>make you pay for "adequate packaging" on LIMITED PRODUCTS unless you spend over $200 at once teehee :^) >half the time, take forever to release the damn product to the point that other companies are able to release COMPLETE versions before they can release the BASE VERSION >all their collectors editions are pure trash and made on the cheap. Sometimes the collectors editions require OTHER collectors editions to be considered "complete" >will refuse to refund you. If you initiate a chargeback, they will blacklist your name and address so you can never order from them >will sometimes just ship out digital codes instead of physical carts, which isTHE ENTIRE FRICKING POINT OF ORDERING A PHYSICAL COPY!!!
And even after all of this shti they'll buy it anyway
Sometimes I wish some country goes full moron and starts a nuclear holocaust.
When did they give out digital codes? Only thing like that ever happened to me was they also gave an eshop code for the switch version of Carrion when I ordered a physical copy which turned out to be for nothing because Gamestop got copies of Carrion as well
>will refuse to refund you. If you initiate a chargeback, they will blacklist your name and address so you can never order from them
Sounds based to me, refundhomosexualry is a blight on this hobby
I hate them too anon. They've ironically done more harm for physical retail than good.
>it's perfectly fine to wait several months or even years to get a game you paid full price for bro! >it's perfectly fine to force someone to sign an arbitration contract on a pre-sale >it's perfectly fine to completely frick over anyone who either wasn't aware of or couldn't make a small pre-order window and force them to pay an exorbitant amount later >it's perfectly fine to practically monopolize publishing rights >it's perfectly fine to instill FOMO into retail consumers bro when the whole point was supposed to be vidya preservation and making it readily available
Irony and contradiction are lost on this company and their countless imitators.
Shantae's have decent print runs or open preorders, it's just Shantae in itself has become collector bait due to the OG Gameboy one being the most valuable mass printed game on the system combined with the coomer factor and brown bellies. It's kind of like how Pokemon games were printed in huge margins and some of the highest selling titles in history but command some of the highest collector prices.
All because of the post lockdown every hobby became an investment nft scam pumped by established collectors and youtubers.
>All because of the post lockdown every hobby became an investment nft scam pumped by established collectors and youtubers.
I hate this. Why can't these fricks leave our hobbies alone? The comic book scene was damaged beyond repair because of these fricks, and now they're doing the same thing to our vidya.
lol wayforward is definitely complicit in this, they know artificially limiting supply they'll make the most money
2 years ago
Anonymous
Gotta make that dollar. Wayforward is smart like that, even if it is a little scummy.
2 years ago
Anonymous
How is the secondary market earning WayForward money, exactly?
2 years ago
Anonymous
Not him, but if you pay attention you can easily tell that Wayforward and Limited Run have some kind of under the table contract. They don't DIRECTLY benefit from second hand sales, but Limited Run DOES profit from scalpers buying up overpriced special editions to flip, and WF probably gets some kind of kickback out of it, publicity or otherwise, in order to keep them from going somewhere else.
Remember that WF had multiple, non-LR publishers publish SatPC on the the 3DS physically, and then XSEED for HGH, but ever since LR got their hands on them they quit going to other publishers, save for Arc System Works for the Asian physical copies of Seven Sirens and MSF Collection. Most likely due to Limited Run not having much presence in that market so they (LR) don't really care as their consumer base probably doesn't know what Playasia is.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>their consumer base probably doesn't know what Playasia is.
It’s worse than that, look up the #SwitchCorps collectorgays and they’ll outright say Asian English releases are official bootlegs because it undermines their LRG physical copies. It’s the dumbest shit. Besides usually the Asian releases are more up to date on cart.
2 years ago
Anonymous
who's talking about the secondary market
They are directly selling more copies at full price using FOMO and collector/scalper bait
If they simply used bestbuy and gamestop shantae games would be bargain bin $10 games
>buy the scott pilgrim set from LRG >takes for FRICKING ever because of "quality checking" >the fricking manual just stops partway through
never felt more scammed than I have from them
They haven’t had quality control since they started releasing Switch games, though to be fair they were already fricking up Vita releases 2 years into it.
>Didn't buy Scott Pilgrim because money was tight and they said BestBuy were going to get copies >For fricking months I had to sit there waiting for these supposed BestBuy copies to phase into existence so the Ebay resellers can drop their fricking prices >mfw waiting paid off and copies go for fairly cheap now. Even then I don't even want to buy it anymore since RCPS3 can emulate it pretty well and turns out I hate it
I'm a physical gay and I wish the value of this shit would plummet again. I never intend to sell my personal collection, so I don't care about its "value", but it's impossible to pick up old games without breaking the bank these days. I miss the days when yard sale pricing was the norm. Now everyone and their grandma sells everything for 150% of MSRP minimum, even if it's shovelware trash. Forget about the actual quality games. Hopefully the "market" tanks.
>Games you'll never hope to own physically.
Let me think, all of them? I legitimately cannot name a single game I would want to own physically. I guess if arcade cabinets count as games I might want a few of those, a 1 man tate candy cab and maybe a couple of light gun titles wouldn't be too bad. For everything else? There's emulation.
I can understand, and somewhat agree with your mindset.
emulation makes all game easily available, but I grew up when game were physical and you actually owned the games you bought.
Am I silly for thinking this? Maybe, but physical games have a charm digital games will never have.
I'll never understand the "charm" of having to hunt through a drawer or shelf for a case only to find the game isn't in it because you put it back somewhere else last time. Meanwhile I can boot up a digital version in the time it takes to type the first 3 characters of the name.
The only part of physical games I like is the manuals. But that's not enough to bother having a collection of them.
>having to hunt through a drawer or shelf for a case only to find the game isn't in it because you put it back somewhere else last time
That sounds like a you problem. I keep everything nice and organized on my bookshelf, and when I'm not playing the game, it goes back in it's case.
You've never taken a game out to play it, opened the console, and found another game inside that you forgot to put away? Sometimes you don't want to go looking for the case for it, sometimes you just put it in the case of the game you're about to play instead.
Even if you don't ever misplace a game, you still have to look for them. You still have to put the case back in the same place after you're done so you can find it next time. It's just added hassle, not to mention how shit CD based media is.
It sound like you're just a disorganized person, anon. >not to mention how shit CD based media is.
I mostly collect cartage based games, but the few CD games I do have are in wonderful shape. As long as you are carful and not a clumsy ape, CDs are fine.
2 years ago
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The CD itself might be fine, the disc drive? That's another matter. Last time I played my PS1 the disc skipped and the music just stopped playing in Time Crisis. Never used it since, and I never will again. Just a dogshit fricking medium, I'm glad it's dead.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Just repair your ps1? It's not hard.
If you need help, the fine folks at /vr/ got your back. I learned a lot about retro console maintenance from those anons.
2 years ago
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Even if I keep all my lasers in tip top condition, the actual state of CD media is bad. Slow loading times, loud drives. It made sense back when flash media wasn't capable of storing X amount of data. It's worthless in the modern day, which is why all my consoles have ODEs and I run all my games off SD cards.
No loser, all of my games are on a shelf organized alphabetically by series name. It takes .2 seconds to find the right case and put the game in it. If it isn't in the console it's in the case on the self. Do the tiny bit of work now to save large amounts of work later.
>I'll never understand the "charm" of having to hunt through a drawer or shelf for a case only to find the game isn't in it because you put it back somewhere else last time.
Why would anyone ever do this? Surely everyone here put their games back in the case, rather than just putting it into a different case or letting it lie around like a subhuman?
>buying anything from LRG
at that point you're no better than buying anything from EA or ubisoft
anyways, did you know buying a copy of Tail Concerto off of ebay could also get you a PS5?
it's an early 3d platformer that tried to copy the controls of mario 64, but feels like the mech stages from sonic adventure 2. It's also a pretty short game, you could beat it in under 5-6 hours. The only reason I want it is because I beat the game on an emulator once
>decide I want to finish off my Metroid collection one day by picking up a physical copy of Prime 2 and Hunters >look at the prices and the condition of the listings on ebay >90+ bucks for cases that are ass, cover art that's weirdly scuffed in spots, shitty manuals (or none at all), etc. >see a Hunters listing with everything included except the game isn't actually there but rather the First Hunt demo and there's nothing in the description
Absolutely ridiculous, even seeing how much CIB Metroid Prime Pinball goes for made me laugh since I remember people sleeping on it and making fun of it back then despite it being a great game and now it sells for $100+.
The retro game market is a joke and piracy is more than acceptable for older games at this point.
The only way to stop the madness is to rerelease games and not botch the port too
Metal Wolf Chaos used to go for an easy $120+ before the HD remaster got announced. Now you're lucky if you can even sell it for over $80.
Good for you, anon.
Good for you. I can't be too mad, i was lucky enough to snag a 3DS copy a few years back when they were cheapish, but I would kill to have a switch copy.
>tfw bought a sealed copy for $100 and never opened it
I did play the game I just did on a flash cart.
Fricking furry tax strikes again.
I bought it because I'm a .hack fan and wanted to play CC2's other original IPs. They're pretty comfy. Also solatorobo sold like shit in NA so of course it was going to command a huge pricetag as a cult hit. It's the Misadventures of Tron Bonne of the DS.
