Do you hate Greatest hits/Players choice games?

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sworddude:
I don´t collect them but I do appreciate the **** out of them.

They did help me to aquire allot of black label quality titles for next to nothing especially for the ps1 they are a big help with them spyro and crash titles.

turf:
I don't get the hate for them. I may not prefer them in my collection, but I don't hate them. In fact, with out re-releases, prices would be even higher.

realpoketendonl:
I honestly really don't mind it. In fact, I am kind of in favor of them. What they essentially do is just re-release a game for a cheaper price, which to me doesn't really have any downsides. For example, when I got Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the City, the game was already out of production for a while. However, thanks to Nintendo Selects, I was able to get it. And not just get it, but get it relatively cheap.
I completely understand why hardcore collectors don't like them, since they can both reduce and increase the value of the original version, but I'm personally all for it. Unless we're talking about limited editions or pre-order bonuses, I don't really mind what version of a game I get, red border or not.

desocietas:
I think, for me, I fall into the hipster mentality trap of "I got that game before it became cool." Seeing those red or yellow borders screams, "Hey, everyone else likes this - you should, too!" but that's me, haha.

If anything, I do like to have the "definitive" edition of something though. Sometimes that's the Game of the Year Edition or something that comes out years down the line. More and more enhanced versions of games are coming out, too, so that tends to make the originals less desirable. Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters: Daybreak Special Gigs, for instance, will be out soon and might make the original obsolete. Persona 3 FES is the one to have now, though I am happy to have my both my original Etrian Odyssey 1 and EO Untold.

sworddude:
I do remember when I bought my platinum copy of super smash melee Gamecube that the price difference was pretty big pretty much 50%

Bought it for 30 instead of 60 guilders back in the day.

There are no downsides for platinum releases since the price is way cheaper wich might make it superior over the original furthermore some bugs have been removed from the game.

As a collector it might not look nice on the shelves but It's a hell lot cheaper when it was new.

Platinum copies can indeed increase or decrease the value of a black lable copy, especially when a black lable copy is hard to get and a platinum really easy.

@desocietas did you play radiant historia recently?

I have actually finished that game a week ago and your avatar is the most annoying character in the game period ::)

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