The 25 Biggest Collector's Edition Video Game Fails

Some people collect bottle caps, that doesn't make it cool.

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The collector's mentality is possibly one of the worst aspects of consumer culture today. Publishers and marketers know all about the compulsive need for some to buy literally everything with the words "collector's", "limited", or "special" on it. Naturally, with them assuming obsessed fans will buy literally anything marked as exclusive there's very little incentive to make the products actually worthwhile.

Now, there are collector's editions that offer some significant - albeit kitschy - value for fans (I'm lookin' at you Borderlands 2, stay classy) but a great many of these editions are trash with a premium price. For their flagrant disrespect to their fans, the companies featured should be tried and sentenced. These are the 25 worst collector's editions money should never buy.

Call of Duty: World at War

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Assassin's Creed

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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

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NBA 2k10

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Bakugan Battle Brawlers

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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2

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Battlefield: Bad Company

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Dead Space 2

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Star Trek Online

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Mass Effect 3

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Batman: Arkham Asylum

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Perfect Dark Zero

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Forza Motorsport 3

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F.E.A.R. 3

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Tony Hawk: Proving Ground

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Red Dead Redemption

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John Woo's Stranglehold

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Splinter Cell: Conviction

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Fable 2

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Final Fantasy XII

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Tony Hawk Ride

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Record of Argarest War

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BioShock

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Bulletstorm

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Halo 3

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