VGBA Summer Contest: Dark_Shadow vs. IceFox vs. SockeyMeow

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http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c37/shadysaiyan/VgbaSummerCompBanner.jpg

Dark_Shadow
http://www.vgboxart.com/boxes/GCN/8580_paper_mario_the_thousand-year_door-orig.png
IceFox
http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/9921/mariokartfinalefinaledf0.png
SockeyMeow
http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/8066/mariokartwipff9ia1.png

The person with the first six votes wins. You must have a good reason behind your vote. When you vote, please explain.

[B]Please vote for your favorite box by posting.
Dark_Shadow 2 IceFox 3 SockeyMeow 6
SockeyMeow wins his round but IceFox and Dark_Shadow lose with dignity.

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Also Ice Fox said he made the front, before mine was posted. He doesn't want to be rated down because it's similar to my box, which is fair.

I think the background on Ice Fox's is too big, but that isn't the box itself. I personally think Ice Fox made the most creative box, and I like the effects.
I vote for Ice Fox.

[CruSadEr]

Sockey's front looks to much like the official while the back is plain.
Dark_Shadow's is a little to red.
I don't like IceFox's text on the back.
But my favorite is probably sockey's.
It's very clean and well made.
So I vote for sockey.

[~Midgit~]

Dark shadows box is really blurry and the templates wrong while i like icefox's the green text on the back really kills it so my vote is for sockey while he used the official art for the front you can tell its highly edited

sockeymeow

[Feed]

I vote for Dark_Shadow. Because i know how difficult it was to find good material on this game (I was going to make it, but then changed my mind and made SPM box). Also, the style is great - really feels like something as childich as Mario. The colors are nice. Eye-catching box. And, yes, i can see that it is small and a bit blurry, but i donth think it matters - some games just don't have a lot of art with good quality. Dont let the quality of this box be your reason to vote agaist it.

I didn't vote for IceFox because i think his box somehow not right. The logo is not Mario'ish (tech-like logo in a mario game? don't think so. Even if its official logo). The box is made with simple formula - background + renders. Boring and not original. I also don't like the chess-board squares on the box. The text is...well its not right too - default windows font means autofail if you us eit on your boxart. And the green color doesn't fit too.

Also, i didn't vote for SockeyMeow because it's the same Mario kart box ive seen many times - almost no background on the back (it is so in this case), renders, and a common art from this game. To tell honestly, his box reminds me of EG's MK: DD box not because of the art, but because of the layout, seriously, compare these boxes - exactly the same. Also, the front is waaaay too bright.

Well, hope this reason for voting is good enough.


Dark shadows box is really blurry and the templates wrong
You rate templates or the art?

[Dark_Shadow]

wow my box is so blurry... I'm sorry it was not that blurry when I edited it(except the logo):(
and it was bigger than this too

[werdney]

All of these are really cool. IceFoxes is great, the front is the best part, but I don't like the text on the back. The green doesn't really go with it. If the text were different, I'd definitely vote for him. Dark_Shadow's is also awesome, love the art and colors, but there's no description on the back, and that doesn't seem official. Also, DS's Nintendo logo is a bit big. Last, Sockey. His box seems very official. I like the concept of the back, but I don't like the background there and the screens don't have descriptions. They aren't always necessary, but without them, it seems empty.
So in the end, I have to go with IceFox for the most creativity and coolest front. Sockey's a close second, Dark_Shadow a close third.

[Ratchetcomand]

I vote fro Icefox box because his is very creativity and i love the logo .

[shadysaiyan]

dark shadows is kinda blurry and has too much going on, Icefox is alright, i dont like the logo, layout, or the fact that he used the same image someone already used for a cover (repetativness = pet peeve), Sockey's looks very good, just dont really like the screenshot arrangement, good though.

I vote for SockeyMeow

[E_G]

wow my box is so blurry... I'm sorry it was not that blurry when I edited it(except the logo):(
and it was bigger than this too
Well to be honest, it was blurry when I got it.

EDIT: Dark_Shadow I posted the one you used on the main site. Try not to send me really low-quality versions by accident. ;)

[yoman44]

I prefer Dark_Shadow's Box

[E_G]

I prefer Dark_Shadow's Box
If you wish to vote for Dark_Shadow, please could you tell me your reason?

[E_G]

Pardon me, but please can some more people vote? I really want to begin Round 3 today. :)

[werdney]

Pardon me, but please can some more people vote? I really want to begin Round 3 today. :)

Me too. Why has round 2 gone so slow? Like, why aren't people voting as much?

[Ratchetcomand]

Let call it a tie .

[E_G]

Let call it a tie .
Let's wait a while for more votes.

[DeathSpawn11]

I vote for Sockey, his box seems to give more of a sense of speed than IceFoxes box. IceFoxe's box seems too cluttered and in a sense, the back looks like it would be a back to a donkey kong game, the font looks like it would be on a DK box plus DK is on there twice, but I really don't think that counts, just pointing that out =P. and Dark Shadows is too blurry so in the end I vote for

SockeyMeow. good job :)

[sockeymeow]

We really need more votes!

[lord_arcanus]

I vote for Sockey, his box seems to give more of a sense of speed than IceFoxes box. IceFoxe's box seems too cluttered and in a sense, the back looks like it would be a back to a donkey kong game, the font looks like it would be on a DK box plus DK is on there twice, but I really don't think that counts, just pointing that out =P. and Dark Shadows is too blurry so in the end I vote for

SockeyMeow. good job :)

i agree with the DS11, sockey gets my vote. I am allowed to do that, right? agree with someone else?

[Mad Spike]

It was hard round.
Dark_Shadow
I like it. Colors are great. I don't know why I like this red color, but I like it. Back cover is awsome too :) But logo is blury and it's very very bad.
IceFox
Looks nice, but there is too many empty space at the front cover.
SockeyMeow
Back cover looks more official. But front cover looks motion blury and too grey and desaturated. But quality is good.
So:
My vote is for Dark_Shadow, BUT
I know that there is time to finish the round. And this my vote will not finish the fight. So if we talking about IceFox VS SockeyMeow. I like IceFox's box more.

[Radioactive Bob]

I really like Sockey's box. His is the simplest and, in my opinion, the most official looking in the sense that it has a Mario Kart look and feel to it.

[Mad Spike]

We Need 3rd Round :D Lol

[sockeymeow]

thanks to everyone who voted it looks like ill be moving on but nice boxes by you two as well

[E_G]

Thanks for voting. Round 3 will begin shortly. :)

Remember the losers of this match still have a second chance.

[IceFox]

Yay for second chances! And great boxes everyone.