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--- Quote from: tripredacus on October 06, 2016, 07:05:00 pm --- --- Quote from: burningdoom on September 19, 2016, 02:45:32 pm ---If bad uniformity bothers people so much, do the big box collector's editions bother you guys, too? --- End quote --- Not CEs, but PC games are a real problem for uniformity. It is a lot better once nearly everyone adopted the DVD or extra size DVD snap-cases, but before that it is crazy. I just look at my big box PC game shelf and say, what are ya gonna do? --- End quote --- I feel your pain Trip, having worked in gaming retail when PC big boxes were still a thing as well as being a PC gamer at the time with no place to put the damn boxes away in an orderly fashion. :P Case in point...Eidos was particularly bad during the big box PC era with their trapezoid shaped boxes. For example... Then you had boxes like this... ... and numerous other ones that had copious amounts of embossed surfaces, fold-out flaps on both sides of the boxes, and whatever other crazy packaging idea they could dream up(I distinctly remember one box that was basically a pyramid shape but cannot remember the title for the life of me). To add to that, there was almost no consensus on box sizes. You'd have Company A publishing games in 8"x5" boxes, Company B publishing games in 12"x12 boxes and Company C publishing games in 10"x13" boxes. :P These monstrosities ate up a lot of retail shelf space so thankfully, the one good thing Wal-Mart and other retailers did was pressure the IEMA to come up with the smaller, universal PC game packaging that's essentially the same size as a double-width DVD case. As for the subject at hand, I own a few GH/PC/Platinum releases but mainly only because of the reasons theflea already mentioned; in the instances where they put additional content that wasn't found in the original release. I used to have my PS2 games displayed on racks and it was funny to see the lone VF5 Evolution among a sea of black label games. ;D Like many others on here, I greatly prefer to get the original release if it's identical in content with the GH/PC version mainly due to visual uniformity (though anymore, most games end up in a tub/bin at some point :P). |
| tripredacus:
Yeah I keep the Stonekeep box on top of the shelf. There is no spine label on it so it doesn't work to put in the shelf with the other boxes. |
| tristanthepest1:
Not really, just as long as the game works I am a happy camper. The PS1 puke green greatest hits is awful though. |
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