Wanted to make something similar to Nintendo's box covers, so I took my free time and made this:
(http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/1871/tglbox.png)
Not 100% perfect, but yeah.
lol it looks almost better than original cover. I mean if they drew something like this with a non pixel ship but normal looking it would be much better than the original covers. In my opinion they all bad.
The art of the original NES Cover wasn't bad. Just was a vision of a person who hadn't played the game and knew the model.
hm... I dunno. It seems bad for me if look at it solidly. Also yes not very related to the feel of the game. Maybe as separate pictures it was ok but not as an art cover.
I think it was a "Special artist" that made it for them, and they couldn't refuse to use it.
There is 3 official covers right?
I only know of 2.
The Cyborg/android original Japanese.
And the Eye American release.
Don't forget the European cover (the best one in my opinion) :
(http://kidfenris.com/euroguardlegend.gif)
O.o
I thought that was the Original Japanese one.
Yes this one probably best but still pretty horible because the character completely different from what we see in the game :(
I love the american cover! Great serious atmosphere!
although i must agree.. it has nothing to do with the game it seems..
(http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn214/eviljin1337/nes/tt/t2/TheGuardianLegend.jpg)
And here is the Japan cover art.. which is amazing.. you can see the wings and gun..
I dont know what would possess them to think we didnt want this art..
Feels very JENOVA-ish... heh...
(http://i44.tinypic.com/2hyukav.jpg)
WHOA! O.O
right? isnt that awesome? XD
lol no. it's awesome as separate pics but related to the game it's horrible :skull: :skull: :skull:
Quote from: arseniy on May 25, 2010, 08:25:05 AM
lol no. it's awesome as separate pics but related to the game it's horrible :skull: :skull: :skull:
you can't be serious! the japan cover is a female in a wing suit with a gun and machines.. i think it relates to the game greatly!! how exact could they have gotten?
I think it's completely out of theme. also it's really a jenova like not a good side hero. It's kinda sick. A dark feeling pic.
well ist the game serious and dark? caverns of organic walls.. wastelands full of vile creatures.. destroyig a planet alone in space.. sigh.. i think the game should be represented by something dark.. or at least thats the way i have always felt..
Quote from: RagnarokNAJU on May 25, 2010, 11:17:26 AM
well ist the game serious and dark? caverns of organic walls.. wastelands full of vile creatures.. destroyig a planet alone in space.. sigh.. i think the game should be represented by something dark.. or at least thats the way i have always felt..
yep im with you 100% there. this game was evil from the start. even thou, back in the day, it didnt seem like it because of limited resorces (pixilated graphics, shallow story line)
if they had the ESRB ratings back then, TGL would be rated M for mature IMO
for 1 its a shooter. that alone makes it atleast T for teen (unless it was a super cutesy shooter with stuffed animals, which its not)
for 2 the story. even thou its hardly present, the story is quite mature. everyone on Naju was slaughtered (with updated graphics that could be sick (in a good way) like System Shock 2 (if you havent played SS2, the ship you are on is full of dead crew members) where the hell are all the bodies?
3. the bosses. something very evil is behind all those huge maniacal bosses, and they must have some motive, and ill wager that its an evil motive
if the graphics were better you would better understand the horror. with the original game you have to use your imagination to understand the full scope of things
Yes Megadeth502 it is but the hero herself is not Jenova. She is definatelly a good girl and the pic shows us a bio-hi-tech BDSM fetish XD which is quite popular in japan. Also the hero on the pic looks quite not mobile with all the cabels. It's more like she attached to Matrix than walking around.
Compare to Bioshock and such TGL has more mysterious atmosphere than dark and evil. Bioshock and such push on the fear. TGL don't push it this way. I remember had a tense because of challenge and also a big curiousity. But there was no such feelings like when you play Bioshock or Alien VS Predator which is kinda sick games :bluelander:
To be honest, I agree with Arseniy on this.
The character on the Japanese cover IS awesome, but from the looks of the in game pics(including the final picture,) They hardly resemble eachother.
The story is dark, and the areas you run in are quite grotesque in most manners(Hehe, just you wait till I'm done with the Gamma Phase. :P)
All of the covers, the closest one to our in game information, is the European one.
yeah european one is most close I agree but still. That's why I say if they drew the way TrickyCC suggested just with normal detail on spaceship and maybe add miria somewhere(with outfit we see in game) it would be 100 times better than all this 3 covers together.
Well back then Covers was meant to be cool and eyecatching. No matter what the content was for most of the time.
Well TGL covers really fail to be eyecatchin :eyeblue: :eyeblue: :eyeblue:
not eye catching?!! wow... despite its not being a perfect description of the game, I think that at least the Japan and USA covers are very eyecatching..
so should they have gone with something like this?
(http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:W88RHptcNMrkRM:http://b.imagehost.org/0416/hjkl.png)
lol XD
As I said they are good pics but not releated to the game and the second thing they are too mature. NES is for teens and kids so I m sure the art covers was not sucessful.
I do like japanes cover as a separate pic. Not so much tho. 1.It's too grayscale. 2. It has too much fragile parts like cabels.
I do like bright childish stuff as well. I hate Mario games but I do like how well they make coloring in Mario Galaxy.
