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Title: 2020 Gaming/Collecting Goals
Post by: bikingjahuty on November 10, 2019, 11:18:19 am
I think it's interesting and fun to think about what your plans are for the coming year, especially in relation to our favorite hobby here, gaming. What are your plans for 2020 in regards to gaming and collecting?


Participate in and complete the 52-Games Challenge: I've said it several times before, but this challenge has become my favorite part of VGcollect for the last few years. It keeps me motivated on actually playing all the games I've amassed over the years, and working on chipping away at that massive backlog. Going along with this challenge I plan on only 13 of the overall 52-games being games I've already played before. I've had a habit of going back and replaying games I've already finished at one point, which there's nothing wrong with, but I feel like it's been at the expense of me actually playing games I have little to no experience playing. So next year, there will definitely be a lot more games I've never played before added to my list of games beat in 2020.


Continue to downsize collection: Since I started downsizing my collecting I have not kept up with tracing it on here, but if I had to guess, my collection is probably about 100 games lighter than it was the beginning of the summer. My goal is to get to the point where literally every single game in my collection is one that I can actually see myself playing at some point, or is a game I have played and has found itself worthy of being in my collection. I imagine over the next year my collection will probably shrink by about another 100 games or so. It would be more, but I still plan on buying and keeping games as well during this time, which will offset the amount of games I sell overall.


Work on my CIB N64, Genesis, and SNES collecting: One area pertaining to retro games that still interests and excites me is working on tracking down boxes, manuals, and inserts for my various cartridge based games. I would eventually like to have all my loose carts for these systems housed in their original boxes, but this will be something that will take place over many, many years. The N64 takes priority by far since it's way more important to me than either the Genesis or SNES, but I would like to add at least a few CIB Genesis and SNES games to the collection this year. If I can convert/add at least 20 CIB cart based games to my collection this year I'll call this one a good.
Title: Re: 2020 Gaming/Collecting Goals
Post by: Warmsignal on November 10, 2019, 12:49:34 pm
I have no date to complete any of my goals, but I'll start with the unrealistic goals for 2020 -

- Finish collecting "retro" games. Let me just go ahead and say I've failed this for next year because we all know it's impossible.

- Build some kind of game room to actually house all of my gaming collecting.

- Start playing more games than what I buy.

"Realistic" goals -

- Build a Gameboy and GBA collection from scratch. This I've already started. After having a debate a while back on the forum, I was intrigued for the first time ever into actually collecting for GB platforms after never doing so in 10 years of collecting and game hunting. So by the end of the next year, I hope to have a fairly comprehensive collection representing my interests in those libraries. I also hope to acquire a Gameboy Player unit for which to actually play all of these games on.

- Expand on my GameCube collection. It's another Nintendo platform that I've somewhat neglected over the years as probably my least played Nintendo console. Recently it's come to my attention that there are quite a number of interesting titles I'd like to add. As much as I thought I was basically finished with GC collecting, I'm not.

- Expand on my Game Gear collection, as well as find a video out solution, or install a modern LCD. Still a lot of premium titles I'm missing from when I stopped actively collecting, and I really would like to experience these games with better picture than what original hardware allowed.

- Expand upon my arcade, puzzle, racing, and sports collection. Yes, I said sports. What I mean by this is arcade style sports games, i.e. Mario Superstar Baseball, Sega Superstar Tennis and the like. I've had a recent epiphany that in my early years of collecting, there were certain genres which I almost completely ignored which now have quite a bit of appeal to me. I'm left wondering why my selection of racers, pinball, puzzle, and blow-shit-up games was so meager while I actually do enjoy playing those quite a bit, meanwhile I have all of these RPGs and massive action/adventure sagas which I really doubt I'll ever get around to investing the time into. I need more pick up and play games. So I'm attempting to rectify this, as my eyes have been opened to so many games I would have passed over before that I shouldn't have. The good news is, many of them are quite inexpensive since they're not so popular to collect.

- Complete my Nintendo DS collection. I'm actually getting pretty close to owning all of the titles that intrigue me with respect to the genres I like to collect for on NDS. I've thoroughly researched the library, and I've fairly confident given the prices of DS that I could possibly finish out my collection soon. It's something I've wanted to attempt completing for a while. Maybe a bit unrealistic, but I'm hoping.

