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| justin8301:
--- Quote from: seether on June 03, 2018, 08:04:57 pm ---Also, lol greatest hits editions --- End quote --- Whats wrong with greatest hits? I never understood why people scoff at greatest hits/platinum hits/players choice/nintendo select versions... Like I understand wanting to collect the originals, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with these other versions... they are the same exact game. For me its a chance to grab a great game at a potentially lower price. So I guess keep laughing at them so I can keep buying cheaper games! |
| kashell:
I buy something because I want to play it. --- Quote from: justin8301 on June 05, 2018, 03:21:01 pm --- --- Quote from: seether on June 03, 2018, 08:04:57 pm ---Also, lol greatest hits editions --- End quote --- Whats wrong with greatest hits? I never understood why people scoff at greatest hits/platinum hits/players choice/nintendo select versions... Like I understand wanting to collect the originals, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with these other versions... they are the same exact game. For me its a chance to grab a great game at a potentially lower price. So I guess keep laughing at them so I can keep buying cheaper games! --- End quote --- Personally, I think the bright reds, yellows and greens look out place and weird randomly dispersed amongst the regular colors. I don't like how it looks. I feel the same about steel book editions. That said, I won't "scoff" at them. I just spend a few extra bucks for the OG version and let someone else enjoy the GH version. Both parties end up happy. |
| seether:
--- Quote from: justin8301 on June 05, 2018, 03:21:01 pm --- --- Quote from: seether on June 03, 2018, 08:04:57 pm ---Also, lol greatest hits editions --- End quote --- Whats wrong with greatest hits? I never understood why people scoff at greatest hits/platinum hits/players choice/nintendo select versions... Like I understand wanting to collect the originals, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with these other versions... they are the same exact game. For me its a chance to grab a great game at a potentially lower price. So I guess keep laughing at them so I can keep buying cheaper games! --- End quote --- Man don't even get me started. It's no different than any collector's item. Some people want the black label because it's the original. Why would anyone want an original Babe Ruth baseball card when they can just buy a reprint? Why would anyone spend 3 million dollars on the Action Comics that Superman first appeared in when they can just buy a reprint? Heck, why not just emulate everything it's the exact same games right. Why don't we just read the manuals as PDFs on our computer instead of getting originals. Originals, first pressings, first editions etc. etc. are inherently better thought of in all kinds of collector markets. It's just the way it is. You can buy greatest hits editions for less? You can probably get a reprint of a Picasso painting for less too, it's still not as cool as his original painting. The hits/choice editions are gross non-uniform stylings and colours, not to mention. Buying the original release is like buying a first edition book. It's older man it's just better. Most "Greatest Hits" covers have ugly colours and big banners obscuring the artwork so the originals are aesthetically better. Collectors who store games on shelves usually want their games to be uniform in colour and design, and most "Greatest Hits" releases have different designs that clash with the others. Some greatest hits versions have black and white instead of colour manuals to save money later in a console lifespan. Some original releases have extras not found in greatest hits versions. Having the first run black label is sort of like having the first run of a comic. Yeah the content is the same on a reprint or greatest hits but man you know that shiz is not legit. Greatest hits editions are just really gross looking. Greatest hits type releases usually mess with the cover, minimising the size of the cover art, and add terrible colours that clash with original release colours and are just in and of themselves gaudy. Isn't it blatantly obvious why originals are vastly superior? In Europe, the discs of Platinum (on both PS1 and PS2) are just plain silver discs with black printing of the name and console. No art on the disc. A platinum copy of a PS2 game has an awful silver border all around the cover art and crap. Man I don't want to talk about this anymore, it upsets me just to think about. It's like collecting 2nd printings of a comic book, it's like filling your shelf with inferior products, it's like sticking a bright green object among a pile of black objects - it's madness I say, madness! |
| justin8301:
--- Quote from: seether on June 05, 2018, 03:57:23 pm --- Man don't even get me started. --- End quote --- I think you missed my point, Like I said I totally get why people collect originals vs greatest hits... I just dont understand why people talk crap about greatest hits. |
| seether:
--- Quote from: justin8301 on June 05, 2018, 04:49:42 pm --- --- Quote from: seether on June 05, 2018, 03:57:23 pm --- Man don't even get me started. --- End quote --- I think you missed my point, Like I said I totally get why people collect originals vs greatest hits... I just dont understand why people talk crap about greatest hits. --- End quote --- Because they are ugly af and basically second prints in what is a collectors hobby. I did take the time to explain this above. |
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