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[covfefe2020]

I'm moving states in a few days and as I pack I am agonizing over what to bring with me to my new teeny dwelling and what to leave at my parents house. My Switch and Gameboy / DS collections are no brainers due to how little space they take up, but after that I get stuck up. For months I was so sure that I would bring my PS3 to play on my desk HDTV / Monitor and finally grind through Assassins Creed, Arkham City, Fallout 3, Skyrim, and maybe start the COD games, but I just lost the interest a few days ago. After that I thought I would bring my newly acquired Xbox One X (despite only owning battlefront 2015) to play through my 360 and OG xbox backlog, but today I found out that Halo CE and 2 weren't on its backwards compatibility list! Once again and with the consult of my friends I realized I should let go of the pack-rat urge to think I will need every game lest I end up bored (unlikely seeing as I spend most of my free time on bluesky and minecraft). I am going back and forth on whether to bring my Gamecube so that I can grind Pokemon Colosseum and listen to podcasts, but probably won't.

Hopefully I DO miss the mass of my game collection, and in my boredom I resort to going through my PC backlog (Half Life 2, KOTOR, Fallout). I look forward to visiting my girlfriend's house and finally beating my run of Persona 5 golden I started on her ps4 four years ago.

Have any of you guys had to deal with long term separation from your collections?

[ssj4yamgeta]

I'm moving states in a few days and as I pack I am agonizing over what to bring with me to my new teeny dwelling and what to leave at my parents house. My Switch and Gameboy / DS collections are no brainers due to how little space they take up, but after that I get stuck up. For months I was so sure that I would bring my PS3 to play on my desk HDTV / Monitor and finally grind through Assassins Creed, Arkham City, Fallout 3, Skyrim, and maybe start the COD games, but I just lost the interest a few days ago. After that I thought I would bring my newly acquired Xbox One X (despite only owning battlefront 2015) to play through my 360 and OG xbox backlog, but today I found out that Halo CE and 2 weren't on its backwards compatibility list! Once again and with the consult of my friends I realized I should let go of the pack-rat urge to think I will need every game lest I end up bored (unlikely seeing as I spend most of my free time on bluesky and minecraft). I am going back and forth on whether to bring my Gamecube so that I can grind Pokemon Colosseum and listen to podcasts, but probably won't.

Hopefully I DO miss the mass of my game collection, and in my boredom I resort to going through my PC backlog (Half Life 2, KOTOR, Fallout). I look forward to visiting my girlfriend's house and finally beating my run of Persona 5 golden I started on her ps4 four years ago.

Have any of you guys had to deal with long term separation from your collections?

Back in 2022, my original PS4 died after 8 years of faithful service, so I lost all of my save data and access to over half of my physical library. That was painful. I briefly considered moving my PS4 library over to my newly purchased XBOX One X, but I realized that even if I re-bought all of the games at bargain prices, it would still cost around $2,000 to do that. I would also lose access to some exclusives I loved such as Dragon Quest Builders 2 and the Senran Kagura series. I did re-buy a few of my favorites that were available on XBOX, but other than that I had to try not to let it drive me crazy for a few months until I could afford to replace the PS4. Consoles were crazy expensive at the time due to the Covid panic, so that didn't help, but I did manage to get a used PS4 Pro for less than $300 from someone who wasn't trying to scalp people.

[bikingjahuty]

Since I started collecting in 2008, I've moved eight times and my collection has come with me every time. Since probably the 3rd move, my collection has been in excess of 1500 games, so yeah, it's a massive pain in the ass every time. Several of those places were one bedroom apartments and I was able to make the space work and have my entire collection displayed and accessible. The only time I was not able to access my entire collection was during my move over the summer. The collection made the cross state trip with me, but was stored in boxes in a spare bedroom for four months before I found a new house just last month. During that four months, only my Switch, PS4 and PS5 games were accessible to play. I did have access to my GBA, but that has a flashcart in it so it doesn't count. In that four months, I just played the games on those newer systems mostly. But yeah, up until a few weeks ago, I wasn't able to see or play any of my PS1, Dreamcast, N64, Genesis, or any of the other collections I had. It sucked, but it also helped knowing that it would only be a matter of time until I was reunited with them.