>Most modern "physical" releases either don't even have the entire game on the disc or are just a download code. >Most
That's not true. Most games are still playable entirely without the disc, even without the Internet or a download.
Some games don't have the entire game on the disc and a few physical releases are just a download code.
Yup manga market grows every year. Meanwhile physical games sell less ever year. Turns out people value physical books more than shit you can easily download.
Any cool vidya art book recs?
This one is great if you are a disgaea fan. I would say most udon artbooks are solid too. Return to Avalon is a great artbook if you are Fate fan.
>This one is great if you are a disgaea fan
nta, but why not just get the harada art works? ive got the first 2 and theyre great. id buy the 3rd too, but i think they made it so the book opens landscape so itd look really out of place on my shelf next to the others
That one is ok but it has a bunch of sketches and artist notes when I prefer to just get a lot of full color artworks.
sentaifilms is great, other sites will charge full price for their sentai blurays but their home-site will sell their shit at like 80% off every few weeks. half my collection is just stuff i bought there for under $10
The sad part is some things like watamote never go on sale, I regret selling the copy I had. Only one I want next is the School-Live blu ray.
Based bluray enjoyer.
I sold my DVD collection in high school so it was nice to start over last year. Slowed down a lot after I spent like $350 in 3 months.
buying vinyl is a meme but cd's are generally fine imo.
tbh i haven't bought a blu ray in a while, used blu rays are nice because they are very hard to scratch but yea not the most affordable one to collect.
sentaifilms is great, other sites will charge full price for their sentai blurays but their home-site will sell their shit at like 80% off every few weeks. half my collection is just stuff i bought there for under $10
>tfw you play a game late and all the limited editions are sold out
Most of them are shit, but some of them come with some nice things. Feels bad, man.
>sell collection on ebay >does well >it'll take 30 days because you use debit >fine i'll use my credit card >get a warning, since I sold 600$ in the past year I need to file the 1099-K to the irs
Fuck right off
Depends on how you define that.
Is it worth it for personal reasons? Yes, granted you like the games in question enough to justify those physical purchases.
Is it worth it for monetary reasons? No, unless you're collecting Switch games, imited items such as Special Edition Consoles or Controllers, or deluxe Editions of popular games such as Fromchud software.
Switch game boxes are so souless it bugs the shit out of me.
Would it kill them to have side art? Or even just the actual game logo instead of generic tiny white print of the title on a red background.
ah I wish this was financially possible
you can buy a PS1 for not that much, but PS1 games? hundreds of dollars
I'd have to earn like 5x more to even consider this
>I love collecting. This was always my dream as a kid and I’ll continue adding to the shelf
Same here. It's so fun to collect vidya and as a kid I always wanted to.
I have a lot of fond memories of playing Smash 4 in high school. So one is just an unopened copy. I've thought about getting it graded, but I know it's a scam.
Not really? I have a shitton of physical games, from PS2/Gamecube Era all the way up to modern day, some of them are worth something, most of them aren't. Regardless, that doesn't justify all the space they're taking up on my shelf.
Part of me wants to get rid of them, but my collection came to be in a fairly organic way, as in, those are all games I was genuinely interested in and played growing up, so they have some sentimental value as well.
don't start collecting OP, most of the times you won't even play those games because there are too many choices. That's probably the worst thing for me.
Basically a necessity if you want to play delisted games that had a physical release.
Prey (2006)
Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
The Darkness
Transformer The Game
Transformer War for Cybertron
Transformer Fall of Cybertron
50 Cent Blood on the Sand
Driver San Francisco
Fuel
Earth Defense Force: IA
Need for Speed Most Wanted
most of these don't even have playable game content on them anymore - requires a million patches before you can even play them. it's a physical unlock disc and little else, may as well just get the download.
I don't see why you'd have a console and NOT buy physical games >Can sell them >Can let friends borrow them >Keeps rental services in business >Don't have to worry about the online platform shutting down (happening with 360 next year and was meant to happen with PS3 twice but got pushed back both times) >Cheaper than digital games anyway
My only problem is collectorfags using them as an investment strategy or e-peen content, I genuinely wish those fucking vermin could be put in a gas chamber
>Don't have to worry about the online platform shutting down (happening with 360 next year and was meant to happen with PS3 twice but got pushed back both times)
you say that but look at how many games can't run without a big download first
I didn't know Hades even got a physical PS5 version. When did that game even come out? I got it brand new on PS4 for like 10 dollars so I figured it was a little older.
