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Posted on 06-07-10 02:23:59 PM Link | Quote
What are your thoughts on collector editions when buying a game? Do you buy CE or just the regular version?

I wrote an article on this here.

I think it's a hit or miss. I feel collector editions need to have something special and exclusive to be worth the extra money.

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Posted on 06-07-10 02:26:51 PM Link | Quote
Depends what they come with. I usually base my Collectors Edition choices on what the product ships with. If it comes with a poster or a small booklet, I'd probably give it a miss. It'd be on the internet somewhere. But if it came with a demo disk or some DLC, then I'd probably pay the extra for it.

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Posted on 06-07-10 02:31:37 PM Link | Quote
Case in point, I just put this up.

Finally got a shelf for my Master Chief helmet! Bonus points ... on Twitpic


And I bought the helmet when Halo 3 first came out. Still glad that I got it though, but still, I had no place to put it until now.

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Posted on 06-07-10 02:32:57 PM Link | Quote
That's the type of thing that would definitely make me buy it.

And, at a guess, cog tags?

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Posted on 06-07-10 02:35:11 PM Link | Quote
But cog tags from which game?

I didn't get the cog tags from any CE, I got them as free swag when I was at GameStop.

Yea, I rather get something neat and different like a helmet instead of a cloth map of the word.

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Posted on 06-07-10 02:36:58 PM (last edited by Zero One at 06-07-10 11:45 AM) Link | Quote
Well, at another guess, one of the Gears of War games.

And I assume you meant cloth map of the world

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Posted on 06-07-10 02:38:12 PM Link | Quote
I buy them more for movies (as in all 3 Lord of the Rings movies, Star Wars, etc) than games. That being said, I pre-ordered a copy of SC2 for my wife as a Collectors Edition. I got the pet from the 2009 Blizzcon live broadcast and she was a little jealous, so I got her the CE of SC2 so she can have that pet and I won't. She had already paid for a normal version for me but she liked the Beta and wanted to play together.

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Posted on 06-07-10 04:51:41 PM Link | Quote
The only Collector's Editions I have are The Legend of Zelda Collector's Edition and Metroid Prime Trilogy. With Zelda, I didn't have a way to play the original NES games plus playing OoT and MM on Gamecube was appealing. With Trilogy, the inclusion of Wiimote controls to play Primes 1 and 2 was too good to pass up. So I think if done right, Collector's editions are welcomed.

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Posted on 06-07-10 05:57:40 PM (last edited by Bitmap at 06-07-10 02:57 PM) Link | Quote





The Blu-Ray extra contains about eight hours of footage about the history, creation, and just about all things Metal Gear. Also contains the soundtrack to the game. Nothing different from the main storyline.

It's pretty cool.

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Posted on 06-07-10 07:51:00 PM Link | Quote
Like others have said, depends on what they come with. Or what the price is - I remember that the FF12 collector's edition was the same price as the normal one.

(Game sucked just as much too, but that's not the point.)

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Posted on 06-07-10 07:56:28 PM Link | Quote
WW: CE was sure as hell worth it! (It packed with an extra disk that had OoT and MQ on it! D: )
And like FP I picked up metroid prime trilogy as I wanted to try the first two prime games with wii controls. It had some ups and downs... but I end up playing that the most now as I don't have to change disk to change game. (Laziness in other words! )

The only time I would ever pick up a CE is when it packs with something relevant to my interests. And my interests tends to be video games so... yeah. I would pass on that MC helmet for example as I myself would have no use for it.

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Posted on 06-07-10 09:00:41 PM Link | Quote
Always the regular version. It comes down to pricing for me. I can't afford nor can I justify buying a collector's edition of a game. Unless the coll. edition comes with some wishes, a rainbow and maybe a kitten, then no, regular version it is.

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Posted on 06-07-10 09:55:50 PM Link | Quote
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Also: I just get the regular version. No point spending more $ for me unless it comes with something worth it (maybe an OST or something).


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Posted on 06-08-10 01:41:21 AM Link | Quote
Most of my games are the regular editions... but I do have stuff like the SimCity 3000 Unlimited version and the SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition. =D

In my experience, collector's versions generally aren't worth the extra money. =P

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Posted on 06-08-10 07:35:06 PM Link | Quote
At this point, I think I'm pretty much known here as the guy who buys limited edition games (or packages with the game and some amount of stuff), espcially if Atlus or NIS is involved.
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Posted on 06-08-10 08:49:34 PM Link | Quote
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Posted on 06-08-10 10:18:30 PM Link | Quote
Regular.

Collector's editions don't have anything worth having most of the time and/or cost a ridiculous amount more than the part that I care about (eg, the game)
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Posted on 06-09-10 12:23:58 AM Link | Quote
On games I'm really looking forward to I get the collectors edition. Other then that I get the regular. Like I really am looking forward to SC2's CE, because of all the stuff it comes with.

I about shit a brick when I saw all it came with and the box

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Posted on 06-09-10 01:26:44 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Yasu
I about shit a brick when I saw all it came with and the box


Bastard.

Took forever to find this one (because "lolololo not in the US? well you suck")
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Posted on 06-10-10 11:23:48 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Aerakin
Originally posted by Yasu
I about shit a brick when I saw all it came with and the box


Bastard.

Took forever to find this one (because "lolololo not in the US? well you suck")


I sorry if i had the money for a second one and could still get one i would try and get you one.

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