/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5107037
The American cover. Yikes! Why does this always seem to happen?

America why?!?!

>>5107042
>>5107037
Honestly both are pretty terrible

>>5107050
Because He Man/Conan style art was more popular in late 80's/early 90's US than anime.

>>5107051
I think the jap girls look great <3

>>5107190
I love Conan style, but were any of the american video game covers in that style good?

>>5107037
https://kidfenris.blogspot.com/2011/04/trouble-shooter-nintendo-haters-at.html
The developers' Nintendo hate was pretty funny.

Mega drive games look great, they have a real premium feel similar to neogeo

>>5107037
>>5107042

>The closest we'd get to a DECENT Dirty Pair game

>>5107050
While the Japanese one is better, the American one isn’t bad in and of itself. It’d be fine art for something else.

>>5107461
Woah! The heck! I have Battle Mania 2 and never noticed that. (Guess I was always too busy shooting everything that moves to survive as soon as I saw it, and thusly probably never gave much thought or attention). Next time I play it I’ll be on the lookout for those flying Marios. There’s just so many crazy looking enemies in that game it looks in place in that world. Funny.

On a slightly unrelated note:

What’s up with these prices?!

>>5107557
Welcome to Japanese Mega Drive games.

>>5107050
the one on the left at least looks competently done unlike the trainwreck in >>5107042

who did it better

>>5107557

the second one is awesome and pretty rare i think

>>5107590
In that particular case, the US one is better.

>>5107602
They’re both really good, but yeah the second one is awesome, the graphics and sound are a step up, and the gameplay is faster.

>>5107042
>>5107050
generic anime vs cool illustrations

What is this expression? Why is she making it?

>>5107042
>Why does this always seem to happen?

Americans are retarded. So they get retarded artwork that resonates better with them.

>>5107037
>anime shit is good
Yeah, no.

>>5107956
pouty

>>5107856
All japanese games were "generic anime' style since forever, they just didn't have detailed enough visuals to express is clearly before the 16 bit era. The japanese covers to battle mania and alisia dragoon accurately match the contents of the game itself.

This is like zoomers complaining that "all the new dragon quest games look like DBZ now".

>>5107190
>Because He Man/Conan style art was more popular in late 80's/early 90's US than anime.
You mean Liefeld art. Big pouches, tiny hands and no feet. This was the best selling comic artist in history at the time OP's game was released.

The "heavy metal magazine" inspired western video game cover art was shit that was airbrushed on the side of black vans belonging to local degenerates who still believed it was 1982. That art style was a decade out of date by the time the 16 bit era took off.

>>5108007
This is what they thought would sell video games in 1991.

>>5108007
Moebius and Frazetta > SJW-Force, or whatever else Marvel was churning out the time.

>>5107261
I like the Phantasy Star IV one.

>>5107590
They're both good. The Japanese artwork is neat and detailed, and the guy on the US box looks cool as fuck

>>5108031
>or whatever else Marvel was churning out the time.
Talent wise, obviously, they were both legends, but at least in north America their time had come and gone a decade earlier. The early 90s were when comics peaked in popularity and it was all the edgy x-treme comics shit that kids sketched in my high school art class (cable, azrael armored batman dude, bane, venom/carnage).

Fans of Frazetta style art were teased and called "skids" at my highschool. Metal was out and grunge and alternative were in.

>>5107042
I would fap still..
>>5107050
>>5108037

These're both good fappingterial though.

>>5107856
It's the mutt covers that look generic though. The first one is not even worth talking about and the second looks like generic some generic D&D illustration.

>>5108081

>>5107050
They wanted their game to sell here

>>5108010
Uh no, that's what they thought would sell video games in 1986. By 1991 were firmly in the mascots with ATTITUUUUUUDE DUUUDE era.

>>5108171
American marketing teams lag real trends by approximately 5-7 years though. By 1999 they were catching up to the early 90s trends.In 1991-1994 they were still giving us he-man covers.

>>5108278
Forgot pick, but the executives and decision makers are very out of touch with reality. It has always been this way.

