GameStation offers gold Gears 2 gun News

You know, I'm usually the biggest sucker for this kind of stuff, but £130? I think I'll pass on this one.
Unless 'er indoors gets it as a Xmas pressie for me.
/hints unsubtly

"a Dom and Maria keepsake photo"

LMAO

Why on earth is it gold plated? :(

Yeah, the gold plating sounds horrible and pointless.

If it was gold plated then the price would be understandable, but Cliffy B has only gone and sprayed them with some gold paint. Anyone who buys this has either got more money than sense, or is quite simply insane.

This sounds like a great thing to show your friends!

I do however suspect that people who go for this are the people lacking in friends...*pities the poor souls*

Gold < silver or platinum or titanium.

Gold = gaudy.

Of course this all falls by the wayside when you realise that a big plastic gun with a chainsaw on it is the dictionary DEFINITION of gaudy.

I think it's gold-plated because replica guns are allowed to look real any more.

No-one is going to be fazed / hoodwinked by a golden gun; unless, that is, they're on a private island and a bloke with three nipples is pointing it.

Lame. Or Lamé?

Not sure.

Nice try Gamestation but I think I'll give this one a miss if thats ok,£130 for a plastic toy gun, pull the other one.Probably cost about 130p to manufacture.

"I think it's gold-plated because replica guns are allowed to look real any more"

I'm pretty sure that gun doesn't look real, regardless of its colour.

Anyway, real guns can be gold (and they look tacky too).
http://www.impactguns.com/store/media/ma...

Even Francisco Scaramanga would baulk at that price.

Not that I'd have got this anyway but gold? Really? Come on, that's just ridiculous, as if anyone is stupid enough to be fooled by a gun with a chainsaw anyway, the gold seems a pointless addition.

Complete rip off too I might add, the Halo 3 crazy helmet edition was around £80, I'd have thought this would be at least approaching that price.

The lancer is gold plated for a reason

You will be able to unlock a gold lancer in game when it ships on the 7th November

However I agree that £130 pounds is too steep, I was duped into buying the legendary edition of Gaylo Tree (Halo 3) last christmas.

All I ended up was a huge green plastic dust magnet and a legendary dvd that had standard definition videos on it

Hello MS this is the HD ERA you been touting about

WTF do you think your doing

Got rid of that game sharpish

''36-inches in size, weighs 5kg, vibrates and is painted Gold''
Sounds like my Penis...

This is an absolutely terrible price, I thought it was Gold plated, not fackin' painted. What a bloody rip off, surely only the biggest of twats would fork out that much.

@bluem4gic - The Halo 3 Collector's Edition was also pretty shite IMO. I traded it in (complete with scratched DVDs) some months back. I also got rid of the similarly disappointing Gears of Wars Collector's Edition too. I now just own the standard editions of the games.

I've vowed since then to only buy collector's editions if they have a quality tin case (a la Soulcalibur IV, Devil May Cry 4, Stranglehold and BioShock) as the other stuff is superfluous to say the least. And the bonus DVDs are 99.9% of the time a complete waste of time too given the poor quality and shortness of them. It's like what DVD extras were like a decade ago!

And there's no way I'd pay £130 for this... a waste of money IMO unless you're the sort of person who plays Gears of War 24/7 and thinks it's the best thing ever, ever, EVER! LOL

Well, I have Halo's helmet and I like it - memorabilia of life. Anyway, I don't have the need to sell me stuff (I never ever do it), due to how life went so far, I have plenty of money.
I wont get this though, not a particular big fan of the IP, have the "normal/special" edition on pre-order.

err...? Old?

I said, "Lame. Or Lamé? Not sure."

Come on, that's a quality play on words. Where's the recognition? :(

...and Gamestation's transformation into a shit toyshop is complete!

this is O L D NEWS

http://www.eurogamer.net/forum_thread_po...

All colectors editions should have a metal tin as standard (minimum).
No metal tin = no sale.