Barbamon is the literal embodiment of greed in Digimon's setting and canonically drawn as a israeli stereotype so it's perfectly acceptable even if I were likeminded to your type.
Played this shit on steam and the game fricking sucks. Got pretty far then it started sending me on dumbass fetch quests through zones I've already completed, so I stopped playing. Cool art and character design but ISHYGD actually play these games.
>Limited run
aka a gigantic scam to get morons like (you) to buy moronic physical editions to sit on a shelf because that what moronic coolectors do, buy a bunch of shit they will never play and put it on a shelf.
If you want to play this shitty game no one is stopping you from playing it. It's on multiple consoles you fricktard. Why do you want some stupid fricking case to sit on a shelf?
All the Shantae games are readily available, its not like the original GBC game that was hard to find, and buggy in emulation. Of course even now the original game was touched up and is available digitally as well so even that doesn't even matter anymore. Something about this series brings out the autism.
That's great but you don't need a physical copy. If you really have an attachment complex and need something to call your own you can buy it from gog for $20 and put the exe on a flashdrive. You'll be okay without a big box on your shelf you'll never touch, I promise.
And if you really need something on your shelf, buy some merch that's actually meant for fans, and not expressly designed to benefit scammers and scalpers.
>buy a bunch of shit they will never play and put it on a shelf
As opposed to buying a bunch of shit online and never playing them again after just one playthrough?
>Want Pikmin 2 because I missed out on it >Hasn't been ported to switch >Options are a Wii version that's around $50 or a gamecube version around $80
Yeah yeah, I could emulate it if I really wanted to play it but it still makes me mad that I can't just walk into a local game shop and get a copy of a 20 year old game for $15-20 anymore.
We didn't know how good we had it. Just a few years ago it was like this, you could walk into a gamestop / eb games / local retro store and get old games for <$20 a piece.
Even fricking GBA games are now selling for like $50 minimum for most of the popular titles, and really popular games like Metroid fusion for example are $70+.
Yeah, this is all too solved by getting an EZ flash and just loading up every game ever made onto it, but still.... it just sucks that there's so much fricking collector buttholes these days buying up everything.
Best bet is keeping an eye open for garage sales, you can get stupidly cheap prices with a bit of bargaining and depending on how much the seller is willing to get rid of something.
>or a gamecube version around $80
If that's with the case, that's not that massive of a price increase. I remember paying $60 for a CIB copy back in the early 2010s.
Seriously, what is the explanation for this? It looks like a really shitty game, is it shelfwarmer morons that have to "coomplete" their "coolections?"
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Seriously, what is the explanation for this? It looks like a really shitty game, is it shelfwarmer morons that have to "coomplete" their "coolections?"
They literally just enter a big number and then call themselves investors or collectors or hodl bros
These prices have 0 ground in reality and you can probably find these game in bargain bins and garage sales if you just look for a while
They just see other idiots try to sell them for stupid amounts and then go "me too"
You know what puzzles me, I know I have a few games that go over 100 bucks but I would never understand why people would ever buy them at that price unless its for reselling them later on. A lot of them are pretty shitty or fricking short, it just sucks that there is this mentality of owning shit and the scalpers taking advantage of the companies sitting on a lot of these games that could be released easily at least on PSN/eShop/Steam/Xbox Live (I know pirating is an option but many don't seem to go for it)
The only people buying games are buying them just for the sake of sitting them on a shelf and pretending like they've played them.
You see so many of these types of people, for example the morons that have to own every single physical switch game along with stupid ass limited run editions and shit. All to just sit on a shelf so they can brag about their collection, while never actually playing any of the games because no one alive has the free time to play 1000 fricking switch games to completion, even if they were a turbo-NEET like I am, there's no one with the free time to play all of these games they collect, and yet they do it just to have a bunch of bullshit on a shelf. God it pisses me off.
To me, a games collection should only exist of games you actually like / have played. It's something that grows over time, and yeah maybe sometimes you go back and buy some older games you didn't play in order to play them on the original hardware, that's what I do from time to time and it pisses me off how expensive the used game market has become because people like me are getting priced out of some classic games.
>The only people buying games are buying them just for the sake of sitting them on a shelf and pretending like they've played them.
Some people have more money than sense these days. Why buy a game you're not going to play?
Isn't the entire fricking point of taking pride in a video game collection is that it boils down to how it reflects your personal taste i.e. quality over quantity? Is this what a midlife crisis does to a motherfricker? There's a monumental line in the sand no, an all-consuming cavernous void, between collecting your typical things like cards, figurines, coins, comics, and the like but what fulfillment comes with owning a fricking storage unit of shovelware such as that Barbie game shown in the first minute?
It reminds me of the craze of gamerscore during the Xbox 360 era. You had guys that were literally buying barbie horse games just to get 1000 gamerscore.
I mean at least those guys were actually playing the games in their collection, as bad as those games were, they were getting played lol
A highly personalized collection will always be better than some idiot buying everything for the sake of buying everything.
I've been collecting games for over 30 years, I have over 4,000 games (mostly digital) and have beaten over 2,200. Almost all of my physical games are beaten, just 11 to go. I like to have my big shelves full of games so I can use it like a library. In fact I'm going to be reorganizing my collection soon to be mixed with my music CDs and books all in alphabetical order, feeling a chaotic desire.
I didn't even consider myself a collector until very recently, I just bought physical copies of games because I lived close to a place that sold them cheaply and at the time flashcarts were moronic expensive (over $250 minimum)
I guess after a while I realized "Well if I have nearly 300 games, obsess to keep them in good condition with things like box protectors, have multiple collectors guides, and buy collectors editions somewhat frequently I'm probably a collector"
I really don't like collector buttholes that just buy for the sake of putting it on the shelf or worse buy it for the sake of price speculation.
I have a lot of valuable games that I got by accident, simply by not getting rid of my old games. I have Rule of Rose and cannot fathom why anyone would want to pay hundreds of dollars for it, because it’s not very good.
one of the only big games I'm missing from my collection that still I really want is pokemon colosseum. Pokemon tax + gamecube tax is a fricking spicy combo, jesus christ.
To think I had physical copies of soul silver and heart gold back in the late 2000s. I sold them along with my DS Lite in order to pay for a 3DS in 2011. I sold so many of my DS games for like 15 each... the frick man. I only had around 20 DS games but still, I think about that considering how much many are worth now.
But I mean man, if you really want it, just buy a reproduction cart on ebay for $15. That's what I did when I wanted to replay it.
Had no issues with the heart gold / soul silver carts I bought on ebay. I've bought many reproduction carts to avoid the used game prices over the years without any issues.
what I find funny about pokemon is how a lot of the early gens are surprisingly cheap. Like RBY and GS aren't bad, and RS are still kind of reasonable, but then you look at like platinum and it's fricking 300$
I’m guessing gens 1 & 2 are still relatively cheap is because you can’t forward transfer to Gen 3 and up from the original carts. But if that guy that’s making the GB to GBA link cable converter thing that makes trades possible between gens 2 and 3 mass produces them then prices may go up more.
Agreed.
First it was to preserve digital games and to run out-of-region titles, but nowadays you need CFW if you want to fricking backup your savedata, for frick's sake.
I have a Wii and I'm gonna consider doing it finally. I'm also going to get a backlit screen for my original GBA and get a flashcart. I've waited too long to do this shit.
Pirates Curse is a real kick in the nuts because that was the only Shantae title on switch they released under their old system of preordering where they made 5,000 copies and if you wanted it you had to spam cart refresh and hope you got a copy in the ten second frenzy.
Every other Shantae game they put out was under the much more reasonable open-preorder system they have currently. And if that isn't enough those frickers REALLY like to have Shantae, they're constantly releasing something Shantae related just to remind you of that one games existence.
To be honest even though I'm generally a pretty big hoarder when it comes to games I don't miss my 3DS that much. Kindof felt liberating to give it away, and I say that as someone with almost 300 physical games right now. I really don't care for playing on handhelds much anymore.
emulation
I've long stopped caring about my physical copies in light of it. Now they just collect dust until I randomly decide to sell them or some urban youth steals them
I'd like to own some Silent Hill games, but they are all pretty expensive. Fortunately I have Silent Hill 2 on 360 (has the Restless Dreams content) and Silent Hill 3 on PS2. I am missing Silent Hill, Silent Hill 4, and Shattered Memories.
I found a vinyl record while thrifting recently that is worth almost $500 because of its rarity. It got me thinking about the whole retro coomlector bubble. at least with this record I can sort of understand why someone would pay that since it cant be replicated, but these "rare" retro games people pay out the ass for can easily be pirated, even if you want to play on original hardware and they will run exactly the same way. It just makes no fricking sense
at least NFTs have actual rarity, even if its artificial. almost none of the expensive games you see people cooming for are actually rare kek. there are tons of ACTUALLY rare games that are barely worth anything because nobody knows about them. the demand is just so absurdly high that it drives up the price.
