What kind of memorabilia/mechandise do you like?

[Treeberry]

If any at all and do you have any particular reason for liking/not liking them?

Personally I like books such as artbooks and series guides (not player guides - although some of these have gotten quite nice lately) such as Hyrule Historia and the recent release of The Skyrim Library and Tales of Tamriel but I'm typically not a fan of comics or novels.

As sad as it sounds the physical compendium that came with the collector's edition of Ni No Kuni makes me want to retry the game. (Wish you could gag Drippy, I'm not sure who is worse him, Issun, Navi or that damnable tutorial owl).

I also like when games come with physical maps or posters. I can look at them whenever I like, put them on the wall or in a frame or fold them up and put them away for a bit.

Apparently captcha likes string cheese.

 

[DementedSheep]

Physical art books by far (that is one of the few things I'm not just fine with a digital copy for), especially if you can see the evolution of designs and they talk about the design process for the game rather than it being just a collection of images. If I had more money I would be collecting artbooks, not just from games.

Statues and the like can be cool but I never have anywhere to put them, same with posters and maps (which I would use like a poster) so they would have to be better than what I have for to me to be considering buying them. Making of videos are interesting but I'm not going to pay extra for them. Sound tracks I usually don't give flying fuck about (the exception being Transistor). Guides I don't want. T-shirts are usually not my size and I don't really want to walk around advertising what games I like.

 

[kilenem]

Clothing because its useable

 

[Therianautic]

I'm rather fond of the Lambda t-shirt that came with the Half-Life 2: Collector's Edition. It's still in good shape; I wear it regularly and between that keep it washed and clean. The silkscreened logo is still in perfect shape with no tears on the sleeve seams or anywhere else for that matter, which for an 11-year-old t-shirt for someone my size (and if not my size, then my regular use and washing of it) is an impressive feat.

The only dedicated 'game book' I have is also for Half-Life 2, the Prima Guide. $40 for that in 2004 was a bit on the expensive side for me (over and above the game) but re-reading it more often than I re-play HL2, I can't really complain. And HL2, if I may say so, stands well on its own more than a decade out of the starting gate.

The latest 'extras' I came across were for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt; I picked up a copy of the game (there was only one version of the game at EB when I visited, with the two standard DVD cases: 4 DVDs for the game, and a CD soundtrack (!)) at an EB Games downtown a couple of weeks ago, and it came with a soundtrack CD for W3, a sheet of Wolf Medallion stickers, and a couple of booklets (one of which hints at additional bounty on GoG, per the included code on one of them) as well. It wasn't any more expensive than a standard first-release game, and I believe there is/was a Collector's Edition with a Geralt figure, so I'm presuming CD Projekt was as generous with everyone else. Have already applied the two stickers to my art box and dice/miniatures case, so I'm good. ^_^

-Therianautic.

 

[Eterna]

I'm a sucker for merch in general, but mostly I'd say figures and soundtracks. If a game special edition or premium box has a figure, I'm 90% more likely to get it.
T-shirts and posters are great, too, of course. I can't stand bare walls, and posters are a great way to counteract that. I'm on the edge about artbooks, though. I have quite a few, but while it's fun seeing the concept art and stuff, for full illustrations I'd rather have a poster or print that I can display and see all the time, rather than in a book I have to sit down and go through.

As for my favourite merch, maybe the music box figure that came with Atelier Iris 1, the sculpting is great and it plays the opening theme. The premium box for Nanoha A's Portable was pretty great too - it had figures, posters, a PSP case, a towel...
Watch_Dogs DedSec edition had some pretty great extras too, but going back to my poster obsession, I would've liked to see some artwork on the back of the map.

I'd have to say the best merch is usable stuff, though. Clothes, bags, even phone straps.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Preferably something that has an use and doesn't just take up space.

 

[FPLOON]

Anything physical... Plushies, CDs/DVDs, hardcover/softcover books, clothes, keychains, figurines, posters, etc. and it can even come in some kind of collectible box, tin or purse or case just to put the icing on the cake... Also, cake would work too, but I might end up eating that if it's a cake that tickles my taste buds something fancy...

Other than that, I can work with what I'm dealt with from a colectible perspective, anyway...

 

[Sniper Team 4]

Statues take first place in my book. I have the Dark Souls II collector's edition because I wanted that statue. My shelves are filled with Kotobukiya and ALTER statues, from DC, to Mass Effect, to Strike Witches, to everything in between.

Clothing comes next, usually in the form of actual gear worn in the game. I have both the N7 hoodie jacket as well as the full leather N7 jacket.

 

[MeatMachine]

I have 4 plushies based on the main animatronics from Five Nights at Freddy's. Here's what Foxy looks like, for reference:

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Other than these, I haven't commissioned much of anything else.

 

[Artina89]

I tend to go for t-shirts, posters and art books as opposed to figurines (more things that gather dust). Having said that though, I managed to get a very nice figure of Arno that I got when I purchased Assassins creed Unity at christmas that I am rather fond of, but that is the only figure I own. My favourite merchandise are my Resident Evil 4 poster that I have had since my university days that has pride of place over my bed, my Assassins creed Unity wallet that my brother gave me, and a copy of the Hyrule historia that my parents got me for my birthday.

 

[Hairless Mammoth]

I like music that adds to the atmosphere of a scene in a movie/tv show/game (so no Top-40 licensed crap, original compositions that fit the mood of adventure, ambiance, suspense, and so on). I really like it when a game comes with a soundtrack, for free or a very small extra cost.

Clothes are good, too. But, I don't really want to wear something rare that often, since they get worn out (or stained, considering my bad luck with textiles). Same reason why I didn't opt for the Majora's Mask handbag when Club Nintendo was shutting down. I'd be too scared of using it.

Figurines, statues, etc. take up too much space and collect dust. I don't currently have the shelf space for them or the wall space for many posters, either.