kinda is worth it if you plan on reselling it and also you can share it with somebody else. Another issue is the game might now be available to download in the future so physical helps with that as well
>slopcore
nice collection brother, I bet girls are wet as fuck when they see your shelf
also a quick reminder to physical media chads (we own our games) that ps3 is actually retro
don't believe me? multiplat shit going for 100+ on ebay means that ps3 is actually retro fr ong
Part of me knows that buying physical is better in the long term, but having the convenience of having all my games ready on my Switch and Deck is too strong. And if a game somehow becomes delisted, then I'm learning how to pirate. That said, I'm also not much of a collector and I would usually sell my physical games, only to regret it later. >tl;dr I'm part of the problem
>the only place that sells Digimon cards in my area stopped selling them, packing the shelves with countless Pokémon packs I like both but I feel discriminated
nope. Collecting games stops at ps2 generation thanks to everything being a digital verison devalues phsyical copies too much ps3 games and 360 games anything else further isn't worth collecting
Most games are still largely on the disc. Don't listen to the anti-physical spergs. They overestimate the number of games that are not on the disc in order to reinforce their argument, but at least for now they're still wrong.
The problem is that the games are overpriced (they sort of were previously, but the collectorfags have made it ten times worse) and that you'd need to consider long term storage if you're reasonably planning on collecting.
If you're talking about picking up new games, then let me give some advice: No. Just pick up what you plan on playing, maybe a few in a sale but otherwise keep your library to what you currently have on-hand. You'll have many chances to get the good games you don't buy immediately and it saves you from boxing dozens of games in your closet to "play for later". And while one game might go up in priced from $60 to $120 when you plan on buying it, there will be ten games you don't give a shit about or actively want to avoid that you've not spent a cent on.
>you'd need to consider long term storage if you're reasonably planning on collecting
Like what? A padlock safe?
Presuming my apartment doesn't catch on fire, or Emilio the maintenance man doesn't decide to cop my shit, then I'd say my games are safe on the shelf.
Your discs might degrade, your console might break down. Long term storage isn't necessarily friendly to magnetic storage mediums, and it's especially a concern if you can't get parts or a replacement of the one piece of hardware that can even run it.
There's other concerns, as well. I have a bunch of older systems which don't hook into a HDTV, which means I'll either need an adapter (that will work with action games) or need to find a CRT if I want to play those games again.
>Your discs might degrade, your console might break down
Maybe I just treat my electronics exceptionally well, but I've been playing games since 1996 and never once had a cartridge, disc, or console fail to function perfectly.
>older systems which don't hook into a HDTV, which means I'll either need an adapter...
This does bring up a question of mine for more modern consoles. How long does Ganker expect HDMI input to be a thing on TV's? What would be next?
>I've been playing games since 1996 and never once had a cartridge, disc, or console fail to function perfectly.
I've had several. I'm not sure how many could easily be repaired with some work, as I've got rid of them, but it does tend to happen. My bigger concern is proprietary hardware on systems that can't easily be replaced. My PSP battery pack is fucked and I'll need to find out how to replace it or just buy a completely new one, for example. Assuming I don't want to just sell it all off.
>How long does Ganker expect HDMI input to be a thing on TV's?
This is hard to say. Not many people saw CRTs going out of production until pretty close to when HDTVs took over. It was probably less than a decade overall. It's not easy to predict when or what will kill off HDMI, since it could be something that deals with the cable's faults or it could just be a market shift to a new product which uses something else.
I love collecting video games, it's like collecting trading cards but you get so much more!
They're fun to display and you can even use them to hold stuff, I'll sometimes put preorder items like patches and stickers inside the cases to keep them. I like having disposable income to spend on stuff that makes me happy. 😀
What is it about collecting physical video games to have on display that makes me feel shame and a bit of disgust? Primarily if the collecting happened at or after the 7th generation of video games?
Only games who I really want to play and for portable consoles
No disc games since I don't think I could preservetp them correctly
Also those fucking price
If they are good games, yes. Look at all that trash, why would anyone collect that?
Which ones are fully exclusive for PS5 there?
Imagine buying this much garbage shovelware on a ps5
Demon's Souls
DMC5 special edition (console exclusive raytracing puddles, lol)
that's literally it
that's depressing
This whole console gen is
Switch isn't
All on pc
enjoy the glitches I guess
Never has been
No. Maybe a few games if they mean something really special to you.
Digital for easy of use.
Piracy when companies go full retard/greed.
Physical for...adding a childlike atmosphere to your home?
They could've just bought the PS4 versions of these games and gotten the PS5 version for free
Yeah, and the become unable to play the PS5 version twenty years from now when Sony shut downs the servers.
