The "Limited" Edition - By sjp1966

An annoying fairly new trend amongst game companies is the limited edition or metal tin editions that seem to crop up that allegedly give you more, maybe a colour art book, extra DVD showing you how they made the game and maybe some replica to-nail cuttings or something like that.

But is it worth it?

Well I suppose to answer that question you need to determine why you buy the game, do you buy it to play the game or find out all about other odds and sods that may or may not interest you?

I want to play the game, I don’t care how it is made etc although I must admit I have fallen into the trap myself when S.T.A.L.K.E.R came out, I bought the metal tin version although in truth it wasn’t that much more expensive. But I have noticed that when new these “limited” editions are around £10 more expensive than their normal siblings.

Personally I think it is just a major con from the games companies trying to milk more money from a game that is too expensive in the first place and your better off saving your £10 to go towards the next game that you actually want. I think that we as consumers see the words limited edition and we are suckered into thinking that it will be a real life collectable item worth money, but how limited are these editions when you can find them on every single site that sells games?

Something to think about I think!

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About sjp1966

I think it was around 1979 when I tried to sneak into the local Odeon cinema to see Ridley Scott’s Alien that I started to become more aware of movies and finding out what I liked in terms of genre. But somewhat surprisingly even at that young age I was enjoying some of the older films such as Forbidden Planet.

It was not until I was given my first DVD that the bug hit me. And it was all down to a mate giving me a Region 1 version of “The Matrix” as his player was only a region 2. From there it has been a mainly constant purchasing process to increase my collection which currently sits at 1000+ individual movies and television episodes; although invelos which only counts per barcode shows it as 485.

I have been on the Digital Lard site since its earlier incantation DVD Lard, and after a period of time took the plunge into doing reviews and this is what I currently do.

My favourite genres are mainly Action/Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi and Mystery although I do like films from other genres too.

Ten of my favourites film are (in no particular order) Alien, Aliens, 12 Angry Men (1957), Forbidden Planet, The Thing, Jaws, Blade Runner, 300, Full Metal Jacket, Forrest Gump, Although there are plenty more movies that I could list here.

Favourite actors at the moment would be Christian Bale, Christopher Walken, Johnny Depp, Basil Rathbone, Samuel L Jackson, Favourite directors are David Fincher and Ridley Scott.