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minus-squareEphera@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up44·1 month agoIt’s like back in the 80s, when games had amazing hand-drawn covers and then the graphics was just text or simple shapes, but now with gameplay.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up37·1 month agoThose AD&D Dragonlance games from the 90s had such killer box art lol, especially for the time! Cover of the first one: Game graphics:
minus-squareFelixCress@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·1 month agoThat was different though. Nobody was expecting such graphics back then.
minus-squareedgemaster72@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-21 month agoAnd in that specific instance the box art is just trying to match the kind of art you’d find on D&D book covers of the time
minus-squareGhoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-21 month agoThe art you’d find in d&d books at the time:
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·edit-21 month agoAnd then there was MegaMan’s cover.
It’s like back in the 80s, when games had amazing hand-drawn covers and then the graphics was just text or simple shapes, but now with gameplay.
Those AD&D Dragonlance games from the 90s had such killer box art lol, especially for the time!
Cover of the first one:
Game graphics:
That was different though. Nobody was expecting such graphics back then.
And in that specific instance the box art is just trying to match the kind of art you’d find on D&D book covers of the time
The art you’d find in d&d books at the time:
And then there was MegaMan’s cover.