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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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:

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That was different though. Nobody was expecting such graphics back then.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The art you'd find in d&d books at the time:

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And then there was MegaMan's cover.