Only Switch games and maybe Limited Run stuff, but regular PS5 or Xbox Series X releases? Fuck no
Most modern "physical" releases either don't even have the entire game on the disc or are just a download code. Those are not worthwhile at all.
>Most modern "physical" releases either don't even have the entire game on the disc or are just a download code.
>Most
That's not true. Most games are still playable entirely without the disc, even without the Internet or a download.
Some games don't have the entire game on the disc and a few physical releases are just a download code.
Games? no too overpriced and only retards do it. Artbooks, cards, manga, blu rays? yes
People still buy manga when Kindles/Kobos exist?
Not him but sometimes I just prefer a physical book over reading a screen.
That and they just look nice on a shelf and I like collecting them.
Yup manga market grows every year. Meanwhile physical games sell less ever year. Turns out people value physical books more than shit you can easily download.
This one is great if you are a disgaea fan. I would say most udon artbooks are solid too. Return to Avalon is a great artbook if you are Fate fan.
Physical books are even easier to download though.
>Physical books
>download
not how that works. when you play a game you can't tell if it's digital or physical unlike a book.
>enjoy the higher framerates and better resoulution for free
i will
>This one is great if you are a disgaea fan
nta, but why not just get the harada art works? ive got the first 2 and theyre great. id buy the 3rd too, but i think they made it so the book opens landscape so itd look really out of place on my shelf next to the others
That one is ok but it has a bunch of sketches and artist notes when I prefer to just get a lot of full color artworks.
The sad part is some things like watamote never go on sale, I regret selling the copy I had. Only one I want next is the School-Live blu ray.
I sold my DVD collection in high school so it was nice to start over last year. Slowed down a lot after I spent like $350 in 3 months.
Any cool vidya art book recs?
>blu rays
>not overpriced
Depends who's selling them, Aniplex can get fucked with their $120 blurays for shows with only 12 episodes.
buying vinyl is a meme but cd's are generally fine imo.
tbh i haven't bought a blu ray in a while, used blu rays are nice because they are very hard to scratch but yea not the most affordable one to collect.
sentaifilms is great, other sites will charge full price for their sentai blurays but their home-site will sell their shit at like 80% off every few weeks. half my collection is just stuff i bought there for under $10
>tfw you play a game late and all the limited editions are sold out
Most of them are shit, but some of them come with some nice things. Feels bad, man.
Based bluray enjoyer.
>sell collection on ebay
>does well
>it'll take 30 days because you use debit
>fine i'll use my credit card
>get a warning, since I sold 600$ in the past year I need to file the 1099-K to the irs
Fuck right off
>credit cards
imagine being so bad with money you need one to spend what you dont have
Just use your credit card as a payday loan and pay it right off and get 5% back. Free money
imagine being so financially illiterate you don't know how to game the system
>game the system
Credit scores are just our version of the ccp's social system. You did good goy, now we can put you in more debt to buy a house.
>can't refute so he goes for the le garden gnome card
let me guess, cyptomoron?
No. Just make sure to copy the games you have if they're updated with censorship.
I'd need a big shelf if my collection was physical
Still I kneel
the only people that do are children and weebs
Depends on how you define that.
Is it worth it for personal reasons? Yes, granted you like the games in question enough to justify those physical purchases.
Is it worth it for monetary reasons? No, unless you're collecting Switch games, imited items such as Special Edition Consoles or Controllers, or deluxe Editions of popular games such as Fromchud software.
I love collecting. This was always my dream as a kid and I’ll continue adding to the shelf
Switch game boxes are so souless it bugs the shit out of me.
Would it kill them to have side art? Or even just the actual game logo instead of generic tiny white print of the title on a red background.
>fist of the north star PS2
>mushihimesama collector's edition
Based
That looks like minimum a couple thousand dollars worth of vidya
The fuck is wrong with you? Just emulate.
>he doesn't play on original hardware.
ah I wish this was financially possible
you can buy a PS1 for not that much, but PS1 games? hundreds of dollars
I'd have to earn like 5x more to even consider this
the best way to play vidya is pirating the original hardware
this. My fenrir saturn cost me like $300 but its better than paying $1000+ for a CIB copy of panzer dragoon saga
the only people who buy hard copies of old vidya are people who just put it on a shelf. They dont actually play video games at all.
I like collecting them because it makes me feel like a video game librarian and I can play anything instantly.
But I actually play what I buy so idk if you would rage at me.
is it possible to have pirated games on ps1? what about ps2?
I've never had those consoles, I only have a PS4 and I emulated some ps1 games
Easily. On PS2 Phats you can even install a hdd and play every game.
