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#1  Edited By Arkthemaniac
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#2  Edited By Demilich

Points + Wiki = Shit like this.

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#3  Edited By pause422

Wow....

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#4  Edited By Lies

That's actually an awesome concept. And it can't be point-whored because not that many games apply.

Where else are you going to find a list of games that show half a face on boxart? It's a perfectly applicable concept, I don't see what's wrong with it.

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#5  Edited By OneEyedNinja7

Yeah, it's just a quirky little harmless concept. Just like the "360 games without shooting concept", (even though that has a lot more games) concepts like these aren't really harmful if they're applicable and accurate. I think of it as a page for someone to stumble on and be like "oh I never noticed that."

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#6  Edited By Emilio

Luls, that just makes me laugh at all the poorly designed box arts.

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#7  Edited By samfo

This is actually one of my favorite concepts! It's so pointless. Just like hamburgers.

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#9  Edited By GiantGUS

Yeah, I believe that the more we can categorize and build different groups of stuff, than we have a better  SOURCE FOR ALL YOUR VIDEOGAME KNOWLEDGE

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#10  Edited By Giantkitty

I don't mind that - what if someone was trying to think of a game, and all they could think of was "there's a half of a face on the box" and like someone said, there's little chance of whoring. And i suppose a box designer could go there and see how they look in one place.

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#11  Edited By jeff
Lies said:
"That's actually an awesome concept. And it can't be point-whored because not that many games apply.

Where else are you going to find a list of games that show half a face on boxart? It's a perfectly applicable concept, I don't see what's wrong with it."
I'm with him, that's a pretty sweet page. Funny and well-defined parameters.
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#12  Edited By xymox

This is actually pretty cool, but how about warcraft II? That game has not one, but two half faces, facing eachother. 

Anyway, this concept has the potential for spawning obscure collections in the future, so could be interesting to keep. 
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#13  Edited By kush

I think this concept is actually a pretty good concept. It's not a concept that can be point-whored like some other concepts out there.

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#14  Edited By Snail

Can't be point whored and it's original.

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#15  Edited By breton

Could we at least re-name it for proper capitalization?

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#16  Edited By gman

Works for me.  Capitalization Fixed.

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#17  Edited By BiggerBomb

I love this place.

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#18  Edited By MKHavoc

I noticed that a few days ago.  Doesn't really seem like a problem though.

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#19  Edited By Arkthemaniac
Jeff said:
"Lies said:
"That's actually an awesome concept. And it can't be point-whored because not that many games apply.

Where else are you going to find a list of games that show half a face on boxart? It's a perfectly applicable concept, I don't see what's wrong with it."
I'm with him, that's a pretty sweet page. Funny and well-defined parameters."
Does it fit the bill for what a concept is? IF we have this, should we have "Games that Have Massive Instruction Books"? It's not really related to the game, but the box. Is that OK? I don't really know.
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#20  Edited By HandsomeDead

It's the little obscure things like this that make GiantBomb special. It's the stuff like 'shoes' and 'grass' and whatnot that ruin the magic.

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#21  Edited By MattyFTM  Moderator
Arkthemaniac said:
"Jeff said:
"Lies said:
"That's actually an awesome concept. And it can't be point-whored because not that many games apply.

Where else are you going to find a list of games that show half a face on boxart? It's a perfectly applicable concept, I don't see what's wrong with it."
I'm with him, that's a pretty sweet page. Funny and well-defined parameters."
Does it fit the bill for what a concept is? IF we have this, should we have "Games that Have Massive Instruction Books"? It's not really related to the game, but the box. Is that OK? I don't really know."
I don't see why we couldn't have a concept similar to that, but the parameters aren't well defined. "Massive" is very ambiguous. It needs to be defined better. Perhaps a "Games that have instruction books with more than X pages". But we'll need to decide what that number is. It needs to be a number that would exclude the majority of instruction books.
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#22  Edited By MasturbatingBear

This page has been up since at least the first couple of weeks of the site. I remember seeing it. And i dont see how its easy points cause its not like a concept like human, where so many games can be attached.

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Lol some people have time to waist, still it's random shit like this that set Giant Bomb apart from other gaming sites out there.

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#24  Edited By Systech

If you think that this is ludicrous, wait until someone adds the "Game" concept page.

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#25  Edited By Arkthemaniac
systech said:
"If you think that this is ludicrous, wait until someone adds the "Game" concept page."
I get to make the "Games that have graphics" page.
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#27  Edited By keyhunter

Now that I think about it, a lot of games have boxes with half or part of a face on them.

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#28  Edited By suneku

I literally lol'd

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#29  Edited By clarke0

I think this a really funny concept. This kind of stuff is what makes this site special.

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#30  Edited By Arkthemaniac
clarke0 said:
"I think this a really funny concept. This kind of stuff is what makes this site special."
Special is a double edged sword . . .
Special is a double edged sword . . .

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#31  Edited By Endogene

Someone managed to add that concept to the Forsaken page without there being any boxart (i just added it).

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#32  Edited By jakob187

I not only find it to be a funny concept, but it definitely peaks my interests, as I do graphic design art from time to time.  Things like box art are something that I pay a ton of attention to, and the fact that someone has pointed this page out to me gives me a far more comprehensive look at the do's and don'ts of making graphic art.


Half-faces definitely = don't.  It's too cheesy and becomes more and more common.

I'm waiting for someone to create the "Person Holding A Gun Like Steven Seagal on Promotional Art" concept....aka:

      
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#33  Edited By Arkthemaniac
jakob187 said:
"I not only find it to be a funny concept, but it definitely peaks my interests, as I do graphic design art from time to time.  Things like box art are something that I pay a ton of attention to, and the fact that someone has pointed this page out to me gives me a far more comprehensive look at the do's and don'ts of making graphic art.

Half-faces definitely = don't.  It's too cheesy and becomes more and more common.

I'm waiting for someone to create the "Person Holding A Gun Like Steven Seagal on Promotional Art" concept....aka:

      
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Okay, now THAT would be a good concept.
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#34  Edited By jakob187

Long lost brothers???

       
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#35  Edited By keyhunter

STEVEN SEGAL REDIRECTS A PUNCH 7: THE RE-DIRECTIONING.

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#36  Edited By PremierOctopus

I think that's an awesome concept. Funny trends and stuff like that is what the concept pages are for, right?

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#37  Edited By AspiringAndy

That's cool.
I would have never of thought of that.