- Complete my Vita collection. Another neglected platform, but with a small library that I've researched (and I don't collect LRG), it's very doable.

- Complete my 3DS collection. Another neglected platform I've been expanding. Researched the entire library and my wish list is relatively small, while the games aren't terribly expensive. It's doable.

- Attempt to fully catch up and keep up with current Nintendo Switch releases which appeal to me, so that I can buy them new and never have to buy a Switch game second hand, or retroactively collect for the platform at all.

- Attempt to gradually box my Nintendo 64 collection with more original game boxes.

- Acquire the very expensive Saturn Bomberman, and complete a collection of all NA released Bomberman games for the consoles that I own.


Yeah, it's a lot. A whole lot. But, I'm not giving myself a time frame to really complete anything. That never works. I'll move at the pace I'm comfortable with and we'll see if anything here actually makes progress.
Title: Re: 2020 Gaming/Collecting Goals
Post by: koemo1 on November 10, 2019, 03:15:51 pm
Reach 200 unique good PAL playstation 2 games :D
Title: Re: 2020 Gaming/Collecting Goals
Post by: hatkid on November 10, 2019, 04:03:35 pm
I think the only thing collecting wise would be to buy Revelations: Persona, but that is entirely dependent on someone listing a cheap disk-only copy.

Gaming wise, beat a lot of new/unfinished games and spend less time on replays. And, try to actually finish games I start.
Title: Re: 2020 Gaming/Collecting Goals
Post by: bunnybear on November 10, 2019, 05:05:32 pm
1. Build the dedicated game room. This has been a point of frustration for me. We have a large enough house, and it made sense to house my games in the bar/man cave, but wife veto’ed that to turn it into another family friendly room (she initially wanted to turn it a guest bedroom but I veto’ed that hard.... it’s got a fucking built in bar and roof mounted projector set up!). Then it was decided (for my own house) I could use one of the bedrooms in the legal suite (which is occupied by my mother, yet she obviously only needs one of the two bedrooms in there). That took a while, for reasons I don’t want to delve into here, but finally today looks like I have a clear path to do it. I’ll have to make an IKEA run to get the shelving I want (which means taking the van over a ferry and back), but the plus side is I can shape this room the way I want, from the ground up. The plan will be for it to house all my games, and also to a 40-ish in TV to play retro titles through my framemeister (all modern consoles go through the main living room TV).

2. “Complete” my DS and PSP collections. The word is in quotations because chances are there will always be a game I want or decide I want down the road, so I consider this goal accomplished if I acquire 90% of the games on my “to get” list. I’m just about there for both, meaning....

3. Go all in on the GBA, and the cheap titles for all the other platforms I’m still on the hunt for. PS1/2, NES, SNES, GameCube. GBA will be my focus platform for 2020 (like Vita was in 2018, DS and PSP in 2019), but I won’t turn away the cheap games on my list for all the other platforms. But this goal has to be in conjunction with...

4. Find a way to get empty DS cases in bulk. I need them to house my GBA carts, which I will jazz up with printed out covers and manuals.

5. Slow the eff down. I’m not looking to build a massive collection. Just stuff I like and want to keep. I went hard in 2018, slowed down somewhat for 2019.... honestly I’ll be happy if in 2020 I only acquire roughly 50% of the product I did in 2019. I want to reach a point where I only buy 1-2 games a month. Unlike most of you, I’m looking forward to the digital age because at that point I will bow out entirely.
Title: Re: 2020 Gaming/Collecting Goals
Post by: bikingjahuty on November 10, 2019, 05:13:30 pm
I think the only thing collecting wise would be to buy Revelations: Persona, but that is entirely dependent on someone listing a cheap disk-only copy.


Sweet wounded Jesus!!! When did that game get so insanely expensive?!


I bought my copy about a decade ago and if memory serves me correct I think I paid $40 for it complete. I'm assuming this is a rarity thing, because I have never heard a ton about the quality of the game before.
Title: Re: 2020 Gaming/Collecting Goals
Post by: bunnybear on November 10, 2019, 05:29:11 pm
I think the only thing collecting wise would be to buy Revelations: Persona, but that is entirely dependent on someone listing a cheap disk-only copy.


Sweet wounded Jesus!!! When did that game get so insanely expensive?!


