What's your favorite piece of /vr/ art?
>>3328640
Put some pants on Link geez
I love pic related, the human designs at least (monsters are pretty crummy). What a weird time it was when JayRPGs actually looked completely different from each other
Never got much of the chance to play Everquest sadly but I fucking LOVE the box art.
>>3328646
I WANT DA BOOTY
GIMME DA BOOTY
>>3328659
It's never too late, anon!
https://www.project1999.com/
>>3328654
I love fantasy art like this
![28004601[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ot3OEOG.jpg "28004601[1].jpg")
I'll admit the profile view of the Silver Hawk is a bit awkward here but everything else is great.
Love the eerie alien landscape with the fun colors spaceships in the forefront. Represents the bizarre flavor of the game perfectly.
And I'm not even a big fan of the series, but this just fucking class
>>3328659
I love how White Mage Nigga is giving serious thought to tapping dat ass.
>>3328640
Ultima 6
>>3329329
I love the vivid redness of the dragon.
>>3329596
I've always hated Diddy's "monoeye". Pretty uninspired character design altogether really.
this is of course the first thing that springs to mind, though it's not actually the best Moebius art in a general sense
>>3329565
I love me some vintage Purcell. Peter Chan comes second best LucasArts art guy, but only barely
Both work for Pixar now BTW
>>3329638
>Both work for Pixar now BTW
And yet we will never get a Sam & Max animated feature by them...
BOFIV has kickass art direction in general, but I just love this piece that isn't even used in packaging or promos afaik
The vastness of this piece always astounds me, its really beatiful.
>>3329565
Man is that great, I really preffer this style to the more cartoony style seen in later monkey island games.
>>3329569
Really cool piece, still nothing beats the original.
>>3329632
Shame moebius never did more game art, he was without a doubt the greatest cartoonist/comic illustrator to ever live.
>>3329657
nsfw pixie?
>>3330471
embiggened
>>3330503
Thank you, Anon.
>>3330512
konami
>>3328654
What the fuck is that dwarf possibly trying to accomplish
What class or situation could ever allow for duel-wielding a morning star and a dagger, especially at long range and against a dragon
Everyone in this picture is playing a clear role or contributing in some way or another, even if it's just punching the dragon in the eye but that dwarf has absolutely no idea
>>3330512
>>3330512
>>3330515
>>3330668
My fucking niggers
>>3330528
Alright yahtzee you don't have to nitpick everything
Clearly this one
>>3330730
Who the fuck hangs a portrait photo landscape?
>>3330734
jrpg fags
>>3330734
it's not hanging landscape. People still haven't learned that 4chan pisses on the orientation data in their photos
>>3330808
nice i love bomberman 64
>>3330696
didn't know this was a cringe thread
>>3330471
>>3330503
This.
Also pic related.
Someone posted this moons ago in this board and i fell in love with it.
Always love these ones from Majora's Mask. The high contrast shadow thing really fits the mood
Also, it's not a digital painting, which is a bit weird since most promo art for OoT was
>>3329569
Based Brom
Why has vg artwork become so complex and detailed and "over designed" compared to back then? Kind of takes away the innocence and simplicity
Japanese Zelda:LA boxart was nice too
>>3330926
I wouldn't really call it complex; even "overdesigned" suggests a level of consciousness which just isn't there anymore. Modern CA just feels like lacking balance and clear concepts; the cause mostly being digital art has made planning nearly obsolete. It's just about enthusiastically adding crap to a design until it feels 'right' now
>>3330986
>digital art has made planning nearly obsolete
please expand on that
>>3330991
Not him, but when you have all the room in the world to fuck up and then just fix or hide your fuck ups digitally without having to start over, you don't really learn anything and get sloppy.
For pre-digital illustration, painting and air-brushing to look good, there was little room for error which resulted in more skilled, precise and careful artists that learned how their preferred medium worked inside out, and also arguably had a better sense of it due to the more physically intimate nature of directing real paint with a real brush on a physical canvas.
I'm not saying all digital painting is bad, but if you want your stuff to look I suggest doing equal physical work to your digital work in order to grow.
>>3329329
his fivehead is yuge
>>3331008
when you look at something like Palu in my post though, the NES version looks decidedly simpler. This remains true even/especially when comparing her to other /vr/ artwork in this thread. Zelda went through that same transformation.
>>3330503
This is so beautiful.
