Friday, June 22, 2012

Collector's Editions and Final Fantasy XIII-2


Collector's editions are great but a little silly. You have games like Halo Reach that do it quite well offering content that is not essential to the game for those who want to display it and avoiding any penalty to those that don't care. This is also true for Deathsmiles and several others.

Then there are preorder bonuses like special art books or soundtracks. Again, these things don't hurt the game for anyone else but provide incentive to be an early adopter.

Finally, the inspiration for this video is Final Fantasy XIII-2. The "Collector's Edition" was cheap on Amazon a while back so I jumped on that deal and ordered it since I quite enjoyed the first one. When I popped it open I had several concerns, one was that the game was not in a separate case and another was that the art book was attached to the case. Thinking that I'd have to open a fragile cardboard case that takes about ten steps to open every time I want to play the game is terrifying. Surely it will lead to a ripped box, and I had this happen with Oblivion on Xbox 360. So now I need a case to hold the game disc and look stupid on my shelf.

And finally, I dislike EA's trend of calling first release a limited edition because it comes with DLC. These one play games are not what limited editions are about. I think it should provide more content for early buyers, not take from those who can't swing the cost or are unsure of the game.

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Loving Akai Katana, Great job Cave... dammit


That wasn't too hard

My first successful repairing of an Xbox 360 with RRoD. To be honest it probably would have been fine with just having the two pounds of dust removed but the Arctic Silver 5 probably helped too.