I bought my copy about a decade ago and if memory serves me correct I think I paid $40 for it complete. I'm assuming this is a rarity thing, because I have never heard a ton about the quality of the game before.
Actually it’s one of the few games whose secondary value predates the modern retro collecting phenomenon. I bought Persona 2 brand new back in 2000 or whatever, and even then Persona 1 was nudging triple figures.

FWIW, unless someone’s gotta have the PS1 version for completion purposes, the PSP version is far superior in terms of the game itself.
Title: Re: 2020 Gaming/Collecting Goals
Post by: medisto on November 10, 2019, 06:45:45 pm
I'm gonna go for the 52-Game Challenge as well. This will be my first time participating and looking very much forward to it. My backlog is stupid big, so I will mostly go for games I haven't completed before.

Other than that I am hoping to be more selective game purchase wise. I would like to see my PC Engine, Famicom Disk System, Saturn, and Mega Drive/Genesis collections grow, and I really need to cut down on current gen purchases. I didn't get a Switch until February this year but it instantly won me over and I figure this will be the current gen system I will be buying for the most.

Also, if I happen to stumble upon the right deal for an Amiga 500/600/1200 computer I will start rebuilding my Amiga collection from scratch (sold everything i owned some 15 years ago - my biggest game collecting regret).
Title: Re: 2020 Gaming/Collecting Goals
Post by: bikingjahuty on November 10, 2019, 09:24:54 pm
I think the only thing collecting wise would be to buy Revelations: Persona, but that is entirely dependent on someone listing a cheap disk-only copy.


Sweet wounded Jesus!!! When did that game get so insanely expensive?!


I bought my copy about a decade ago and if memory serves me correct I think I paid $40 for it complete. I'm assuming this is a rarity thing, because I have never heard a ton about the quality of the game before.
Actually it’s one of the few games whose secondary value predates the modern retro collecting phenomenon. I bought Persona 2 brand new back in 2000 or whatever, and even then Persona 1 was nudging triple figures.

FWIW, unless someone’s gotta have the PS1 version for completion purposes, the PSP version is far superior in terms of the game itself.


Interesting. I got my copy of Persona 2 from a local game store around the same time and I think I paid $30 for that. I'm pretty sure Persona 1 was an ebay purchase. I'm guessing I just got lucky on a BIN or maybe I won a cheap auction, probably the latter.


I totally forgot that they remade it on the PSP.
Title: Re: 2020 Gaming/Collecting Goals
Post by: hoshichiri on November 10, 2019, 10:50:31 pm
I think I'm gonna start having some systems refurbished. I bought the last of the retro systems I wanted this year, but I've got a couple that are a bit finicky. It would be nice to get those into proper working order.

Aside from that, it's putting away money for the couple of expensive games still on the wishlist, as well as preparing for a couple niche console releases *coughplaydatecough* & the impending next gen stuff. Nothing too concrete this year though.
Title: Re: 2020 Gaming/Collecting Goals
Post by: oldgamerz on November 11, 2019, 01:12:17 am
#1 Play more of my games,


 but I'm vary sick now, and I might not live that much longer, but I don't know that another story. My health has been declining even before I came to this community


so lets just stay on topic I'm fine, let's not go offtopic

it just a number of health problems multiple problems that once I only had mental issues. Now, I'm getting physical health problems. With everything from migraines, to allergies, to coughing, to stomach and intestinal issues I even had problems breathing in 2016 and only doctors could tell.
Title: Re: 2020 Gaming/Collecting Goals
Post by: shfan on November 11, 2019, 04:23:35 am
Participate in the 52 Game Challenge - with zero expectation of completing it, still a good encouragement to play some favourites and try new games.

Weed out more mediocre games - the above has enabled me to get rid of no end of games which looked worth keeping at first blush.

Slowly pick up Switch games - in the last month I've jettisoned 3 handheld sub-collections; 3DS, PSP and Vita. Handhelds are useful to me now, but the more recent 2 have limited ranges and I always hated the clunky nature of the PSP. At least with the Switch I'll be able to play full-fat Nintendo games and much more besides on the go rather than be stuck with a bunch of cut-downs.

Be a lot more selective - read reviews and watch gameplay videos as often as is possible before taking the plunge. I was very interested in Castle of Heart on Switch, for instance, it's the sort of game I could convince myself to buy, until I hit Metacritic and saw that reviewers say it the controls are delayed and generally awful - lucky escape.