>>3330991
This >>3331008 is pretty much it, though the 'tactile' conection is a very abstract thing that I see used as a go-to argument by straightedge all-traditional artists as much as the all-digital counterparts claim the superior freedom and expressivity of their own preferences to be more meaningful
Still, it can't be denied that the flexibility for iteration and tweaking that digital gives you simply *is* the way to go for commercial art.
A good hand at both usually pays off though, specially at the learning stage, but also by combination: Pic related is probably the high point of Street Fighter character portraits, and it's done with traditional sumi brushwork with color added in Photoshop
>>3331047
>traditional sumi brushwork
I'd love to see that in motion
>>3330919
>in the background a person hangs
>>3331116
dude in the foreground has comically long ears and you complain about someone hanging around? What is wrong with you?
>>3331118
Hangs from a noose, dying.
>>3331120
Comically. Large. Ears.
Priorities, people
Wanted this poster so bad
>>3330930
>>3331462
she's quite a beauty. Sometimes I do wish games would be possible in this drawn/painted style
>>3329361
I want a poster of that
Does there exist a higher-resolution version? I saw a posting on pinterest but I don't have an account there.
>>3331505
good luck
SO much good shit in this thread.
>>3329583
That dudes expression really sells it.
>>3329583
I think I've heard that Judas Priest album too...
I need to get a poster of this.
>>3328659
The style looks pretty close to some of the AD&D 2nd edition art (I mean the pen & paper games).
>>3331120
Its obviously a puppet though.
>>3329630
Blue Öyster Cult =/= vidya
>>3330696
lol'd & saved
>>3331770
Doom is shit
>>3331831
you're shit
>>3329361
>>3331515
Oh if you're motivated it's definitely possible to turn smaller pictures into printable posters. Put that pic through waifu2x-caffe and you get this result. A bit of Photoshop to type the text again and you're good to go.
>>3331873
that's actually quite impressive. I'm not the anon looking for a poster, but I thank you for doing this and recommending that tool
>>3331823
= actually.
>>3331770
Hah, this was LITERALLY the poster that came with The Ultimate DOOM. I still have it.
>>3331935
Oh.
>>3331935
Used to have that game. Pretty fun, and nice title screen music.
The box art seems to be cropped from a painting or something. This ad shows a bit more of it.
>>3331972
Btw, that Agony cover was also used in a pen & paper RPG product.
I've also seen some SF paperback novels that had same cover as some SpaceMaster RPG products. I don't remember offhand which ones though.
>>3329803
this
>>3328640
>>3331469
What do you think of Breath of the Wild?
>>3331012
Erudites got big ass brains
>>3332427
didn't blow me away yet. Doesn't do much of a painted style, just a fairly standard toon shader. I don't keep up too much with new games because that special something seems to be lost a bit, and they're full of things I don't like. It's nice to see them experiment with Zelda's formula though, I'll give them that.
I'll post a few of my favorites.
>>3332659
SYVALION!
>-WHOOSH-
I like how the picture gives off the impression of complete balls-to-the-wall action.
>>3330528
He is one of the bad guys you dick.
>>3332662
Slick and cool, just like the game itself.
>>3332707
Boris Vallejo adding some pulp to Golden Axe.
>HIS MOTHER WAS KILLED BY DEATH ADDER
>HER PARENTS WERE KILLED BY DEATH ADDER
>HIS BROTHER WAS KILLED BY DEATH ADDER
>>3332678
>dragon wuz a good boy, he dindu nuffin
>>3332713
one of my favorite game arts.
>>3332715
CAN YOU OUT FOX THE OUTFOXIES??
>>3332719
This flyer has that whole 70s-future aesthetic going for it (think Star Wars... or Star Castle!).
>>3332721
A venerable classic. I always love how intense Wily looks in these things.
>>3332727
>>3332731
Yuji Kaida for the win. Buxom lasses and heroism abound.
>>3332737
The venerable Yoneda's awesome artwork for Phantasy Star II.
>>3332740
As well as his artwork for the MD remake of Sorcerian!
>>3332742
More Yuji Kaida, this time everyone's favorite Genesis kusoge.
>POWER UP
>>3332662
Are you implying that Syvalion isn't balls to the wall action? It's a bit on the clunky side, but there's plenty of fun to be had once you get used to the weirdness.
>>3332746
I'll end my dump with some art by capcom veteran Kinu Nishimura. Maybe a few of you found some new desktop wallpapers, who knows!
