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What's the really good philosophical discussion? You would be directly lying to Gamestop, and Gamestop is within their rights to pay whatever they want for your used games. No one is forcing you to sell your games to them.

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General / Re: Whats the point of collecting sealed games?

« on: April 29, 2018, 12:28:40 pm »

To me collecting sealed games is fine. - Even for the people who claim to be doing it as an investment. But when people do it to stroke their own ego, that's when it starts to become annoying. "Oooo Look what I have, and you don't." What are you? Six years old?

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Classic Video Games / Re: Why did renting games become less popular in the modern era?

« on: April 24, 2018, 09:11:41 pm »

While their has been massive changes to content delivery (such as downloading, mail rentals, and even streaming services like OnLive) that has increase customer convenience, I feel the change from cartridges to optical media also greatly effected the rental business. Since loose discs are easier to break, or even loose, companies have to steadily replace their inventory at higher rates. A nationwide company would have serious overhead.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Reuse some Blank entries

« on: April 23, 2018, 08:57:03 pm »

For whatever reason I missed a couple zeros in there. Updated.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Reuse some Blank entries

« on: April 16, 2018, 08:52:18 pm »

Currently there's a bug in the system where every so often a totally blank item entry is created. We try to delete them when they get spotted but its pretty easy for them to get missed when a bunch of entries get created at the same time.

We can either delete or reuse them. If you're thinking about creating a new item feel free to edit one of these blank entries.
If you end up editing one of these into a new item please post which number you used. Here is the list of blanks:

85494
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119630~~117587~~
117588
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118517
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General / Re: Collectible Game Controller Soaps?

« on: April 12, 2018, 05:51:51 pm »

Those NES controllers remind me of the Hershey's Cookies 'n Creme bars.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Alt-Name field

« on: April 07, 2018, 11:11:11 pm »

For a long time we didn't have double-byte character support, and if someone entered Japanese characters they would turn into gibberish as seen in Haunting Ground. Its odd because only Latin alphabet are suppose to be allowed to begin with.

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General / Re: Your unpopular gaming opinions.

« on: April 03, 2018, 11:03:27 pm »

JRPGs aren't actually Japanese.
Most of the heavy hitters were heavily based off of Wizardry and Ultima gameplay and settings, both of which were both American games. I scoff when people throw around the term because other than a game being made in Japan, there's nothing distinctly "Japanese" about the game structure.

Sonic is, was and forever will be awful.

Not a super fan of Mario 64 & Odyssey
I never really liked the collectathon platformers of the 90s, including Super Mario 64. Instead of having dozens of challenging levels, as we did in previous generations, they moved to having just a few big ones. It kind of came out of necessity because of the hardware restrictions. So if you can't fit more levels into your game, just reuse the same ones over and over again. - In the case of Mario 64, they just added a bunch of busy work (collecting coins/items) inside of the limited number of levels they had. One big advantage to this is that it also allows the developer to get more bang for their buck. No need to spend development time on extra environment design and art. That was all fine and good for Mario 64 seeing as it was Nintendo's first major leap into 3D video games, but to me, seeing this again in 2017/18 is very quaint.

Not that Odyssey, Sunshine or 64 are a bad games per se, I just rather have a more linear experience with emphasis is on making perfect jumps and negotiating a multitude of well crafted levels and not just run around in circles doing little tasks to find coins/stars. I pretty much only enjoyed the little sub-level challenge sprinkled throughout the games.

With all this said, I find it strange that people like to bunch in Mario 64 as part of the main line Mario games. - Such as Mario 1, 2, 3, and World. To me Galaxy 2 and 3D World are much more closer to the original line of games than other modern Mario games.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: What do people use the notes feature for?

« on: April 02, 2018, 08:26:50 pm »

Use it for whatever you want. For a while I used it mark where or who I bought an item from.

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Classic Video Games / Re: Rare Wii & Wii U Games?

« on: March 26, 2018, 09:48:45 am »

Do you mean Metal Gear Anthology or Metal Slug Anthology? I can't find any references to Metal Gear. There was a Metal Gear Solid Legacy Collection for PS3.

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Classic Video Games / Re: Top 300 games of all time by GameInformer. Thoughts?

« on: March 21, 2018, 04:01:46 pm »

I'm surprised how much higher Half-Life 2 was on the list compared to the first game. Many fans would argue Half-Life 1 was a better game.

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