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Modern Video Games / Re: Report: Sony single player games exclusive again

« on: March 06, 2026, 04:09:34 am »

Let 'em. Sony's 1st-party studios don't make a single thing that interests me anymore. The only thing they had was Stellar Blade, but that's going independent now that Shift-Up can afford to self-publish. I lost interest in Horizon after they made Aloy canonically lesbian in the Burning Shores DLC for Forbidden West, a baffling move that had no relevance to the plot and served no purpose other than to push an agenda. Everything else they make is nearly-identical 3rd-person over the shoulder open world slop with the same gameplay loop. First-party exclusives really have become the new shovelware, along with most of what the AAA devs put out these days.

Yet, Stellar Blade is another third-person action-adventure game albeit one that panders to the male gaze with one-dimensional, overt objectification for no purpose other than that sex sells.

Nevertheless, what kinds of games published by Sony from earlier generations do you like that you think has been abandoned in more recent years? It's not an uncommon opinion you're presenting, but I'm curious since I don't often see people actually elaborate on their view.

Stellarblade perhaps went a bit over the top but there ain't anything wrong with making your characters look good besides they where trying to replicate said model the used for her and I think they did a good job. allot of modern western games make female characters ugly or very manly looking these days in which they get backlash from the community. stellarblade gave the finger to that trend hence why people often go to it.

In general asian studio's seem to ignore that trend. It seems to be a checkbox for western game development.

for example this is how rainbow six did 2B nier dlc





This was a super meme example looks nothing like 2B at all looks like an actual man cosplaying as 2B

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TZN0LhdZoI

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Modern Video Games / Re: Report: Sony single player games exclusive again

« on: March 05, 2026, 06:23:18 pm »

Hard to say, it works for nintendo for sure, they would lose mad money in the longrun if they where to release their games on pc aswell.

if the games are really good people would be forced to get a console and get in their system instead of buying it for cheap on pc.

game prices are generally higher on console than on pc.

Problem with sony is that they have not been consistent in terms of exclusivity anymore so it would need to be something really longterm for it to pay off again and they would need to stick with it.

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Classic Video Games / Re: So what are our thoughts on Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen coming bacc?

« on: March 01, 2026, 06:43:23 pm »

The mostly positive reaction to Winds and Waves make no sense to me. It still looks like garbage despite being a Switch 2 exclusive. The waves in the trailer look fine but the ground textures still look like garbage. Those starters though.. wow. They are really out of ideas. I'd say starters started falling off around gen 5 with gen 9 being particularly bad but now they aren't even trying.

Weird choice to show very little gameplay of Pokémon Champions which is finally releasing for free on the original Switch in April.

I personally love the Pomeranian starter, so long as it doesn't evolve into Macho Man Randy Savage like Litten in Pokémon moon.   They keep making cute animals evovle into humanoid wierdos that walk like humans.

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Classic Video Games / Re: So what are our thoughts on Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen coming bacc?

« on: February 24, 2026, 12:30:35 pm »

but unless they're over $100 loose, I'd say you might as well just get the physical cart and skip the digital copy.

so unironicly they are over a 100$ each for loose carts and not even from retro stores that put a markup on em, actual market value

Pricing is pretty crazy and the Let's Go games already exist to experience the first gen on Switch. I'd like a way to experience the second gen again.

while you are right and while it's technically gen 1. that game got baby vibes it's not ideal for everyone. While 20$ is a scam for an old retro port I'd easily pay that over let's go at 20$. even if let's go was 5$ or free i'd take a port of the gba games at 20$ each over it. it's a godly deal in comparison. let's go is not a good gen 1 experience it's a terrible game. if let's go was released back in the day as the first games I really doubt pokemon would have been as popular as it was today. kids would drop it at really young ages, ain't anything cool about that game. it's really kiddy like 5yo kiddy. yes pokemon games are made for kids but let's go is too on the nose while older gens looked cool and made for all ages, let's go looks like a game for 5yo's. ost also murdered and disneyfied.

I played Let's Go, Eevee! with the Pokéball controller and enjoyed it quite a bit. My initial reaction to it was that it's just for non-gamers that played Pokémon Go to introduce them to the full series but it was a more memorable experience than I had playing X or Omega Ruby which I just breezed through. I'd say X/Y with a fairy type Pokémon is a more of a "kiddy" game than Let's Go is. Slurpuff one hit KO'd everything in that game. I also only paid about $30 new for the bundle with controller and traded it into eStarland for double what I paid lol.

while I don't think X & Y are as kiddy in terms of art style and music they aren't that great either so i will tolerate the X & Y bashing. only good thing about gen 6 are mega evolutions but it came at a cost.

X & y where a huge downgrade for the series.  while previously it seemed like the games arguably only got better in terms of content. I was still really satisfied with BW 2 on release, but X & Y where massive dissapointments, really ez games, the 3d grapics are fine for 3ds but it does hit different than 2D and really bare bones content.

