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Classic Video Games / Re: Games everyone hates but you love?

« on: August 10, 2015, 03:59:53 pm »

Ephemeral Fantasia

I can't believe someone else said this game. This game immediately comes to my mind when I see this topic of conversation pop up. There are others as well but this one is always the first one. People even hated this game in Japan. I don't understand it. This game is awesome.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: UPC conundrum (Ultimate Spider-man)

« on: August 01, 2015, 07:53:43 pm »

I have no idea why that UPC number is attached to Ultimate Spider-Man on VGCollect's page. That number doesn't belong to any version of the game that I know exists, including the limited edition or versions on other consoles. I just searched your 047875808935 number in eBay, and I got 48 results that only have the version with that UPC number and the limited edition. Searching 047875809291 gives me exactly 0 results. I know eBay results aren't gospel, but it's odd for nothing to be attached to that number.

One of the issues is that the artwork we have for the back seems to have come from GameFAQs, which has this very weird trend of featuring artwork with the barcode completely removed as if that was going to protect something somehow. Notice that the front cover also has an ISRB rating of RP, which is Rating Pending. Maybe the user who added the UPC number would have more information on some strange alternate version, but for any original version of the game, it should have the UPC you have listed, 047875808935.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: So I noticed a whole section of soundtracks...

« on: July 30, 2015, 09:47:04 pm »

Ah okay, I'm understanding the scope of this a little more now. Thanks guys.

I personally wouldn't add enclosure soundtracks either, it's what we have the "Other" checkbox for when you add a game to your collection And I'm actually not thinking about adding soundtracks to my collection at all since it's exactly that, clutter. I just wondered if I should add some soundtracks just to do so. But I think I'll leave it to people to add it themselves, and I'll personally focus on the PS2 NTSC-J games.

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Video Game Database Discussion / So I noticed a whole section of soundtracks...

« on: July 30, 2015, 06:16:40 pm »

Does VGCollect seriously want to add every game soundtrack imaginable...? I'm just thinking of the amount of entries VGMdb has that aren't anime soundtracks entries. It's a lot. And then there are also enclosure soundtracks... so this, for example. We adding a separate entry for those?

Just want to know how serious the soundtracks section is.

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General / Re: Why are there so many Nintendo apologists?

« on: July 30, 2015, 06:12:32 pm »

wee

Pun opportunity: MISSED

Seriously though, I've always wondered about this. It seems like whenever the conversation comes up about which console line is going to disappear first, the question is always really "[how much longer] will Nintendo last?" more than it is "which one will go first?" Nintendo isn't indestructible, sure - any company can take major hits and go under. It just seems like people exaggerate the "hits" Nintendo is taking, like because of these decreased numbers they aren't turning a profit or they won't be around anymore. Not saying that's what you're doing here, just pointing out something I've experienced having been around other games and on the interwebz.

I'm also writing this as somebody who at this point only owns a PS2, so I'm not a Nintendo fanboy by any means. I've enjoyed games they made on just about all of their different consoles and that's about it. To me, the most bone-headed thing they did was come out with a console that pretty much requires motion control all the time. It's laborious. I want to sit down and play a game, like... normally, yo. To me, motion control is still a gimmick. It's a "look at how much reality is fusing with video games!" stunt and I don't really appreciate it. It's fun at times in party-game situations and such, but it's not a console I take seriously as a gamer at all (not like games should be taken too seriously or anything of course ).

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Classic Video Games / Re: Anyone have a complete collection or aiming for one?

« on: July 30, 2015, 06:30:25 am »

I love the PS2, but there's no way I would complete a collection. I'm only a collector insofar as I take pride in owning nice copies of many different games that I deem worth owning (and a few I've come into owning through other free means). Honestly, I don't think I'd even want to own all the PS2 games. There are just so many undesirable titles. Plus, having only a small part-time job makes it hard to take collecting very seriously, so I just buy things I like and really want to own, and then stroke it a little by adding them into various collection websites

Sometimes I even think 332 titles is overboard, but I just ordered a couple more from Japan last night...

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Classic Video Games / Re: What do you think is the most overrated retro console?

« on: July 26, 2015, 04:36:49 pm »

I remember that someone tried to debate with me on Quest 64, saying it was a good game and it needed to be remade; I was laughing my ass off for the rest of the day.

Haha, Quest 64 XD I liked that game provisionally. I think I liked it sort of in a "this is bad but I must defeat it" kind of way. Yeah, the N64 pretty much didn't have one darn RPG. I remember when stuff like Crystal Chronicles and Tales of Symphonia came out for the Gamecube, and it was a big deal that a Nintendo console was going to have a "real RPG" again.

