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Post by Narushima on Mar 3, 2012 16:48:56 GMT -5
Well it does indeed look like something made with Photoshop. And that's why it doesn't work at all. What are your complaints? Well it completely misses the point. If you are trying to recreate a game cover from the Atari 2600 era, why make the front cover look like it was made today ?
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Post by Ike on Mar 3, 2012 18:33:46 GMT -5
What are you talking about? The guy who made that even took care to put the age marks on the packaging. I'm not sure what you mean by "look like it was made today" since most of the Atari 2600 box art used similarly detailed pictures:
![](http://pics.mobygames.com/images/covers/large/1095011556-00.jpg)
Unless your point is "Why didn't he put them in goofy 80s outfits" to which I have no response. get out
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Post by Narushima on Mar 3, 2012 21:11:46 GMT -5
Unless your point is "Why didn't he put them in goofy 80s outfits" to which I have no response. get outWell we dodged a bullet there, then, because that's not what I meant at all. I meant that the cover art precisely does look like it was made with photoshop, you can almost see the filters and smell the 30 billion-coulours palette. Therefore it looks very very recent. It's like the art from a comic book of 1941 and one from 2002. There's no comparison.
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Post by KeeperBvK on Mar 4, 2012 4:25:54 GMT -5
To me it looks pretty authentic.
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Post by kyouki on Mar 4, 2012 7:27:45 GMT -5
Everything except the cover illustration looks authentic. "Baddasses posing" is a recent cover art phenomenon.
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Post by kal on Mar 4, 2012 7:30:37 GMT -5
Unless your point is "Why didn't he put them in goofy 80s outfits" to which I have no response. get outWell we dodged a bullet there, then, because that's not what I meant at all. I meant that the cover art precisely does look like it was made with photoshop, you can almost see the filters and smell the 30 billion-coulours palette. Therefore it looks very very recent. It's like the art from a comic book of 1941 and one from 2002. There's no comparison. Except realistically the problem isn't the pixel resolution with the artwork. If you want to be strictly correct on this the issue is more that the artist in question used more modern colouring techniques as opposed to the matte airbrushes. Also the characters themselves looking like modern video game heroes (and have not been retrofied) rather than the 80s style that is evident on the Bezerk box presented by Ike. The use of photoshop is largely irrelevant since the artist in question could have easily got similar results using Corel Painter, Artrage or Manga Studio. The artist own technique used to draw the characters is the difference not the tool :/ Typically when someone says photoshop, they mean the evidence of digital manipulation is there such as anti-alisasing or misuse of something like the clone brush neither of which are particularly present. If anything you should be complaining about the text on the box which is too high resolution (and may not even be their regular font) for mass produced Atari game boxes.
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Post by vetus on Mar 6, 2012 4:38:37 GMT -5
If Pokemon was released for NES the cover would be like this: ![](http://chzpokememes.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/pokmon-no-hyperbole-best-games-ever.png)
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