The Death of Video Game Box Art

Remember when you got the game and stared the boxart while driving home to play it

UPDATE: The U.S Dark Souls cover is Artorias, which is why the dude is left handed. I sincerely apologize for my actions and revoke my status as a Soul Boy. Dog forgive me. Japanese one is still better though so actually still dog blessed

Can't believe he stole dunkeys idea 4 years before dunkey even made the video.

RDR2 cover art is just a guy with a gun, but it also looked so good because of the colouring and it looks hand-drawn and not just a photo of the game character

Upon seeing the Japanese coverart for Dark Souls... I am genuinely pissed.

That japanese ico cover is a thing of beauty

Using Evanescence to describe American box art is absolutely perfect.

I didn’t even know there was an American cover for heavy rain it looks so taccy

Nakey Jakey: The only YouTuber that talks about every aspect of a game, except for the game.

Red dead is a good combo of guy with a gun and actual art

Jakey really just sat here and made a video about box art without mentioning Kingdom Hearts which has had simultaneous beautiful masterpieces of box art in every region for the last eighteen years.

Personally I love the Dark Souls 3 cover art. The way the character looks down and lets the dirt fall through his fingers is tragic and epic at the same time. It fits the game's theme's perfectly.

Kirby's angry eyebrows

I'm glad rockstar kept the tile style version of their boxart

For those wondering about the song at the end (9:10) The song is "Like the wind" from Gran Turismo

I know you used Alien: Isolation as an example of a “bad” box art, but I actually really like it. It gives you a sense of dread as you can see the alien in the reflection of her helmet, which cues you into the fact that you will have to face the alien.

Don't even get me started on instruction manuals

I miss the old days of good video game manuals. Call of Duty 1 had around 20-30 pages and every weapon in the game was explained. The weapon stats + some history behind the weapon. Also the addon "Babarian Invasion" for Rome Total War I had around 100(!) pages. Everything was explained: how to play, fractions, historical context and so on. Today we got 1 page which says that we should buy the season pass gg wp gaming industry

NakeyJakey, Scott the Woz, and Dunkey have all done videos on video game box art. While they've all said many of the same things, they've also all had some unique insights, and have communicated their thoughts with wildly different, and wildly entertaining, videos. And each one of them has shit all over Mega Man 1, which is hilarious.

The thing that annoys me even more is what has happened to the back of game cases and console boxes. Game Boxes used to get several nice screenshots with some description of the game or the story covering most of the rear. Now, huge chunks of that backside real estate are taken up by various disclaimers and region info. It's so ugly. The back of console boxes used to be filled with tons of screenshots of a bunch of different games. I used to love looking at those and seeing what other cool stuff I could get. Now, system boxes will just show features, a picture of the console, a giant logo, or the stupid character with a gun box art. It's so freakin' boring.