>Bangai-O on N64 is a great game believed to only have 10,000 copies made >Clayfighter sculptors cut is a shit tier game that is believed to have 20,000 copies made >Bangai-O is about $160 >Sculptor's cut is over $1,000 because it's more hyped up by the collecting scene despite having twice as many copies made
It's not a problem at all, I just think it's funny. I even own a copy of Bangai-o N64, it's a fun game.
Is this the physical media coomlection thread?
Nah i dont own any hentai. Ecchi anime however i do own.
You know I've been eyeing that exact Looney tunes box set just last night, I want to get a copy. How's the picture quality? I know it's just DVD but DVD quality can vary hugely, especially for Cartoons (Genndy Clone wars having nearly blu-ray quality vs Family Guy DVDs having color bleed and frame stutters out the wazoo)
Also good picks on the Watamote Blu Ray and Cowboy Bebop steelbook. I got the CB steelbook signed by Beau and Steve at Megacon 2022 and Watamote made me realize what an autistic spaz I was when I watched it years ago
2 years ago
Anonymous
>How's the picture quality?
Pretty good, haven't noticed any of the problems that you listed for the family guy DVDs
2 years ago
Anonymous
Even though no hentai your ecchi collection is still nice and having darkstalkers on bluray w/ your Looney Tunes and Tom & Jerry collection plus others. Respectable. You'd be a comfy man to chill and watch tv with
Pedestrian, but respectable if only for the cartoons you have.
Not worthy of praise or condemnation, just eh.
Frick it, might as well post everything else i have
2 years ago
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2 years ago
Anonymous
And here are the rest of what i got
2 years ago
Anonymous
Oh shit you have the disney club exclusive bluray of Goofy Movies
2 years ago
Anonymous
6 hours later here. Just wanted to say I appreciate you having escape from New York.
2 years ago
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Loving the collection
2 years ago
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Thanks man, I just wish i had the extra shelf space so i can correctly organize my collection and make it less convoluted than it does now.
[...] >early Simpsons >Hey Arnold >Idiocracy >Rocko >Emperor's New Groove >Tex Avery >A Goofy Movie
In another timeline, we would've been friends anon.
maybe so anon, maybe so
2 years ago
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>early Simpsons >Hey Arnold >Idiocracy >Rocko >Emperor's New Groove >Tex Avery >A Goofy Movie
In another timeline, we would've been friends anon.
ive collected a number of games. most of them because i want to actually play them.
I will at least say that if something is expensive, theres no shame in getting a reproduction cart made. i have one of Dracula X and E.V.O. as well as an English version of Megaman and Bass for SNES
I agree that it's bizarre to be a literal shelf collector who fetishizes collecting physical manifestations of video games to the detriment of actually playing and enjoying them. Some people really are like that, though. On the other hand, having a nice, curated collection that is an eclectic mix of essential classics and personal picks of games you've actually played is just proof that you're serious about your hobby and have good taste. It's not that long ago when physical copies were more or less mandatory even if you pirated with burnt disks, and the legacy of that matters to a lot of boomers including myself. I don't by any means need a physical copy to actually play and enjoy a game but I love buying them anyway as long as they're not obscenely expensive.
Its 2022, we can emulate the connection between different systems.
Anyone who still fawns over physical of a game that can be emulated is either a moron or a scammer.
>stacking games vertically, putting all that stress and shelf wear on the bottom games >not sorting your games alphabetically, especially for the switch where they all have the same fricking spine
theyre plastic cases, not boxes. they arent heavy enough to cause any damage stacked like that. if youre autistic enough to care about shelf wear then you might as well not even have them displayed on a shelf at all
>stacking games vertically
Well what else are they gonna do? Install another shelf for that extra batch of games? That's time and effort that could instead be spent on consooming more products
Sadly i dont have enough shelf space to place them normally so they gotta stay there for now, also i dont really care about alphabetical order as my collection is not large enough to warrant alphabetical ordering tbqh
Even though no hentai your ecchi collection is still nice and having darkstalkers on bluray w/ your Looney Tunes and Tom & Jerry collection plus others. Respectable. You'd be a comfy man to chill and watch tv with
Nintendo's frickup with XC3's limited edition astounds me because I bought the XC2 limited edition like a month after release at a fricking Target for MSRP, and it's honestly one of the most underwhelming limited editions I've owned. You're just paying for a shitty steelbook and an oversized artbook.
So the fact that the XC3's LE sold out instantly and that people are scalping it and dumbasses are buying scalped copies really opens my eyes on the absolute moronation of nintendo fanboys.
harvest moon and tron bonne for me, but atleast i have valkyrie profile. maybe in the future if i have spare cash and i find a good deal. i've sold a good bunch of my games since theres a lot of good shit nowadays you can use to play on real hardware, like those ez carts that ive been hearing about, so ill only keep the stuff i like the most.
morons have been doing this for a long time and I doubt anyone buys them except even bigger morons.
If these do sell, they have to be moving at a glacial rate.
I recently bought $50 worth of resealable comic-book style bags for all my vidya so I wouldn't have to wipe dust off the games or worry if someone puts their thumb on the label when holding a game
I also have nearly-crippling autism
lol just fricking print the cover sheet and slide it into an empty case. It's not like games come with inserts anymore. Then get the game digitally. Virtually no difference, besides the waste of SD plastic.
It is absolutely fricking tiring how many "nerdy" collectibles have shot up in value due to youtubers, scalpers, and the like. These fricks will see one post selling for 500 dollars and then the next day there's 20 pages of said item selling for 500. Nevermind the fact that that original 500 dollar item has been sitting there untouched for months— no! If one post says it's worth 500, ALL are worth 500! No one who actually wants to buy can afford it, and the only people who will actually pay that price are morons who have more money than what they know what do do with, or speculators. Actual fricking clown shit.
I fricking hate capitalism so much.
Everything is an investment, the only value anything has is for the sake of obtaining more value while the ignorant masses gobble up whatever corporations shit on their plate.
Want a house to live in? FRICK NO that shit is for buying up to resell for profit later!
Want a nice car to drive? FRICK YOU why are you buying something that loses its value as soon as it leaves the lot?!
Want to make a digital currency for the common person to utilize without going through israeli banks? FRICK YOU that bitcoin is just a fricking investment to create more value out of thin air!
Literally everything is just an investment to gamble with under this moronic system.
Even fricking people and their labor is just a fricking investment to whoever is atop the pyramid scheme.
it doesn't matter what ism we live under or what game we play. Sociopaths and metagamers will always exist and will always suck the fun out of everything.
I fricking hate people. If God were real and they were benevolent, they'd just smite all these homosexual powergamers and usher in a golden era
>FRICK YOU that bitcoin is just a fricking investment to create more value out of thin air!
You sound like a bitter homosexual that isn't mad about the system, you are mad at not being ontop of it
>Want to make a digital currency for the common person to utilize without going through israeli banks? FRICK YOU that bitcoin is just a fricking investment to create more value out of thin air!
Gee, it's almost as if Monopoly money that any Pajeet can whip up in under an hour and rugpull before 30 minutes pass is worthless and untrustworthy.
I work in a charity shop in Bongland, every now and then a mother will come in and dump her son's collection of old vidya games without much of a second thought. Probably didn't even let the poor guy know.
Usually it's generic PS3 games only worth a few bucks or sports games from 2011 that not a soul will ever buy, but now and then we get some real gems. I feel bad for the guys who had it given away.
>get a collection of weeb/Japanese games for the PS3/4 >haven't even heard of most of them >going for £50-100 on ebay each >some cool and rare shit is in there too, not just weeb stuff. Like a perfect condition, limited edition version of Shadow of the Colossus for PS2 >sometimes a box full of old games will only be worth like ~£20 to us, in this case we made like £500
I'm the only one there who knows anything about games, I think before me they would just put everything out for the usual £2-£5 each.
Also this is your friendly reminder to check your local charity shop, if they're run by little old ladies and not teenage volunteers, sometimes you can find some massively under-priced games.
90% of our customers are also old ladies and women, so these games can sit there for weeks.
>My Gamecube controller broke >Only had the one >Go out on Amazon, Ebay and local retro sites to find a replacement >All of them sell Gamecube controllers for atleast 60 bucks per unit, more if they are not in bad shape >Try to find the Re-released ones that Nintendo made for Smash 4 and Ultimate >They somehow cost upwards of 85 bucks >Look up chink alternatives >20-25 bucks, not bad >Every single one of them have nothing but 2 star or worse ratings as people verbally shit on them in the comments for their worse than shit quality >Decide to buy one anyway since it's better than nothing I guess >It arrives non functional
Holy fricking shit, I just want to play my Gamecube for another year before I give it a permanent home in my storage unit, I can sort of understand that these controllers are expensive since they are in such limited supply but how not a single one of those bugfrickers in chinkland have been able to make even ONE decent replica of the GC controllers are fricking astonishing. Wavebirds are even more expensive, the cheapest ones I can find from even just passibly reputable sources that won't take 6 fricking months to get to me costs atleast 105 bucks
Good third party controllers are just hard to come by in general. When you're a kid and too shit at games to understand the difference, you don't care. But as an adult you can feel when it's fricking wrong. Case in point I tried to cheap out with a no-name chink made Gamecube controller some years ago and I immediately regretted it. Thankfully that was when the first wave of smash branded Gamecube controllers were recent, so I went down to Gamestop and got one. Funny story, it was actually a basically unused one that got returned because the last owner couldn't make it work. The clerk tried to warn me that those controllers were unusable on Wiis, but it was perfectly good in the end. So I got mine at a discount because it was open box. Still have it to this day, and the moment anything breaks on it I'm just going to do self repair.
