Wtf all those logo only boxarts you guys have posted here are actually really good, stop baiting me
Especially that Linda 3 art, I love it.
Also, this could practically be a thread of NTSC covers lmao. They are boring, sometimes lazy and just plain unappealing most of the times, I think this one takes the prize
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Well not that they are bad, but they are really lazy and boring lol. There are lots of lazy visual artworks but they are really fun artworks therefore good.
Do you know why only the paintings that were not boring made it to our modern days by they really bothered not to burn the paintings to warm themselves during winter? Because these paintings are nice to watch. Back then people had no TV, so they painted stuff and even built buildings so you could just sit there and watch the fine details. You could even watch clothes back then for how great it's to even look at and try to comprehend all the deeper meanings about whatever you see on them.
Modern people cannot understand how clothes were used in a uniform logic that only allowed to be wearable by certain people in certain social layers. Now, people have lots to watch as their sense of "watching" is limited to movies and whatnot. It made sense of "art appreciation" changed too. Now everything is so dull, not that it's bad per se, it's just the preference people have anymore. Most people glued to their smartphones being so away from actually aware what kind of reality they living in. They are stuck in their own underdeveloped sense of self therefore they have no idea who they are. They are too distracted to get to know themselves and companies decide what you should like. It makes people become mindless customers just to make capitalism work, but it's necessary because when money doesn't flow economy collapses then everyone goes poor and only very few enjoy how rich they are for a while but then they become poor too and then humanity as a whole suffers.
Another aspect of the topic is how hard it's to come up with a video game artwork. You gotta let people know what the game is about. People care about characters in it so they wanna see it. Then what the game is about make what the artwork can be very limited.
However, they can use comic artwork as an idea to evolve their sense of artwork to produce. People buy comics because they think they look cool. IDK why video games doesn't play it on anymore. If most video games actually looked cool they would make them sell in certain %.
As a result, video game companies believe everything about the industry has a standard despite most people have no awareness about it or cares. That's why some random guy on sports games is an industry standard. In Japan, RPG cover art of people floating in air is an industry standard. Everything about video game industry is a misunderstanding of what people wants but it's actually not what people want but how it always was so they keep it going because they believe this is a well-established formula just to ensure sales as they believe.
I was just gonna say that ALL PAL versions of FF games are so damn lazy and boring. It´s like they don´t gave a frack but then again Square did not give a crap my country did not get FF series until 7 we missed 1-6.
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I seriously thought it's some product of a junk food then I realized it's just final fantasy lol. One of my particular professor would seriously think it's one of the best example of a worst visual representation of a product. It's not clear what's that, let alone a video game. It's not clear what's that about, what it trying to sell. It make you question "what is final fantasy" but because of the word "fantasy" it kinda looks like a VHS porn tape until you realize it's not a VHS tape but you can be somehow sure it's probably about porn lolol. Only "PlayStation" as a word indicate "playing" so then you get "oh it must be what that game stuff kids play on tv" lol.
