I fucking love art books. I love concept art, video game art, etc.
Doesn't even have to be released in the west as I have a few from JP ones in my collection like the FFXI 10 year anniversary book.
What are you favorite video game related art books? Trying to find more to purchase and add to my shelf.
>buy art book for first time in years
>already have all the art inside, literally nothing that can't be found online
>notes on said art is shit like, "this is the gun, it shoots"
>no talk of design process or philosophy
they got really lazy with these didn't they.
Yeah I feel like most just get ripped and dumped online. That's why I like the recent retro books that have been decently popular.
Like the Super Famicon collection book doesn't have much that you can't find online, but it's put together in such a nice looking package that it's worth it at least to me.
I imported the Tactics Ogre: LUCT artbook because the portraits are so fucking beautiful in that game
I haven't even finished the game
Was thinking about importing the MMZ artbook but I think I couldn't find a cheap one or something when I was looking. might look again
Oh damn this does look good. Was looking at more final fantasy books and knew I'd be buying this next because Amano is so fucking good.
I like the "Legends of Localization" books.
>Legends of Localization
Oh shit I've never even heard of these. They look fantastic
yes! that one, but I remember the price for the english version was through the roof for a time (no idea why)
If the one on amazon is the english version I might get that
Looks to be english and coming out in a couple weeks.
>literally nothing that can't be found online
That's really not the measure I'd rate an art book by.
It would be weird, if it hadn't been scanned, yet.
I should probably stop buying Falcom art books. That shit is taking too much shelf space
Those look nice but I'm not very sold on the overlayed letters on the bottom left two books.
absolutely based
Really enjoy my persona 5 artbook
Ehh, mostly the cheap ones that comes with collectors editions and stuff are like this
>mostly the cheap ones that comes with collectors editions and stuff
I know this all too well. Not sure if it was just nostalgia where I was a kid and too stupid to realize that maybe collectors editions have always been shit? But the pack-ins, especially art books are these quickly cobbled together 50 page booklets that usually just include art you've already seen in promotional material and other places.
Can't think of an art book I've ever gotten from a collector's edition that I ended up keeping.
OG starcraft's manual
artstation dot com
has all the concept art in the world
>most physical games come in empty boxes with a disc
>some even just have a fake disc with a download code
>gone are the days of manuals
>gone are the days of reading the manual on the drive home after your parents get you a new game
>gone are the days of some decent weight in your game collection
I just hate how light the empty boxes are. I wish more games had fucking manuals, it's such a bummer that they are a cost saving so companies just don't include anything anymore.
That's kind of missing the point. It's nice to have something physical and tangible.
I guess I could find stuff I like on there and print it out, but it doesn't really do it justice.
Based Amano
>That shit is taking too much shelf space
Protip: You put them orthogonally onto the shelf, not aligned with it.
>Really enjoy my persona 5 artbook
I hope that was the nip version and not the english one with 90~ pages missing
Any reason they cut that much? Can't imagine it was due to censorship issues or anything, not like P5 is even that lewd.
Confirmed, it is the Jap version. Didn't hear about the English version though, what happened with that?
They cut out a lot of the art and the interview with the producer and never mentioned why. I'd wager they were just lazy shits.