I was a cover artist for Microsoft and capcom for years. You’d be surprised how much money and time goes into covers. There’s a committee/massive team of people JUST for the cover. The cover can make or break the sales of a game. Ex, for fable, I had done 250 roughs before we chose a final. It took an entire year just to solidify one cover 🤯
You mean it took an entire year to solidify 3 covers. Don't mean to bust your balls I just think its funny how the biggest difference in the covers of those games is the number that follows the word fable.
@@spencertaylor5001 I'm not sure unfortunately I however have seeon someone mention that it was the music from the Megaman X intro Sorry if it's not it
I experienced the grandma thing, she went to buy the lord of the rings movie, came back with a movie called lord of miracles that was about the life of jesus
I never understood the grandma thing. The titles are there in plain english. It's not like they aren't familiar with the english language. If they asked for a book at the library, and you brought them back some bullshit, they wouldn't be happy either. I think it's mostly due to the fact that they aren't paying attention and simply don't care. Or, if they're an asshole, (probably), then they did it on purpose.
I remember an interview with Kevin Levine about the generic cover of Bioshick Infinite, and he was like, "Yeah, it sucks but we want people to buy the game and this is apparently what sells."
Yet they forget those kinds of people will always buy the game no matter what. It's people like me who loses interest in games because they alredy literally the same thing with the same mechanics. The same loot. The same way of upgrading the same boss fights. It's all regurgitation
Castlevania's classic covers are clearly heavily inspired by the works of Frank Frazetta. The dude was a master at scene composition and the first castlevania cover has the same composition as Frazetta's Norseman.
Japanese box art of Dark Souls is SO GOOD! It really captures that distinctive, dark & desperate tone and looks bloody gorgeous. Compared to our "COD but with swords and it's blue" style
I guess I'm alone on this but I really like the American(?) box art better. I guess I just think it looks more interesting and, honestly, I like the blue. Also, I don't really get a COD vibe from it at all
Castlevania songs Starting at 3:52 Castlevania - Vampire Killer Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest - Silence of Daylight Castlevania: The Adventure - Battle of the Holy Castlevania: Dracula X - Divine Bloodlines Super Castlevania IV - Forest of Monsters Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - Tragic Prince Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow - Pitch Black Intrusion
Not that anyone asked, but my favs for each game here in are: 1: Vampire Killer or Heart of Fire (Honestly can't go wrong with any of the tracks in Castlevania 1) 2: Silence of Daylight or Monster Dance Adventure: Death Fair Rondo/DCX: Divine Bloodlines SC4: Simon's Theme SOTN: Wood Carving Partitia Dawn: Dracula's Tears
That grid of boxes included Spec Ops: The Line. In that instance this very well might have been literally what the box art designers intended for it to say.
This is the first time I've seen the art for DOOM and Duke Nukem 3D side by side and I can't believe I've been so f**kin stoopin not to have noticed the similarity before.
They have morphed into one in some strange way in my brain. If I had to draw DOOM cover art from memory, I would draw doomguy in the duke nukem pose. I remember a year ago I for some reason looked at the cover art a bit too long and realized "hmm strange, I don't remember the pose being like that"
One time for Christmas, I asked my grandma for Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess on the Wii. She looked at the box art, said Zelda Twilight Princess sounded like a girly game, and she got me something different: Happy Feet. The video game. Love my grandma to death, but it’s a story I will never forget
The part that makes this especially funny is that Twilight Princess was the darkest, grittiest Zelda game thus far (at least as dark and gritty as a Zelda game can be).
@@MatthewTaylor86 If you've not seen it, make sure you watch the "Life Is Short" Christmas special. It's Cheggers, Barry from Eastenders, and Les Dennis doing a shite variety show around Britain. Magnificent.
I actually met the guy who drew the American Mega Man cover art. Apparently he wasn't given a lot of control over the design. Executive meddling, as you might expect, was partially responsible for the bizarre cover.
@@Markeplier23 Took me a fair bit of digging, but I think it's Marc Ericksen. He did the cover for Mega Man 2 (but not the others, as it turns out). I found the rest of the story, as well: the first Mega Man cover was rushed thanks to Nintendo's demands, and for some reason that artist had included a gun. For the second game, Capcom apparently wanted consistency, so Ericksen was tasked with doing the same thing.