Budokai Tenkaichi 3 my bro when we gaming?
Flipped it
>the lone yellow label in the gamecube collection
My autism is screaming.
>I love collecting. This was always my dream as a kid and I’ll continue adding to the shelf
Same here. It's so fun to collect vidya and as a kid I always wanted to.
>2 copies of Smash Wii U
I have a lot of fond memories of playing Smash 4 in high school. So one is just an unopened copy. I've thought about getting it graded, but I know it's a scam.
>Smash 4
>I've thought about getting it graded
I wouldn't bother. However, I see brand new (black label) copies of Smash Melee listed for $600 - $1,000 on eBay. Pretty wild.
I love how cheap most wii games are. You have to wonder if this will change in the future.
I imagine it will change. We just haven't hit the sweet spot for PS3, 360, and Wii nostalgia yet.
Wii with native HDMI port would be a dream. How difficult is it to mod a Wii U for playing GameCube titles?
typically i see prices raise somewhat rapidly when a console reaches about 20 years old, we are getting quite close to this.
Not really? I have a shitton of physical games, from PS2/Gamecube Era all the way up to modern day, some of them are worth something, most of them aren't. Regardless, that doesn't justify all the space they're taking up on my shelf.
Part of me wants to get rid of them, but my collection came to be in a fairly organic way, as in, those are all games I was genuinely interested in and played growing up, so they have some sentimental value as well.
this for me.
don't start collecting OP, most of the times you won't even play those games because there are too many choices. That's probably the worst thing for me.
Basically a necessity if you want to play delisted games that had a physical release.
Prey (2006)
Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
The Darkness
Transformer The Game
Transformer War for Cybertron
Transformer Fall of Cybertron
50 Cent Blood on the Sand
Driver San Francisco
Fuel
Earth Defense Force: IA
Need for Speed Most Wanted
used physical copies are often cheaper
this is my collection, most of these were like 10$
>pure garbage
Jesus I'm so glad I didn't get scammed into buying a ps5
most of these don't even have playable game content on them anymore - requires a million patches before you can even play them. it's a physical unlock disc and little else, may as well just get the download.
Nope. Invest in digital storage space.
I don't see why you'd have a console and NOT buy physical games
>Can sell them
>Can let friends borrow them
>Keeps rental services in business
>Don't have to worry about the online platform shutting down (happening with 360 next year and was meant to happen with PS3 twice but got pushed back both times)
>Cheaper than digital games anyway
My only problem is collectorfags using them as an investment strategy or e-peen content, I genuinely wish those fucking vermin could be put in a gas chamber
>Don't have to worry about the online platform shutting down (happening with 360 next year and was meant to happen with PS3 twice but got pushed back both times)
you say that but look at how many games can't run without a big download first
I didn't know Hades even got a physical PS5 version. When did that game even come out? I got it brand new on PS4 for like 10 dollars so I figured it was a little older.
kinda is worth it if you plan on reselling it and also you can share it with somebody else. Another issue is the game might now be available to download in the future so physical helps with that as well
This plus streaming services are already updating and censoring content. Only a matter of time until it hits vidya.
Found out you can't buy senran kagura peach beach splash digitally on PS5 for example.
>slopcore
nice collection brother, I bet girls are wet as fuck when they see your shelf
also a quick reminder to physical media chads (we own our games) that ps3 is actually retro
don't believe me? multiplat shit going for 100+ on ebay means that ps3 is actually retro fr ong
Physical chads will be eating well when the WEF cracks down and starts banning media.
I've stopped caring. I realized that it doesn't matter what version you get because in 10 years you're gonna just have to pirate it to play it again.
switch cases are such a eyesore. just a giant red band with white text. I kind wish we would get the jap covers of games.
Playing on rare games on actual physical hardware with a CRT is an exquisite experience.
i can't see them as anything more than trash tbh
>Switch
Yes.
>PS5 / SeX
No
i wish my card shop sold weiss or chink singles. their pokemon selection is pretty basic as well
Depends, are those games or just a copy protection key disguised as bluray which you use to download a game?
Part of me knows that buying physical is better in the long term, but having the convenience of having all my games ready on my Switch and Deck is too strong. And if a game somehow becomes delisted, then I'm learning how to pirate. That said, I'm also not much of a collector and I would usually sell my physical games, only to regret it later.
>tl;dr I'm part of the problem
(me)
also emulation
There's a website that's specifically dedicated to weeding out games that are not fully on disc / cart. Can't remember the name though...
