Heavy Rain? More like Wet T-shirt Contest: The Game
Surely it must be a mature game for mature gamers such as myself because there are boobs on the cover!
Does this kind of marketing actually work on Americans? Do you buy $60 games just based on the box art?
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Anonymous2010-01-14 10:18
No not really I research the games but mostly your average teenager only cares about games for the cover or violence.
so yeah there's a reason why 00's is the year of commercialism and pandering.
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Anonymous2010-01-14 10:53
There is nothing wrong with the american cover of heavy rain, Its showing the characters so people will be pulled in more buy it. Cover work isn't some ancient art thats dying off, so don't piss yourself over a few changes. If you want a different cover so bad, buy the other fucking copy.
True gamer out!!
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Anonymous2010-01-14 11:00
>>3 You can't say that about Ico's cover. Shit looks retarded, and unfortunately most of the retards that drag mommy out to get a game are going to do exactly that; judge it by it's cover.
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Anonymous2010-01-14 11:17
I have a better question:
Why is it that europeans dont seem to have an original thought in their heads, and must 95% of the time just copy the Japanese box art?
This thread shouldn't be about why america sucks at boxart (we're at least trying), but about how lazy europeans are.
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Anonymous2010-01-14 11:18
>>3
you do know not everyone is you and they buy games because of the cover, right?
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Anonymous2010-01-14 11:30
>>5
I guess Europeans just respect the original, artistic covers whereas Americans have the mental capacity of a horny teenager who just wants to see boobs and guns and can't appreciate anything else.
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Anonymous2010-01-14 11:36
>>7
>Europeans just respect the original, artistic covers
So, they are just lazy, and don't have an original or artistic thought in their tiny, hairy, savage brains?
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Anonymous2010-01-14 11:43
It's not about art, it's about which design would sell more. Their marketing people determined that changing the box would help it sell more copies in NA, so they changed it.
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Anonymous2010-01-14 13:58
>>1
back in the day, box art was all we had to go on.
this was, of course, before Nintendo Power subscriptions were commonplace and VHS rental establishments had little to no games available for rental.
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Anonymous2010-01-14 22:23
Um in the US they tend to put the characters of the games on the cover
Europe: usually put something that has to do with the genre
japan: anything that is cute or tentacles
Your fucking stupid if you buy games for the box art
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Anonymous2010-01-16 23:42
You guys knows you can download the cover and print it to replace the NA version right?