Deg said:
Whats with bad boxarts being in fashion on GC? I prefer Europe for Capcom boxarts.
Imagine the scene:
Capcom marketing head, probably female, knowing nothing about games. She farms out the work to an agency that took her out to lunch. The agency, although it has flashy offices in an oh so up and coming part of American City X, knows nothing about videogames.
So there is this creative meeting. The agency art director who knows nothing about games, says, So, like, um who buys videogames about zombies and chainsaws and shit?
There is a brief shuffling of papers. It is decided that those youths buy videogames about zombies and shit. You know the ones they are white but wear black kids clothes, albeit tempered with a Linkin Park T-shirt. They are middle class and like watching Jackass and wanking. So then decision is made appeal to the lowest possible denominator of the videogame sectors perceived demographic.
Never a thought to the heritage of the series, what this incarnation means to the franchise or even a reflection of aesthetic of the game. Just put the bloke in the game, on the front with some other gory shit, spending as little time as possible. Then send the invoice off the girl at Capcoms marketing department who thinks its a great job and pays through the nose.
