I'm pretty sure all of you know how a pre-order works
We are living in the world of pre-orders when it comes to
Video games you go in you put your money down early you secure your day one copy of the game or digitally secure it whatever
You want because game sellers are highly competitive
it's pretty much a standard for each of these different outlets to offer some kind of bonus as
An incentive to get people to order their game GameStop
exclusives Best Buy exclusives you guys know the drill but some of these pre-order bonuses are
Dumb, I mean we're talking crazy crazy stuff some of them people have gotten fired over. What's up guys
Jimmy here welcome to Kaos top tens and today
We're gonna be taking a look at and counting down ten of the dumbest pre-order bonuses ever
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Let's go over some pretty insane dumb crazy. Whatever you want to label it as
pre-orders
kicking off our list today at number 10 is
Sonic Colors one of the best Sonic games to come out in recent years Sonic Colors was released in November of
2010 when Sega was still recovering from
the atrocious
Sonic so6 which was really really bad
Many fans were happy to get a new return to form Sonic game as it seemed the Dark Age of the Sonic games
Was finally over but with this pre-order bonus you probably weren't super
Optimistic after all gamers who pre-ordered Sonic Colors from Gamestop were treated to a big blue
fuzzy hat it would make you look like the biggest Sonic mega fan ever if you wore it in public which let's be honest I
Don't think anybody really wants to wear this in public so good job Game Stop
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Cashback and tweet at me if you guys do let me ask you guys a question
What do you do with your controllers when you're not using it?
Perhaps you put them in a drawer or maybe you find a place for them on your desk or counter
Maybe you show them off. Well at number 9. We have Donkey Kong Country Returns
Have you ever wished you had a banana shaped pouch for them
Huh I guess someone over a Nintendo did because the Donkey Kong Country is
By far one of the best 2d platformers of all time and gamers were stoked when a new entry was
Announced it was gonna be released for the Wii in
2010 and the pre-order bonus definitely made everybody scratch their head a little bit if you pre-ordered you would get a banana shaped
Wiimote pouch because that's
Definitely something everybody was asking before I will agree that coming up with a pre-order bonus for a game like
Donkey Kong can be challenging, but there had to be a better idea than this one
It's another wonderful entry from Game Stop this one came along with the new Ghost Recon game at the time
Future Soldier the game itself was pretty cool
It took the concepts and features of the Advanced Warfighter series and threw them even further into the future for a sci-fi tactical shooter
So what did you get for dropping that extra 5 bucks for the pre-order well?
Something cool right a laser gun something statue. I don't know no you got a blue bandana. Yep
I guess they thought the bandana was worth it because it had the Ghost Recon logo on it
But it doesn't even look like the bandanas that the game characters wear in the game
I mean if you're gonna do it at least make it look authentic to what's in the game?
I don't know about you guys
But I definitely don't get hype for a tactical sci-fi shooter when I look at a blue bandana with a skull on it
Many people actually forgot this, but there was a pre-order incentive for the new Xbox when it came out the Xbox one
Specifically, that's what we're gonna. Talk about here number 7
If you were one of the people who got their hands on a day 1 Xbox which was pretty much only possible by pre-ordering
You actually got an achievement for it, which was I think a pretty cool idea?
Achievements are such a huge part of Xbox and was a pretty smart idea to give players achievements for supporting the new system
But the achievement was worth zero gamer score
Yeah, so if you're an achievement hunter who was stoked for the new console you pre-ordered got it day one and you were no doubt
Disappointed when you found out that your pre-order incentive actually wasn't worth anything at all
They the the buddy people shelled out for that. It should have been worth a a lot of gamerscore
Have you ever played a fighting game and wish you were holding your buddy's hand instead of the controller well number six
Street Fighter 4 Street Fighter fours got you covered in this aspect if you feel this way when the game was first taking pre-orders
back in
2008 yeah back all the way back, then gamers were treated to a set of finger puppets
They kind of looked like the characters in the game
According to Capcom they were supposed to be for thumb
Wrestling so you could thumb wrestle with your friends while your thumbs wore costumes to look like Street Fighter characters
But the puppets were super low quality and more importantly who would want to do that
Who over at Capcom thought that this was a good idea? I mean seriously thumb wrestling
It's funny but I don't know people get paid to come up with this stuff
Cracking into the top five we have Dead Island Riptide aside from being a pretty crappy game Dead Island Riptide had an even crappier
Preorder bonus well was it crappy it could have been awesome
I guess depending on who you guys asked, but I think that we can all agree
Then it went a little over the line if you pre-ordered the special edition of Dead Island Riptide
You were treated to some DLC in a steelbook case as well as a statue of a zombies boobs in bikini, okay?