>do self repair.
I'd have to replace the cable and cap since my mothers dog chewed the plug and a bit of the cable to pieces when she was visiting. Finding just replacment parts is fricking impossible where I live unless I chance it and buy atleast 20 cables and plugs from some random chink on Aliexpress since they refuse to make them unless I order them in bulk
Ouch, that is a bit more complicated. Assuming you can soldier, have you tried ebay? A cursory search for replacement cables has shown listings for about 7 bucks a pop.
I did, but none of the ones I found shipped to where I live (I live in a small town in the middle of nowhere in Europe) and many of them refuse to send to a PO box for some fricking reason.
All is good now though, I managed to find a retro store in my country that sold GC "extension" cables for 4 bucks a piece that should work just fine as a cable replacement even though I lose almost half of the original lenght of the cable. Now I just hope that my soldering skills aren't so shit that I break the logic board on the controller itself as I solder the new cable onto it
Well that kind of stinks but I also understand it because international shipping prices in burgerland are ridiculous. Old-ish example from the mid 2010s but still >could get a package shipped from Japan to the US in three fricking days for less than $30 >untracked snail mail for the exact same package back to Japan was close to $70
Considering our postal service is allegedly hemorrhaging money I don't know how Japan does it but god bless them for it.
>Look up how much a Gamecube GBA player costs in my region >Without the disc (which makes the thing unusable) people still want 90 bucks for it
What in the everloving frick?
There are homebrew solutions for the GBA player that work better, though you'll still be stuck paying a premium if you don't already have the action replay required to make it all work.
>Don't worry, you'll only have to pay out of the ass twice instead of once!
I don't understand, how can people lose the fricking GBA disc when it came with the hardware and it refused to work without it from day one?
It would be like if you bought a PC that could only connect to monitors using a proprietary cable and then losing the fricking cable
The average video game consumer is irresponsible as hell with their games and won't even keep their discs in their cases half the time. For the average joe the GBA player was a novelty that they used for a little bit and then never touched again, at which point they forget about the disc and lose it somewhere along the way.
>friend borrows my Skies of Arcadia. >Notice he still hasn't beaten it in a while. >ask for it back. >"yeah sure bro, but I think I might of packed it in my back room" >Back room is a mess of just piles of boxed up shit. >find my Gamecube with the disc still in it. No sign of the box. >"Yeah sorry, I'll look for it later Im just so busy"
1 year later and he still hasn't looked at all. Had I known at the time that the price of gamecube games had gone nuts I would of never lent it to him. I also realized my Harvest Moon: Magical Melody is not in its case, so Im praying its in the missing Skies of Arcadia case.
>0 bids on one >one is signed with OBO option but still won't sell >16 watchers yet still won't sell on one
I sell a lot on eBay and I can tell you that these are all overpriced by at least $100. Always look at the sold listings instead. On buy it now listings, watchers are just people who decided not to buy your item. You could have 100 watchers on it and it still ain't selling until you lower the price.
all my stuff are in tote boxes. so are the trashy chinese shelves on amazon decent? theres like little to no furniture store in my small town and the ones I do find are like $1000. and since ive brought it this up, might as well ask if the corner desks which are all made of particle boards/mdf are also decent/good enough. the one furniture close by I went doesnt even sell them on site its online only for some reason which I can also get on amazon
>second-hand /scrap shop is selling a mint condition Original PS3, the one that can play all PS1 & PS2 games as well.
Extremely fricking tempted to get it, since I don't think it would be too difficult to install a larger memory hard-drive or whatever.
>since I don't think it would be too difficult to install a larger memory hard-drive or whatever.
It's literally just a hatch on the side of the console that you pop open with a screw driver and you can dump in a new 2.5'' drive. The only annoying part of replacing a PS3's hard drive is the fact that the backup system is absolutely godawful, but if it's a new PS3 with nothing installed that you want to keep that doesn't matter.
The one thing that sucks about PS3's though is the system is too slow to take advantage of SSDs if I remember right. You cut out the spin up time but things wont load as fast as they could.
Frick yeah, go for it, you get actual PS2 compatibility, permanent custom firmware and more i/o. Make sure you clean it out and apply fresh thermal paste, it's pretty hot. You might have to replace the capacitors near the CPU and GPU at some point, although mine works fine since 2008.
If it's cheap then go for it and see. But there's a real risk of not actually enjoying playing any games on it, because it might sound like a vacuum cleaner/jet engine while running. Also the upscaling is not good for emulated PS/2 games, and will either look like blurry pixels, or completely smoothed over. They're much better emulated on PC.
I'd get one of the newer models with the better chips that generate less heat, and although it is possible to emulate older PS titles on those as well with some trouble, again I don't really recommend it.
the switch version of bayo 1 since it was exclusive to a fricking jap only special edition and I don't even want to see how expensive it is on the secondary market and also I can't read japanese
least I have the wiiu one
woah dude artificial scarcity of cheaply made plastic boxes
I hate LRG so much.
I love LRG so much. I buy every single Shantae release just to flip a year later. I've always sold for at leas 300% each time.
I hate the artificial scarcity aspect but I like the idea of large print to demand physical releases.
If I ran the company the popular shit would get additional print runs annually.
>make you pay for "adequate packaging" on LIMITED PRODUCTS unless you spend over $200 at once teehee :^)
>half the time, take forever to release the damn product to the point that other companies are able to release COMPLETE versions before they can release the BASE VERSION
>all their collectors editions are pure trash and made on the cheap. Sometimes the collectors editions require OTHER collectors editions to be considered "complete"
>will refuse to refund you. If you initiate a chargeback, they will blacklist your name and address so you can never order from them
>will sometimes just ship out digital codes instead of physical carts, which isTHE ENTIRE FRICKING POINT OF ORDERING A PHYSICAL COPY!!!
And even after all of this shti they'll buy it anyway
Sometimes I wish some country goes full moron and starts a nuclear holocaust.
When did they give out digital codes? Only thing like that ever happened to me was they also gave an eshop code for the switch version of Carrion when I ordered a physical copy
which turned out to be for nothing because Gamestop got copies of Carrion as well
They did it for one of the Shiren the wanderer releases. I believe for the Switch.
>will refuse to refund you. If you initiate a chargeback, they will blacklist your name and address so you can never order from them
Sounds based to me, refundhomosexualry is a blight on this hobby
>mfw still no way to own rebel galaxy outlaw physical on switch
I really thought they would pick it up since there's so few space games on the system & no man's sky is having it's multiplayer gutted ;_;
If they can print books to order how come they can’t print games to order?
I hate them too anon. They've ironically done more harm for physical retail than good.
>it's perfectly fine to wait several months or even years to get a game you paid full price for bro!
>it's perfectly fine to force someone to sign an arbitration contract on a pre-sale
>it's perfectly fine to completely frick over anyone who either wasn't aware of or couldn't make a small pre-order window and force them to pay an exorbitant amount later
>it's perfectly fine to practically monopolize publishing rights
>it's perfectly fine to instill FOMO into retail consumers bro when the whole point was supposed to be vidya preservation and making it readily available
Irony and contradiction are lost on this company and their countless imitators.
>buying physical media in 2022
lel
Hello Ubishit.
How many different slurs for semites are you chuds going to come up with
Shantae's have decent print runs or open preorders, it's just Shantae in itself has become collector bait due to the OG Gameboy one being the most valuable mass printed game on the system combined with the coomer factor and brown bellies. It's kind of like how Pokemon games were printed in huge margins and some of the highest selling titles in history but command some of the highest collector prices.
All because of the post lockdown every hobby became an investment nft scam pumped by established collectors and youtubers.
>All because of the post lockdown every hobby became an investment nft scam pumped by established collectors and youtubers.
I hate this. Why can't these fricks leave our hobbies alone? The comic book scene was damaged beyond repair because of these fricks, and now they're doing the same thing to our vidya.
>why are the israelites trying to subjugate the goyim?
Why do beavers build dams?
It shouldn't have to be this way though.
I just wish Wayforward would find a better publisher than LRG.
lol wayforward is definitely complicit in this, they know artificially limiting supply they'll make the most money
Gotta make that dollar. Wayforward is smart like that, even if it is a little scummy.
How is the secondary market earning WayForward money, exactly?
Not him, but if you pay attention you can easily tell that Wayforward and Limited Run have some kind of under the table contract. They don't DIRECTLY benefit from second hand sales, but Limited Run DOES profit from scalpers buying up overpriced special editions to flip, and WF probably gets some kind of kickback out of it, publicity or otherwise, in order to keep them from going somewhere else.
Remember that WF had multiple, non-LR publishers publish SatPC on the the 3DS physically, and then XSEED for HGH, but ever since LR got their hands on them they quit going to other publishers, save for Arc System Works for the Asian physical copies of Seven Sirens and MSF Collection. Most likely due to Limited Run not having much presence in that market so they (LR) don't really care as their consumer base probably doesn't know what Playasia is.
