I love these kind of video game art and lore books. Anyone else?

  • LargeAdultSon [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Remember back when the physical copy of a game came in a big cardboard box and the manual was a full-on book that had enough lore and concept art stuff in it to keep you entertained and mildly carsick on a long drive somewhere with your parents...? Those were the days, man.

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Lmao I didn't think I'd connect with a person over shared nostalgia for being mildly carsick yet here I am.

  • EnsignRedshirt [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Nice. Fallout has a fun aesthetic. Little drab at times, but lots of imagination.

  • 707R [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Yes, I always check the section with them out when I go to books stores.

  • Chomsky [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    My 2 year old an I enjoy going through my TTRPG books together. He likes the big monsters, like dragons and giants.

    Interestingly, He pointed at some characters on a pathfinder first edition book a few days ago and I described one as a cleric and the other as a dwarf. I realized after that I had described one based profession and the other based on race despite knowing that the dwarf in question was Harsk, the iconic ranger. I am a really committed anti-racist, but the work of decolonization never stops.

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    I have a ton of these art books because the production art is always so cool

    Just seeing all the stuff they had planned out and wanted to do is pretty great

  • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    People actually get gifts for Easter? Is that a thing? I thought I just conned my mom into buying me a Nintendo the year she converted to Christianity, but it turned out that me being Jewish conned me out of a gift every year...

  • zeal0telite [he/him,they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Morrowind concept art is wack. Tonnes of this shit is just insane and most of it made it in.

    https://www.imperial-library.info/content/cover#node-434

    Not sure I like the Vivec Temple Canton fire though. Looks much better in-game. I've seen it replicated in mods though.

    Ogrim got done dirty too. Legit went from hulking demons to fat Thanos-Shrek monsters with questionable taste in piercings.

    Come on