One surprise to me is that RE4 Remake is fully playable on disc. That's fucking awesome for a modern (non Switch) game.
>worth
I do it for fun. I'm starting to buy digimon cards. I fucking love digimon
>the only place that sells Digimon cards in my area stopped selling them, packing the shelves with countless Pokémon packs
I like both but I feel discriminated
nope. Collecting games stops at ps2 generation thanks to everything being a digital verison devalues phsyical copies too much ps3 games and 360 games anything else further isn't worth collecting
First party Switch games are largely all on the cart.
Most games are still largely on the disc. Don't listen to the anti-physical spergs. They overestimate the number of games that are not on the disc in order to reinforce their argument, but at least for now they're still wrong.
The only valid argument against digital is not being able to resell games. But i don't expect unironic console players to use their brain
Sure.
The problem is that the games are overpriced (they sort of were previously, but the collectorfags have made it ten times worse) and that you'd need to consider long term storage if you're reasonably planning on collecting.
If you're talking about picking up new games, then let me give some advice: No. Just pick up what you plan on playing, maybe a few in a sale but otherwise keep your library to what you currently have on-hand. You'll have many chances to get the good games you don't buy immediately and it saves you from boxing dozens of games in your closet to "play for later". And while one game might go up in priced from $60 to $120 when you plan on buying it, there will be ten games you don't give a shit about or actively want to avoid that you've not spent a cent on.
>you'd need to consider long term storage if you're reasonably planning on collecting
Like what? A padlock safe?
Presuming my apartment doesn't catch on fire, or Emilio the maintenance man doesn't decide to cop my shit, then I'd say my games are safe on the shelf.
Your discs might degrade, your console might break down. Long term storage isn't necessarily friendly to magnetic storage mediums, and it's especially a concern if you can't get parts or a replacement of the one piece of hardware that can even run it.
There's other concerns, as well. I have a bunch of older systems which don't hook into a HDTV, which means I'll either need an adapter (that will work with action games) or need to find a CRT if I want to play those games again.
>Your discs might degrade, your console might break down
Maybe I just treat my electronics exceptionally well, but I've been playing games since 1996 and never once had a cartridge, disc, or console fail to function perfectly.
>older systems which don't hook into a HDTV, which means I'll either need an adapter...
This does bring up a question of mine for more modern consoles. How long does Ganker expect HDMI input to be a thing on TV's? What would be next?
>I've been playing games since 1996 and never once had a cartridge, disc, or console fail to function perfectly.
I've had several. I'm not sure how many could easily be repaired with some work, as I've got rid of them, but it does tend to happen. My bigger concern is proprietary hardware on systems that can't easily be replaced. My PSP battery pack is fucked and I'll need to find out how to replace it or just buy a completely new one, for example.
Assuming I don't want to just sell it all off.
>How long does Ganker expect HDMI input to be a thing on TV's?
This is hard to say. Not many people saw CRTs going out of production until pretty close to when HDTVs took over. It was probably less than a decade overall. It's not easy to predict when or what will kill off HDMI, since it could be something that deals with the cable's faults or it could just be a market shift to a new product which uses something else.
I love collecting video games, it's like collecting trading cards but you get so much more!
They're fun to display and you can even use them to hold stuff, I'll sometimes put preorder items like patches and stickers inside the cases to keep them. I like having disposable income to spend on stuff that makes me happy. 😀
In this garden gnomeed to hell industry where consoles do whatever they want to you? No, digital on pc is the only acceptable way to buy.
What is it about collecting physical video games to have on display that makes me feel shame and a bit of disgust? Primarily if the collecting happened at or after the 7th generation of video games?
I like collecting but i wouldn't recommend it
If you're not a retard who buys incomplete trash, then su- *sees image* Oh, no.
>the only good games this retard owns is Maneater and Hitman
wdhmbt
Only games who I really want to play and for portable consoles
No disc games since I don't think I could preservetp them correctly
Also those fucking price
>pic related
My gba collection
My DS/3DS one is a few less
It's been a couple of years and i already miss handhelds. This is the worst timeline ever
Tell me about it
The switch is too bulky for my tastes.
But the GBA, DS and 3DS are good enough for my needs
>No disc games since I don't think I could preservetp them correctly
>Pokemon Yellow cart looks like it was left in a rain storm
Maybe that one should be in a plastic case cover instead of the assorted shovelware.
Spend the money you would've spent on physical media on 16tb hard drives and pirate everything.
It is, but not CD games. Cart games are where it's at.
I do but sometimes i feel like selling a bunch of shit. I'm a hoarder so i never end up doing it.