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Sly Cooper HD Collection Priced At $40, Might Have 3D Toggle

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A good solution if you're into adjusting 3D depth and whatnot.

You've spent big cheese on a new 3D-capable HDTV. Now you want to control how you'll view your games. Good news: the studio behind the Sly Cooper HD collection is chewing on the idea of instituting a 3D depth control toggle, similar to that of the hardware-side capabilities of the Nintendo 3DS.

It's all in the name of control. According to a producer speaking to Kotaku during an event in New York, this sort of 3D depth toggle will give users the power to adjust unique viewing distances or angles, battling a problem that 3D-capable TVs and even the 3DS have: you gotta be in the right place to see the 3D correctly. 
 

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This isn't a done deal with The Sly Collection, nor have we heard much from other studios on this matter (we'd like to!), but this seems like the right kind of solution for a big issue with the tech. I say this as a guy who moves around possessed while on a couch with a controller in his hand. It's hard to get comfy when swollen from juices, vitamins, and muscle batter. Just sayin'. 
 
Sony has recently announced that The Sly Collection, a package that includes Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus, Sly 2: Band of Thieves and Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves will go on sale at 40 bones this November. It will support 3D, of course, and also PlayStation Move mini-games. 
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You've spent big cheese on a new 3D-capable HDTV. Now you want to control how you'll view your games. Good news: the studio behind the Sly Cooper HD collection is chewing on the idea of instituting a 3D depth control toggle, similar to that of the hardware-side capabilities of the Nintendo 3DS.

It's all in the name of control. According to a producer speaking to Kotaku during an event in New York, this sort of 3D depth toggle will give users the power to adjust unique viewing distances or angles, battling a problem that 3D-capable TVs and even the 3DS have: you gotta be in the right place to see the 3D correctly. 
 

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This isn't a done deal with The Sly Collection, nor have we heard much from other studios on this matter (we'd like to!), but this seems like the right kind of solution for a big issue with the tech. I say this as a guy who moves around possessed while on a couch with a controller in his hand. It's hard to get comfy when swollen from juices, vitamins, and muscle batter. Just sayin'. 
 
Sony has recently announced that The Sly Collection, a package that includes Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus, Sly 2: Band of Thieves and Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves will go on sale at 40 bones this November. It will support 3D, of course, and also PlayStation Move mini-games. 
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Never tried these back in the day.  But for 40 bones, I'm a little tempted.

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Its worth noting that it has 3 platinum trophies.

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I own them all for the PS2 and I'd buy them again for PS3 compatibility without any of this stuff. Especially for 40 bucks.

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@RefreshDaemon:  I only ever played Sly 2, but it was really really good.  I will totally play 40 bucks for three Sly games in glorious Two Dimensionalities
 
Fuck 3D, I ain't shelling out for that
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Nice. Love that these collections are cheaper.

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Never played these games and still am not. I to play the a hd update to team ico's games. Never played those but I really would like to in hd. And 3d tv is pointless right now. The only 3d device I am getting is the 3ds.

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I've never played a Sly Cooper game... but i do love me some plat-forming. should i pick this one up?

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40 bucks strikes me as pretty steep personally.  I think I'm spoiled by Steam prices though. I guess this is the price the market will uphold at retail outlets still.

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Didn't they say it would be in 3D at E3?

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@Philva said:
" I've never played a Sly Cooper game... but i do love me some plat-forming. should i pick this one up? "
Yeah...Fuck yeah!!!!!!!!!  
 
but seriously their some of my favorite games ever. its probably because i love platforming games...
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Never played any of the Sly games either but they do intrest me and while I could easily say sod 3D I think its good that they include the option as long as it costs us the consumer no more to do so.
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Man, I was already on board. This is just gravy.
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A must buy for me. I loved those games. Next what we need is Jak HD Collection.

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@chililili said:
" Its worth noting that it has 3 platinum trophies. "
No it's not. Nobody gives a flying turd about trophies.
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@NemoDat said:
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40 bucks strikes me as pretty steep personally.  I think I'm spoiled by Steam prices though. I guess this is the price the market will uphold at retail outlets still.

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The God of War collection is $25 on Amazon - prices will drop.  But 3 games, HDified ain't bad for $40.
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What it worries me is that (judging by the videos) it doesn't seem to have the same amount of work the God of War Collection had... Specially in the framerate.
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Never played any of these games.  They look good though.

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@Raymayne said:
" @chililili said:
" Its worth noting that it has 3 platinum trophies. "
No it's not. Nobody gives a flying turd about trophies. "
Just as many people care about trophies as they do about achievements. Can you please not litter the comments with your console war tripe?
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If I happened to find myself with a 3D TV I would probably grab this. But since I don't see that happening for a while I probably won't get this since I already have Sly 2 & 3 and I originally played Sly Cooper twice when I rented it back in the day. 
 
But I had GoW 1 & 2 and I ended up grabbing that collection when it dropped in price so who knows.

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I want an option to use the 3D mode they originally had. 
 
That would be way better.

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@Philva said:
" I've never played a Sly Cooper game... but i do love me some plat-forming. should i pick this one up? "
The series was my favorite platformer series of the PS2.  They're pretty good.
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Me want.

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3D set to zero please.

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I only ever played the 2nd Sly Cooper game, it was really cool though, even surprisingly so, and since I've since given it away getting this collection might not be such a bad idea.
 
Fun fact: you can sort of trace some of the face animations in those games to the in-game cutscenes of inFamous, which I always thought looked kinda goofy when applied to realistic looking characters, instead of say, anthropomorphic cartoon animals.

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I want a Final Fantasy X collection.

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I'm definitely purchasing this, if only to show support for PS2 games getting the HD Blu Ray 3D Super Hyper Whatever treatment. Although from what I hear, the Sly games are pretty entertaining.  
 
Keep 'em coming, Sony!
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The word you're looking for is definitely not "toggle," Brad.  A toggle is binary and the ability to not play in 3D is a given.

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Never played Sly Cooper, want this.

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That screenshot is pure bliss!