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[Nostalgic Nightmare]

 

[MiguelItUp]

 

[FeralEcho]

I much prefer the Halo 3 one, it's so epic with the 360 green case.

 

[Omnipunctual Godot]

I used to love looking at these two at the rental store.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Although they've just announced it I think the box art for Another Code: Recollection is my new favorite one.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Kamisama to unmei kakumei no paradox

 

[Oberstein]

Lyle/Nigel...

 

[Duchess]

For me, nothing is more iconic than the FF7 box art.

That image of Cloud, staring up at the Shinra building, hand on his buster sword really evoked a lot in me back in 1997. This was the first FF game that we got in the UK, and the reason I bought a PlayStation.

Of course, we got a different box in the UK, of the meteor.

 

[TheGrat1]

Like I alluded to earlier with the Gran Turismo 1 cover I like simple box arts that give the vibe of the game without giving away too much. Bonus points when it makes you want to know more. Even something extremely simple like the plain Japanese box arts for Final Fantasy or MGS1 look great to me.

In that vein I love these two old box arts:

"Sword? Axe? Challenge? Adventure?! Why is it called Final Fantasy? I'm in!"

"A castle? Two moons? What's in there? Man, that's a spooky entrance. I'm in!"

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

It's hard to say which is my all time favorite since I have so many preferences, so instead I'll list a few more of the ones I love.

My Baby Kat

 

[Danjin44]

I LOVE .hack cover arts...

Mostly because its done by my favourite artist of all time Yoshiyuki Sadamoto

 

[Super Lemon Drop]

I love the Atari stuff, and other box art from that era.

One of my two earliest game memories is Space Invaders arcade cabinet and also on Atari.

 

[IAmRei]

i think if I should choose only one in 80s - early 90s sci fi or fantasy games, it will be hard for me.
box art at the time, especially scifi or fantasy games, are the best description to "art"

 

[DirtInUrEye]

 

[Raven117]

Indeed, perfection

 

[nkarafo]

 

[Cakeboxer]

 

[Super Lemon Drop]

There are so many awesome posts and pieces of box art in this topic. It makes me happy.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

Oohhhh, that's really good.

 

[zokie]

i still love the boxart for the most hated Samus Aran game till date

thanks gamefaqs for the images

Metroid: Other M Box Shot for Wii - GameFAQs

For Metroid: Other M on the Wii, a box shot for the US - 2010-08-31 release on GameFAQs.

gamefaqs.gamespot.com

 

[Crayon]

 

[GnomeChimpsky]

Dig the name as well.

 

[Plague Doctor]

Much like my feelings on modern graphic design, I miss the fuck out of the creative free for all it used to be to sell the concept of the game on box art and advertising.

Now most storefront art is just so fucking minimal and soulless. Sometimes it feels like they aren't even trying.

Give me crazy gumbo, kitchen sink approaches flexing the creativity of an artist and an art department that is going for the bleechers.

We got a lot misses ( and ngl, they were peak clowshoes) but when we got hits, we got fucking hits.

 

[Judge Magister]

I think PS2 is my favorite.

 

[Sportler]

 

[Judge Magister]

Black with vibrant colors is cool.

 

[RCX]

Savage simplicity

 

[Rikku-X]

Shenmue 2

 

[AndrewRyan]

Game is alright but got the definitive edition just for this cover

 

[hououinkyouma00]

I think PS2 is my favorite.

Nobody talks about the Boku No pico Natsuyasumi series. Amazing games, and if anybody wants to check it out there's a full English patch for 2.

 

[EviLore]

 

[Arrapaho]

 

[Nocty]

Dig the name as well.

maaaaaaaaaan I haven't looked at that in years and seeing it just now sent me down a spiraling hole of nostalgia.

I used to have a magazine cutout of it which I turned into a sort of framed poster when I was a kid, but lost long ago.

 

[Hudo]

 

[Audiophile]

Resident Evil DC, starring Trent Reznor.

 

[Hookshot]

 

[Banjo64]

Something about cardboard boxes does it for me:

Obviously there's a lot more; Pokemon Yellow, the simplicity of OOT, Mario 64 and more.

Something about plastic is very obviously unsexy. However, honerable mention must go to DaS Prepare to Die Edition, as Artorias is biblical:

 

[Deerock71]

 

[Codes 208]

Its not exactly a secret that I tend to shit on 343 more often than not

BUT to be absolutely fair, I actually liked halo 4 and its box art was fuckin' fire

 

[Miles708]

I've always loved the original Xbox Ninja Gaiden cover

 

[Audiophile]

Unfortunately I think videogame box art has been very heavily driven by the suits for the last twenty years rather than designers. There are standouts and exceptions of course, but it's largely bland, samey stuff following the usual tropes and always making sure to get the heroes placed just right and prominent enough in the frame to satisfy marketing. Vast majority of great stuff here is pre-PS3 or special editions.

Gonna throw a curveball and post the box for a console itself, the PS2...

It was so iconic and bold, it was everything it needed to be and it didn't need anything but the right colours and the logo to convey the correct feeling. Yet ever since and just like game boxes that need to have the hero, they had put the console on the box, often in an awkward manner and then clutter it up with a load of other stuff.

 

[EntelechyFuff]

Persona 2 Eternal Punishment is a big one for me. It was my intro to SMT as a whole, and I bought the game because of the box art alone for 3 factors.

1. It looked like no game I had ever played.
2. The superficially ill-advised but actually genius "RPG" shield Atlus added to the US release reassured a JRPG-fixated teen that this was indeed a game for me.
3. heart on booby

The irony is that there's arguably still so few games like this. A JRPG where you play as (mostly) grown adults who have jobs, with all of the perspective that entails? And to cap it off, Atlas has seemed to reject that idea as much as anyone these days.

 

[HitokiriNate85]

Tried to stick with choices that weren't posted elsewhere in this thread.

 

[MrJangles]

 

[No BBC=Anger]

 

[TheGrat1]

So, R&C 2 is one of my favorite games and the box art is cool, too. I like the way Ratchet's Megarocket Cannon is burning a hole in what is supposed to be the cover of the box, breaking the 4th wall and looking badass while doing so. What really helps to sell this, and is the main reason I posted this, is that the art on the front actually has reflective elements to it and the lines on Ratchet, Clank, the gun and the burning hole are all actually slightly raised, giving the cover texture. It is not something you see often. Unfortunately it is difficult to perceive in an image, you have to hold it in your own hands.

Enter The Matrix's cover art has the same reflective element to it and I always liked it.

,

I had no idea this came from a game. I used it as a wallpaper for my PS3 off and on.

 

[calico]

 

[Crayon]

I had no idea this came from a game. I used it as a wallpaper for my PS3 off and on.

I've never played the game but I've used that as a wallpaper for year lol.

 

[Ikutachi]