mrimer
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The Russian-localized version of DROD:TCB is being released (and, boy, are my arms tired). You can see their typically cool cover art here:

http://ru.akella.com/Game.aspx?id=2165

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That is very awesome. But why is Beethro hacking at some tentacles? The only thing in the Eighth that has tentacles (that I know of) is the pit thing, and Beethro never fights him.

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I'd say it's briar.

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mrimer wrote:
I'd say it's briar.

But there're no briar cutters in TCB!

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He can still hack at them It's just very futile.

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This is tied back to an internet meme the briars like to joke about:

"Ah, but in soviet russia, the delver cuts you."

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Kwakstur wrote:
This is tied back to an internet meme the briars like to joke about:

"Ah, but in soviet russia, the delver cuts you."

To quote Mike: "All your internet meme are a lie."

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Is there any way to know who's doing the awesome cover art? It's the same guy who did the KDD art for Akella as well. I'd love to see more of his art.

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Maurog wrote:
Is there any way to know who's doing the awesome cover art? It's the same guy who did the KDD art for Akella as well. I'd love to see more of his art.

I don't know the name of the artist, but I'm guessing they'd tell us if we ask.

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Wow! Beethro cuts briars and they spit out blood?!

It looked awesome,but,Beethro didn't look like Beethro and he wasn't so fat! I seriously want to know that artists name!

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These covers do a terrible job of capturing DROD's feel, but they are awesome.

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It seems detrimental to have that kind of art, as parents are more likely to forbid children to buy the game than they would if they saw a little yellow guy moving on a tile. (Note that I'm in no way implying that the art is not awesome. It's PR [Parent Relations] that bugs me).

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Really, I don't see the Russian audience having as much of an issue with it?

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It is awful. There is no Beethro. Why we(i mean russian people) always make covers which has no true information on it? Beethro can't cut briars, roaches are not so awful.

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mxvladi wrote:
Uh... roaches? I didn't see any on that cover art.

He's probably referring to a previous game cover. I distinctly remember one with massive angry roaches on it.

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dart193 wrote:
It is awful. There is no Beethro. Why we(i mean russian people) always make covers which has no true information on it?

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Oh man, that's the second worst title image /ever/.

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My favorite worst is this:



EDIT: And anything for the Wii that has "babyz" and "petz" in the title.

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Robotz

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Banjooie wrote:
Oh man, that's the second worst title image /ever/.

Which begs an obvious question that I won't ask and instead just wait for an answer as if I did.

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May I make a suggestion?



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Oh, good. I'm glad we're all clear on what he was joking about.

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Snacko pretty much nailed it, actually.

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AtkinsSJ wrote:

mxvladi wrote:
Uh... roaches? I didn't see any on that cover art.

He's probably referring to a previous game cover. I distinctly remember one with massive angry roaches on it.

That was KDD's.

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The cover art is awesome but I hate it. I hate it because that's supposed to be Beethro and this is supposed to be DROD.

By the way, I think I have you guys all topped!This is the French cover art for Inner Worlds.

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You are being incredibly thoughtless. She's clearly narcoleptic and about to pass out. Have some sensitivity.

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Trickster wrote:
Do those look like horns to you?

Click here to view the secret text

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Hotlink fail fixed...

@Trickster: you could see that image because your browser still had it in it's cache, but for everyone else it wouldn't load because the site you took your image from doesn't like random people from Teh Internet re-using their images... (try clearing your cache or force-reloading this page to see what I mean)

np: Easy Star All-Stars - Paranoid Android (ft. Kirsty Rock) (Radiodread)

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Trickster wrote:
Here's my offering, a rather infamous gem of bad American art for Japanese games that don't need bad American art:

That's pretty funny. I'm also tickled by its advertisement of "6 Mega Memory!"

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You're probably right about it being Mib (Mb), I was just laughing at it being Mega Memory. It's probably what Mega Man's brain is made of.

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Actually, Mb is 1000 kb (which is 1000 bytes). This usage has become more common recently, because advertisers were wrong about what a megabyte was. Now, MiB and KiB are 1024 of the next smaller size, which is what Mb and kb originally were, and what they should be.