>>3332765
>dat woodgrain
Nice thread guys, i'm loving all the images!
So many styles that reflect specific eras.
>>3332427
Technically good, I personally don't like the character designs. I like the simplicity of 1-4.
>>3331770
I know the original Doom's cover is a classic...
>>3332931
... but I kinda like the PS1 version anyway.
>>3332932
and by the same author, Exhumed/Powerslave.
I like how those represent the game really well.
![6922017551_82d3a1eb41_o[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/vPpFHC1.jpg "6922017551_82d3a1eb41_o[1].jpg")
>>3328640
I have to say the monster art from the Zelda 1 manual. That's how I pictured all the creatures of that game for years. It was just so nicely drawn, I'd pour over the pictures and the flavor text when I wasn't actually playing the game.
>>3328646
>Azure Dreams
based post
>>3332971
worst girl tho
>>3329596
Love Rare's old promo renders. Banjo-Kazooie had some nice artwork, too.
>>3328640
Pic related
>>3329596
RARE artworks were fucking great, I always remember the DKC and KI artworks
>>3333046
Everything Rare has ever made is terrible, without any exception.
>>3333049
(You)
>>3333059
no I was being serious I don't like any of their games because none of their games are fun to play
>>3333083
can you be a bit more specific? Like, you probably tried to play a game or two to come to that conclusion. Can you identify aspects that annoyed you? Can you identify aspects you encountered across multiple games, something that would equate a "Rare-thing", that bothers you and puts you off all their games?
>>3333090
In the future, please try not to respond to terrible bait
>>3333116
there's only a few possible ways they can respond to me. Silence, because they have no followup, bullshit, which is easily seen as such, or a genuine answer, in which case we have an actually interesting exchange. I'll take these odds. Certainly beats endless circle jerks and people patting each other's backs for liking the same shit
>>3333121
They'll respond to you with more lazy, poorly concieved bait which will derail the thread, something that has clearly already happened
Post some video game art or start your own thread, dipshit
>>3333134
at the moment you're the one derailing. So, congrats?
>Post some video game art
that'd be offtopic. It's about favorites. I don't think I have one per se. Seems to be more of a console thing, and I didn't have any
>>3332152
was this always animated or is this a tasteful edit?
because I've only seen it from the manual, so if there's an animation somewhere...
>tfw these threads provides you with greater wallpapers than what /wg/ has.
>>3333141
Fanmade edit.
>>3330831
>>3330831
3/5
>>3330831
4/5
>>3330831
5/5
>>3334739
my fav
>>3334750
>>3334753
>>3334757
beautiful
>>3333137
Thanks for actually leaving the thread instead of continuing to derail it
Idiot
>>3334976
I never left. The Rare dude didn't respond either, so it all worked out. The only bad thing remaining is your negativity and derailing attempts
>>3328659
Ugh, I love 90s high fantasy art.
>>3331770
why. it's every edgy metal 90s school shooter cover ever. just like the game
>>3335158
how many edgy metal 90s school shooters do you know?
>>3331831
Stay mad you still can't beat it on sk_baby all these years later.
>>3333090
>>3333121
More like silence because I literally didn't even think about it again after I posted it until now and didn't even believe it needed clarification at the time, because "I didn't have fun playing any of their games" should really be enough, it's a subjective opinion.
Lets me see though, you want to know why
Well, in terms of narrative their games are kind of fucked up. As a child I was never totally sure who Donkey Kong actually was, or why he needed so many god damn bananas and golden banana shaped objects. Like okay you collect the things, and that's a big part of the gameplay, but fucking why, why does DK have to fight an entire country of crocodiles and enlist a bunch of random animals to help him for this? Why does he need to have so many fucking bananas? Why does K. Rool have to steal them? Both of them seem like complete assholes.
I get a similar feeling when I played B&K, where supposedly Banjo just wants to help his sister, but his sister is also a complete asshole and really doesn't deserve it. Then it tasks you with collecting all this bullshit again, and what really fucking gets to me is that they aren't fun challenges. At least in Mario 64 it's a joy to move Mario around and explore the physics and the movesets, but everything in B&K just apes the concepts and flops the execution. Being Banjo isn't fun or challenging it's just a way to waste time and jump through the hoops the developers gave you because that's the only way they could think of to structure the game. The lack of originality and forced (i.e.contrived i.e. do these people even like the game they were making) creativity winding up with downright repulsive character designs and unlikable characters. That fucking steel plate and pointy teeth shit and dirty brown color palettes contrasting with blasted out over saturated colors the rest of the time just drives me up the wall.
