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Oopsies: IGN watermark on the cover of Okami photo

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. 

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Holyetheline's Avatar
Holyetheline at 04/20/2008 13:17
LOL

Somebody's getting fired.
Yellowdog's Avatar
Yellowdog at 04/20/2008 13:18
I don't see it. To me, it just looks like a smudge, maybe.
Hamsizzla's Avatar
Hamsizzla at 04/20/2008 13:18
the red arrow should start from the watermark. took me a while to find it ;/
Rucksack's Avatar
Rucksack at 04/20/2008 13:19
Oh snap!
Mandril's Avatar
Mandril at 04/20/2008 13:21
Wow, what a blunder.

Maybe Dtoid needs to start watermarking and pushing these watermarket images in the faces of designers?
Hamsizzla's Avatar
Hamsizzla at 04/20/2008 13:22
Neonie's Avatar
Neonie at 04/20/2008 13:24
"lazy artist"

"cover "artist"

----------------------

This person does not desearve to be called an artist. Not even in a sarcastic sense in my opinion.
CypherVR's Avatar
CypherVR at 04/20/2008 13:25
once again...Someone(s) FIRED.

Teta's Avatar
Teta at 04/20/2008 13:27
IŽll predict the future with Ari Gold
DaedHead8's Avatar
DaedHead8 at 04/20/2008 13:28
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.
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brosef at 04/20/2008 13:28
Sooooo he basically got paid to copypasta.

lol@CypherCR
CypherVR's Avatar
CypherVR at 04/20/2008 13:32
and for those who can see the watermark...

brainderailment's Avatar
brainderailment at 04/20/2008 13:32
Epic blunder.
FinalFist's Avatar
FinalFist at 04/20/2008 13:32
disastrous.
FreedomToast's Avatar
FreedomToast at 04/20/2008 13:33
atleast he'll have a job at ign
CypherVR's Avatar
CypherVR at 04/20/2008 13:34
* Can't *
Justice's Avatar
Justice at 04/20/2008 13:37
That person who spotted it has a good eye.
DeusPayne's Avatar
DeusPayne at 04/20/2008 13:39
AHAHAHA
Yellowdog's Avatar
Yellowdog at 04/20/2008 13:40
Oooooh, now I see it. In fact, it jumps out at me now.
LarkOhiya's Avatar
LarkOhiya at 04/20/2008 13:44
cool. can't wait to play this game! also...wow.
mdvalenz's Avatar
mdvalenz at 04/20/2008 13:49
you can even see the IGN next to it.
robotplague's Avatar
robotplague at 04/20/2008 13:56
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.
A New Challenger's Avatar
A New Challenger at 04/20/2008 14:04
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.
STB's Avatar
STB at 04/20/2008 14:05
So hillariously funny. But how does that saying go? "Shit happens!" ??
thisissami's Avatar
thisissami at 04/20/2008 14:07
it's much easier to see it when it's smaller i think... the zoomed in version is much harder to spot...
16bitmonster's Avatar
16bitmonster at 04/20/2008 14:12
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.
Notyavgkat's Avatar
Notyavgkat at 04/20/2008 14:12
if they do remake the cover, perhaps the "error" copies might be worth a lil sumthin sumthin
foxhound009's Avatar
foxhound009 at 04/20/2008 14:12
I can only say this..

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAH....


that's all... I can go back and do some more websurfing..
Sharpless's Avatar
Sharpless at 04/20/2008 14:12
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. This is so sad and hilarious.

mikeyed's Avatar
mikeyed at 04/20/2008 14:17
"Just airbrush it out."
"Brilliant!"

I love the lazy designers, cause i'm one of 'em.
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rosalindaveue at 04/20/2008 14:17
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.
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-PL- at 04/20/2008 14:20
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.
kariomart's Avatar
kariomart at 04/20/2008 14:20
Could it be a possible dig at IGN? Looks like Amatersau's about to take a bite out of it.
dephect's Avatar
dephect at 04/20/2008 14:24
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?!
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Miguelcar808 at 04/20/2008 14:31
LOOOOOOOOOL
xenon's Avatar
xenon at 04/20/2008 14:40
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...
Clockwork's Avatar
Clockwork at 04/20/2008 14:47
This is worse than UR MR GAY
BluFire's Avatar
BluFire at 04/20/2008 14:53
I <3<3<3<3<3 you matlocks.
xenon's Avatar
xenon at 04/20/2008 14:53
@rosalin: do you happen to own a PS2, too? That would help with the control issues...
liqideos's Avatar
liqideos at 04/20/2008 14:54
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.
007's Avatar
007 at 04/20/2008 14:59
ouch, how EMBARRAAAAAASSING!
Yuphrum's Avatar
Yuphrum at 04/20/2008 15:24
Meh, you can hardly see it, but yeah, someones getting fired
:P
tiberius's Avatar
tiberius at 04/20/2008 15:25
That watermark is everywhere. I checked the box artwork on amazon and it's there.
The-Excel's Avatar
The-Excel at 04/20/2008 15:28
@A New Challenger:
I see what you did there.
13thDragon's Avatar
13thDragon at 04/20/2008 15:34
Hmmmmmmm.......


Does anyone really care?
Superfluous Moniker's Avatar
Superfluous Moniker at 04/20/2008 15:50
@ 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.
Mxyzptlk's Avatar
Mxyzptlk at 04/20/2008 16:08
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.
wakeey's Avatar
wakeey at 04/20/2008 16:08
Have they change the cover art already?
amazon
liqideos's Avatar
liqideos at 04/20/2008 16:27
Also, I'd like to interject with this finely crafted gem:

"Who let Christopher Grant design Okami's cover art?"

lolololol
mistic's Avatar
mistic at 04/20/2008 16:34
lol that guy is soo fired...
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