October Video Game News Highlights
Our monthly commentary recap proclaims it is certainly the year of threequels
It's certainly the year of "threequels". We're well into the deluge of heavy hitters that are due for release in the pre-Christmas run, the most prominent of these being Battle Field 3, Gears of War 3, and Uncharted 3 to name a few.
And while we bask in the gaming light of what has been and what is to come before the year is out, we also wonder what next year will have in store, and where these big companies will go now that they tentatively embark on new games.
But let's not dwell on what it all means, and where we go from this peak we're on, (because such thoughts would cause us to panic, conserving shotgun shells and gallons of water for the upcoming apocalypse) let's focus on what else has transpired.
Skyrim
I'm interested/concerned at the rate companies are releasing their games with bundles.
I mean, you could purchase Skyrim for $59.99 and happily skip home with the game clutched in shaking hands, saliva staining the disk as you insert it into your console, you could do that.
Or--or, you could spend your hard earned cash and stroll to the front of the queue (or E-queu if you're buying it online) and shell out $150 w/o tax for the collector's edition of the game. In a situation where you could have once walked out of the store with the game in a small plastic bag, you now require a trash bag or low paid immigrant worker to heft your goods home.
For your money, you get a dragon statue, a map of the game, and an art book. Think about that, you're paying $100 for that. In these harsh economic times where some of us shower in skips filled with rainwater, using raccoons as makeshift loofahs, the whole package somehow blinds us from the cost of the separate items and bafflingly instils value in it all.
Think of how much meat and cheese you could buy for $100! I'm not sure on the specifics but a nice brie isn't too costly...
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