Collectors' editions of games?

[fat flatulent git]

I'm not talking about those versions of games which come in a similar size of box to the standard editions, but which have a load of dlc as well.

 

I'm talking about those editions which come in bigger boxes, sometimes huge, and may contain soundtracks, artbooks, posters, stickers, figures, keyrings or any other tat in addition to the game.

 

Have you bought any this generation?  And have you used any of the extra stuff?

 

I've rarely bought these in the past, with just a PS2 Streetfighter 3 and a Megadrive Cotton being my lot.  But this year, I've bought loads.

 

Every single damn bit of extra stuff is still unused.  Haven't opened anything at all.

 

I'm really thinking of stopping, and sticking to just getting the game in future.  Much easier to store too.

 

Do you open or use the extra stuff in your Collectors' editions?

[womblingfree]

For the games I love I often take a look, see they’re hundreds of pounds and the statue is a bit naff, then buy the cheapest bog-standard version I can find. Sucker for a lenticular sleeve though.

 

Only one I’d like to hunt down one day is the musical Resi VII house.

[Marlew]

I consider any physical copy a collector's edition. 

 

Collecting dust! 

 

Ayyyyyyy

[strider]

I used to be massively sucked into buying these until my cousin @nakamuragave me some sage advise.

I now look at how much the limited edition costs over the normal game and decide if those extras a worth the additional cash to me. It sounds obvious, but it's saved me a relative fortune  I think my last disappointing purchase this way was the last zelda game on Switch.

[gossi the dog]

I generally avoid tat editions. They take up loads of space and the additional cost is usually astronomical for what you get. However I did make an exception and bought the Yakuza 6 After Hours Premium Edition. You got some nice drinking glasses; coasters; drink stones and a hardcover artbook. In addition at the time it was the only way to get a copy of the game in a standard PS4 case. For an extra 30 pounds it was worth it.

[Gambit]

The only one I bought this generation was for Yakuza 6. Mainly because it actually came with some useful stuff that I have actually been using quite regularly. Coasters and whiskey glasses with a dragon symbol on them! There was also a neat art book that's currently on my desk.

[Down by Law]

Depends - all the Sony ones have gone up in price so were good investments. I also bought the Streets of Rage 4 and Shenmue 3 ones because they were about £15 more than the regular ones and they came with a generous amount of cool physical extras. With the good ones you can sell some of the extras individually and get most of your money back. I sold the statue that came with the God of War CE for more than I paid for the whole thing, so i got the game for free in a nice steelbook, some nice extras and a bit of profit which is always nice. Nice!

 

3rd parties have started to really take the piss though - Mortal Kombat X had a really nice edition with a great Scorpion figure for £80. MK11 had a crappy looking plastic bust and they wanted £250 for it. Doom Eternal and it's silly helmet edition £230 lol - no. 

[Girth Certificate]

Lord no, I feel like a mark just spending £50 on a game, let alone an extra hundo for a fivers worth of tat

[fat flatulent git]

Some of mine off the top of my head.

 

Zelda LA Switch

Panty Party Switch

Darius Cosmic Collection Switch

Bubble Bobble Switch

Capcom Belt Collection Switch / PS4

Streets of Rage 4 Switch

Samurai Spirits PS4

Samurai Spirits Collection Switch

Ace Attorney Switch / PS4

Toki Switch

 

 

[Majora]

I bought a few in the past and then realised that I barely ever touched or did anything with the contents so I haven't bought one for years now. The only one that stood out to me as being much good was the Alan Wake collectors edition. I think it was only about 5-10 pounds more and came with some pretty decent extra stuff for that amount.

[Alex W.]

The Samus Returns special edition was a good balance of tat, physical size, and price: about £80 (IIRC) got you a GB cartridge-style steelbook case, an mini art book of Metroid II and Samus Returns concept art, a soundtrack medley CD, a key ring and a pin. Just some nice little odds and ends that are finished off well. Give me that: some media that supports my interest in the game and a couple of small but nice bits of merch.

 

I really don’t see how these £200 boxes of huge plastic tat and stickers nobody would buy if they were sold separately can possibly justify even the cost of shipping them.

[Dudley]

Back in the day a few, the Borderlands 2 one was excellent.

 

I'd have got the BL3 one but they did the apparently common trick now of making 7 of them (and making it exclusive to GAME who I would not let keep my money) so everyone on ebay makes money and not them and I'm now too old to bother with anything I can't order.  If you don't make enough, I'll buy something else.

 

Like the analog pocket.  Looks great, sold out in 8 minutes.  Cool I'll buy one of your 2nd batch, if that's not also 12 machines and someone else has tested it.

[Kayin Amoh]

The problem nowadays is that they're not £50-70. They're often £200+, which is taking the actual piss.

 

I do buy them on deep, deep sales though. Doom with the Revenant statue was £100 at launch, I grabbed it for £10 in a game sale. Soul Calibur 6 with  the Sophitia statue and season pass was about £130, I got it for just under £25.

