Surround sound also breaks the fourth wall. I wonder if people objected to it when movies started getting mixed and presented in surround. I know my mother-in-law doesn't like movie sounds coming from directions other than the screen, similar to how some people don't like 3D picture stuff coming at them out of the screen. I can't convince myself that 3D picture is an extension of 3D sound, but it could be argued.

Most of my video game experience is as an observer. I have no patience for the mechanics of video games and hate the parts where I know what you're supposed to do but the $#@*! character won't do it to get to the next bit of plot. Nearly all of my interest in video games is for the story or humour. Street Fighter is kind of the extreme of no story all mechanics and it's just boring button mashing to me. Portal was just the right combination of story and play. Both Batman Arkham games had too much shoe leather for me to want to play them myself, but I enjoyed watching Spiff play through them. An exception for me would be StarCraft, which I enjoy watching as an esport without story (though the single player mode had some amount of story and pretty cut scenes).

I love the taste of apoca-chips on my apoca-lips in the morning. Thumbs up Teague!

I saw the LOTR musical and it was pretty bad. The musical numbers were long and never advanced the plot or had decent choreography, just gave back story (Lothlorieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen sings Galadriel). They also combined a lot of characters in confusing ways and rushed a lot of the plot awkwardly. The single best part was the balrog. That was freaking amazing. They had Gandalf facing the back of the stage and had really bright floodlights outlining the balrog puppet. Then they blew a huge wind out at the audience with paper stuff in it. Threeee Deeeeeee!

As paulou said, you probably don't need all the things in the Master Collection if you're mostly planning on doing video. We only got it because I also use InDesign and Acrobat for print layout projects. Production Premium is half the price and the only differences are InDesign, Acrobat, Flash Builder, Dreamweaver and Fireworks. None of those are useful for video editing and effects.