>their consumer base probably doesn't know what Playasia is.
It’s worse than that, look up the #SwitchCorps collectorgays and they’ll outright say Asian English releases are official bootlegs because it undermines their LRG physical copies. It’s the dumbest shit. Besides usually the Asian releases are more up to date on cart.
who's talking about the secondary market
They are directly selling more copies at full price using FOMO and collector/scalper bait
If they simply used bestbuy and gamestop shantae games would be bargain bin $10 games
>Why do beavers build dams?
They do it because they are based. Let's not compare them with parasites.
That's just capitalism, as long as there is demand, there will be someone to exploit it for profit.
>Shittae anything
WayBackward are such fricking art gaym hacks
Shantae games aren't that good.
Pirate's Curse is the only good game in the series.
Makes sense for scalpers to mark this game up so high.
>buy the scott pilgrim set from LRG
>takes for FRICKING ever because of "quality checking"
>the fricking manual just stops partway through
never felt more scammed than I have from them
>the fricking manual just stops partway through
Fricking hell, really?
It’s not as dramatic as that guy makes it sound but yeah, it cuts off at one point.
Sloppy work. Where's the quality control with LRG?
They haven’t had quality control since they started releasing Switch games, though to be fair they were already fricking up Vita releases 2 years into it.
>Didn't buy Scott Pilgrim because money was tight and they said BestBuy were going to get copies
>For fricking months I had to sit there waiting for these supposed BestBuy copies to phase into existence so the Ebay resellers can drop their fricking prices
>mfw waiting paid off and copies go for fairly cheap now. Even then I don't even want to buy it anymore since RCPS3 can emulate it pretty well and turns out I hate it
Are physical gays just trying to perpetuate the idea that buying physical is the best thing to do just about to keep their assets relevant?
Probably. Sucks it has come to this. The once simple act of buying a physically videogame has been turned in to a luxury.
It's a limited run you fricking dipshit, should've bought it when you had the chance.
>t. EA shill
Please own nothing and be happy!
I'm a physical gay and I wish the value of this shit would plummet again. I never intend to sell my personal collection, so I don't care about its "value", but it's impossible to pick up old games without breaking the bank these days. I miss the days when yard sale pricing was the norm. Now everyone and their grandma sells everything for 150% of MSRP minimum, even if it's shovelware trash. Forget about the actual quality games. Hopefully the "market" tanks.
>Games you'll never hope to own physically.
Let me think, all of them? I legitimately cannot name a single game I would want to own physically. I guess if arcade cabinets count as games I might want a few of those, a 1 man tate candy cab and maybe a couple of light gun titles wouldn't be too bad. For everything else? There's emulation.
I can understand, and somewhat agree with your mindset.
emulation makes all game easily available, but I grew up when game were physical and you actually owned the games you bought.
Am I silly for thinking this? Maybe, but physical games have a charm digital games will never have.
I'll never understand the "charm" of having to hunt through a drawer or shelf for a case only to find the game isn't in it because you put it back somewhere else last time. Meanwhile I can boot up a digital version in the time it takes to type the first 3 characters of the name.
The only part of physical games I like is the manuals. But that's not enough to bother having a collection of them.
>having to hunt through a drawer or shelf for a case only to find the game isn't in it because you put it back somewhere else last time
That sounds like a you problem. I keep everything nice and organized on my bookshelf, and when I'm not playing the game, it goes back in it's case.
You've never taken a game out to play it, opened the console, and found another game inside that you forgot to put away? Sometimes you don't want to go looking for the case for it, sometimes you just put it in the case of the game you're about to play instead.
Even if you don't ever misplace a game, you still have to look for them. You still have to put the case back in the same place after you're done so you can find it next time. It's just added hassle, not to mention how shit CD based media is.
It sound like you're just a disorganized person, anon.
>not to mention how shit CD based media is.
I mostly collect cartage based games, but the few CD games I do have are in wonderful shape. As long as you are carful and not a clumsy ape, CDs are fine.
The CD itself might be fine, the disc drive? That's another matter. Last time I played my PS1 the disc skipped and the music just stopped playing in Time Crisis. Never used it since, and I never will again. Just a dogshit fricking medium, I'm glad it's dead.
Just repair your ps1? It's not hard.
If you need help, the fine folks at /vr/ got your back. I learned a lot about retro console maintenance from those anons.
Even if I keep all my lasers in tip top condition, the actual state of CD media is bad. Slow loading times, loud drives. It made sense back when flash media wasn't capable of storing X amount of data. It's worthless in the modern day, which is why all my consoles have ODEs and I run all my games off SD cards.
Have you tried putting your ps1 upside down?
No loser, all of my games are on a shelf organized alphabetically by series name. It takes .2 seconds to find the right case and put the game in it. If it isn't in the console it's in the case on the self. Do the tiny bit of work now to save large amounts of work later.
>I'll never understand the "charm" of having to hunt through a drawer or shelf for a case only to find the game isn't in it because you put it back somewhere else last time.
Why would anyone ever do this? Surely everyone here put their games back in the case, rather than just putting it into a different case or letting it lie around like a subhuman?
Subhuman website you chonker
>Being disorganized with your games
Really? Don't start crying when the digital shop inevitably dies and your games are gone alone with it.
>>the digital shop inevitably dies and your games are gone
Based piratebro always wins in the end. If it wasn't for them, so many PS3/360/Wiiware/WiiU/3DS games would've been lost.
moron Black person
>PS3
Store still works
>360
Store still works
>Nintendo
No fricking idea cause i don't have nintendo stuff.
Digital for convenience now, piracy, custom firmware and emulation for posterity.
>buying anything from LRG
at that point you're no better than buying anything from EA or ubisoft
anyways, did you know buying a copy of Tail Concerto off of ebay could also get you a PS5?
Is Tail Concerto at least a good videogame?
I would hate to pay THAT much for mediocre vidya.
it's an early 3d platformer that tried to copy the controls of mario 64, but feels like the mech stages from sonic adventure 2. It's also a pretty short game, you could beat it in under 5-6 hours. The only reason I want it is because I beat the game on an emulator once
just making an observation
who the frick wants a ps5?
Actual gamers?
>decide I want to finish off my Metroid collection one day by picking up a physical copy of Prime 2 and Hunters
>look at the prices and the condition of the listings on ebay
>90+ bucks for cases that are ass, cover art that's weirdly scuffed in spots, shitty manuals (or none at all), etc.
>see a Hunters listing with everything included except the game isn't actually there but rather the First Hunt demo and there's nothing in the description
Absolutely ridiculous, even seeing how much CIB Metroid Prime Pinball goes for made me laugh since I remember people sleeping on it and making fun of it back then despite it being a great game and now it sells for $100+.
The retro game market is a joke and piracy is more than acceptable for older games at this point.
I'm just waiting for the bubble to pop at this point. This lunacy can't go on forever.
The only way to stop the madness is to rerelease games and not botch the port too
Metal Wolf Chaos used to go for an easy $120+ before the HD remaster got announced. Now you're lucky if you can even sell it for over $80.
>GameCube is retro to zoomers
It's been 20 years
And the other consoles have gotten even older. So the standard for retro is now older.
Not how it works, but go off.
You are a zoomer.
I'm 37 years old
Do not respond to the butthurt /vr/ poster.
I have a sealed copy of Shantae: Pirate's Curse for Switch that I was lucky enough to get on LRG's website.
Good for you, anon.
Good for you.
I can't be too mad, i was lucky enough to snag a 3DS copy a few years back when they were cheapish, but I would kill to have a switch copy.
Same. I sold mine a while ago to a local game store for like $300 and it's been sitting on their shelf for years now
I really should have grabbed a 3DS copy while it was cheap. I like having the items on the second screen.
IM STILLLL IN A DREAM SNAKE EATERRRRRR
Fricking furry tax strikes again.
What's a furry tax? It's funny either way
>Retro game with cute animal people that appeal to furries?
>Yep, that's a easy 300% markup
i saw that game in a youtube video in like 2016 and bought it for $25 lol is it really that expensive now
Use your eyes man thank God for melonds hopefully the troony responsible don't kill himself over it
It's like they are playing WoW Auction House irl
AHHHH WHY DIDNT I BUY THIS SHIT 7 YEARS AGO WHEN I HAD THE CHANCE
>tfw bought a sealed copy for $100 and never opened it
I did play the game I just did on a flash cart.
I bought it because I'm a .hack fan and wanted to play CC2's other original IPs. They're pretty comfy. Also solatorobo sold like shit in NA so of course it was going to command a huge pricetag as a cult hit. It's the Misadventures of Tron Bonne of the DS.
Chud file
Barbamon is the literal embodiment of greed in Digimon's setting and canonically drawn as a israeli stereotype so it's perfectly acceptable even if I were likeminded to your type.
>3 Reddit notifications
Anon..
