.

 

[Mesijs]

RE4 Wii has a GREAT PAL boxart. Happy I'm no yank.

 

[Kiriku]

Metroid Fusion

I really like this one.

 

[AniHawk]

The Japanese Metroid one is awesome. Really nails the Alien atmosphere.

 

[PowerSmell]

 

[Fuu]

^ oh god :lol

 

[Man God]

Wait, four pages supposedly about bitching out Nintendo's American coverart without doing the Minish Cap comparison? For shame.

 

[Gagaman]

The American Saturn covers were some of the worst of the bunch :lol

To..

Mind you, PAL covers quite often suffer from "lets just slap a bunch of promo art of random characters on there and call it a day"..

 

[Miniboss1232]

(Lol c wut Ninty did thar?)

:lol That one just kills me!

edit: Though I wouldn't have minded have the green tophat Kirby instead. Perhaps with a monocle.

 

[FoxSpirit]

VS

Oh... my... god...

If I get this game I'll get myself the Japanese cover cause the US one BLOWS.

 

[I AM JOHN!]

To be fair, our box art is pretty awesome except for the anger.

It's cool, but I actually prefer the US version's abstract art and color cacophony. Only thing wrong with it is, well, you know.

 

[Victrix]

Dear god

Normally I like to make fun of obsessive compulsive box condition/greatest hits type nerdery, but *jesus* there are some horrible, horrible, awful, inexcusable rapings of great art in the transition.

What the hell possesses these companies to do that sort of butchery consistently, year after year.

 

[BGBW]

:lol That one just kills me!

edit: Though I wouldn't have minded have the green tophat Kirby instead. Perhaps with a monocle.

Righto:

OH GOD THE DIFFERENCES ARE KILLING ME!

 

[noire]

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[KLoNe]

Ahhh, this thread is looking good :lol

 

[Anakinsella]

:lol kirby is angry/happy in these too. :lol

omg that had me laughing out loud

 

[_Xenon_]

:lol :lol

This thread is mind blowing.

 

[Eiji]

Here's another classic:

Wow, the US box art is a joke.

 

[zoukka]

Lol I actually prefer the Yankee cover of RE4. The PAL-version looks like shit. The original GC-cover was cool, but that's just copy-paste trees and OMG black and white is styliz.

 

[Jaagen]

The japanese AW: Dual Strike covers Vs. the US/EUR one. I find the Japanese more charming.

US/EUR:

JAP:

 

[crispyben]

(Lol c wut Ninty did thar?)

Look, the red one and the green one seem angry on the JP version, but not on the US version :lol Does anyone know the reason for this switcheroo?

 

[Rezbit]

Truly one of the best boxarts EVER.

 

[nbcjr]

Look, the red one and the green one seem angry on the JP version, but not on the US version :lol Does anyone know the reason for this switcheroo?

if you look closely pink one and red one were changed, they are pixel-perfect copies with diferent colors

 

[Mdk7]

Holy fucking fuck, that's...
I'm speechless.

Reggie is taking this thread to heart. He's now tailoring his look for the North American and Japanese markets.

:lol

 

[Yoboman]

Japan:

US:

Why

 

[AniHawk]

why

They're both bad and it's a shitty game anyway so you shouldn't care.

 

[Ten-Song]

They're both bad and it's a shitty game anyway so you shouldn't care.

Correct.

 

[Fuu]

Reggie is taking this thread to heart. He's now tailoring his look for the North American and Japanese markets.

:lol

 

[MidiSurf]

BTW is there explanation for this -->

US:

vs

EU:

Why do we have this dull and lame standard spine text ?

 

[Worm_Buffet]

Why do we have this dull and lame standard spine text ?

With inconsistent capitalization to boot!

 

[hirokazu]

BTW is there explanation for this -->

US:

vs

EU:

Why do we have this dull and lame standard spine text ?

Dunno, but if it bothers you so much, import the Australian Wii games, they have PAL discs, but a lot of them use the US version boxart. For example, our WarioWare Smooth Moves has the pink box.

 

[Goldrusher]

BTW is there explanation for this -->
...

Why do we have this dull and lame standard spine text ?

Same goes for PlayStation games.

 

[hirokazu]

BTW is there explanation for this -->

US:

vs

EU:

Why do we have this dull and lame standard spine text ?

Dunno, but if it bothers you so much, import the Australian Wii games, they have PAL discs, but a lot of them use the US version boxart, including the spine. For example, our WarioWare Smooth Moves has the pink box.