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Classic Video Games / Re: So what are our thoughts on Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen coming bacc?

« on: February 24, 2026, 06:41:13 am »

but unless they're over $100 loose, I'd say you might as well just get the physical cart and skip the digital copy.

so unironicly they are over a 100$ each for loose carts and not even from retro stores that put a markup on em, actual market value

Pricing is pretty crazy and the Let's Go games already exist to experience the first gen on Switch. I'd like a way to experience the second gen again.

while you are right and while it's technically gen 1. that game got baby vibes it's not ideal for everyone. While 20$ is a scam for an old retro port I'd easily pay that over let's go at 20$. even if let's go was 5$ or free i'd take a port of the gba games at 20$ each over it. it's a godly deal in comparison. let's go is not a good gen 1 experience it's a terrible game. if let's go was released back in the day as the first games I really doubt pokemon would have been as popular as it was today. kids would drop it at really young ages, ain't anything cool about that game. it's really kiddy like 5yo kiddy. yes pokemon games are made for kids but let's go is too on the nose while older gens looked cool and made for all ages, let's go looks like a game for 5yo's. ost also murdered and disneyfied.

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Classic Video Games / Re: So what are our thoughts on Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen coming bacc?

« on: February 23, 2026, 05:38:26 am »

even in the old days I couldn't understand why people would spend 5$ on a port of their favourite games on multiple consoles. it's a big waste of money always has been. rebuying that stuff again for a new console.

Don't have joy playing old games on new consoles. so I would pass on it no matter the price. I'll say this considering how scarce nintendo has been with it's ports for the good stuff, enough people will buy this. especially the ones that dislike piracy morals/ massive savings compared to going original.

still imo gba games should have been 3$ each max with a discount if you buy multiple. even in the old days ports where overpriced at 5 to 10$ if you'd ask me.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Question regarding german SEGA Saturn releases

« on: February 06, 2026, 11:07:13 am »

make a seperate listing with this version, do not tarnish the regular listings

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General / Re: February 2026 - Recently added to collection/recently purchased

« on: February 03, 2026, 11:53:45 am »

Been kinda busy last month so my pickups of last month

First some jap stuff. costed me nothing in the end

Xbox 360 twin strike sealed

playstation

snowboard kids plus
goemon with obi
goemon ps2
mr moskeeto 2 hawai
advance variable with obi
makendou 2 with obi

pc engine

saint dragon
gotzendiener
golden axe
red alert
avenger
voltizified
Yokai Douchuuiki

super famicom

kunio snes
kunio baka no manual
hammerin harry
ufo kamen man
sailor moon S
sailor moon R
FMW wrestling
ushi to tora



all cib

Has taken me some year but finally got a clean copy of yellow at a good price

pokemon yellow 50$ loss. could have bought it for 30 prior to pokemon go days at it's full price but shit happens. finally got all the classic pokemon games
braindead 13 20 loss
herc's adventure 80 loss
scooter racer 10 loss
daffy duck marvin mission 15 loss
kirby 64 seal some damage but unopened 250 loss
gradius cart + manual to complete my nice box. 30 loss


free stuff thanks to deals

guides

kingdom heart II
street fighter anni collection + disc
gauntlet legacy

ps2/ xbox

GTA double pack xbox + maps
aqua wetrix ps2
blood drive ps3
puppeteer ps3
Jak & daxter promo + making off dvd
parappa ps2 promo
alundra 2 ps1 promo
tomb raider chronicles
dino crisis

Nintendo

pokken tournament + sealed shadow mewtwo card
tropical freeze
color splasj
zelda windwaker HD limited edition

N64 snes

paper boy 2 box and manual no cart
quake N64
power rangers fighting edition

Gameboy

FF tactics factory sealed
puyo pop fever
edd edd n eddy

sega

Teddy boy
target earth
taraysia
gaiares
Elemental master just for the box. already had a manual and cart laying around. has taken me years to get a box for it.

Pretty pleased to add some nice usa exclusive to the genesis collection regardless. decent progress has been made 

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General / Re: How much time has past since you've last played the gaming systems you own?

