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Yakuza's a RPG? I've never played it so I don't know anything about it. I may need to check it out, for some reason I thought it was a GTA type of game. ha
I'm going to call shenanigans on this retro is dying thing by simply citing my job as an example.... In 2010 the store I work at was opened on August 19 at 11:05 in the morning.... I started working for the owner in April of 2011.... I was the only employee for a period until February of 2012.... We now have 3 locations and we're worried that we can't stock fast enough.... We have consistently sold more games than we buy with November of 2013.... Every year since the first we have made significantly more money each month than the year before.... We're likely to go out of business only because our supply can't keep up with our demand.... Granted I'm hoping this is just a trading lull and that it'll pick back up, but around here there are more collectors than ever....
I hope you're not talking about Play N Trade. If you are, I wish you luck. As franchise stores, they have an unusually high failure rate and only typically last 3 - 5 years before shutting down with no help from overhead to keep games stocked or even have accesses to new releases.
A friend of mine who manages a local game store had a women with a bunch of really common NES games come in asking how much she could get in cash for them. From what I remember she had about 10 games with the most valuable one being Mario/Duck Hunt. My friend told her she had about $10 cash in games and she totally flipped out. She was so sure she was sitting on a fortune and seriously though the lot was worth thousands. She pretty much stormed out and told my friend that she was going to contact BBB and the news about how much they are trying to rip people off. Lol she was dead serious I guess.
But yes, the internet s heavily to blame, as are stupid fake reality shows like American Pickers, Pawn Stars and Storage Wars. The producers intentionally sensationalize what they find (almost all which is planted or staged in some way) and make people believe their box of worthless baseball cards is worth thousands, or their son's old Super Mario World is worth over $100. I contacted a guy about a yellowed, beat up NES he had on CL for $2000 to ask where the hell he pulled that price out of (we all know the real answer to that lol), and he seriously said Storage Wars. . . I nearly peed myself laughing
Doesn't suck > Sucks > Sports.
Yakuza Dead Souls seems to be missing....
I own this one but haven't played it yet, and I've heard it plays pretty differently from the others so that's why I didn't include it. You would still consider it an RPG tho? I'll plead ignorance on this one.
How do you think these should be listed?
CERO A (Japan)
CERO B (Japan)
etc.
Just got Dark Souls II CE and I can't decided if I should open it or not~! D:
I didn't have a problem opening mine (I never do tho, I don't buy games to keep them sealed) but I couldn't decide if I should leave the figure in the box to display him or remove him. My wife told me he would look much better removed & setup, and I believe she was right.Of course, the decision was made somewhat easier by the fact that the box got a little dinged in shipping...
Picking a Miyavi favorite is TOO hard for me.... His slap style accoustic stuff is fantastic and a fresh sound that you don't get to hear much anywhere else.... I also love Sex Machineguns~! I don't even recall how I first heard them, but all their albums are great.... I only have one Maximum the Hormone CD.... To be honest, I haven't really kept up with them....
I love Maximum the Hormone, they are just a crazy mixture of styles. I need to get their newest album, but it doesn't seem like they are gonna release it in America which saddens me. Not paying import prices for the cd lol
I have a feeling that the Wii U could pull a DS or 3DS move if Nintendo plays their cards right.... I remember the DS not doing too hot until the DS Lite came out then it blew up.... There were tons of naysayers for the 3DS in the beginning too.... I heard so many rants about how it was going to fail.... Is it a thing to hate on Nintendo no matter what they do~? How many times does a company have to prove itself before they get the benefit of the doubt for once~?
While I would like that, I still don't think Nintendo can turn around the Wii U. It's simply losing too much third party support and it actually has competition with the other systems. For the 3DS, there was only the Vita which isn't much competition at all and it's the best way to have handheld mobile gaming, even with the cry for Nintendo to go mobile.
I think the Wii U will pull itself around just a bit, we have some big games coming out this year, but I don't think it'll be enough for the system to ever make the same numbers of the Wii. They just didn't do a good enough job selling the system. I don't think it'll fail though. Nintendo is much smarter with what they do. They'll struggle, but never fail, they'll never become Sega.
