'Sexy' Covers for Terrible Video Games

[Emperor Gum]

Inspired by the latest Unskippable thread, what have you guys seen. Here's mine, Spellforce:

I hated this game.

[q08149]

Why would you wear so much armor on your arms and legs and none on your body?

[Daco]

Why would you wear so much armor on your arms and legs and none on your body?

because its hawt?

[q08149]

Why would you wear so much armor on your arms and legs and none on your body?

because its hawt?

Maybe for you, I find body armor super sexy.

[empath]

Well, it's a tangent, but this might explain things:

[Daco]

Well, it's a tangent, but this might explain things:

hotlinking disabled?
o.o

[empath]

Well, it's a tangent, but this might explain things:

{embedded img from diff site}

hotlinking disabled?
o.o

What? I don't mess around with stuff - if I wanna show a pic here, I right-click on the image elsewhere, select "Copy Image Location" then paste it in between some 'img' tags in my post. Yeah, it's leeching, but it's also tons faster than digging around to find out if a site even ALLOWS hotlinking. (and if they really didn't want me to leech, they'd take steps like this site does - it can still be done, but it's inconvenient enough to be not worth the effort.)

Besides, if you really want to go to the site, 'Copy Image Location' is also your friend; just truncate the individual image filename from the url and pop it in that long white bar at the top of your browser.

Sorry if I'm not being enough of an unpaid marketeer for a website that I find amusing enough to bookmark, but haven't looked at in about a year...

[Jillers]

Why would you wear so much armor on your arms and legs and none on your body?

Fun Fact: in NERO (a LARP) it's an unwritten rule that should a girl show up at the camp site wearing nothing but a chain mail bikini, she automatically get the highest possible armor rating.
... or, at least it was a rule about 3 - 5 years ago (I haven't been involved since then).
Maybe that rule applies to video games.

[Yukikaze]

so...
?

And on that topic,

(yeah, I heard the game wasn't very good, but kudos for the sexiest female protagonist since Samus Aran.)

Actually, on that topic, why not. I think this one counts.

[edit]Hotlinking was disabled on the last one. Let's see if this one works.[/edit]

[Annchan]

I own a chainmail bikini top........ Never had a place to wear it though.

[empath]

Well, it's a tangent, but this might explain things:

hotlinking disabled?
o.o

Ahhhh, my bad - I could still see the image after you'd replied. Guess llbbl is a little more devious than I'd thought.

Fine...I think I've got an imageshack account somewheres...


Ah!

(click to embiggen)

Waitaminute...I hit 'preview' to check how imgshk was doing, and I see the leeched pic again?!?

Whatever; guess I'll go through the extra steps in future....here's a bonus one that kinda explains where those 'bonuses for cleavage and/or open midriff' come from:

(again, click to embiggen)


Anywaysers, back to the TOPIC, I have since looked through my game collection, and I've come to the realization that if the box art features a scantily-clad female, I'm not buying into the 'sex sells crap' tactic and not buying the game.

The closest I came to is a couple of OLD SSI/TSR 'Gold Box' CRPGs - Gateway to the Savage Frontier



and Treasures of the Savage Frontier,



but 1) the covers are relatively tame, and b) the games themselves weren't actually bad.

There's a recent game I demo'ed off of Steam, called Silverfall,



but it's a fairly generic isometric RPG and I'd never noticed the box art featuring some elven crumpet that's really only a supporting character in the plot until I saw it at an EB a week or so later...

[davefp]

lots of no hot-linking allowed images

Umm, looks like you're going to have to do some more research. All the images from mobygames are showing up as no hot-linking images.

[gcninja]

Same for Yuzikaze

edit: Ill see what I can do, link me to each one

[Master Gunner]

for firefox: right-click>copy image location>paste into new tap allows you to see most of them.

[Yukikaze]

Same for Yuzikaze

edit: Ill see what I can do, link me to each one

It's the boxart for the new Golden Axe game. I found a different one(old one was front and back, Xbox version, new one is front only, PS3 version, but they're otherwise identical). I'll find something else if it still doesn't work.

I own a chainmail bikini top........ Never had a place to wear it though.

I've heard they provide very good *ahem* support.

[HomeBurger]

Attn everyone who got anti-hotlink'd:
http://kimag.es/

completely irrelevant example of the kimages hosting capabilities:

[Yukikaze]

I'm commissioning a motivational poster based on that...
[edit]

[/edit]
[edit again]Thank goodness for friends with photobucket accounts.[/edit agian]

[Emperor Gum]

This is not where I saw this thread going...

[Cake]

This is like that one time Ann posted a picture of Loralai in a pot.

[Annchan]

[CyberTractor]

This thread fails completely because a lot of people have no idea how to hotlink to images, or upload them themselves to photobucket.

[Yukikaze]

I can't access my FTP server right now. I'll fix it once I'm able.

Until then, it pays to have friends in the right places.

[Annchan]

I can see all the images just fine. it is you that fails

[Yukikaze]

no, some of us went through and fixed the broken pictures since he posted that.

[Nomadic]

http://www.majhost.com/

Seriously, just put your images there. Maj rocks.

*Returns to lurking*