Pick up a Windows XP gaming rig - I'm getting hold of a lot of interesting CD-ROM games from the early noughties, but most of them aren't compatible with my work/office PC (which I'm typing on now), so a rig with XP and a decent graphics card should enable me to play these. I'm currently unable to play the Geneforge series, which is really annoying!



Title: Re: 2020 Gaming/Collecting Goals
Post by: kashell on November 11, 2019, 01:53:03 pm
Other than the obvious "play more games" I do have a couple other goals for next year.

Find more strategy guides. I love strategy guides. Especially for my favorite games. They're great for reliving certain parts in a game without having to play up to it.

Buy less new releases. I actually did pretty well with this so far. But, there are times I still get an impulse to get the next best thing ASAP. I'm going to try to curtail that even more.
Title: Re: 2020 Gaming/Collecting Goals
Post by: NickAwesome on November 11, 2019, 02:07:22 pm
2020 Goals

Complete my PS1 Set- I'm 3 away!  Definitely did way better on this than I was expecting for 2019.  If anyone has Madden 2004, Fifa 2004, or Geom Cube longbox- hit me up! 

Participate in the 52 game challenge and shoot for at least 26.  I stopped keeping track but I finished at least 15 games in 2019.  2019 was so crazy busy- got married, moved twice, graduated law school, passed the bar, I should be able to finish more games next year.

Add at least 20 CIB 3DO games and 10 CIB Atari Jaguar games.  (53) and (26).   Collecting for these two systems is so much fun.  I have had a couple of great local finds in the last year but mostly have to camp out on eBay for new additions.  Here's hoping I can continue to find good titles!

Also focus on Genesis and DS- At least 20 CIB titles for each.

Decide on whether I want to go for a full set on any other system- either Dreamcast or Saturn would be likely targets.

Play more current gen stuff next year- Right now I'm playing Death Stranding and Outer Worlds.  Both are pretty fun. 
Title: Re: 2020 Gaming/Collecting Goals
Post by: masamune on November 11, 2019, 04:44:53 pm
My 2020 Gaming/Collecting Goals are very simple.

Buy fewer games!

I think my spending was a bit out of control this year, and I'm hopeful I can curb my spending behavior for the new year.
Title: Re: 2020 Gaming/Collecting Goals
Post by: droaa on November 11, 2019, 08:06:43 pm
Buy less on impulse: It was something that had made me less enthusiastic about gaming but thankfully after offloading a ton of games and buying less, I have found myself buying less than I have in the past. Instead now, I have more of an idea of what I want and getting those as oppose to hundreds of games that I would get just because it was mega cheap at a store.

Play more: This goes hand in hand with my first point. If I play more then I have less to contend with and allows me to get to what I havent been able to get with because I am suddenly not distracted by the new shiny toy. The more I play through, the more time I can myself to what I already have and anything i plan on getting in the coming year.
Title: Re: 2020 Gaming/Collecting Goals
Post by: emporerdragon on November 12, 2019, 03:23:09 am
I'm finding that my collecting goals right now are veering more onto the digital side of things, particularly in building up my Team Fortress 2 inventory even further. Namely I want to:

1) Further secure my status as one of the top single-effect collectors in the world. At 146 items, my collection's the 2nd largest, with the top collector sitting at 172. So there's a decent gap, but not insurmountable.

2) Complete my collection of Unusual Taunts. I'm trying to get 1 of every Taunt with the Roaring Rockets effect. I've got 19 items to go.

3) Make further progress on making a Strange Factory New Top Shelf Minigun/Grenade Launcher/Wrench. I'm 4.4% of the way there, and If I ever finish, I'll have a virtual weapon worth at minimum $3-4,000.

Other than that, I want to continue upgrading my game room. My board game collection's spilling over and I need to get more/better shelves for it. I just recently upgraded my table and chairs, but I need to get the rest of the area up to par now.

I do still want to eventually finish my 360 collection, but it's really at a slog now. Out of the 337 games left to get, 205 of them are Sports, Music, or Kinect titles, none of which I'm incredibly fond of.
Title: Re: 2020 Gaming/Collecting Goals
Post by: ignition365 on November 12, 2019, 09:07:32 am
Earlier and earlier with this topic every year.

I will build something up at some point for next year... probably similar goals.

2019 goals



2020 goals

And I'll add one last one that isn't a goal really, but just something to think about.  Find a way to consolidate collection into fewer rooms.