There's still a slight chance as long as it ain't empress I'd take the chance if I were you
A physical copy of a video game is basically just a collectible but way lamer than a figure or even poster
Frick meant to attach this image to the post
That's like a $60 game what's the issue
already downloaded it cuz i didn't want to wait for shipping, but i love having physical copies of games
Played this shit on steam and the game fricking sucks. Got pretty far then it started sending me on dumbass fetch quests through zones I've already completed, so I stopped playing. Cool art and character design but ISHYGD actually play these games.
Thankfully touhous still affordable I Have all 18 games on a flash drive but it's nice to have a physical copy to burn onto my pc
Please write two full pages, in Cambria 12pt, on how your life would change from owning this piece of clear plastic with with a paper insert.
>Limited run
aka a gigantic scam to get morons like (you) to buy moronic physical editions to sit on a shelf because that what moronic coolectors do, buy a bunch of shit they will never play and put it on a shelf.
If you want to play this shitty game no one is stopping you from playing it. It's on multiple consoles you fricktard. Why do you want some stupid fricking case to sit on a shelf?
All the Shantae games are readily available, its not like the original GBC game that was hard to find, and buggy in emulation. Of course even now the original game was touched up and is available digitally as well so even that doesn't even matter anymore. Something about this series brings out the autism.
>All the Shantae games are readily available
But physical Pirate's Curse copies aren't. That's why they're $500 a pop now.
That's great but you don't need a physical copy. If you really have an attachment complex and need something to call your own you can buy it from gog for $20 and put the exe on a flashdrive. You'll be okay without a big box on your shelf you'll never touch, I promise.
And if you really need something on your shelf, buy some merch that's actually meant for fans, and not expressly designed to benefit scammers and scalpers.
There's a retail 3DS version, too, that's a lot cheaper second-hand
>buy a bunch of shit they will never play and put it on a shelf
As opposed to buying a bunch of shit online and never playing them again after just one playthrough?
At least it got played in that scenario.
I cannot wait for the market to crash on physical games and a bunch of morons to lose money.
How long do we have to wait?
Two weeks.
>Want Pikmin 2 because I missed out on it
>Hasn't been ported to switch
>Options are a Wii version that's around $50 or a gamecube version around $80
Yeah yeah, I could emulate it if I really wanted to play it but it still makes me mad that I can't just walk into a local game shop and get a copy of a 20 year old game for $15-20 anymore.
We didn't know how good we had it. Just a few years ago it was like this, you could walk into a gamestop / eb games / local retro store and get old games for <$20 a piece.
Even fricking GBA games are now selling for like $50 minimum for most of the popular titles, and really popular games like Metroid fusion for example are $70+.
Yeah, this is all too solved by getting an EZ flash and just loading up every game ever made onto it, but still.... it just sucks that there's so much fricking collector buttholes these days buying up everything.
Why not just buy a Wii for 20 bucks and install CFW on it?
Best bet is keeping an eye open for garage sales, you can get stupidly cheap prices with a bit of bargaining and depending on how much the seller is willing to get rid of something.
>or a gamecube version around $80
If that's with the case, that's not that massive of a price increase. I remember paying $60 for a CIB copy back in the early 2010s.
>0 bids
apparently no one wants to own it
I acquired it digitally somehow, I think through Nintendo rewards, but damn wtf?
Fronks are big business.
the frick? Why is a Wii U game so expensive?
There's a bunch of shitty Wii U games that are really expensive now because people want to have a full collection of Wii U games.
games that sold so fricking badly that stock got recalled and destroyed. Happened to Devil's Third too.
Almost happened to Star Fox Zero too but I guess people found stock of it so now you can buy it sealed for like 20$ on ebay.
Why?
Seriously, what is the explanation for this? It looks like a really shitty game, is it shelfwarmer morons that have to "coomplete" their "coolections?"
They literally just enter a big number and then call themselves investors or collectors or hodl bros
These prices have 0 ground in reality and you can probably find these game in bargain bins and garage sales if you just look for a while
They just see other idiots try to sell them for stupid amounts and then go "me too"
You know what puzzles me, I know I have a few games that go over 100 bucks but I would never understand why people would ever buy them at that price unless its for reselling them later on. A lot of them are pretty shitty or fricking short, it just sucks that there is this mentality of owning shit and the scalpers taking advantage of the companies sitting on a lot of these games that could be released easily at least on PSN/eShop/Steam/Xbox Live (I know pirating is an option but many don't seem to go for it)
The only people buying games are buying them just for the sake of sitting them on a shelf and pretending like they've played them.
You see so many of these types of people, for example the morons that have to own every single physical switch game along with stupid ass limited run editions and shit. All to just sit on a shelf so they can brag about their collection, while never actually playing any of the games because no one alive has the free time to play 1000 fricking switch games to completion, even if they were a turbo-NEET like I am, there's no one with the free time to play all of these games they collect, and yet they do it just to have a bunch of bullshit on a shelf. God it pisses me off.
To me, a games collection should only exist of games you actually like / have played. It's something that grows over time, and yeah maybe sometimes you go back and buy some older games you didn't play in order to play them on the original hardware, that's what I do from time to time and it pisses me off how expensive the used game market has become because people like me are getting priced out of some classic games.
>The only people buying games are buying them just for the sake of sitting them on a shelf and pretending like they've played them.
Some people have more money than sense these days. Why buy a game you're not going to play?
because they have to brag about it and show them off on Youtube.
Then the video gets millions of views and other morons start doing the same thing.
That's no longer collecting, that's hoarding.
Isn't the entire fricking point of taking pride in a video game collection is that it boils down to how it reflects your personal taste i.e. quality over quantity? Is this what a midlife crisis does to a motherfricker? There's a monumental line in the sand no, an all-consuming cavernous void, between collecting your typical things like cards, figurines, coins, comics, and the like but what fulfillment comes with owning a fricking storage unit of shovelware such as that Barbie game shown in the first minute?
It reminds me of the craze of gamerscore during the Xbox 360 era. You had guys that were literally buying barbie horse games just to get 1000 gamerscore.
I mean at least those guys were actually playing the games in their collection, as bad as those games were, they were getting played lol
A highly personalized collection will always be better than some idiot buying everything for the sake of buying everything.
This is one of these house fires waiting to happen
I've been collecting games for over 30 years, I have over 4,000 games (mostly digital) and have beaten over 2,200. Almost all of my physical games are beaten, just 11 to go. I like to have my big shelves full of games so I can use it like a library. In fact I'm going to be reorganizing my collection soon to be mixed with my music CDs and books all in alphabetical order, feeling a chaotic desire.
>To me, a games collection should only exist of games you actually like / have played
Thank god im not the only one with this mindset
I didn't even consider myself a collector until very recently, I just bought physical copies of games because I lived close to a place that sold them cheaply and at the time flashcarts were moronic expensive (over $250 minimum)
I guess after a while I realized "Well if I have nearly 300 games, obsess to keep them in good condition with things like box protectors, have multiple collectors guides, and buy collectors editions somewhat frequently I'm probably a collector"
I really don't like collector buttholes that just buy for the sake of putting it on the shelf or worse buy it for the sake of price speculation.
nice i have that one
Give it to me.
I want to insert it in to my switch.
Imagine paying hundreds of dollars for a plastic box. Physicalgays are pathetic.
Also LRG is a proven scam.
Is the only reason Shantae is popular coomers? The games themselves are average.
Yes.
Yep.
>200 dollarydoos for a common PS2 game
I didn't want to stop emulating anyway
Holy shit, Tenkaichi 3 is being scalped too?!
Now I'm even more thankful that I didn't get rid of my childhood copy.
I have a lot of valuable games that I got by accident, simply by not getting rid of my old games. I have Rule of Rose and cannot fathom why anyone would want to pay hundreds of dollars for it, because it’s not very good.
>cannot fathom why anyone would want to pay hundreds of dollars for it, because it’s not very good.
YouTubers hyping it up, that's why.
one of the only big games I'm missing from my collection that still I really want is pokemon colosseum. Pokemon tax + gamecube tax is a fricking spicy combo, jesus christ.
The secondhand market for Pokémon is absolutely fricked.
I'll never be able to own a copy of soul silver because of it.
To think I had physical copies of soul silver and heart gold back in the late 2000s. I sold them along with my DS Lite in order to pay for a 3DS in 2011. I sold so many of my DS games for like 15 each... the frick man. I only had around 20 DS games but still, I think about that considering how much many are worth now.
But I mean man, if you really want it, just buy a reproduction cart on ebay for $15. That's what I did when I wanted to replay it.
>just buy a reproduction cart
I heard that those bug out a lot though.
Had no issues with the heart gold / soul silver carts I bought on ebay. I've bought many reproduction carts to avoid the used game prices over the years without any issues.
what I find funny about pokemon is how a lot of the early gens are surprisingly cheap. Like RBY and GS aren't bad, and RS are still kind of reasonable, but then you look at like platinum and it's fricking 300$
I’m guessing gens 1 & 2 are still relatively cheap is because you can’t forward transfer to Gen 3 and up from the original carts. But if that guy that’s making the GB to GBA link cable converter thing that makes trades possible between gens 2 and 3 mass produces them then prices may go up more.
Feels good to have CFW’d consoles so I don’t have to pay the goy tax
Agreed.
