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[–] 2 points 39 minutes ago* (last edited 29 minutes ago)

Lol so they made a blade and a spoon and mirror that's supposed to signify cocaine use.

Dude. If you chop up shit on that mirror its going to scrape off that picture and get whatever paint material they used everywhere including in your nose.

They couldn't have made a design on the edges of the mirror that isn't glass?

Dumb.

But buying this shit with no game included? Somehow, even more dumb.

And no I'm not glorifying cocaine use, in fact this collectors edition is the one doing that, but I am simply saying that this is reality. Anyone who has ever done cocaine will be able to tell you this is a bad idea.

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  • No, it doesn't come with everything. It comes with a bunch of cheap crap highly overpriced. And I suspect it will be soldout because that's what realgamers™ want right now.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 hours ago*

    This is cursed.

    I think a lot of people will be very angry with the game, I predict further outrageous gouging at every opportunity if this is any indication. Like having-to pay-to-reload-your-gun-kinda gouging.

    Well, as usual I will wait for the game of the year diamond edition to see.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 hours ago

    Yall remember the master chief helmet with halo 3?

    This shit ain't it lmao

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    [–] 14 points 11 hours ago (1 child)

    AFAIK, not the first game to sell a tat-collection without a game, and imo, not entirely unreasonable - but before my crucifixion, hear me out: The tat-box is platform agnostic, and can arrive whenever and the customer is playing their game on whatever platform they wish (or, can) when it's sold separately. If you absolutely need to have the collectible tat, no need to wait (as long).

    But... 400 units of money for that tat? AbsofuckinglutelyNOPE.

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  • [–] 25 points 13 hours ago

    Really? My prediction when the game was revealed to be a digital code only, I thought there will be a Collectors Edition later for maybe 180 maybe 199 Euros / Dollars with the game on disc included. And this would be a controversy for the high price. But they did it, they overshadowed my prediction. Wow... just wow.

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  • [–] 17 points 12 hours ago* (1 child)

    That's because you're buying the tat, but only renting the game.

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  • [–] 15 points 12 hours ago (1 child)

    How long until we get the “scalpers bought them all and are selling for $1000” article?

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  • [–] 9 points 11 hours ago (1 child)

    Fair enough, there will be people buying it regardless.

    But does the stuff HAVE to look so tacky and cheap? All artwork looks extremely uninspiring. The sun and the manatee look like some lame AI art.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 hours ago

    People will buy it, complain about its quality and get refunds or alternative products through a long-ass process, keeping the game in the media long after most people are done with it. Obviously I'm catastrophizing a bit, but it's hard not to be cynical about stuff like this.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

    Hmm what's that spoon for?

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  • [–] 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 child)

    same as the razor and mirror, I guess? Drugs?

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  • [–] 1 point 33 minutes ago*

    Yeah and they have a painted picture on the mirror. Its like the people who made this have never even done drugs before. That's gonna end up in your nose, dude.

    What is the fucking spoon coated in leaded paint too?

    That's honestly the most annoying part to me (other than no physical game) It isn't even usable as what they are portraying it as.

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  • [–] 5 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

    Not defending it, in any way shape or form - but the regular versions of the included Oakley Frogskin sunglasses retail for almost half the price of this “CE”.

    Not sure exactly why they decided to do this - but I can imagine this (in conjunction with the ludicrously overpriced vinyl set) is intended to milk as much money out of the most die-hard fans as quickly as possible to appease shareholders and recoup the supposed $2b budget.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

    Yeah, I really don't get those sunglasses. I'm not even sure, if there's Vice City branding on them. I guess, if they did some funky design, people might not have wanted them, but buying fairly generic sunglasses in an expensive bundle is also silly.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 hours ago (1 child)

    As best as I can discern, they have custom palm tree art on the arms with a custom pink Oakley logo, standard prizm sapphire lens, custom Vice City engraving on the lens.

    So not something that can be 1:1 replicated with their customiser tool, but you could get pretty close.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 hours ago

    People are stupid. They will buy it.

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  • [–] 2 points 13 hours ago

    "Swizzle Spoon" 😉

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