>>5107050
I like both

>>5107590
>only having one elemental master

>>5107042
American marketing/PR departments always employ retards with no idea about what they're marketing or the audience. Always trying to copy decade old movie posters.

>>5107956
She makes it in-game, too. Bitch is just pouty in general.

>>5107557
seems the box adds a handsome premium

>>5107996
I know what you mean, but in Alisia Dragoon's particular case it can and will be argued since it was illustrated by fucking Masamune Shirow.
That guy is hardly generic, very 90's sure but not generic

>>5108007
Yikes.That shit looks absolutely terrible.

>>5109057
And no single comic before or after ever sold as many issues as that cover. Over 5 million copies of that dreadful cover are in print.

X-men relaunched with multiple different covers that same year, with each selling over a million copies and collectors bought all of them totaling more overall sales, but X-force #1 broke every record for a single cover and that record will never be broken in our lifetime.

>>5109160
why do americans have such horrid taste?

>>5109176
Even Americans think Liefeld is shit these days.

>>5108942
A chunk of Shirow’s work is from the 80s.

>>5109160
Did collectorfags ruin comic books?

>>5109734
Yes, absolutely, at least for the entirety of the 90s. They almost made the industry crash.

The American illustrations are better you fucking weebs. Stop jerking off to bug eyed asymmetrical cartoons.

>>5109760
oof! poor taste

A NEW CHALLENGER APPEARS

>>5109815
I like the left better.

>>5107956
duckface before duckface was cool (and then lame again)

>>5109760
Why is the mere mention of Japan makes people lash out violently against weebs? You're insecure, shut up.

>>5109815
>people fapped to this

>>5109815
I like the Japanese cover better, it has more personality. American is just a boring action hero.

>>5109828
Are you trying to imply you haven't?

>>5109826
Because Amerimutts get mad when you point out that their covers are shit, which is 100% true. They reflect the stupidity and lack of artistic taste of the average mutt. Try to have a cover thread on /v/ and it's the same thing.

>>5107590
>that left cover
Tetsuo?

>>5109917

KANEEEEEEEEDAAAAAAAAAAA

Dumping cool Japanese game art.

>>5108287
Is this real? It looks fake to me.

>>5110053
Look up the Sony email leaks. It's amazing they are still in business.

>>5110053
It's very buzzworthy and cool.

This art is surprisingly good (read - hot) for oldass anime. Usually they all had deformed 10kg of hair and even more deformed faces

>>5108157
Based

>>5108307
based and redpilled

>>5109815
That artstyle is really familiar, who drew the Jap cover?

>>5108153
I'm not for localization shying away from and omitting anime style covers, but what makes one more generic than the other? If anything they're both made to market to the average gamer of time. Besides, a traditional art cover evoking D&D would look amazing and standout today.

>>5107483
that jap one is very cool

>>5109950

Last Bronx was pretty ace. Shame we never got a sequel.

>>5107042
those are some disgusting 70s tits, bet they've got 70s bush too

>>5107956
dunno but it's super cute

>>5109926
I don't know what this is but it's awesome

>>5109734
Collectorfags ruin everything, always.

>boomers with their IKNOWWHATIGOTS
>Xers and their comic books
>millenials with their gayman

>>5109825
Duckface was always cool... kinda.

>>5107050
Right looks like a rip off of Magic Knight Rayearth and the left looks like a rip off of Conan I like both

>>5110540
That`s a 90s thing.

>>5111974
>$47,674
>NO LOW BALLERS!!!
>I KNOW WHAT I GOT!!!
makes me laugh every time

a real American shrine maiden

>>5112038
yikes. Should’ve stuck to the Japanese art.

>>5112049
Wtf, girls being cute? That's gay anon, who would buy such a thing?

>>5112038
Also wanted to say: this is easily my favorite SNES SFC games. Love it!

>>5112038
I don't get why is there still so much praise for Greg Martin.

>>5111114
The Toshinden artist, that's for sure

'sup.