But the games are selling for a high price for a reason.

Funny, I was just talking with my friend about the rarity of games and how it may not seem to have any rhyme or reason, but it pretty much boils down to how many were printed a lot of the time, which telly covered pretty well in his post. But yeah, I remember selling a cartridge of Nosferatu for the SNES for $70 on eBay. Cartridge only. Nosferatu. I also sold Final Fantasy III for the going rate at the time and got $57. So... yeah, that makes a lot of sense. P.S. I can also sell a copy of Disgaea for the PS2 complete with case and book in great condition and maybe get $15.

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Classic Video Games / Re: What do you think is the most overrated retro console?

« on: July 26, 2015, 12:03:25 am »

Do they? I'm more expecting everyone to come in here and call me crazy and say that the SNES is the most overrated. But then that's the expectation that comes from usually not sharing the same opinion as most other people (seems to happen to me a lot).

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Classic Video Games / Re: What do you think is the most overrated retro console?

« on: July 25, 2015, 11:41:22 pm »

Sega Saturn... because I never played one

No, I'm joking about that. I wish I had played one. I do kind of feel like Sega Genesis is a little overrated though, and I have played quite a few Genesis games. To me they never had the meat that games from other consoles had. It had like... 3 RPGs, if you count Shadowrun... I dunno, it's an alright console, but other than Sonic and... well, nothing else, pretty much, I don't have too many great memories from it.

N64 is a good console, but I think not as good as some people remember it to be. My personal opinion. I do like it a heck of a lot more than the Genesis though and I have a lot of good memories from it.

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Classic Video Games / Re: GameCube fanatics

« on: July 24, 2015, 11:53:13 pm »

I'm going to echo a couple of suggestions here.

Pac-Man World 2: I've played a lot of this on the PS2. Really fun game, a totally legit platformer.

Puyo Pop Fever: I recently acquired a copy of Puyo Puyo Fever for PS2, which is the same game, just the one released in Japan (oddly enough it was translated into 5 different languages and even has English voice acting ). I brought it over to my friends' house last weekend and we just about couldn't put it down. Decently fun to play 1-player as well.

I see Tales of Symphonia in your collection so all else is right with the world

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Help uploading games from spreadsheet.

« on: July 24, 2015, 06:34:15 pm »

I don't think something like this would really be possible unless it was formatted in a very particular way made specifically to interact with the way things are listed on VGCollect... which varies depends on who submits it. For example, the proper format for listing different editions is something like "Champions of Norrath - Greatest Hits", but then you get stuff like this that doesn't do it exactly the same, so that would probably mess it up when you try to add something. Same with limited editions and such. You could possibly use catalog number, like SLUS-XXXXX, but two different versions of a game can share the same number.

I'm not an admin, but I think you'll have to add them one-by-one.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Add the text from the back of NTSC-J games?

« on: July 20, 2015, 05:20:10 pm »

Haha, yeah There's a field for it! It seems so sad to leave it blank when it's there...

I think I will add the game's official English title into the description field then? The official English title for 紅の海２ bugs me because it's just Crimson Sea, without the 2. I like adding release titles from other regions into the Alt-title field, I think it's more intuitive somehow.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: very ineficiant

« on: July 20, 2015, 03:36:51 pm »

I will say one thing sort of on his behalf: search isn't particularly friendly in some ways. If I type infection into the search box, I get no results. I should get a result for .hack//INFECTION at the very least. If I type in creed... I get no results. It seems to me that the search box is looking for your text as the very beginning of the game's name.

This is why I use Advanced Search. You can not only select the platform you want to search for, but you can type in any word of the game's name and it will come up. Also, at least on Chrome, you can Ctrl+click the Submit button to open the results in a different tab so that when you're done with those results, you can go right back to the Advanced Search page and still have your same platform selected. It makes searching WAY easier.

I really don't like that standard search box

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Add the text from the back of NTSC-J games?

« on: July 20, 2015, 02:44:46 am »

Great! I would personally use the original Japanese title as well.

Some of these games may have English versions, and therefore will have alternate titles in that regard too. Another approach is to use the whole title, like "Nishikaze no Kyoushikyoku: The Rhapsody of Zephyr", but that's just one more thought. I'll do whatever is agreed upon I'll try to fix up existing entries for games I own as I add them too!

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Recent Additions to Database

« on: July 20, 2015, 12:26:06 am »

Ah, didn't know there's a thread like this. Very cool.

My first addition was .hack//G.U. Vol.1: Saitan. I hope I get around to doing more, there's probably about 100 left or so

Update: .hack//Kansen Kakudai Vol.1 added.
Update: A-Ressha de Ikou 6 added.