Kiwi Farms
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Sister services, email, and search will continue to be negatively effected by the attacks. I made a thread to talk about it, if you're into networking.
Their early work started with 2004's Killzone for the PS2, a little too bland for my tastes. But when Final Fantasy XII came out in '06, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole case has a clear, crisp look, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the case a big boost.
They make for very attractive packaging, but they do compromise the integrity of your game shelf, standing out as being a bigger, shinier case, often with a slipcover. Not to mention, not every game gets a steelbook, and some can go for relatively high asking prices on eBay, making it a hassle if you want to replace every possible game case you own with a steelbook edition.
Some games ship with them only in expensive collector's editions, while others ship exclusively in them. As far as I've found, Hitman 2016 didn't actually have a physical edition that shipped in a normal case - it was steelbooks across the board. Halo 2 had an unusual situation in that the collector's edition was so vastly overproduced, that the standard edition in a normal Xbox case is worth more, due to its scarcity.
I like them when I get them. I've never gone out of my way to buy one, but it's nice when they're not sold at a markup. Also if you're fat and you sit on one, the case gets permanently dented, so if you buy one used, you can tell if its been owned by a fat piece of shit before, which is lovely.
The Dead Rising 2 steelbook looks like a pill container and doesn't actually say "Dead Rising 2" on it:
Americans didn't get the slipcover for it, either, so it's pretty great to just have this weird zombie pill container mixed in with all my PS3 games.
They make for very attractive packaging, but they do compromise the integrity of your game shelf, standing out as being a bigger, shinier case, often with a slipcover. Not to mention, not every game gets a steelbook, and some can go for relatively high asking prices on eBay, making it a hassle if you want to replace every possible game case you own with a steelbook edition.
Some games ship with them only in expensive collector's editions, while others ship exclusively in them. As far as I've found, Hitman 2016 didn't actually have a physical edition that shipped in a normal case - it was steelbooks across the board. Halo 2 had an unusual situation in that the collector's edition was so vastly overproduced, that the standard edition in a normal Xbox case is worth more, due to its scarcity.
I like them when I get them. I've never gone out of my way to buy one, but it's nice when they're not sold at a markup. Also if you're fat and you sit on one, the case gets permanently dented, so if you buy one used, you can tell if its been owned by a fat piece of shit before, which is lovely.
The Dead Rising 2 steelbook looks like a pill container and doesn't actually say "Dead Rising 2" on it:
Americans didn't get the slipcover for it, either, so it's pretty great to just have this weird zombie pill container mixed in with all my PS3 games.