Here what I found on DA. I mean this as OK pics with more eyecatching bots for general public:
(http://th03.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2010/141/6/d/WeissRitter_by_Ranshao.png)
(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs4/i/2004/258/4/1/Mecha_X_Drawstick_Contest_by_wolfsbane83.jpg)
(http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs45/i/2009/077/5/7/looking_up_by_yutori_custom.jpg)
i like that last one alot.. doesnt feel too cartoony.. i guess thats my theme-ish though... i like the whole dark and powerful stuff when it comes to art.. reflects in the music i write..
Quote from: RagnarokNAJU on May 30, 2010, 03:51:25 PM
i like that last one alot.. doesnt feel too cartoony.. i guess thats my theme-ish though... i like the whole dark and powerful stuff when it comes to art.. reflects in the music i write..
Hm.. Well I not like Metal music that much as well as dark things. I think this is mostly for when you live in city and not have much deal with nature.
Sometimes I listend Metal music for example yesterday I listened a little Psyopus - Odd Senses album. But everyday is not for me.
who said Metal? I listen to mainly industrial and write powerful Neo Classical music.. you should listen to some NIN or MSI.. thats more my style! ;)
Or Kepleski(Or what the name of the Westwood Command & Conquer music composer.)
oh. For me industrial is close to metal. There often use of electro guitars.
I not like NIN. Only OK song for me - We're In This Together but it's not very common for them :)
I would digg The Dillinger Escape plan against NIN(I guess I put this comparsion because of similarity in vocals yeah?)
My fav industrial band is Rob Zombie. Well I don't listen industrial mostly so I can skip a lot of it.
My taste mostly in range of pop rock jazz electronic classic
:bluelander:
:bluelander: | :bluelanderbig: | :bluelander:
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my fave NIN song is "The Wretched" I like his older stuff.. when he was on drugs and all depressed..
but seriously.. check out MSI.. anyting off the album "Frankenstein girls will seem strangley sexy"
You could suggest that in music section ;)
I had enough of my own depression and not looking for depressive music at all.
I better will listen to Modonna. BTW she is one of my fav music.
Just not looking for heavy stuff to discover :3
I started to listen heavy metal at 6 y.o. I m kinda enough of it :) very rare I listen to heavy stuff now.
You keep saying metal... metal bores me.. kind of.. when itws just muffled screaming and impossible to understand.. needs some good talent in it...
but industrial acid jazz with amazing talent is what MSI is.. i wish you wouldnt label them "depressing" or "metal" without even checking them out...
Nah.. U took me overexposed. I did not said anything offensive about metal.
I can reject a lot fo things without checking them. This is correct way I believe because there is so much music that you can't listen it all through entire life. Same goes to all type of base creativity human productions nowadays - movies, books, photography.
I made opinion based on your previous topic where u said about u like depressive NIN songs and then suggest MSI. So this made a connection.
... sigh
OK lets get back to the TGL covers :)
agreed!
(http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs51/f/2009/303/d/6/The_Guardian_Legend_by_godsavant.png)
HAH! Where'd you get that? O.o
it looks like a gameboy version
lol around.. i have alot of TGL art hanging around..
(http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:gyiA7m44_guS9M:http://www.mike-monroe.com/art/2D/illustration/The_Guardian_Legend.jpg)
(http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:vN3Tt5jgh9xxVM:http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/BAC_Lightning.jpg)
(http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:4u02DXsJ65dFfM:http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2512/3793753644_b9e44c7a0f.jpg)
(http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:X7il6RligyJhEM:http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4BQuPK-mpjY/Sy27KM6jAzI/AAAAAAAABMw/Sj0-gYSLqCE/s400/img507%2Bcopy.jpg)
(http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:4bC4HsMAoa86AM:http://www.deviantart.com/download/97928073/The_Guardian_Legend_by_sykoeent.jpg)
(http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:G7El8jNHMhk-HM:http://newsimg.ngfiles.com/178000/178155_twin_laser.jpg)
(http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:iQ7CjnbJhvW6vM:http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UjvGzhW5P-c/SnHFTGrwQUI/AAAAAAAAAYw/2yOcwOXlF4Q/s320/TGL_guardian_miria001c3.jpg)
I think this pics was not supposed to be a TGL related. Maybe it had some similarity and was bought to use as cover art.
(http://img.youtube.com/vi/QFNgAtEw95E/0.jpg)
I'd never seen the Japanese box art before - it certainly is an interesting image, a very dark take on the concept. I always liked the European box art, where she has a sort of sci-fi butterfly/angel look - it may not have looked anything like the in game character, but it was a nice image and the design always stuck with me. In fact, it always seemed a more practical design for a cyborg transforming aerobot than the red and white two piece (one in the end credits) with thigh high boots that she wears in the game :P
Also, that GameBoy style title screen picture is absolutely wonderful! Now I'm imagining TGL on the go as an original GB title - I think it totally would have worked :D
Quote from: RagnarokNAJU on May 23, 2010, 06:42:19 PM
I love the american cover! Great serious atmosphere!
although i must agree.. it has nothing to do with the game it seems..
(http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn214/eviljin1337/nes/tt/t2/TheGuardianLegend.jpg)
That cover is a ripoff of the poster for the 1985 film "The Creature".
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/76/Creatureposter.jpg)
Yeah. But anyway. Non of the covers are good for the game. Japan art is great by itself but it doesn't represent the game at all.