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Post by AlexH on Apr 7, 2023 21:14:25 GMT
I think the only special editions I have are The Last Story and Pandora's Tower, both on Wii. I can't be bothered with stuff that takes up space for no reason, like statues. Game boxes themselves are oversized, and I can understand why so many people throw them away. The answer seems simple, buy your games as downloads. 😀 Seriously, that's what I mostly do these days. It's much easier to find the space for a special edition when you're only getting a handful of absolute keepers a year that way. True but I prefer owning a physical product. It feels real, at least I always own it, and I'm more inclined to play it given I generally buy digital games in sales. My games don't take up a huge amount of space, and Switch boxes are much smaller than SNES and N64 in the olden days. They also have resale value. I'm playing Roki on Switch for example, and it already sells for more than I paid for it. I'll probably sell it because it's only a 7ish/10. I haven't sold many games in the past, but I'm less nostalgiac about keeping games these days when they're not favourites. I'll still buy special editions if I think the extras are worthwhile. I would have bought BotW's before it sold out if I'd had a Switch then as I would've liked the soundtrack CD. The sword figurine not so much. Tears of the Kingdom's special edition doesn't appeal to me.
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Post by shadowman on Apr 12, 2023 1:02:16 GMT
Special editions take up way too much room for me these days... Id probably get a couple of the nicer looking ones but I barely have space for my normal games, the SE's are just out of the question. Part of me wants the Street Fighter VI SE, but then I glance at the doorstop that is SFIV's SE and Im reminded to never make that mistake again... I would like the steelbook for SFVI though... Yeah, that's another good point. I've seen some gamers dedicate whole rooms, or at least the wall of a room, to SEs and I just couldn't do that. It's too much "stuff" for me these days. I used to have them stored away in crates etc. before I realised how ironic it was - that I wasn't even looking at them and was just owning them for the sake of having the "best" physical/retail edition. Don't even get me started on the massive boxes to accomodate really average quality statues that will never be on display...
Some of the last SEs I bought that really underwhelmed were Driver San Franciso (price of it crashed post-release as they were practically being given away and the car model wasn't all that great) and Street Fighter X Tekken (some crappy arcade machine model thing from memory and - of course - bonus gems for the naff in-game system(s)).
The only ones I think I still have are the Odin Sphere Lefithrasir "Storybook Edition" and the Last Story boxset on Wii.
I even sold my Yakuza 6 After Hours Edition recently (the one with the whisky glasses) because the box was just taking up too much room.
I keep the Yakuza one around but that's about it (but even then I think to myself how much more convenient just having a standard boxed version might be... I did used to have the Halo 3 SE with the Master Chief helmet but I moved that out of my room ages ago and for the life of me I dont remember what happened to it. Took up way too much room, dont miss it one bit...
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Post by megamixer on Apr 13, 2023 19:48:39 GMT
I keep the Yakuza one around but that's about it (but even then I think to myself how much more convenient just having a standard boxed version might be... I did used to have the Halo 3 SE with the Master Chief helmet but I moved that out of my room ages ago and for the life of me I dont remember what happened to it. Took up way too much room, dont miss it one bit... I replaced the Y6 After Hours Edition with the Essence of Art Edition (regular-sized cardboard case with a less expansive version of the artbook). The other games I have the steelbooks for and I have the physical boxset of the 3/4/5 remasters (I really like the PS3 case for Yakuza 5 in there as a nice reference to the fact that we only received a digital version in the PS3 era).
I did see somebody once selling a Yakuza 4 special edition that was like a large bento or ramen takeway box? Only ever saw it once so I assume it's quite rare.
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