Speaking of Special Editions...

[GobopopRevisited]

http://store.ubi.com/item.jsp?item=59214

Yet more useless garbage to pay an extra $5 for. Unless "Metallic Embossed" means "snazzy Halo 2 LCE style case" I'll stick with the regular version.

[Joelius]

I dunno, i think it looks pretty cool. The case is always worth the extra 5 to me, not the "bonus dvd"

[SirDrexl]

The CE of Halo 2 was nice for the bonus DVD with the documentaries, but then Wal-Mart was selling it for the same price as the regular edition.

[slip81]

That looks like it's worth the extra $5. The case probably is like Halo 2, and all the other metallic embossed cases out there and [to me anyway] the extras on disc two seem pretty cool. Remixes, art gallery, making of, spoof spy book.

I doubt I will get it when it comes out because I'm not the biggest SC fan, but it seems worth it for anyones who is. And if you think the extra options are junk, or too exspensive just get the normal version.

[portnoyd]

Is anyone else familiar with the holographx foil choma embossed fascination that comics had in the early 90s? Is it just me, or are vidgames going the same way? This SC thing is yet another thing that pushes this theory into my head.

dave

[Oobgarm]

Is anyone else familiar with the holographx foil choma embossed fascination that comics had in the early 90s? Is it just me, or are vidgames going the same way? This SC thing is yet another thing that pushes this theory into my head.

dave

Baseball cards did the same kind of thing, and overkill is what drove me right out of both of those hobbies. Let's hope games don't go too far.

[Ed Oscuro]

Agreed. 1995 was the year that foil cards got WAY out of hand. By 1996 I was out. Funny thing was that in 1993 you still had lots of decent looking cards, same in 1994...but by 1995 it was like Topps and practically everybody else just opened the floodgates and all hell broke loose with that year's cards at your local dealer sporting price stickers higher than stuff from the 1950s :p

[Solar77]

Agreed. 1995 was the year that foil cards got WAY out of hand. By 1996 I was out. Funny thing was that in 1993 you still had lots of decent looking cards, same in 1994...but by 1995 it was like Topps and practically everybody else just opened the floodgates and all hell broke loose with that year's cards at your local dealer sporting price stickers higher than stuff from the 1950s :p

I think what really killed the card industry (other than the overproduction and gimmicks) was the fact that each year you'd get about 150 freaking different card sets from like 5 manufacturer.

Back in the day a player would have one rookie card. In the 80's they'd have about 3 - Topps, Donruss and Fleer. I read somewhere that Albert Pujols has something like 150 different rookie cards. How the hell is anyone supposed to collect that?

[slip81]

Well right now it doesn't seem too bad. And I doubt that CE overkill will become a problem mainly because of the price. With cards and comics it fairly easy and cheap to produce a foil variant, but with a videogame I would imagin it's a lot harder. Embossed metal, nicely printed cells and books, extra DVD's and soundtracks don't come cheap, and right now it seems that publishers are only doing it with games they know will sell well. I doubt it'll come to a point where every game will be in some king of CE format.

If the market does become oversaturated all we have to do is stop buying them andy they'll dissappear. I just bought the RE4 CE, and that's probably the only CE I see myself buying right now. Not interested in Halo 2 or Splinter Cell, and I'm iff on Doom 3. Really the only two games I can see myself buying CE's of in the next year are FFXII and Zelda, and that's even if they are offered.

[Ikari Warrior]

I'm getting this one, I just bought the RE4 one, and I'm getting Doom 3 CE for sure. I like it if it stays confined to a few major titles, but in comics it went crazy and drove me out too.

The whole thing is just a method to get us used to paying over $50 for games anyway, so the can charge more next generation.