In this day and age – when people are living paycheck to paycheck – the mystique surrounding the video game 'special edition' can be intriguing. Compare it to staring lovingly at your neighbors Lexus luxury vehicle or maybe drooling over your buddies crisp new Nike Air Max kicks. You can always look, but never touch.
The newest round of video game special editions or limited editions is no different. They are glamorous and over the top. You might expect a Robin Leach-like voice-over introducing them at E3 or Comic-Con. Here's some of the most interesting and luxurious video game special editions.
It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
https://www.playstationlife...
They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."
Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.
Times are changing, and these games would have never been made in today's climate.
Every single time someone uses this phrase whether it's music, movies, books, comics, video games, etc it's always the same claim.
The ubiquitous "they" won't allow it to be made. And every decade these claims are made the claimant completely ignores all the "offensive" material that is published when the claim is made.
In ten years, you can write a new article about how you can't make games like Helldivers 2, Resident Evil VIII, Mortal Kombat I, Dragon's Dogma 2, Alan Wake 2 etc etc etc any more.
Dead Island: "The early PC version of the zombie game swapped the playable character Purna’s Gender Wars skill with a prototype name, which shouldn’t be mentioned directly. The skill name made fun of both Purna as a character and feminists."
"Feminist Whore" lmao
ill add one more to the list.
drakengard 1.
its ridiculous tho, especially since they'd still be able to find their place in alot of places in the world. except america of course ha. and maybe Australia.
ppl are so sensitive these days. ha. but it is what it is.
They're not offensive.
And we need another Fat Princess. Fantastic little game!
Some people just have no sense of humour if this sort of thing offends them. They need to lighten up and stop taking themselves so seriously.
GF365: "Oftentimes, video games have characters who are antagonistic and really not very pleasant. Here are some of the friendliest characters in games where you might not otherwise expect to find them."
My house is already cluttered, dont need anymore useless worthless junk that i will never use and get literally 0 use out of. Now the MW2 night vision goggles, awesome! other than that, pass.
In terms of special editions this gen I've bought AvP, AC1, GTA4, Batman AA,Resident Evil 5, Resistance 2, Fallout 3 and Halo 3 Legendary (on clearance). It has to include an action figure or something for me to buy it, I'm not paying $80 for a steelbook and making of dvd.
Some of these so-called "limited editions" are a real joke,but I guess if your a fan of a certain game it might be worth it. I have a few of them,Need for speed,BFBC2,and the new Splinter Cell.
I could careless about hardcover art books or crappy soundtracks full of garbage music. ( I turn the music off when I 1st load a game up anyway. ) What I would like to see in special edition games would be exclusive maps,weapons, and outfits for games like MoH or Ghost Recon future soldier. For games like NFS/Hot pursuit and Test Drive unlimited 2,would be exclusive cars and area's to explore.
What these games REALLY need is access to the add-on content that certain stores offer. Gamestop may offer something different than Target or Best Buy. It would suck to have to buy 3 copies of a game just to get all the add-ons.They should make this content as affordable DLC a few months after the game comes out.