« on: February 02, 2026, 11:47:58 am »

Within the past month: genesis, snes, gba, saturn

Within the past 6 months: gamecube, Dreamcast, ps1, ps2, neo geo aes, nintendo DS, nes

Within the past year: wii 3ds Switch, xbox, turbografx, n64, 32x, wonderswan

Within the past 5 years: ps3, xbox 360, wii u, psp, sega master, gameboy color/ classic

Over 5 years: game gear, cdi

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General / Re: Top Pick Ups of 2025! (Up to 30)

« on: January 26, 2026, 04:47:00 pm »

In no particular order:

Crusader of Centy- Genesis-CIB
Spiderman Web of Fire- 32X- CIB
Keio Flying Squadron- Sega CD- CIB
Metal Warriors- SNES- CB
Snow Brothers- NES- CIB
Turbo Grafx 16 System- CIB
Hagane- SNES- CIB
Braindead 13- Atari Jaguar CD- CIB
Survival Kids- GBC- CIB
Arkanoid (big box)- NES CIB
Ys III- TGCD- CIB
Pitfall- 32X- CIB
MUSHA- Genesis- CIB
Greendog- Game Gear- CIB
Devil's Crush- TG16- CIB
PS1 Promo Boxes- Various
Terminator 3 Redemption- PS2- seems silly but I've been looking for a copy of this game for years!!!!
Battletoads- Game Gear- CIB
Mind Teazzer- 3DO- big box!!!!
Box for Sega Nomad
Castlevania Dracula X- SNES CIB
Swat Kats- SNES- CIB
Pocky and Rocky SNES- CIB
Chip and Dale 2- Rescue Rangers- NES- CIB
D & D Order of the Griffon- TG16- CIB- finally found a loose hue card to complete my box- only took like 5 years
This incredible Sega sign- I need to post a picture
Ys Book 1+2- TGCD- CIB
Mathemagics- 3DO- Longbox
Gotcha Force- GC- CIB
OLED Steam Deck

Looking back on this list- holy shit- what a year for heavies- I went hard.

I've gotto say those do be some heavy hitters congratz that is quite the list within 1 year.

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General / Re: Nostolgia for the collecting era

« on: January 25, 2026, 04:53:56 pm »

I'm actually looking forward to being done with collecting soon. I've got so many games now that it will take me years to play through everything, and even though I'm interested in playing the new stuff I'm buying, there's really no joy in the actual purchase anymore. Back in my youth I'd be amped up to get a new console, but when I bought my PS5 Pro back in November I remember unboxing it, attaching the disc drive, plugging it in, and staring at it thinking, "I know I got a good deal on this, but I kinda wish I still had the $680 instead." Spending a lot of money on video game purchases used to be fun, but it just kinda hurts now. What I do miss is when used stuff was affordable, before youtubers, resellers, and grading companies hyped the bejeezus out of the hobby and jacked prices up on everything. You used to be able to find used games for $10 or less all the time, but now if you find anything for less than $40 you got a good deal. Some stuff is just inflated beyond all reason. Take Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire for example. Those games have lifetime sales of over 16 million units, they are not rare, there's no reason they should go for over $150 on the used market. Pokemon games are not rare or valuable, it's one of the best-selling IPs in the world. There's no reason for these prices.

as common as retro pokemon games are the demand is there,

so while you only got like 20 copies of say a more rare game like hagane on the market. maybe only a couple hundred people atm are potentially gonna splurge on that.

Now with pokemon ruby, so you got 1K copies on the market at the time yet you got thousands of people still looking for em and willing to pay decent money for em.

The demand for retro pokemon stuff is so much higher than pretty much anything else in this hobby, and eventhough it's common too many people that want it

that's supply and demand for ye. with other stuff it's gotto be actually scarce cause way less people that are looking for it. Blame pokemon go for this btw, cause prior to that while the demand was there after pokemon go it literally exploded 5 to 10x and it has never gone down since.

I could still find cib copies for 5$ at thrift stores of like soulsilver literally weeks before pokemon go launched. they'd just fit it in among generic titles for same prices.  allot of people didn't care thus prices while still high for what it was where much much lower than they are today.

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General / Re: Nostolgia for the collecting era

« on: January 21, 2026, 06:23:19 am »

I would say the golden years were over by around the time I first joined this forum, 2013/14 or so? Game collecting was getting so popular, and so competitive already by that point, you couldn't find stuff the way you did in the years before. This is when it started to go from being purely a joy, to sort of a chore. You had to be more crafty, more diligent. The world was slowly turning to shit because everybody was getting a smart phone and corporations were beginning to take over the Internet and subsequently destroy society. So there's this sort of split between game collecting in the old days before Internet was real life, and you would just use it to communicate about your real world findings, and then the era after it had taken over where there was little left out there in the real world to find, but everyone online had everything that you wanted and was dangling it over your head like a carrot. I'm not so nostalgic for that era where it all got tougher and tougher, and was mostly relegated to buying things online. The fun was all but gone by that point, especially by the later 2010s.

