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Here's Your Final Fantasy XIII Box Art

You know, Final Fantasy. Perhaps you've heard of it.

I can't say we're really in the habit of posting much box art around here (well, OK... maybe now and again), but I figured I would bring the newly released Final Fantasy XIII cover to your attention. I figure a few of you are interested in it. You tell me. 

    

                   
                 


     
    
Thoughts? Looks pretty tasteful to me personally, other than the whole bare-inner-thigh thing.  
 
I would remind you when this game is coming out, but you'd do better to take it from this guy.  

 
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LiquidPrince

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I like the thigh. It's not even prominent. Why are people complaining...

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Not going to buy the game, the boxart is the best Ive seen in a long time
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Nice box art, but the background could have been better.

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Belts!

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I actually hate that this has anything other than the title and a white background. Fuck this game.

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I actually really like it. Very clean.

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@Meteora said:
" Isn't the PS3 branding normally on the side, and not on the top like the 360? I find this weird for me. "
They changed it recently, thanks to the heavy(and rightly placed) criticism that stated it looked way too much like the Spiderman logo.
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I like this background.. its clean and crisp, plain but still looks really good. It feels like the future =P

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At least she is very clearly female. With FF, you never know …

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So whom is the lover in this game?

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Looks too plain due to the background.  How about a picture of the cast, and something in the background to go along with it?

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Yeah I went straight to the thighs aswell

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@Godwind said:

" So whom is the lover in this game? "

Every time you misuse the word "whom" you make baby Jesus cry. Because baby Jesus is an English professor. Not many people know that.
 
 I was vaguely interested in this game when they decided to go for a girl instead of a dude who looks like a girl, but then the trailers were Melrose Place except twenty times more pretentious in a nauseatingly saccharine techno-fantasy wonderland and I was able to comfortably go back to not caring about Final Fantasy again.
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@Meteora: Starting with Uncharted 2, they've begun using the new PS3 font and changed the box styling.
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@theredace said:
" @MrKlorox said:
" Well.... they're sticking with the same white background style they've been with since the PS1 era.  Perhaps I should start a White background boxart page. "
Um....no.  FFVIII, FFIX, FFX, and FFXII box art did not use a white background.  This is actually more reminiscent of what they're doing with all the DS remakes. "
In PAL Land (well, the UK at least) all FF box arts have been "logo + white background" for as long as I remember. Its definitely that way from VII up to XII at least.
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 Hard not to laugh at this after watching Mega64's.

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Those are pretty ugly.

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@EvilTwin said:
" @blaakmawf said:
" The graphics on the ps3 boxart are way better than the 360 boxart. "
Yeah but the 360 boxart has a way better framerate.  "
Aww damn.
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@BraveFart said:
" Rumour has it she's going to seduce a girl in this game and have lesbosex. Sounds like Final Fantasy to me :D  and lol at people who are fighting over which version of the game that has the best boxart. ahahahaha :) comedy ! "
I'm kinda torn between my love for lesbo sex and the utter indifference I have towards video game sex, and yeah I'm one of those people who fuels the fanboy fires whenever I see the chance. I like fire, and people fighting over things of no real consequence make my heart smile.
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@LiquidPrince: Not really a complaint, I think.  Just that the thigh is the only remarkable thing about it. 
Instead of the modest centered logo on the Japanese PS3 box, for North America Sqenix is telling us:  
"Look, our lead character is ACTUALLY a girl this time!"
 
*cough*cateringtothe360market*ahem*
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This box art is boring and kind of akward.

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@Brackynews said:
  *cough*cateringtothe360market*ahem* "
Go fuck yourself. 
 
This has nothing to do with "catering to the 360 market" and everything to do with "catering to the male market". . .
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I think I would have prefered just the logo, like the box art we had in Europe for the other games.

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@mythrol said:
" @Brackynews said:
  *cough*cateringtothe360market*ahem* "
Go fuck yourself.   This has nothing to do with "catering to the 360 market" and everything to do with "catering to the male market". . . "
What he's trying to say is that PS3 owners don't have any balls.
 
Right?
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Looks like a Laura Croft outfit, but incredibly impractical.

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Just as real men don't wear pants (a long known scientific fact), neither do real women. This is a fact of life and I fully support this boxart.
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I'm sure that if I cared about post-SNES era Final Fantasy games I would be excited and possibly aroused by this box art. But I don't. Poor me.

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Lame and uninspired.

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It's okay. I won't be staring at the boxart for 50 - 60 hours, so it won't bother me too much.

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it looks fan-made... like someone's just taken two renders and stuck it on an ugly gradient background.
 
i mean the actual art is lovely, but this box art is lazzzzzyyyyyyy and ugly. 
 
not that i care too much, just annoys me that i could do better and earn a little money :PPPP

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I think it looks awesome.  It would be cool if it had a better background though.

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Cover art rated "T" for "Take a look at my crotch." 

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clean.

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Should have a little more skin but... alright.

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simple but nice.

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I like the T rating near the crotch-zone.

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@Brackynews said:
"Look, our lead character is ACTUALLY a girl this time!"
  *cough*cateringtothe360market*ahem* "
What are you  talking about? 360 gamers don't want to play as pretty ladies. They want big muscular bearded men. Get your markets straight ;)
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So between all this thigh commotion, did everyone fail to notice her left nipple poking through all her clothes?

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@Gill said:
"So between all this thigh commotion, did everyone fail to notice her left nipple poking through all her clothes? "
SPANK BANK!!! ..jk! 
and the box are is slightly lame.. but what a cool sword! they always have such dramatic weapons and i love it!
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@Alphazero said:
" It's thigh time for a minimal design such as this. "
Ahahaha... hehehe... hoho.. ha...  *ahem* 
This should be a 'pun' game.  Please don't laugh at that.
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@Gruff182 said:
" The UK/European box Art always looks cooler then the North American versions. Always keeping the same theme on each iteration of FF. Hopefully this is just the US version.  As a student of 3D however, thats a really nice render and has been my desktop BG for a while. "
The EU version was shown first, and it's identical to this, as anyone who read the forums would know.
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This box art has more thigh than the latest Street Fighter movie.

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Thanks Brad

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Lightening is awesome!  I'm looking forward to next years release.

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Smexy.

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Would've preferred just the FF name/logo.

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@Brackynews said:
" @LiquidPrince: Not really a complaint, I think.  Just that the thigh is the only remarkable thing about it. 
Instead of the modest centered logo on the Japanese PS3 box, for North America Sqenix is telling us:  
"Look, our lead character is ACTUALLY a girl this time!"
  *cough*cateringtothe360market*ahem* "
I'll take a strong, 20-something female lead over the teenage, whiney, girly boys we've had in the past few games.
And as was pointed out, the typical 360 game features a 6 foot tall, bearded space marine.
 
Rather than appealing to the 360 fans (and please note the game isn't even being released on the 360 in Japan), I think it's simply trying to a broader audiance, rather than just those that have gender issues and spend their free time writing depressing poetry on Deviant Art about how nobody loves them and they'll never be accepted by society.
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Looks pretty boring, actually. I mean, game be about stuff other than Lightning.

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Me likey

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dude... the pic of lightning is not needed.... why cant they just keep to the classic box art look?