/Strokes Quake 3 tin.

cabbadgecase - lol ;)

''due to how life went so far, I have plenty of money.''
Alright, fuck off!! :)

This probably sounds weird but these are a total ripoff. You can get good airsoft guns for less. There's a G&G M4A1 on Airsoft Scotland for £100 and G&G is one of the large, high quality Taiwanese makers. Course they are much harder to buy now with the legislation.

I know they are going for a whole prop replica idea, kinda like movie swords but this looks very cheap and plastic for the money. It's kind of like someone charging you £200 for a Nintendo 64 today.

What kind of idiot buys this tat?







The gun looks cool though.

I'd buy it if it wasn't gold.

Begun taking pre-orders for it? The guns been advertised and they've taken pre-orders for it for like two months, maybe longer.

Excellent. Now I'll be able to identify the prats who spent 130 quid in-game. Should be good for a right old laugh.

PEW PEW

I preferred their offer of a splatterhead locust and cog tag free with the ltd edition but alas they're sold out.

oh how we can all laugh if we see someone in-game with a gold gun. epic fail. literally

£90 for a toy gun? A bit of a rip off if you ask me.

To those who don't know.
The replica Lancer is (as far as we have been told) 18k Gold plated, not painted.
IIRC the black version sold on Amazon for around £100, so gold plated version + £50 limited edition of the game sounds like a bargain.
I'm not getting it myself, but it does look awesome.
Maybe those slating it are those that can't afford it ;)

edit : Page deleted my other comments

"Maybe those slating it are those that can't afford it ;)"

No, they have taste and common sense.

@rotmm

"I said, "Lame. Or Lamé? Not sure."
Come on, that's a quality play on words. Where's the recognition? :( "

Whoooohooooo!! High five!!

/runs around with shirt pulled up over head

:)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

The saddest thing about this though is someone is actually going to buy it at that price.

I would consider it if it was say £70 but they can fuck off at that price.

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?art...

£70 quid in US in black

"Gears of War designer Cliff Bleszinski poses with the replica on Amazon, maybe in an attempt to distract from the USD 139.99 (GBP 70) asking price"

Mind boggles at what he would have to do distract from the £130 price tag.

I'm almost ashamed to say I would've been sold on this had it not been gold, I don't care if it's real gold or not it just looks god awful, I mean a reasonably detailed cheap looking plastic gun replica is one thing, but to then make it look cheaper by making it gold is just retarded.

I know it's lame but if it was the original gun, non gold-plated, sold on Amazon US, I would be interesteded. This one sounds crap.

@CB.Gamestation

There's a recession on and you can't trust banks with your money. No-one knows is they'll have a job tomorrow so er yea people can't afford to waste 130 quid on a gold plated plastic gun.

Seriously. This is earth and I'm not convinced you are a resident.

Why are people ever attracted to this crap? A big, fake, geeky gun: whoopdie fuck

"Why are people ever attracted to this crap? A big, fake, geeky gun: whoopdie fuck "

I also don't understand why some guys dig dick, but I don't judge.

@rotmm

"I said, "Lame. Or Lamé? Not sure."
Come on, that's a quality play on words. Where's the recognition? :( "

Well, I liked it anyway ;)

I don't think any self-respecting gamer should buy anything from Game/Gamestation ever again after the utter cunt who runs the place decided to buy up all the cheap 360s and Wiis from Sainsbury's the other day to stop the rest of us getting a deal ...

^
Let me introduce you to a thing called business :)

^Or more specifically, illegal business practices? =)

"Let me introduce you to a thing called business :)"

Let me introduce you to a thing called 'being a money grabbing selfish little cunt'.

what game / gamestation wasn't illegal, but it should be, because no matter how they try to paint it, it was a selfish act designed to excluse the customer from a bargin...

don't buy any games from either of these shops anymore.. it's all online for me now...

Hope that big american comapny comes over here and puts them out of business... ;)