Nakey Jakey did it as well and better imo. I feel like ole dunk watched Jakey awhile back and didn’t realize how similar this is. Good stuff and it’s different than Jakeys to a degree but when he got to mega man that was exceptionally similar. Not saying dunk is a Jakey clone I’m just saying we can’t be sure who came up with the idea of copying off of Steve Harvey’s video game reviews first
In japan box art, Kirby looks like a dude who wants to give you a hug while in America he looks like he wants to steal and eat your soul just because he doesn't want to walk to the fridge.
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Dunkey going "You know what game this is, _biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch"_ still makes me giggle like an idiot, seven, eight months from when this vid was uploaded.
Phalanx. Man, that's a deep cut. I actually bought that game because of the cover. I liked the mystique that it created, and it actually made me pick it up to figure out what it was. I think that was the point. You could also see the sample gameplay on the back of the box, so you knew that it was side-scrolling space shooter. Also, I think they changed the cover art for the NA region because they realized that the spaceship was drawn to look like a penis and testicles, and accurately oblong ones at that. Or, maybe that's just my testicles.
According to the guy who made the cover art, they did that because the market was pretty saturated with space shooters at the time, so they wanted something that would make it stick out. They saw a mall santa walking about and decided to hire him for a photoshoot.
5:05 they gave the best cover art yo phalanx Not only is the iconic old banjo playing man back as the focus instead of the spaceship, he's also colonel Sanders for some reason
@@firebirdstark Bethesda had already ruined themselves, so it's probably gonna be an improvement. For everyone not on the Playstation! Ayyyyyoooo, let's gooooooo
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I cant explain how I feel right now hearing one of my favorite youtubers start their video with the obscure soundtrack of a jurassic park game I thought only I had played.
Honestly though, aside from repeating old Dunkey video jokes, the most tired and redundant and frequently occurring type of comment under his videos is the one making fun of his comment section for being unoriginal. You're no renegade.
@shazza Scew you, I'm already mad that the Colts lost to the friggin Jaguars and now you're here being an infidel and blasting our one and true savior, Dunkey! Shame!
“When I was a kid, I had the weirdest games” Bro when you showed that Jurassic park game, I flipped my shit because I thought that was just something I had a fever dream of and nobody else hade experienced it LMAO
It's crazy how hard the nostalgia hits from the music at places like 3:53. Like, you're just watching a funny video having a good time and them BAM! instant flashback to childhood.
Some amazon reviews for Cheggers: "Five stars. Good" "I'd rather have my fingernails extracted without anaesthetic." "what the heck? whenever i put the game into the console and launch it their's just a image on cheggers face with no way to actually start playing? he just stares straight forward and sometimes the screen turns to static. please help!"
This video really helps put into perspective how a good cover can really stand up to the test of time. My favorite of this video had to be Alone in the Dark 2
Dunkey is a Holy name among the gospels of ye olden times, to spread truth and justice across the galaxy and beyond. Which equates to the distance of my local Papa Johns in ye current modern times.
