God of War III Ultimate Edition = Interesting

[megasdkirby]

As a video game collector and GOW fan I definitely want this.....but not for $99. I'll wait until it hits the clearance section for $40 or below.

Reason why I plan on forgoing the preorder and getting it later.

I bet Amazon will put this version of the game for around $60 in a few months, like it did with Tekken 6 and Batman AA.

[Snapple]

I'm with Bojay on this. I'm not going to spend an extra $40 for a damn box. Most Limited Editions seem to just be taking advantage of collectors who will shell out lots more money for an extra couple cents worth of material (is that Madden Limited Edition fetching hundreds of dollars yet?).

This is how you do a special edition:
http://kotaku.com/5429696/the-defini...for-lunar-fans
http://kotaku.com/5233094/blazblue-l...ry-blue-indeed

And the fact that Blazblue's special edition costs the same damn price as the game alone just makes things like this God of War $100 crap look even worse.

[Breetai]

To collector's and desperate folk, the pack will most likey fetch a high value in the later future.

Oh, of course. It will be just like Metal Gear Solid 4.

[jcalder8]

I'll be passing on this one. The last LE I bought was Assassin's Creed 2 and I waited and I was able to get it for $30 rather than $90.

[Zap!]

Well, the pre-orders are all sold out. I got mine in, anyone else?

[SegaAges]

This will end up just like every other CE that comes out in this day and age.

I am now up to 4 CE/LE/SE games I got for super cheap by waiting:

GTA4 (I got this for $60)
Batman: Arkham Asylum (I got this for $60 counting shipping)
Halo 3 Legendary (I got this for $50 counting shipping)
DJ Hero Renegade (I got this for $31 counting shipping).

Only DJ Hero was bought used. Now I will not act like the $60 ones are as cheap as that copy of DJ Hero, but for what they originally retailed for and for getting them new, I would say it is a great deal since I got both while the games were halfway new. Well, Batman has been out for a little while, but my retro ass still considers it semi-new

I don't own a PS3, so I have no clue about the trends in ps3 ce games, but if it is anything like 360, don't waste your money. Really. Wait a couple months and get it much, much cheaper.

If you truly want to play the game, buy the game, wait for the ce to drop in price, than sell the game for the price the ce is going for and voila, you got to play the game on day one, and now you have the ce. Congrats.

Plus, I am not too sure about all the content being digital.

All of the CE's I have gotten thus far have all come with physical copy discs. That is a little dissappointing to only get the case and art book. Either that or just buy the contents of the CE itself a month after the game came out. , that is how I got Renegade edition for $31 since I just wanted the stand and I was able to actually fix the issue with the turntable myself.

[The 1 2 P]

This will end up just like every other CE that comes out in this day and age.

It sure will.

I am now up to 4 CE/LE/SE games I got for super cheap by waiting:

GTA4 (I got this for $60)
Batman: Arkham Asylum (I got this for $60 counting shipping)
Halo 3 Legendary (I got this for $50 counting shipping)
DJ Hero Renegade (I got this for $31 counting shipping).

Here's a few of mine:

GTA 4 special edition(360) $44.98
Halo 3 limited edition(360) $24.99
Halo 3 legendary edition(360) $30
Halo Wars limited edition(360) $19.99
Straglehold collectors edition(360) $7.99
Quantum of Solace collectors edition(360) $9.99

I still want GOW3 but if I'm going to pick up the collectors edition it won't be until it's on clearance.

[BHvrd]

Good luck on this one. Already sold out on Amazon.

http://www.psxextreme.com/ps3-news/6608.html

[ScourDX]

8 of 10 LE/SE/CE is not what it is shown on picture. Right now you have to be cautious not to assume all LE/SE/CE are worth the money.

[Arthur-Otaku]

avp hunter edition is sold out for xbox and soon for ps3

[Robocop2]

I like the box it comes with just not enough to drop that much cash when all I really want is the game.
The only LE I've been sufficiently impressed with to actually buy in recent memory was the Bioshock LE that came with the Big Daddy figurine which I thought was awesome. I did buy the mid range Halo 3 CE but that was more for the second disc it came with and actually, I kind of regret that purchase now since it came with that unwieldy steelcase that the discs like flop around it.

[kupomogli]

I played the demo of GoW3 yesterday. Even though I have GoW Collection, I never used the download. While they did change a few attacks so they weren't completely useless, which I might as well mention GoW2 and most of its upgrade attacks, the game was just extremely boring.

The God of War series is average at best. Amazing graphics and absolutely beautiful level design is all the series has ever had going for in my opinion. It's never reached the level of gameplay that Devil May Cry, Lament of Innocence, or Ninja Gaiden has. I didn't pick up Dante's Inferno because of GoW, but it turns out that Dante's Inferno even with a lot of similarities is the far better title just talking about gameplay alone which even the storyline is better than the oh so great overrated original GoW story which if you ask me was mediocre(even the most average RPG titles have had a better story.)

[megasdkirby]

It's never reached the level of gameplay that Devil May Cry, Lament of Innocence, or Ninja Gaiden has. I didn't pick up Dante's Inferno because of GoW, but it turns out that Dante's Inferno even with a lot of similarities is the far better title just talking about gameplay alone which even the storyline is better than the oh so great overrated original GoW story which if you ask me was mediocre(even the most average RPG titles have had a better story.)

I don't know. I loved Dante's Inferno, but it was missing something and it was just to derivative. The story was great (it IS based on a literary work, so I would not expect anything less), and so was the sound, graphics, and gameplay. But it was just basically a more "evil" version of God of War, which is not a bad thing, but it does make the game derivative. And it was extremely short as well, which is a shame. Though thankfully the Download Content will soon be released soon.

Speaking of which, is the downloadable content for the PS3 version already available? The one gotten for "free" when one purchases the "Divine Edition"?

Anyway, going back... I can't say much about Devil May Cry, as I have not played it much, but I can say that at least for me, Ninja Gaiden was, and still is, prohibitively hard. Lament of Innocence was decent at best (I liked the story, but I prefer Curse of Darkness...hell, I prefer the N64 versions of Castlevania), but it's very limited and doesn't have that impact as Dante's Inferno or God of War. I know it's "to everyone their own", but at least for me, those two games you mentioned (excluding DMC) had something that ruined it for me. If Ninja Gaiden wasn't so unfairly hard, maybe. The NES versions are much easier, IMO...and much better.

[kupomogli]

Speaking of which, is the downloadable content for the PS3 version already available? The one gotten for "free" when one purchases the "Divine Edition"?

I think it comes out in March, right?

[Zap!]

I think it comes out in March, right?

Yeah, the US release date is March 16.

[megasdkirby]

Ugh, so it's not March 1st.

[Zap!]

Ugh, so it's not March 1st.

Did you pre-order the Ultimate Edition? I hear ya though, we still have 2 1/2 weeks to go.

[megasdkirby]

Woops, sorry.

I was talking about Dante's Inferno when referring to "Divine Edition".

But year, the 16th! And the manager at my local GameStop received posters and will not give them out until the release date. I told him that if I don't get the poster, I won't buy it, and he said not to worry (he knows me). And they are opening at midnight???

[The 1 2 P]

I loved Dante's Inferno, but it was missing something

Yeah, a sex mini game

[BHvrd]

Good golly Miss Molly, just look at some of the animation being pushed in the latest gameplay footage! Definetely shows that Sony knows the tricks to make the cell processor perform in the way that it has been touted.

http://www.gametrailers.com/episode/...rs-tv/85?ep=85