First it was to preserve digital games and to run out-of-region titles, but nowadays you need CFW if you want to fricking backup your savedata, for frick's sake.
I have a Wii and I'm gonna consider doing it finally. I'm also going to get a backlit screen for my original GBA and get a flashcart. I've waited too long to do this shit.
Pirates Curse is a real kick in the nuts because that was the only Shantae title on switch they released under their old system of preordering where they made 5,000 copies and if you wanted it you had to spam cart refresh and hope you got a copy in the ten second frenzy.
Every other Shantae game they put out was under the much more reasonable open-preorder system they have currently. And if that isn't enough those frickers REALLY like to have Shantae, they're constantly releasing something Shantae related just to remind you of that one games existence.
Just get a 3DS copy, that version isn't scalped as hard.
I gave my 3DS away to a friend that was moving because I played pretty much everything I wanted on it and was bored of the system
That's why you always hold on to your consoles.
You never know when a game you want to play will pop up.
To be honest even though I'm generally a pretty big hoarder when it comes to games I don't miss my 3DS that much. Kindof felt liberating to give it away, and I say that as someone with almost 300 physical games right now. I really don't care for playing on handhelds much anymore.
emulation
I've long stopped caring about my physical copies in light of it. Now they just collect dust until I randomly decide to sell them or some urban youth steals them
I'd like to own some Silent Hill games, but they are all pretty expensive. Fortunately I have Silent Hill 2 on 360 (has the Restless Dreams content) and Silent Hill 3 on PS2. I am missing Silent Hill, Silent Hill 4, and Shattered Memories.
I found a vinyl record while thrifting recently that is worth almost $500 because of its rarity. It got me thinking about the whole retro coomlector bubble. at least with this record I can sort of understand why someone would pay that since it cant be replicated, but these "rare" retro games people pay out the ass for can easily be pirated, even if you want to play on original hardware and they will run exactly the same way. It just makes no fricking sense
Basically NFTs
at least NFTs have actual rarity, even if its artificial. almost none of the expensive games you see people cooming for are actually rare kek. there are tons of ACTUALLY rare games that are barely worth anything because nobody knows about them. the demand is just so absurdly high that it drives up the price.
>Bangai-O on N64 is a great game believed to only have 10,000 copies made
>Clayfighter sculptors cut is a shit tier game that is believed to have 20,000 copies made
>Bangai-O is about $160
>Sculptor's cut is over $1,000 because it's more hyped up by the collecting scene despite having twice as many copies made
>Great games cost less that shitty games
I dont see the problem here
It's not a problem at all, I just think it's funny. I even own a copy of Bangai-o N64, it's a fun game.
You know I've been eyeing that exact Looney tunes box set just last night, I want to get a copy. How's the picture quality? I know it's just DVD but DVD quality can vary hugely, especially for Cartoons (Genndy Clone wars having nearly blu-ray quality vs Family Guy DVDs having color bleed and frame stutters out the wazoo)
Also good picks on the Watamote Blu Ray and Cowboy Bebop steelbook. I got the CB steelbook signed by Beau and Steve at Megacon 2022 and Watamote made me realize what an autistic spaz I was when I watched it years ago
>How's the picture quality?
Pretty good, haven't noticed any of the problems that you listed for the family guy DVDs
Frick it, might as well post everything else i have
And here are the rest of what i got
Oh shit you have the disney club exclusive bluray of Goofy Movies
6 hours later here. Just wanted to say I appreciate you having escape from New York.
Loving the collection
Thanks man, I just wish i had the extra shelf space so i can correctly organize my collection and make it less convoluted than it does now.
maybe so anon, maybe so
>early Simpsons
>Hey Arnold
>Idiocracy
>Rocko
>Emperor's New Groove
>Tex Avery
>A Goofy Movie
In another timeline, we would've been friends anon.
ive collected a number of games. most of them because i want to actually play them.
I will at least say that if something is expensive, theres no shame in getting a reproduction cart made. i have one of Dracula X and E.V.O. as well as an English version of Megaman and Bass for SNES
>I am technologically illiterate
I agree that it's bizarre to be a literal shelf collector who fetishizes collecting physical manifestations of video games to the detriment of actually playing and enjoying them. Some people really are like that, though. On the other hand, having a nice, curated collection that is an eclectic mix of essential classics and personal picks of games you've actually played is just proof that you're serious about your hobby and have good taste. It's not that long ago when physical copies were more or less mandatory even if you pirated with burnt disks, and the legacy of that matters to a lot of boomers including myself. I don't by any means need a physical copy to actually play and enjoy a game but I love buying them anyway as long as they're not obscenely expensive.
Its 2022, we can emulate the connection between different systems.
Anyone who still fawns over physical of a game that can be emulated is either a moron or a scammer.
>he doesn't fawn over trading card peripherals that unlock content in international versions of said physical games
fricking casual
Is this the physical media coomlection thread?
>stacking games vertically, putting all that stress and shelf wear on the bottom games
>not sorting your games alphabetically, especially for the switch where they all have the same fricking spine
theyre plastic cases, not boxes. they arent heavy enough to cause any damage stacked like that. if youre autistic enough to care about shelf wear then you might as well not even have them displayed on a shelf at all
>stacking games vertically
Well what else are they gonna do? Install another shelf for that extra batch of games? That's time and effort that could instead be spent on consooming more products
Sadly i dont have enough shelf space to place them normally so they gotta stay there for now, also i dont really care about alphabetical order as my collection is not large enough to warrant alphabetical ordering tbqh
Alright anon. I see the anime. Now tell me, what hentai do you enjoy and or own as well?
Nah i dont own any hentai. Ecchi anime however i do own.
>bluray
Even though no hentai your ecchi collection is still nice and having darkstalkers on bluray w/ your Looney Tunes and Tom & Jerry collection plus others. Respectable. You'd be a comfy man to chill and watch tv with
Pedestrian, but respectable if only for the cartoons you have.
Not worthy of praise or condemnation, just eh.
i didn't know that Ueno was released in the west
i fricking need it
https://www.sentaifilmworks.com/products/how-clumsy-you-are-miss-ueno-complete-collection-blu-ray
It's on sale rn too
>Superjail collection
Nice
Love collecting for the Switch
Simple as
Brown and poor the thread
Nintendo's frickup with XC3's limited edition astounds me because I bought the XC2 limited edition like a month after release at a fricking Target for MSRP, and it's honestly one of the most underwhelming limited editions I've owned. You're just paying for a shitty steelbook and an oversized artbook.
So the fact that the XC3's LE sold out instantly and that people are scalping it and dumbasses are buying scalped copies really opens my eyes on the absolute moronation of nintendo fanboys.
WHY DID YOU REMIND OF HOW BADLY THEY FRICKED UP WITH XENOBLADE 3 I STILL WANT A COPY
Dont fricking buy it, save your money, it's a shitty LE because it looks identical to XC2's and that was also fricking shit.
But I like the Steelbook and artbook, they're cool and don't hog up my limited shelf space
It doesn't even include the expansion pass, it's a fricking scam that Nintendo of America fricked up by some miracle.
>tfw I have xeno 1/2 LE and couldn't get 3
I can't believe all these homosexuals bought this shit to scalp it
harvest moon and tron bonne for me, but atleast i have valkyrie profile. maybe in the future if i have spare cash and i find a good deal. i've sold a good bunch of my games since theres a lot of good shit nowadays you can use to play on real hardware, like those ez carts that ive been hearing about, so ill only keep the stuff i like the most.
morons have been doing this for a long time and I doubt anyone buys them except even bigger morons.
If these do sell, they have to be moving at a glacial rate.
Dragon Quest IV, V, and VI on DS. I should've bought them back two or so years ago when they were $50-$80 a peice. Now they are all well over $150.
I saw DQV for 300 yesterday
I recently bought $50 worth of resealable comic-book style bags for all my vidya so I wouldn't have to wipe dust off the games or worry if someone puts their thumb on the label when holding a game
I also have nearly-crippling autism
lol just fricking print the cover sheet and slide it into an empty case. It's not like games come with inserts anymore. Then get the game digitally. Virtually no difference, besides the waste of SD plastic.
It is absolutely fricking tiring how many "nerdy" collectibles have shot up in value due to youtubers, scalpers, and the like. These fricks will see one post selling for 500 dollars and then the next day there's 20 pages of said item selling for 500. Nevermind the fact that that original 500 dollar item has been sitting there untouched for months— no! If one post says it's worth 500, ALL are worth 500! No one who actually wants to buy can afford it, and the only people who will actually pay that price are morons who have more money than what they know what do do with, or speculators. Actual fricking clown shit.
>No one who actually wants to buy can afford it
There are completed listings, moron.
Money launderers are not gamers.
Hey physicalcucks:
What do you do if you have a fire, flood, and/or tornado?
Won't happen to me :^)
I fricking hate capitalism so much.
Everything is an investment, the only value anything has is for the sake of obtaining more value while the ignorant masses gobble up whatever corporations shit on their plate.
Want a house to live in? FRICK NO that shit is for buying up to resell for profit later!
Want a nice car to drive? FRICK YOU why are you buying something that loses its value as soon as it leaves the lot?!
