You can buy Armored Core with a little mech for $230, but for near double the price they throw in a little house for him too
It’s not a “doll house,” it’s a garage where I make repairs on the mercenary warfighting platform of the future!
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Collector’s editions: They’ve burned me before, but still I keep coming back. Even with a magpie-like drive to collect tchotchkes and a love ofFromSoftware, however, I couldn’t see myself dropping 230 clams on thecollector’s editionof Armored Core 6, let alone four Benjamins and a cheeky Ulysses S Grant for the “Premium” skew.
Alright, well what are we getting for our money here? Both packs net you the requisite art book, stickers, and soundtrack, but the centerpiece and source of all the cost, like most mondo-editions of games (looking at you,Hogwarts Legacy floating wand) is a showstopper central collectible. For both premium AC6 editions, it’s a 19 cm-tall statuette of one of the game’s signature mechs, all kitted out with his bad ass rad guns. The $200 difference, then? You’re buying his house.
That’s the only thing separating premium from collector’s, as far as I can tell—the former includes a 32 cm-tall industrial garage for your guy to live in, complete with cute little catwalks for theoreticallyeven more weepeople to observe him from. For context, this is almost the cost of a PS5, but still nowhere near the cost of one of those minifridge-sized new GPUs you need to run ray tracing in anything.
And you know what? I respect the Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon Premium Edition. It has gumption, an audacity that speaks to me. At this point, I honestly find the $230 pack to be a cowardly and embarrassing half-measure—you would deprive this little man of his little home, leave him shivering in the cold on your bookshelf? If you’re gonna shell out for a red flag display piece, all I’m saying is that you shouldshell out.
Whatever the case, this is one frontier of consumer spending I will not be partaking of myself, though thatFires of Rubicon gameplay trailerwas sick as hell—it got me wanting to grab a 19 cm-tall mecha figure and fly him around while making explody noises with my mouth.
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Ted has been thinking about PC games and bothering anyone who would listen with his thoughts on them ever since he booted up his sister’s copy of Neverwinter Nights on the family computer. He is obsessed with all things CRPG and CRPG-adjacent, but has also covered esports, modding, and rare game collecting. When he’s not playing or writing about games, you can find Ted lifting weights on his back porch.
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