>It was a typical example of Rare's looking at what was popular and then putting our spin on it.
>>3335241
thanks, that's actually quite a nice post and explanation.
>didn't even believe it needed clarification at the time
It probably didn't "need" any, but especially with uncommon opinions I like to explore the motivation, what lead to that opinion. That reflection can give quite a bit of insight in how some game mechanics or design decisions can be perceived differently.
In that regard your DK paragraph was nice, no sarcasm. I strongly believe a game's narrative should provide a motivation to the player. If it doesn't, it fails, simple as that. Sure, people are motivated differently, but it's a very valid reason as to why a game doesn't work for somebody.
Also
>the hoops the developers gave you
That right there, I played so many games where that was a problem. You'd think it's covered in game dev 101, or at least passed down from dev gen to dev gen, but that mistake is made constantly.
To bring this thread back on topic, the Rare artwork does look a bit fad chasing, not genuine. So it kind of fits the rest of the theme of your post, and makes the whole thing consistent. It's high quality in terms of technical execution; the artwork, I mean; but it's sterile? Seems to be a fitting word there.
>>3335241
Like seriously I actually wanted the Dark Queen to win, Gruntilda becoming hot af and Tooty becoming a gross hamplanet was fucking great as far as I was concerned.
And those fucking auto-scrolling sections holy fucking shit, literally, literally play this level over and over until you memorize all the fucking patterns, what's that it's not fun? maybe because it was designed by a bunch of fucking britbong faggots playing at 50 fps
it's all so fucking lazy and uninspired, these people literally actually made games by aping other games that already existed, not because they enjoyed anything about that shit, but because it was their job and when they did try to make something they actually cared about it fucking flopped and never got released
fucking tedious repetitive shit to suck up your time and play off your ocd perfectionism so you waste even more time replaying and memorizing levels just to say you did it or you didn't give up when set against it's retarded spinning barrels, like are there a fucking hundred spinning barrels in that game? more?
even fucking blast corps, arguably their most interesting and uniquely designed game has you doing the same shit over and over and fucking over until it's a chore instead of fun
if I wasn't trying to escape from some mind rendingly painful and soul-crushing childhood I don't know why I would ever, ever play any Rare game to completion
>>3331779
Very close indeed. Larry Elmore who did the EQ box was one of the main artists TSR used for D&D back then.
>>3332713
The dwarf was a bad guy you silly mong.
>>3336175
I wish I could find one as high res as those but of the original painting without the SoM characters.
can't believe this hasn't been posted yet
>>3329621
Mascot designs are usually simplistic, not really "uninspired". Mario, Sonic, Bubsy, Gex, etc. are other good examples of it.
>>3330503
Came here to make sure this was posted. One of my favorite pieces of art overall, not just /vr/ related.
>>3336497
>it literally took like 15-20 minutes while downloading animus and eating nachos
>I actually enjoy writing
>do you seriously think it took effort to write that shit
>>3328640
Toriyama and Amano still my main niggas after all these years.
>>3328663
fuck yeah
>>3329361
>>3331505
>>3331515
>>3331873
>>3331880
I found a slightly larger version of the original. Don't know if the bigger version might look better if it started with this or not?
>>3335241
>>3335265
>>3335270
Sweet fucking lord, this is the absolute mother of tl;dr
>>3336560
Yeah, it's pretty easy to tell you love hearing yourself talk. I hope you don't have aspirations in writing as a career because this is like reading a fifteen-year-old's overwrought xanga feed
All of these
>>3331823
I AAAAAAAAM THE BLAAAACK BLAAAAADE
>>3329329
hate to bring /pol/ memes into here, but she's about to get BLACKED
>>3329358
He has a sword?
>>3337414
Its just a poor copy of Conan the Barbarian
>>3336851
Anon are you actually retarded? That's like 3 paragraph. You're bitching and complaining like one of those spoiled little shits who got to college without doing any work and drop out after a year. What have you even written ever? Are you that upset after your favorite shitty game developer got roasted?
>>3328654
name? is this from a scanned artbook? Looks awesome.
>>3328659
You'd probably like Neverwinter Nights, especially 2. Has this same kind of clean, high-fantasy look.
Don't be falling now!