Want to make a digital currency for the common person to utilize without going through israeli banks? FRICK YOU that bitcoin is just a fricking investment to create more value out of thin air!
Literally everything is just an investment to gamble with under this moronic system.
Even fricking people and their labor is just a fricking investment to whoever is atop the pyramid scheme.
it doesn't matter what ism we live under or what game we play. Sociopaths and metagamers will always exist and will always suck the fun out of everything.
I fricking hate people. If God were real and they were benevolent, they'd just smite all these homosexual powergamers and usher in a golden era
troony cope
>FRICK YOU that bitcoin is just a fricking investment to create more value out of thin air!
You sound like a bitter homosexual that isn't mad about the system, you are mad at not being ontop of it
>Want to make a digital currency for the common person to utilize without going through israeli banks? FRICK YOU that bitcoin is just a fricking investment to create more value out of thin air!
Gee, it's almost as if Monopoly money that any Pajeet can whip up in under an hour and rugpull before 30 minutes pass is worthless and untrustworthy.
Hey mortalcucks:
What do you do if you die?
But I won't?
I work in a charity shop in Bongland, every now and then a mother will come in and dump her son's collection of old vidya games without much of a second thought. Probably didn't even let the poor guy know.
Usually it's generic PS3 games only worth a few bucks or sports games from 2011 that not a soul will ever buy, but now and then we get some real gems. I feel bad for the guys who had it given away.
>get a collection of weeb/Japanese games for the PS3/4
>haven't even heard of most of them
>going for £50-100 on ebay each
>some cool and rare shit is in there too, not just weeb stuff. Like a perfect condition, limited edition version of Shadow of the Colossus for PS2
>sometimes a box full of old games will only be worth like ~£20 to us, in this case we made like £500
I'm the only one there who knows anything about games, I think before me they would just put everything out for the usual £2-£5 each.
Also this is your friendly reminder to check your local charity shop, if they're run by little old ladies and not teenage volunteers, sometimes you can find some massively under-priced games.
90% of our customers are also old ladies and women, so these games can sit there for weeks.
I sold most of my games over 10 years ago and this is my biggest mistake, I sold it for 100€ and now it's worth at least 4 times as much.
Well, I guess I just saved myself 500 bucks.
>My Gamecube controller broke
>Only had the one
>Go out on Amazon, Ebay and local retro sites to find a replacement
>All of them sell Gamecube controllers for atleast 60 bucks per unit, more if they are not in bad shape
>Try to find the Re-released ones that Nintendo made for Smash 4 and Ultimate
>They somehow cost upwards of 85 bucks
>Look up chink alternatives
>20-25 bucks, not bad
>Every single one of them have nothing but 2 star or worse ratings as people verbally shit on them in the comments for their worse than shit quality
>Decide to buy one anyway since it's better than nothing I guess
>It arrives non functional
Holy fricking shit, I just want to play my Gamecube for another year before I give it a permanent home in my storage unit, I can sort of understand that these controllers are expensive since they are in such limited supply but how not a single one of those bugfrickers in chinkland have been able to make even ONE decent replica of the GC controllers are fricking astonishing. Wavebirds are even more expensive, the cheapest ones I can find from even just passibly reputable sources that won't take 6 fricking months to get to me costs atleast 105 bucks
Good third party controllers are just hard to come by in general. When you're a kid and too shit at games to understand the difference, you don't care. But as an adult you can feel when it's fricking wrong. Case in point I tried to cheap out with a no-name chink made Gamecube controller some years ago and I immediately regretted it. Thankfully that was when the first wave of smash branded Gamecube controllers were recent, so I went down to Gamestop and got one. Funny story, it was actually a basically unused one that got returned because the last owner couldn't make it work. The clerk tried to warn me that those controllers were unusable on Wiis, but it was perfectly good in the end. So I got mine at a discount because it was open box. Still have it to this day, and the moment anything breaks on it I'm just going to do self repair.
>do self repair.
I'd have to replace the cable and cap since my mothers dog chewed the plug and a bit of the cable to pieces when she was visiting. Finding just replacment parts is fricking impossible where I live unless I chance it and buy atleast 20 cables and plugs from some random chink on Aliexpress since they refuse to make them unless I order them in bulk
Ouch, that is a bit more complicated. Assuming you can soldier, have you tried ebay? A cursory search for replacement cables has shown listings for about 7 bucks a pop.
I did, but none of the ones I found shipped to where I live (I live in a small town in the middle of nowhere in Europe) and many of them refuse to send to a PO box for some fricking reason.
All is good now though, I managed to find a retro store in my country that sold GC "extension" cables for 4 bucks a piece that should work just fine as a cable replacement even though I lose almost half of the original lenght of the cable. Now I just hope that my soldering skills aren't so shit that I break the logic board on the controller itself as I solder the new cable onto it
Well that kind of stinks but I also understand it because international shipping prices in burgerland are ridiculous. Old-ish example from the mid 2010s but still
>could get a package shipped from Japan to the US in three fricking days for less than $30
>untracked snail mail for the exact same package back to Japan was close to $70
Considering our postal service is allegedly hemorrhaging money I don't know how Japan does it but god bless them for it.
Breh, looks like I'm fucing rich.
>Look up how much a Gamecube GBA player costs in my region
>Without the disc (which makes the thing unusable) people still want 90 bucks for it
What in the everloving frick?
There are homebrew solutions for the GBA player that work better, though you'll still be stuck paying a premium if you don't already have the action replay required to make it all work.
>Don't worry, you'll only have to pay out of the ass twice instead of once!
I don't understand, how can people lose the fricking GBA disc when it came with the hardware and it refused to work without it from day one?
It would be like if you bought a PC that could only connect to monitors using a proprietary cable and then losing the fricking cable
The average video game consumer is irresponsible as hell with their games and won't even keep their discs in their cases half the time. For the average joe the GBA player was a novelty that they used for a little bit and then never touched again, at which point they forget about the disc and lose it somewhere along the way.
Yes, it's bullshit.
>friend borrows my Skies of Arcadia.
>Notice he still hasn't beaten it in a while.
>ask for it back.
>"yeah sure bro, but I think I might of packed it in my back room"
>Back room is a mess of just piles of boxed up shit.
>find my Gamecube with the disc still in it. No sign of the box.
>"Yeah sorry, I'll look for it later Im just so busy"
1 year later and he still hasn't looked at all. Had I known at the time that the price of gamecube games had gone nuts I would of never lent it to him. I also realized my Harvest Moon: Magical Melody is not in its case, so Im praying its in the missing Skies of Arcadia case.
>0 bids on one
>one is signed with OBO option but still won't sell
>16 watchers yet still won't sell on one
I sell a lot on eBay and I can tell you that these are all overpriced by at least $100. Always look at the sold listings instead. On buy it now listings, watchers are just people who decided not to buy your item. You could have 100 watchers on it and it still ain't selling until you lower the price.
I just don't know when to stop pirating bros
Anything on the Dreamcast worth playing.
What storage medium could even hold a modern game in its entirety?
all my stuff are in tote boxes. so are the trashy chinese shelves on amazon decent? theres like little to no furniture store in my small town and the ones I do find are like $1000. and since ive brought it this up, might as well ask if the corner desks which are all made of particle boards/mdf are also decent/good enough. the one furniture close by I went doesnt even sell them on site its online only for some reason which I can also get on amazon
>second-hand /scrap shop is selling a mint condition Original PS3, the one that can play all PS1 & PS2 games as well.
Extremely fricking tempted to get it, since I don't think it would be too difficult to install a larger memory hard-drive or whatever.
>since I don't think it would be too difficult to install a larger memory hard-drive or whatever.
It's literally just a hatch on the side of the console that you pop open with a screw driver and you can dump in a new 2.5'' drive. The only annoying part of replacing a PS3's hard drive is the fact that the backup system is absolutely godawful, but if it's a new PS3 with nothing installed that you want to keep that doesn't matter.
The one thing that sucks about PS3's though is the system is too slow to take advantage of SSDs if I remember right. You cut out the spin up time but things wont load as fast as they could.
Frick yeah, go for it, you get actual PS2 compatibility, permanent custom firmware and more i/o. Make sure you clean it out and apply fresh thermal paste, it's pretty hot. You might have to replace the capacitors near the CPU and GPU at some point, although mine works fine since 2008.
If it's cheap then go for it and see. But there's a real risk of not actually enjoying playing any games on it, because it might sound like a vacuum cleaner/jet engine while running. Also the upscaling is not good for emulated PS/2 games, and will either look like blurry pixels, or completely smoothed over. They're much better emulated on PC.
I'd get one of the newer models with the better chips that generate less heat, and although it is possible to emulate older PS titles on those as well with some trouble, again I don't really recommend it.
whats the correct way to organize? alphabetically? genre? or dev/publisher?
I have it and I've played it twice
Shantae fricking sucks
the switch version of bayo 1 since it was exclusive to a fricking jap only special edition and I don't even want to see how expensive it is on the secondary market and also I can't read japanese
least I have the wiiu one
Stopped giving a frick about physical.
I'll die before they strip me off of my digital games.