I have what's probably the biggest collection of Asura's Wrath merchandise on the planet aside from maybe the devs.
There's like 16 different fucking artbooks for the game for whatever reason and I've started to collect them. Probably spent over 600$ total on it now. not too impressive compared to some of the super insane shit people do but since I doubt anybody else cares about such a niche title I probably have the largest single collection of it.
I agree with that myself. Certainly no sense in trying to go for a full set on a system, or games you just want to own but have no real interest in actually sitting down and playing. That said, a lot of people here hate scalpers with good reason (aside from anons that do the scalping themselves, I assume), and a lot of people are also really pro-pirate and emulation too (not that that's a bad thing, between scalpers and the average quality of modern releases). I do hope that you're doing your best to not buy games at the ridiculous prices some people ask; sometimes a bit of patience and knowing local places is what it takes to find something at half or less the average cost. In general I'd say picking up games you like or have done the research on and are interested in playing is fine (provided you're doing your best to not justify scalper prices by buying from them); collecting for the sake of collecting (or worse, the scalp yourself) is cancer. Just my thought though.
Why in the hell would there even be that many? Did someone at Capcom keep rooting through the trash for scraps of artwork and they make a new release every time they get enough?
Reminds me of Legendia-user, who had way more copies of the game and its artbook than anyone should remotely want (plus, that game's usually prone to being pretty disliked too, aside from the OST; I'm rather neutral to it myself). The medallion for it he somehow had was pretty neat though.
I don't know, but it's really ridiclious. Off the top of my head there's
And of these, 2 of them I only just found out about while double checking stuff for this list as I was typing the post up. it's fucking insanity. Of these, I have the artbook from the limited edition, the digital perfect works, the official works, the manga adaptions, 6 of the 8 tribute magazines (the last 2 I haven't seen for sale anywhere at all, only out of stock listings), and 2 of the other misc artbooks.
ED64, you can even get it on amazon. Sometimes its cheaper on aliexpress, but I got it cheaper on amazon for some reason.