Megaman Box Artist recommissioned to make Bungie box art

[Johncarllos]

http://www.gamespy.com/articles/980/980892p1.html


pftahahahaha

[ASR]

Funny.

[Mikero]

After the all the build up in the writing, I was hoping for something a lot funnier. 'Cause the actual art really wasn't that hilarious, just the same thing.

[NovaMan XP]

Yeah, the fact that it's just Master Chief in MM1 Box Art's pose isn't really that great.

Would've been better to just see him with a buster.

[Mikero]

Well, not even MM had a buster in the real deal.

[Majikn]

So then that'd be perfect to give Master Chief a buster.

[Mikero]

I don't know if that would make Halo less crap or not.

[Vinchenz Rock]

Wow, that's bad. And not in a good way like the original MM1 artwork.

[ChaosVortex]

Bad art for a bad game.

[Chron]

It's not as good as the MM box art, actually.
The quality of art (yes, I know) is much worse... like a child did it.
Doesn't look like the same artist at all.

[ASR]

It's not the same artist. The article was just being stupid, trying to be funny.

[Chron]

Didn't work, did it?

[ASR]

I thought it was funny enough for what it was, as I've already said.

The actual article is written in a really lame and pathetically unfunny way, though.

[ChaosVortex]

I didn't even read it, I just went to the art and thought it was a decent idea but they should have tried something else like a different pose or something.

[NovaMan XP]

Or give him a buster or a randomly wrong weapon like they did on the MM1 boxart.

The thing about the art is, it's actually ALL relevant to Halo, and even the design for the guy is pretty much the same, except drawn bad.

[ChaosVortex]

Yeah, exactly.

I would've given him a weird sized laser canon in one arm, and a sword in the other, and have the sword be some weird sized Jedi saber.

And of course, a different pose than the dumb Mega Man 1 constipated pose. I dunno, it just seems off that it's the EXACT pose, aside from minor things like the placement of his other arm.

[Chron]

The quality of art is also bad. It looks like it was drawn with color pencils or something.

... what might send it home, aside from some good CG, is a huge face of one of those alien guys looking all sinister in the sky.

[Johncarllos]

Well how about we host our own contest.

Simply draw a videogame boxart in a similar style to MM1.

[Mikero]

I already did that on my MM Meme and I refuse to do it again. It was an ordeal.

It's not as good as the MM box art, actually.
The quality of art (yes, I know) is much worse... like a child did it.

I was about to say the same thing

I thought it was funny enough for what it was, as I've already said.

The actual article is written in a really lame and pathetically unfunny way, though.

The article is funnier than the picture. Well not really, but it's more entertaining and the picture is just a letdown after that build up.