 

I remember seeing the RE3 special edition earlier this year on the game website. Jill statue, little else, north of £200. No thanks. It's sobering to realize that they're going all out on milking their customers, and moments like this should convince people to curb excess spending on tat pretty hard.

[Down by Law]

I really wanted the Resident Evil 2 and 3 ones, but at £230 each thought they were taking the piss. But now they are selling on ebay for £250+ used and over £300 if they are sealed. They charge the prices because they know people with deep pockets will pay it.

 

With really popular franchises like The Last of Us and Resident Evil it's rare you will ever lose money. Stuff like Tekken and every much Bethesda property you can guarantee deep discounts.

 

[Strafe]

I've got the collectors edition of Death Stranding with a bridge baby full scale thing in a plastic briefcase.

I have no idea why.

[mdn2]

I've got a fair few Nintendo ones. They're always relatively cheap compared to other consoles and are pretty decent as well.

 

That's my Xenoblade collection I posted recently.

[mdn2]

And some others. 

 

 

[Jolly]

I'm ridiculous enough to be put off by collectors editions because they'll often change the design of the actual box and make the spine look wonky when lined up with the others on a shelf

[df0]

Last big one I bought was The Witcher 2 Collector's Edition for PC (I did not have a PC). Gorgeous hard cover art book, some metal coins I believe, a bust of Geralt and some other high quality tat. Never ended up playing the game.

 

Before that I stupidly bought far too expensive collector's editions of Japanese RPG's. Still have the massive Xenosaga box which came with a figures of Kos-Mos (still in original packaging) among some other tat.

[Qazimod]

6 hours ago, Tomcat said:

Have you bought any this generation?  And have you used any of the extra stuff?

 

Nope. I very nearly went for the Take Your Heart edition of Persona 5 (although that’s technically cross-gen) but came to my senses. (Sort of - I still bought the OST and an “Art of” book separately at a certain point...)

 

I also have some digital bundles for Destiny expansions which come with pre-order bonuses, but they’re not what the OP is on about...

[sandman]

2 hours ago, Kayin Amoh said:

The problem nowadays is that they're not £50-70. They're often £200+, which is taking the actual piss.

 

I do buy them on deep, deep sales though. Doom with the Revenant statue was £100 at launch, I grabbed it for £10 in a game sale. Soul Calibur 6 with  the Sophitia statue and season pass was about £130, I got it for just under £25.

 

I remember seeing the RE3 special edition earlier this year on the game website. Jill statue, little else, north of £200. No thanks. It's sobering to realize that they're going all out on milking their customers, and moments like this should convince people to curb excess spending on tat pretty hard.

This - the price on them has skyrocketed this gen. They used to be £70-£100 - now they can be £200 easy.

 

Nintendo generally don't take the piss - but they sell out far too quickly. I've got the LA and BOTW ones as well as the Metroid one for the 3ds.

[spatular]

Yeah I sometimes get these and the stuff remains unused/useless. But the soundtracks with the persona rhythm games are great.

[Professor Puzzles]

I loved the Demon's Souls black phantom edition with the mini guide book, the art book and the CD, that's the sort of special edition I can get behind, stuff that adds to the experience of the game or lets you know about its production. I couldn't give a toss about plastic statues though. 

[smac]

I got the South Park Stick of Truth edition with the Cartman fig.

 

But only because it was 20 quid on Amazon and therefore cheaper than the standard edition...

[Ry]

Only collector's edition I bought was Fallout 3 with the lunchbox. And it served a purpose, I put my sandwiches in it for work.

 

Wouldn't think about buying another, utterly pointless. I don't have a spare room to put a lot of shite in. 

[Don Rosco]

I have two worthwhile ones. The GTA IV one with the bag and lockbox, both totally sweet. I used the bag until the zip broke (got a few years out of it), and the lock box will be coming in handy soon. Any day now.

 

 

Also the Halo Reach Limited Edition with fancy box and loads of Halo Lore stuff (even though I actively reject any interest in the Halo story, this was too sweet to pass up):

 

 

I got an Assassin's Creed something one as well, which was a bit shit. 

[Girth Certificate]

what's in that black binbag pouch in the Halo one? 

[fat flatulent git]

I like that GTA V one.

 

So many of them come with art books.  I've never ever felt an interest in that whatsoever.

 

Here are two of mine which I've posted on here before.

 

I've also got a lot of Ace Attorney ones from the DS and 3DS.

[Triple A]

Panty Party collectors edition lol!

The lock box from the GTA IV CE gets used daily by me - is my keys/change etc box on my way in and out of the front door

[phillv85]

I used to buy them all for the 360. They now surround my games room almost completely, and some are sat in the loft because they’re fkin massive. Most of them are crap, and I felt pretty burned by some, which caused me to re-evaluate my buying of them. Duke Nukem Forever was a bad one, but the one that really got me was Aliens: Colonial Marines. I think I paid £60 for it, and it was available new on Amazon for something like £13 within 2 days of release such was the backlash. Now I just buy them for games I really want them for, and then, only if the contents are cool. The last 2 I bought were Streets of Rage 4 Signature Edition and Esp Ra De Sai.