Once the pandemic hit, the hobby was wrecked. I continued on collecting for several more years beyond that, but it was honestly painful at that point, not fun at all. I haven't actively been a game collector in nearly two years. I don't really miss it, because of what it eventually came to be. I do think of the early days a lot, hence the topic. At this point, I know all of the retro libraries quite well. The sense of discovery is gone, I own most of what I ever wanted, everything feels like a ridiculous waste of money now... the past can't be repeated, is the point. You had to be there. I'm just thankful I'm not subject to the present day, where all the most followed and praised hacks of the retro gaming scene, are all these reseller jerks. Those clowns were probably still in daycare when we started collecting. Little did we know they'd come along to turn the entire hobby into a racket a decade later. If you just want to play the games, you're probably just modding or emulating at this point.

Covid was such a negative experience for many that people got to be penny pinchers, just like how many companies made allot of rules to milk as much money as possible. I remember this one retro store named cex which in the middle of covid removed free shipping, now charged shipping for ever item purchased in a single order (4$) imagine buying multiple 1$ dvd's) individually and worst of all while their prices where dirt cheap for many years suddenly hiked up their prices by a fuck ton for almost everything including niche stuff. also unironiclly eventhough they increased their prices and trade in values they didn't get as many trade ins compared to prior to covid so it's not even that their supply got better. they bankrupped now in my country unironiclly. but they made so many bad decisions that pretty much shoved their old userbase away from them. I used to come there daily, people knew me on a first name basis over there. when covid struck and them rules got implemented 1 by 1 I returned less and less till I just stopped coming.

I will agree with you. I did start in 2012 and it was definitely a different era of collecting. deals where everywhere stuff was dirt cheap I wish I where more seriously collecting at the time for especially nintendo cardboard, maybe stacked up on some boxed pokemon games. That being said till 2019 collecting was pretty great. when pandemic hit stuff just tanked. For me personally best memories of collecting where 2012 to like 2018. collecting is still fun for me but I won't deny it wasn't more fun prior to the pandemic.

I will however say even in the early era's while allot of stuff did pass through if you where casual. if you did put effort in you did get the peak stuff. in every era effort does reward a collector or that's just how the world works in general. although it wasn't a bad era if you did buy at retro stores market considering people already complained when a game was over 40$, you'd have the good stuff at a fraction compared to what allot of stuff costs today.

Still at the end of the day if your not having fun, it ain't a bad time to move on.

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General / Re: Your collection in 5-years from now

« on: January 06, 2026, 10:25:39 am »

interesting. I went from like 650 at the start of 2016 to over 3000 at the end of 2021.

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General / Re: Do you ever buy Non-Original accessories

« on: December 31, 2025, 08:54:48 pm »

Back in the day, i bought a whole stack of unbranded Playstation 1 Memory Cards, simply because they were 1/3 in price of what Sony charged and some games could fill up entire cards by itself (sports games especially), so i needed a ton of them. They surprisingly work to this day perfectly fine.
I don't see a problem with that.

They have higher fail rates than originals, originals don't really fail while 3rd party ones have allot of reports.

That being said odds are stacked in your favor and in more cases than not they will work perfectly fine and they often have more storage than originals.

Not for a long time, but the Hori products always catch my eye.

I don't count hori as non original their quality is good and they actually worked with nintendo and playstation on multiple really great controllers back in the day.

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General / Re: Top Pick Ups of 2025! (Up to 30)

« on: December 31, 2025, 06:20:59 pm »

It's been quite a fantastic year in terms of collection addition. while it ain't the most amount of games I've ever added to the collection in a year, the titles that did. do pack a heavy punch. very pleased with my additions

Every next year I think I ain't gonna find good deal or that I already discovered all the good stuff but every year it still happens and I still discover new games on these old consoles, I ain't complaining


1: vampire kiss  No 1 most wanted game for snes finally managed to score 1 at an amazing price. funnily enough scored multiple this year, just how it goes sometimes. alien soldier for sega, vampire kiss for snes. this title alone made my year. 

2: invader gba
3: harmful park  Never expected to score many of these jap gems that I saw in a metal jesus vid many years ago i ain't complaining.
4: ghost sweeper
5: Belmonts revenge gameboy
6: Sailor moon snes
7: Undeadline
8: Panzer bandit + obi
9: Mamono hunter yoko
10: Pepsi man
11: Zanac x zanac + obi
12: kuyin
13: Castlevania rondo of blood
14: panorama cotton + obi
15: Sailor moon sega
16: Hissatsu
17: megaman nes
18: Battle garrega + obi
19: Rainbow cotton + obi
20: batsugun + obi
21: Pokemon platinum tin version
22: el viento
23: stellar assault 32x
24: Donkey kong 64 collectors edition
25: hyper dimension snes completing my dbz snes set
26: x-men mutant snes
27: dk 64 pack
28: re 4 pack
29: growlanser generations deluxe, this thing is absolutely packed even comes with a watch. what where they smoking 
30: Super Mario rpg display box




Favourite non game pickup
Portrait of ruin pre order gift

Very hard to find in europe let alone at a cheap price. Love the time line chart of the series that's in here. very nice pre order gift