No head
No arms and just the boobs I get
What they were going there as Dead Island is set in Island there really aren't any other zombie games in that kind of setting but
Come on guys the developers actually had to issue an apology for this as the backlash was pretty insane
But strangely enough they they continued to sell it after they apologized. I guess they weren't sorry not sorry
I don't know. I mean I get it boobs boobs video games. I get it. I don't I don't know you guys
Let me know what you think
Okay, close your eyes for a second and in the comment section. Tell me what game comes to your mind when I say
Snow globe, maybe Lost Planet rise of the Tomb Raider health may be frozen
I don't know not Resident Evil 5 right a Gabe set in the deserts of Africa
While the street fighter for pre-order bonus was dumb at least it had some kind of correlation
With the game as you technically are fighting away through thumbs when you're playing the video games. Okay, this one made
No sense at all if you preorder Resident Evil 5 you were treated to a snow globe
But with the two main characters inside wait a second
I'm sorry hold on
It was actually a sand
Globe the Resident Evil 5 pre-order bonus was a snow globe filled with sand so it could correspond with the game
Taking place in the desert not to mention the figures were very low-quality and chiefly made
Which just made the thing even more pointless once again who gets paid to come up with this stuff
Number 3 this was a little shady to me
We're gonna talk about watchdogs while the others on the list are funny
This one kind of I don't know this one upsets me a little bit when watchdogs first came up with their pre-orders many gamers were
Taken back by just how many different versions of the game there were now this is to be expected usually you have a standard
$60 version of a game that maybe a 70 or $80 all the way up to a third version that is a hundred or more
The prices vary between games, but the point is usually that there are three different versions of a game
Maximum guess how many different versions of watchdogs there were?
Ten that's right 10 well actually 9 ok 9 different special editions making it a total of 10 different
Versions of the game each of these special editions came with a different bonus content extras and there was no
Version that came with everything which many saw as a blatant attempt to get people to buy more than one version in
Order to get everything things got so complicated
a
Massive detailed chart had to be made to help gamers understand. What exactly they were buying the bonuses were cool
I'll admit
But this whole marketing
Strategy was shady to me and the consumers saw right through it by all 10 versions if you want to get everything when it comes
to watchdogs no a
Number two we have Assassin's Creed a black flag now
I love Assassin's Creed, and I love football
But I think it's easy to tell that the two don't have much in common in fact
They have nothing to do with each other but
Ubisoft went ahead with this pre-order bonus anyway and offered players of free Assassin's Creed branded football with their purchase
I don't even know where to start with this one. There's no reference to football in Assassin's Creed
There's no major football event going on at the time the game was released and the game itself takes place in
1715 a hundred and fifty four years before American football was even invented
I don't know. What was going on here, and I guess Ubisoft just saw something to correlate with that
We we I don't understand. I don't get it
Okay, and number one the best worst funniest dumbest pre-order ever has to go to infamous second son
And I'm sure you guys saw this one coming right?
Infamous second son is the third game of the franchise and one of the first main games released on the ps4 so naturally Sony was
gonna Try to do whatever they could to get gamers to get on to their new console the game's a ton of fun
But the Italian preorder bonus was so weird that it got attention around the world if you preorder the new infamous game from Gamestop in
Italy you were treated to a box of infamous branded glow-in-the-dark condoms now in case you haven't played the game
There's no sex scenes. No sexuality in the game at all nor is it an M
Rated game so whoever decided this was a good idea
Had some serious explaining to do when it was announced it was definitely raising more questions
That they probably intended why do infamous players need condoms?
Why is this exclusive to Italy ye the condoms have to be glow-in-the-dark the bonus easily easily takes the number one spot to me
There you have it my friends. Those are ten of the craziest dumbest whatever you want to call it pre-orders in gaming history
let me know what the
craziest
preorder you have ever gotten for a game is there's a playlist below if you want to check out all the other top tens and
That's it. I hope you guys have a great night, and I'll see you tomorrow for a brand new one
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