I'm so sorry for laughing before I found him, I owe him 27 years of laughs....what's the conversion rate between Dunkey Laughs™ , Bitcoin and USD? I need to know since my Gma's dying and maybe the Bitcoin's enough to leverage against the other two and....fuck I ran out of funny
The way Dunkey talks about video games, one could talk about RU-vid channels. The editing is a masterclass - agreeable, informative, hilarious. What else can you ask for? This man doesn’t get paid enough
If anybody were to ask Pacman about what he calls a ‘good time,’ they’d probably be expecting him to give an answer like hunting down all the Pac-Dots, eating fruit, or playing with Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde. This might actually be why nobody ever asked Pacman this question which- well. He’s not complaining. The actual answer is a lot more nuanced and also a lot more awkward to drop into casual conversation, especially when people have this idea of you in their head as this simple little sunshine with eyes and a big mouth who is just as innocent as Peach or Daisy. This is wrong on multiple levels, starting from the fact that Pacman has walked in on Princess Peach fucking the living daylights out of Rosalina with a strap on, whilst Rosalina was also blindfolded, tied up, and crying ‘I’m sorry, Mummy, I’ve been a bad girl!’ (which was, ironically enough, not the worst thing he’d seen them doing. He’ll never forget the incident with Mario’s hat), and ending with how Pacman would probably quite happily quit working in the game industry if it meant he could spend the rest of his life doing the hibbety-dibbety. Yes, you heard that right- Pacman, that big yellow fuzz ball so widely adored, loves nothing more than a good ol’ bit of gland-to-gland combat. Playing a game of Mr. Wobbly hides his helmet, as one might call it, or punchfucking the rosebud. Crack the pistachio nut. “I just really like humpy-squirty,” he said, quite casually, as if his dick wasn’t currently inside someone as he did the squat thrust in the cucumber patch. He was quite used to all this- a rip ‘n’ dip veteran so to speak- so he had mastered the art of multitasking during the act, able to remain so perfectly functional that if it wasn’t for the very obvious evidence that he was going heels-to-Jesus, you might walk past him and think he was just doing something perfectly casual with his time. It required a very skilled or determined partner (or partners) to be able to wreck him these days, otherwise he would just have to do so much clunge plunge that it would horrify even the most hardened nymphomaniac. (Except, perhaps, for Princess Peach and Rosalina. Those two are the only ones who can really compete against him when it comes to their dedication to the carnal groan-moan-WHOA!) Donkey Kong, the current victim of Pacman’s prowess, could only let a long, shuddering groan that sounded closer to the cry of a dying person than someone having the greatest dicking of their life time. He wasn’t even able to support his body at this point, just lying completely limp on the bed whilst Pacman ploughed him in a way that would put farmers to shame. Considering that Donkey Kong had already orgasmed four times at this point which- to him- was his limit, whilst Pacman had only done it twice and seemed to have another dozen left in him, the lack of enthusiasm was perfectly fair. Pacman was used to this kind of thing, and thus continued to talk as he did the bow-chick-a-wow-wow to Donkey Kong’s thoroughly creamed donut. “In fact, I’d even go so far as to say that my purpose in life is to bring an al dente noodle to the spaghetti house.” “Stooooooooooop,” groaned Donkey Kong, starting to feel like his asshole would literally burst into flames from how thoroughly phutzed it had been. Pacman obediently stopped, pulling out gently, and Donkey Kong slumped forward in complete defeat. Pacman patted him on the back in thanks and then jumped from the bed, wandering towards the door without caring for the fact that he was still hard. “It was fun,” Pacman calls as he leaves “your breath sure was ripe” and Donkey Kong waits a moment until he can no longer hear the sound of whistling or footsteps before he groans once more, load and defeated. “A monster,” is the word he utters. “A waka-waka monster.” And then, “Someone save us all.” Like most prayers, it is one that goes unanswered.
One of your funniest videos of all time. Literally had me crying by the end. Last 2 minutes was some of the funniest shit I've seen, and your analysis is always funny as fuck
@@CaptMurph sadly no, the actual music from the Jurassic Park game on SNES isn't played in the video, but it basically sounded like 32 bit 007 golden eye music. It was pretty lit
"Oohohoho, Not only does the American boxart hit you with that Capcom template... *but Rockman also shows up*" THAT'S SUCH A GOOD FUCKING JOKE WHAT THE FUCK
This shows how many people are dunkey clones. First of all, my man Scott the Woz did a video on box art a week ago and now dunkey releases one??? clearly scott copied dunkeys idea, fact.
Its funny that Jakey said hes basically Dunkey but with him dancing on a ball, and now Dunkey made the exact same video as him, so basically here Dunkey is Jakey without the ball
And its not just any video, dunkey made this video while blindfolded using only unplugged Donkey Kong bongoes, and it wasnt even him it was his brother
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That Jurassic Park track is one of my all time favorite SNES tracks. That, the swimming stage in Donkey Kong Country, and Gambit stage in Spider-man and the X-men in Arcade's revenge.
