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RPG Artwork (A Mini VGM article)


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Knyte
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PostPosted: May 12 2008 01:07 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I was going through some boxes of old PC and Commodore games, and starting thinking about back when graphics weren't the selling points of games, and how the box art for games (RPGs especially) were usually painted by notible fantasy artists. They did some pretty sweet stuff. I just thought I would share a few with you:

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Blackout
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PostPosted: May 12 2008 02:15 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Deeathlord reminds me of an old Slayer's Hell Awaits. Cool



 
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FNJ
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PostPosted: May 12 2008 05:38 pm Reply with quote Back to top

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Syd Lexia
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PostPosted: May 12 2008 05:58 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Is that Baten Kaitos?
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StompStomp
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PostPosted: May 12 2008 06:28 pm Reply with quote Back to top

PC gaming needs SSI again

god damn those gold box games were good

what ever happened to SSI, did EA get a hold of them?
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Knyte
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PostPosted: May 12 2008 06:35 pm Reply with quote Back to top

StompStomp wrote:
PC gaming needs SSI again

god damn those gold box games were good

what ever happened to SSI, did EA get a hold of them?


Nope, the other game giant got them. SSI was acquired by Mindscape in 1994, spent time as part of Mattel, and finally became part of Ubisoft (in March 2001), which has since retired the brand name.


Fun Fact:

One of the most famous Fantasy Artists of all time, Boris Vallejo, did the cover art for a computer game as well. Strangely though, it wasn't for a fantasy RPG, it was for a football game:

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FNJ
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PostPosted: May 12 2008 08:56 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Syd Lexia wrote:
Is that Baten Kaitos?


no, its final fantasy


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Char Aznable
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PostPosted: May 12 2008 11:50 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Some of these are retardedly awesome. And that princess has GOT to have that shirt duct-taped to her tits.


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Lady_Satine
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PostPosted: May 13 2008 01:21 am Reply with quote Back to top

A lot of these covers remind me of the stuff in my 2nd Edition D&D books, likely because of the crossover for both of the mediums.


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TheRoboSleuth
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PostPosted: May 13 2008 02:00 am Reply with quote Back to top

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Lets see if that shows.

Edit: Yep it shows. If football was weird for Boris, then Ecco the Dolphin is even weirder. His wife Julie Bell did the cover art for Eternal Champions.
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I'm not sure what other videogame artwork they have done. I know they are both very good fantasy artists, even though they often use fantasy artwork as an excuse to draw nigh-nude buff people.

Also as an aside, Julie did a batloaf meat out of hell album cover. And they both did the ATHF movie cover, but you probably already knew that.


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DarkMaze
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PostPosted: May 14 2008 09:54 am Reply with quote Back to top

Gotta love Valejo's other movie artwork as well. Deathstalker FTW.

RobotGumshoe wrote:
I know they are both very good fantasy artists, even though they often use fantasy artwork as an excuse to draw nigh-nude buff people.

The motto on their website is "Beautiful women and heroic men." Smile
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