I want to add something akin to play through 10 or 20 PS2 games or something, maybe X retro games.  I want to make an effort to play MORE old stuff.  Not necessarily less new stuff, just more old stuff.
Title: Re: 2020 Gaming/Collecting Goals
Post by: edgar760 on November 12, 2019, 02:41:53 pm
I was actually having this conversation with some of my friends recently.

Gaming wise my main priority is to organize my gaming collection lol I've got so many gems that I need to still update my list on this website for all consoles. At the moment I'm occupying an entire room at my parents house for games/gaming collectibles, its intense lol. With that said I've put a hold on buying retro games/collectibles. The exciting thing is I'm getting married with my fiancee in the first quarter of next year and we found our dream home to move into a week after our wedding date... SO I'm hoping to begin building out the man cave with my collection. I've also purchased a few of the 1up arcade gaming cabinets which have been un-opened. So the goal is also to make an arcade room with those once moving out.

2020 will be a busy and exciting year, but that will make it all the funner!

Good luck on everyone's goals, wishes and gaming gem's to find!
Title: Re: 2020 Gaming/Collecting Goals
Post by: marvelvscapcom2 on November 12, 2019, 04:11:34 pm
To be honest, I have slowed down on buying.   Not sure why.  I binge one game heavily when it launches, love it.  So I still definitely game.  But I collect a lot less.   So I don't go on the hunt as much.  I think I have almost every childhood game I used to love.  Maybe that's why.  I'm not sure.


As for my gaming goals.  Buy a Xbox Scarlett if it in fact drops 2020.   All next gen.  I'm all in lol.   I'll probably begin saving around August just to try to hit preorders around october.  Hopefully get one reserved. If not enter the scalping war.   I hope to pay no more than 1000 dollars.  If the MSRP is 800.  I will pay it.  If it's 900,  I'll cringe but pay it.   If it's 1000.  I might walk away. 


I am so in love with the new tech.  I have been waiting for next gen for a long time.  I hope it's as much of a jump from One as 360 was to one.   If they can hit a home run and make something that competes on a gaming PC level but as a home console with tight UI.  Backwards compatabile would be lovely.  I'll be in heaven. :)


Title: Re: 2020 Gaming/Collecting Goals
Post by: wartoy on November 12, 2019, 05:52:13 pm
1.get last two remaining n64 games I need to complete my first ever completed collection.
2.devote more time to playing my collection and less time collecting.
3.collect less ps4 and xbox and concentrate mainly on retro games and switch.
Title: Re: 2020 Gaming/Collecting Goals
Post by: vivigamer on November 13, 2019, 04:24:36 am
My main goal is to try stick to ONLY Pre-Ordering 5 games through out the year... I think I end up Pre-Ordering too many mid-range titles and they remain sealed. So far I have The Yakuza 3-5 Remaster Collection & Final Fantasy VII-Part1 Remake Pre-Ordered. Other games like The Last of Us Part II & Trials of Mana I have cancelled for now.
Title: Re: 2020 Gaming/Collecting Goals
Post by: ignition365 on January 09, 2020, 08:54:37 am
I completed one of those 2020 goals in 2019, so now it's getting removed.  Anyway, now that we are months later and into the new year I have a better understanding of what my goals are.

My original goals had me staying under 7000 games and making room for PS1/PS2 games.  I'm already pretty close to 7000 and I'm really getting into collecting PS1 now, so I'm just gonna say stay under 7500, might adjust that to 7250 or something.  I made a shelving unit sized for jewel cases and longboxes which helped make room for PS1 and PS2.  I'll probably run out of room again now that I'm going for PS1 games, but making room for PS1/PS2 isn't a priority anymore as I've got room for now. 

I ran into an issue that I bought a game because it wasn't listed in my collection, and then thought there is no way I don't already own it and surprise surprise, I already own it, wasted about $4.  So I went and reinventoried PS1 and PS2.  So I've already started the process of reinventorying.

And at some point I'll try to pick another franchise to run through this year, I'm trying to make a habit of playing through 2 franchises a year.  Dead Rising comes to mind, but maybe not that.

2020 goals
Title: Re: 2020 Gaming/Collecting Goals
Post by: pzeke on January 09, 2020, 10:59:17 am
My goal for this year? To sit my ass down and play my video games. Simple.