Are Collector's Editions "a bunch of crap"?
Watching “Cranky Geeks” this week, John Davison said that items like the Grand Theft Auto IV collector’s edition and the Halo 3 Legendary Edition are “a bunch of crap”. I have to disagree here because the “crap” is actually insight into how games and movies are made.
Back in the days of laserdiscs, Criterion uses to release special editions of movies like Blade Runner and Robocop which had running audio commentary by the cast and crew, documentaries on the making of the films, and other goodies not found on regular editions. These special editions weren’t marketed to the masses, they were marketed towards people like myself that were big fans of seeing “behind the curtain” about how films were made.
So now we’re getting the same treatment with videogames. I try and buy the collector’s editions of anything I’m interested in because I want to see everything I can about how the games were made; especially the art books. It’s fascinating how concepts go from pencil to screen. Funcom put out an art book for Dreamfall, Blizzard put out an art book for each of their World Of Warcraft versions. Back in college I was going to go into CGI, so I eat all this special edition material up. I read every page, I watch every documentary. I always like to see voice actors delivering their lines, and how much effort went into doing voices.
So the next time someone tells you that collectors editions are “crap”, ask them why. Collector’s editions aren’t for everyone, but the ones that do buy them are probably the people that are interested in how games and movies are made.
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