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You Internet Matlocks sometimes amaze the hell out of me. Over on NeoGAF, a Wii Okami thread started up and it was pretty innocent enough until user bob digi pointed out a horrible fact. Right by Amaterasu's mouth is the IGN watermark. I'm looking at the box as I write this up and sure enough, the IGN logo is there. What looks to have happened is that the horrible and lazy "artist" that made the cover lifted this piece from IGN's Web site. They then took an image of Amatersau and slapped her right on top of the background image. Capcom didn't seem to notice and printed out the design for all of the Okami Wii boxes. What I don't get is why on Earth did the cover "artist" need to lift an image from IGN? Why couldn't he have just received the photos he needed directly from Capcom?! Was he just too impatient to wait and wanted to get paid as fast as possible? Whatever the case, this is one very embarrassing mistake. [Thanks, Riven!]
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Maaan, dtoid is really slow lately, what's goten into you guys? Did half of you just take a week long break or something?
Either way, still pretty hilarous, hope the guy gets fired.
LOL
Somebody's getting fired.
I don't see it. To me, it just looks like a smudge, maybe.
the red arrow should start from the watermark. took me a while to find it ;/
Oh snap!
Wow, what a blunder.
Maybe Dtoid needs to start watermarking and pushing these watermarket images in the faces of designers?
"lazy artist"
"cover "artist"
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This person does not desearve to be called an artist. Not even in a sarcastic sense in my opinion.
once again...Someone(s) FIRED.
IŽll predict the future with Ari Gold
I do see something, though if I wasn't told it was an IGN watermark I don't think thats what I'd see. It's a little too faint. Still, thats funny as hell.
Sooooo he basically got paid to copypasta.
lol@CypherCR
and for those who can see the watermark...
Epic blunder.
disastrous.
atleast he'll have a job at ign
* Can't *
That person who spotted it has a good eye.
AHAHAHA
Oooooh, now I see it. In fact, it jumps out at me now.
cool. can't wait to play this game! also...wow.
you can even see the IGN next to it.
I'm a freelance graphic designer, I do a lot of CD packages, posters, books, etc. You'd be surprised how many companies (even huge companies) are severely unprepared when it comes to providing artwork for the designer. Within a huge company files could be lost, misplaced, at the wrong resolutions, etc. It also could have been as simple as someone from Capcom asking an intern to gather Okami art assets for the guy and they decided to go online. I'd be surprised if the artist himself deliberately went online to do this, he most likely just put stuff together as he received it. Either way he's going to be FUCKED when they find out about this.
@robotplague
I can't believe that someone would actually look over this when doing the box art though, it's not exactly hidden, and they woulda had a better quality image than the one we have here, I assume, I just don't see how they could miss it, he had to have spent a good hour or two looking at this image, tweaking things.
Also, any grounds for IGN to sue? Technically if this was lifted from their site Capcom's using their company logo without permission.
My frothing demand for this game increases!
I wonder how many copies are printed with this watermark, and I wonder if Capcom is going to fix it for reprints.
So hillariously funny. But how does that saying go? "Shit happens!" ??
it's much easier to see it when it's smaller i think... the zoomed in version is much harder to spot...
maybe were all missing the real reason behind the watermark. ign made the port. yeah i said it. they were talking about making a game for the wii and here it is.
also, my two cents.
if they do remake the cover, perhaps the "error" copies might be worth a lil sumthin sumthin
I can only say this..
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAH....
that's all... I can go back and do some more websurfing..
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. This is so sad and hilarious.
"Just airbrush it out."
"Brilliant!"
I love the lazy designers, cause i'm one of 'em.
I have the box and it is there. Incredible. Off topic but want a mini-review? Here you go.
Got my copy on Friday from Amazon-- interestingly the local stores I checked (Walmarts mostly) did not have it. I am four hours in.
The game is beautiful, the music is top notch and the script is very well done. This is a game done by someone who (like me) thinks that the Wind Waker is one of the greatest games ever made. And it is a tribute, not a rip-off. The graphics are fantastic, and the atmosphere is great. The NPCs are well done and Zelda-like. It seems like it was easily worth $40.
Now for the downside-- the controls are not great. Not at all. There is no consistency and no forgiveness to them. I just bought a move in the dojo-- the four swipe reflector technique. I listened to the dojo teacher, I read the scroll. I made the move as instructed-- it did not register. Eventually it does register, with the SAME movements. I'd say it registers about 3 times in 10, with identical movements.
Same goes for fighting. Although I have gotten better at it, the horizontal brush slash is incredibly inconsistent. About half the time a horizontal slice coats the enemy in black ink, and does not register as a slash. For no reason that I can tell. I lost to the first drumming enemy about 10 times because of this.
Although I think this is a AAA title, it is not a AAA Nintendo quality title, due to the control issues and the non-disguised loading times.
If anyone has tips for control, let me know. I am old, and far from a 1337 gamer. It is entirely possible that my inherent lameness at games is handicapping me. Thanks and I'd like to hear what this forum thinks of the game.
lolz... I'm not an artist/graphic designer, but I've messed around with random things in photoshop over the past ten years or so and I think I could have done better than this guy.
