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What has been seen cannot be unseen.
Thank you, Geoff. I'm gonna have some nightmares now...
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Can you imagine how embarassing it must be to bring that game to the cash register of a gaming store, especially if the cashier is a girl? Oh man, I'd sooner buy anti-fungal ointment at the pharmacy....or small condoms.
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Then they said..."Yeah, lets go with this."
What the F-ing Hell!
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You can look around you any time, any place and you see artwork and illustrations. What kind of person looks at this and can't see that it is in no way, shape or form on par with ANYTHING you see out in the world? How could a pubilsher of ANY size say "yes, let's put our money behind (heh heh) this"?
If someone said "yeah, my autistic child drew that", then I'd give it a pass but that's about it.
This isn't even funny bad like Warriors of Batak...it's just pathetic.
But there again, this is a hobby where some of its pursuants think that XXXL Hawaiian shirts and khaki shorts adorned with a fanny pack are in good taste...
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Brilliant move, very edgy.
Although the N in Kings sticking up a little higher than the N in King is a sweet touch as well. Clearly meant to represent some kind of asymmetry that you can find in the game itself. Fucking clever.
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Michael Barnes wrote: Yeah, that's what gets me too...someone said at some point "yes, let's go with that- send it to the printer".
Then again, at some point someone said the same to this:
And after they realized that this is probably the ugliest cover for a high-profile boardgame ever, so they will need a new one, they commission the same artist, and then accepted this:
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I wonder if this game was the genesis of today's "rape games" genre.
I also wonder if, at the time of King of Kings release, there was wailing and gnashing of teeth over a woman's buttocks being depicted on a family board game. "I can't let my children see that, how do I explain it to my wife?"
The problem is, shit art doesn't matter in board games because you've got these losers that have zero taste or sense of aesthetics that think that function is more important than appearance. There are gamers out there that would be totally OK with NO art and would probably like that better so that they could focus on the mechanics and numbers better.
There's also this idiotic notion that started with the whole Eurogames thing that games should have this bullshit "stately", "sophisticated" art like what you see on Caylus up there. Because that makes these games LEGITIMATE adult pursuits and not just toys. Thankfully, by now the scouring European white guy style is gone...
And now we have "hey, let's put our friends and family in a photoshop filter and put them on the box!" Which is probably WORSE. Witness Guildhall...
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repoman wrote: Somewhere, sometime, there was a meeting where a guy presented this picture at a meeting. They rubbed their chins deep and thought. They pondered.
Then they said..."Yeah, lets go with this."
Good Industries released two games, both by the same designer. The meeting you're talking about likely happened at a kitchen table and included the designer, a close relative, and the designer's cat. The designer wanted the game done with and printed, the relative didn't want to spend any more money or time, and the cat didn't give a damn either way.
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