 

[MidiSurf]

Dunno, but if it bothers you so much, import the Australian Wii games, they have PAL discs, but a lot of them use the US version boxart. For example, our WarioWare Smooth Moves has the pink box.

Are you crazy ! Games cost like zillions of dollars in Australia, even the euro versions are too expensive in my opinion. But i will import Wii from US soon as the Wii madness fades away and you can actually buy one with reasonable price.

I sold my euro wii just few days ago and started buying US-games for my future US Wii <3. NMH + Zack & Wiki + Ghost Squad = 81€

In europe the same set cost well over 100€ (160€ in Finland), so i will get cheaper games and cooler boxs.

Oh and same set in Australia is like one million dollars.

... And would it be crazy to just order the JP-version of NMH just for the manuals ? They are soooo coool.

EDIT:

81€ = 118 $
160€ = 233 $

 

[NekoFever]

Same goes for PlayStation games.

Yeah, and DS games as well. Since they use those fat cases for UK DS games (I assume to accommodate the multilingual manuals) as well as the plain text it makes my shelf look weird.

I was going to post a picture of my mixed-region PS2 collection. The Japanese and US ones all look different, while the PAL ones are just black Arial text on a white spine. I only have one PAL PS3 game (Resistance) and that seems to be splitting the difference by having the plain text but with the artwork wrapping around from the front in the background.

 

[Gagaman]

BTW is there explanation for this -->

US:

vs

EU:

Why do we have this dull and lame standard spine text ?

This doesn't just happen with Wii games, but with games on most other consoles as well, like the PS2.

 

[Xater]

RE4 Wii has a GREAT PAL boxart. Happy I'm no yank.

http://www.tothegame.com/res/game/6558/boxshot_uk_large.jpg[IMG] [IMG]http://www.tothegame.com/res/game/6558/boxshot_us_large.jpg[IMG][/QUOTE]

Americans love their shitty render covers you know...:lol

I am glad most of the time we get the original cover in the EU. Even Zelda: PH has the Japanese cover.

 

[itsinmyveins]

They're both bad and it's a shitty game anyway so you shouldn't care.

You know, you shouldn't say stuff you know is wrong. The game is great and the Jap/EU-cover looks great. So there.

 

[Soulhouf]

best metroid box art ive seen.

 

[nny]

(oh, look at my Wii games. ...reminded me I have to get Zack and Wiki..or Whack Nazi Kid, as I like to call it now). Anyway, I like the PAL spine text...with the exception of the random capitalization. I like the sober way the games look when in a shelf, like the PS2 games do.

come on! :lol :lol

 

[Nuclear Muffin]

The Plain Text on the EU spines, is because of the amount of languages they need to translate for. They obviously don't make international horizontally designed logos in different languages.

 

[the year 20XX]

Randomly toss a bunch of characters onto an image, and call it a good box art? Completely ugly.

The US boxart did the same thing, except the characters were all Samus.

 

[tanod]

I dunno about Nintendo, but I sure know that Sony fuck up horribly at times.

Pick the odd one out.

I can remember looking at that box art back in the early launch drought of PS2 when there was nothing out there for games. I kept thinking that it was probably the stupidest looking box art I've ever seen. Still haven't ever played it but I'd like to some day.

Stupid Sony

 

[The_Dude]

Why do we have this dull and lame standard spine text ?

What really annoys me is that the majority of PAL Xbox 360 games have the proper logo and background on the spine, but EA and Ubisoft (could be others as well) insist on crappy plain black text on a white background. Why?

 

[Kyuuketsu_Night]

Oh. My. God.

That Shiren US boxart has the be the most gut wrenchingly horrible thing I've seen all year.

Jesus Christ.

Did they hire some crappy DA high school kid who specializes in drawing crappy Inuyasha fan art to do that boxart? =/

It seriously looks like someones really crappy fan art.

 

[thebagofsand]

Siren box art is not going to stop me from purchasing the game.

 

[dragonlife]

I actually don't like the Japanese one. I think our cover is better, personally.

 

[Tellaerin]

At least our No More Heroes box is better.

No it's not.

The Japanese boxart projects this nice movie-poster vibe. A dude with shades (with a lightsaber, no less) and a hot chick posed against a West Coast backdrop, in these affectedly 'cool' poses that give it a slightly over-the-top feel. Like a poster for some tongue-in-cheek action flick.

I look at the other one and think, 'OMG, some guy's trying to kill me with a fluorescent bulb!'