Could it be a possible dig at IGN? Looks like Amatersau's about to take a bite out of it.
Its so sad when you have to see things like this. Another video game blunder for the history books. Why does it seem like nintendo owns that book?!
LOOOOOOOOOL
Ah, the irony. Just a few days ago Capcom launched a rich and beautiful Okami Art Website. Maybe they forgot to CC the press release mail to the cover guy...
This is worse than UR MR GAY
I <3<3<3<3<3 you matlocks.
@rosalin: do you happen to own a PS2, too? That would help with the control issues...
How can someone not notice that's an IGN watermark.
I called my store and told my ASM to walk over to the Wii section, pick up Okami, and look to the right of the mouth.
"IGN?"
LOLtastic.
Also @Dephect: Nintendo owns all the blunders because they don't have any formal certification process. Hence all those 'Kidz Basketball', 'Orbs of Doom', and 'Summer Sports', crap gets shoveled onto the Wii and DS.
Luckily Nintendo targets the consumer that doesn't realize they are paying money for a free flash game. But so does Majesco, and they published Advent Rising and Psychonauts, and none of you assholes bought either, so now they are forced to.
Nintendo on the other hand, has no reason not to lay down the damn on the river of shit that is the Wii game lineup. Just because nobody would put games on the Cube doesn't mean they have carte blanche to allow anything and everything on the platform.
ouch, how EMBARRAAAAAASSING!
Meh, you can hardly see it, but yeah, someones getting fired
:P
That watermark is everywhere. I checked the box artwork on amazon and it's there.
@A New Challenger:
I see what you did there.
Hmmmmmmm.......
Does anyone really care?
@ rosalindaveue
The game probably thinks you're doing the move where you just blob ink on the guy. Try making your horizontal slashes longer; it doesn't matter if you go outside the lines of the enemy, just draw almost all the way across the screen. Note that this is based on experience with PS2 version.
I'm heard wildly different things about the paintbrush controls... some are saying it works perfectly and others are reporting problems with it. Still need to get my hands on this next paycheck.
Have they change the cover art already?
amazon
Also, I'd like to interject with this finely crafted gem:
"Who let Christopher Grant design Okami's cover art?"
lolololol
lol that guy is soo fired...
wtf I don't see anything
@Mxyzptlk
I personally thought the painting controls were amazing, but everything else wasn't --- The visual style and ink effects were completely changed in the Wii version, which made me sell it to find a PS2 copy.
1000 hours in paint
Also, @wakeey:
That's beta artwork, and wasn't used in the final version. But if you look on that one, the watermark is there, too, in the same spot by the tree.
totally not the huge deal some are making it out to be.
to the guy who said he could do better than the cover artist; wtf do you mean? are you incapable of making mistakes?
someone somewhere will laugh about this, change it and nobody will care by tomorrow.
@ Superfluous Moniker
You're spot-on, man. I had the same issue occur during my play-time with the PS2 version of Okami, and that was resolved by making longer strokes. It seems like the issue has carried over to the Wii version. Though some paintbrush moves are a little sensitive even still. I can't for the life of me fix that stupid chicks wheel so that I can get me some sweet, sweet saki.
Did this guy lift it from the IGN site? That right there is strike 1 and he should be fired for that reason alone. Who the fuck lifts a web image for mass print usage? Dumbass. But the fact that he missed an entirely different logo . Did they simply ask the office secretary to "Photoshop it out?". There's no reason to even fucking open Photoshop aside from color correction, assuming it's a different printer handling the output of this box art than the previous one, which should take all of 32 seconds. But still, didn't they have the original source work?
psycho_terror: This is actually a pretty huge deal, and trust me, I'd love to take his fucking place and show him how it's done. I'm a graphic designer four years removed from college, and I work for a fucking newspaper...this guy screams amateur straight out of college. It's not like he had to redo the artwork on his own, it was merely a matter of placing an existing file in a Wii template and sending the fucker to press. Doesn't get much simpler than that, but instead this guy fucked up and Wii Okami owners get a flawed piece of packaging.
This shit right here just amazes me.
i feel sorry for them.. only because; imagine how many people are going to bust their balls over this.
kinda pathetic really
haha ign should settle out of court exclusive news from Capcom or somethinggg
But yeah, it's funny how almost no one offline will even notice.
Wow thats intense
the thing is, it would have been very easy to totally remove the logo, so maybe they left a trace of it there because they thought no one would notice and it would be their little joke on the world (or the region that uses this cover at least).
Hah. What a scrub.
I just had to get a bottle of Lmaonade before I started reading this.
Hahaha thats fucked. What a lazy ass artist!
It's not like I will get the game anyway
I wonder if IGN could sue Capcom for this? It would be ridiculous, but I wouldn't be terribly surprised...
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to the guy who said he could do better than the cover artist; wtf do you mean? are you incapable of making mistakes? "
It's not that he made a mistake...which we all do. He stole, then he made a mistake...then he got caught. :) We're all capable of being lazy...heck I'm commenting on Dtoid while I'm supposed to be working.... only difference is that my boss doesn't know ha ha :)