>>3330528
He is about to stab that lady in the ass
>>3340495
I love how striking and recognizable Gradius promo art is.
>>3329318
came to post this. Why they fired Shinkiro I'll never understand. He made SNK games recognizeable.
Also pic related
>>3332746
People consider the MD/Gen port of Altered Beast kusoge? It's not a masterpiece but surely it's passable? I could understand the Master System version, but come on.
>>3332746
ORANGE AND BLUE
>>3331047
Is she gonna try and lick her foot?
>>3342578
He was never fired, he left when the original SNK went under and was headhunted by Capcom.
>>3342676
At the time it was an obvious contrast.
Today it's an oversaturated and abused contrast.
>>3333134
>>3343106
>that aLttP-style Zora
>>3331462
I wish people would stop posting this fan art and calling it official.
>>3344481
>I wish
denied
>>3343106
beta Ruto is my waifu
Also is it me or does that "ganon" shadow on the bottom look like the CD-i version of Ganon?
>>3344534
what's that? drunk drawing of Doom guy? Or Duke?
>>3344537
You're kidding right?
It's Mario.
>>3344552
Mario never used a gunthat is a gun, right?
>>3344553
>What is Yoshi's Safari
>>3344562
not a Mario game. It's easy to tell, the word "Mario" is missing from the title
>>3344563
I guess I must have imagined Mario holding a gun on the title screen, and in the opening cutscene, and the interstitial bertween levels where he shoots at yoshi.
>>3344537
Lol at all the troll replies to this. It's Contra.
>>3344572
can't you read? It says Yoshi's Safari right there. See the word Mario anywhere? Not a Mario game
>>3344724
fan "art" is not canon
>>3344572
speaking of Yoshi's Safari.
I really love these koopaling mechas.
>>3336813
I used the same one but less compressed (taken from the artist's blogger thing) to enlarge it.
>>3345137
>fan art
Do you enjoy being wrong?
official merch from the 80s
>>3345180
>looks like a video screenshot. I don't remember Mario games having fmv
It's from a crappy Mario OVA from the late 80s around the time Super Mario 3 came out.
>>3345496
not a mario game, not canon
>>3345503
>We will never find out who did the boxart for Metal Gear 1.
>>3345503
Mario has something he'd like to show you. He says all you have to do is look as closely as you can into the little hole and then wait.
>>3330512
>bought this game in akihabara
>still dont have a famicom or a conversion cartridge for my nes
>>3345637
The best version to get of Gradius is the PSX Deluxe pack. It contains arcade accurate ports of the first and second game, right down to the slow down. It uses streamed audio so the audio sounds like the arcade counter part as well. It also works in Popstarter with no problems and accurate slowdown to boot.
The famicom game lacks a lot, has huge differences from arcade, different scoring. It can't even compare. If you want to play it I recommend using the Gradius AC famicom hack as it gives you all 4 option, an arcade palette, graphics closer to the arcade, the arcade font, an options menu, high score saving with battery, and some redesigned levels to try and match arcade. The hack was changed to an MMC3 chip so you can't burn it onto the first game but you can use any MMC3 game with battery as a base if you want to play it on hardware.
>>3346321
Nobody really expects an arcade accurate conversion from a Famicom game. All Konami arcade games that were ported to FC were reworkings.
>>3346332
I know, I'm just offering other ways to enjoy the game.
>>3330926
I feel like this is part of a trend. I don't think it is enabled by digital art. detail in VG art has been spiralling upward for a while. if you look at the art for Final Fantasy, you can clearly see a sense of one-upsmanship going on. or King of Fighter designs.
Japanese entertainment clearly follows style over substance. which is weird, because so much of their culture is about the simplicity and refinement and razor-like efficiency
>games will never have art like this ever again
It's kinda painful, actually.
>>3348035
aww yes
>>3328640
>>3328640
anyone got better res copies of these?
>>3348657
>>3348659
>>3348643
I would do horrible things to that boy.
>>3348785
which one
>>3329632
MA NIGGER
>>3348790
MAH BOI
>>3348137
I would give my left nut for super high res versions of those.
cool
>>3332709
>>3349128
same artist
>>3329657
that was the cover to the official art book. I have a few of them and while not retro was always really fond of this one
Skeletons coming to get you
Bill and Lance from Contra
>>3349932
>Leaf covering the fairy's crotch
This is somewhat humorous when you're aware of the fact that the fairies are genderless.
