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

« on: April 07, 2026, 06:29:05 am »

I've been looking to buy the complete version of Killer Instinct since they went back to being freemium live service.

For Assassin's Creed Heritage Collection, it's sort of a compromise. I've been looking to buy the complete "trilogy" for X360 and this version is a very economical version of that. I also skipped Brotherhood and Revelations back then and went straight to playing 3 after 2.

I also picked up a second copy of the X360 version of Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition, because it was unbelievably cheap and couldn't leave it on the table.

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General / Re: Do you still prefer physical games or digital?

« on: April 07, 2026, 06:18:16 am »

Whenever it is reasonable, absolutely.

It's reasonable if:

• It does not require online activation
• It is not locked to an online account/DRM system
• It can be installed and played offline

If these don't apply, then the game is not a physical release. Once you activated it, it's just an empty box with maybe a manual.

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General / Re: Halo is going multiplat...end of an era

« on: January 31, 2026, 07:10:55 am »

I can't say I care much. Aside of a few years during the X360 era I was mainly a PC player. Halo 1 came to PC, then Halo 2 was backward compatible on the X360, for 3, ODST and Reach the main platform was the 360, then Halo went shit so there is nothing to be sad about.

As for Xbox, they self destructed with Xbone.

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General / Re: When will your backlog actually be completed?

« on: January 31, 2026, 03:23:50 am »

For games that I already own based on HowLongToBeat Main+Extras median time, my backlog is a little over 3841 hours. At my peak of the hobby, I've played about 500 hours a year. Nowdays, it's around 100. If I don't buy anything new I still have enough games to play for the rest of my life.

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Classic Video Games / Re: Do you put your game discs inside a disc wallet?

« on: August 22, 2025, 07:11:39 am »

Only magazine bundleware. They come in those envelope style paper cover and barely offer any protection to the disc. For normal retail games, I keep them in their own case.

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Modern Video Games / Re: What are some older IPs you would want to see brought back as a remake?

« on: May 24, 2025, 03:31:47 am »

There are some very old games that aren't particularly accessible these days. System Shock was already done, Daggerfall is more like being put on a modern engine that doesn't really fix much of the gameplay jank. I liked Prince of Persia Classic and would love to see the older Shantae games being done in the visual style of 1/2 Genie Hero.

But mostly I'm a purist. The overwhelming majority of remakes and remasters don't interest me because the original version is just as good if not superior to the facelift version.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Community Poll: Console Digital store parent category

« on: May 23, 2025, 01:44:42 pm »

Whatever makes it less fragmented. I already don't particularly like that within a platform the games are separated by region. Sometimes I just want to filter for example for all my games for a certain platform or manufacturer. like for example all my PS3/PC games regardless of region or all my Xbox games regardless of region or generation.

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General / Re: Have your favorite games changed over time, or mostly stayed the same?

« on: March 13, 2025, 03:18:25 pm »

It changed in the sense that it's an ever expanding list. I don't think I actually stopped liking or started to like less certain games I used to like. Maybe I found stuff I like more, but my liking is not a finite resource.

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General / Re: What are the worst games you ever tried?

« on: January 01, 2025, 08:33:32 am »

Tomb Raider (2013) - Failed to understand what Lara Croft and the TR games are meant to be and got turned into a generic cinematic Uncharted clone because it was fashionable at the time, without understanding what made Uncharted 1-3 work. It doesn't really fit the topic, I can see people with poor taste liking it, when it lets you play it's competent, but unremarkable. Still it is an awful game I rage quit at around a quarter way through and have no intention of ever revisiting.

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General / Re: Past Collections

« on: December 19, 2024, 12:04:07 pm »

Do you have a list of games you'd like to see make it into the modern ecosystems or are you good just grabbing the old hardware and enjoying them that way?

I don't mind having the option as long as it doesn't completely replace the original. It's not particularly a big issue with very old games, aside of the often missing backwards compatibility. For more modern platforms however it's not uncommon when publishers remove the original from your games library to replace it with the remaster or update it against your will. That should be grounds for a refund at full price. I like to play on retro PCs and moving the game you got off of a modern distribution platforms was a convenient way to enjoy them on period correct/adjacent hardware.

Like recently Quake 2 got updated on Steam and you can sort of set it to the old version, but it's still just a coat of paint, it's still the modernized version that won't run on a Pentium 2 with Riva TNT and Windows 95. I still have the retail copy so I'm not locked out.

Half-Life 2 however have long lost the compatibility with Windows XP. The original version is locked to Steam and you can't play it without crippling the DRM. There was a way that through Steam beta you could downgrade to the last XP compatible version. Now, after the 20th anniversary update you can downgrade to the pre-update version, but not to the XP compatible version. I have it archived on my NAS, but I still find it troublesome.

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
The original is no longer sold on Steam, the new one has a more invasive DRM, I got the original for X360, but I would prefer that for the PC too. The remaster looking a little bit better, considering the downsides I wouldn't even claim it for free.

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General / Re: Overrated/Underrated

« on: December 10, 2024, 01:27:29 pm »

Overrated: Fable(: The Lost Chapters).
Aside of the aesthetics, there is really nothing special about it. Just a mediocre action RPG even for the time. Releasing it in the same year as KOTOR II, years after Morrowind, Gothic or Deus Ex and still advertising it as revolutionary. It revolutionized nothing, at best it did its homework.

Underrated: Vanquish
A short, corny, but really entertaining game.

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General / Re: Your Top 5 Video Game Sound Tracks

« on: November 30, 2024, 01:10:18 pm »

It's okay that you only expect 5, but I feel licensed music to be cheating, but they are part of the sound track.

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General / Re: List your favorite game from your collection for each letter of the alphabet!

« on: October 01, 2024, 02:12:21 pm »

#: 1nsane (no other option)
A: Afrika Korps vs. Desert Rats
B: Bioshock
C: Carmageddon
D: Dragon Age: Origins (Divinity: Original Sin 2 if I include my digital games libraries)
E: Empire Earth (ELEX if I include my digital games libraries)
F: Fallout 2
G: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
H: Half-Life 2
I: International Rally Championship
J: Joint Task Force
K: Killzone 2 (the only game with starting with K in my collection) (Kingdom Come: Deliverance if I include my digital games libraries)
L: L.A. Noire (Left 4 Dead 2 if I include my digital games libraries)
M: Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
N: Need For Speed: High Stakes
O: N/A (Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition if I include my digital games libraries)
P: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Q: Quake 4
R: Red Dead Redemption
S: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
T: The Witcher
U: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
V:  (the only game with starting with V in my collection) (Vanquish if I include my digital games libraries)
W: Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (Wasteland 2 if I include my digital games collections)
X: XIII (no other option)
Y: N/A
Z: N/A

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Off Topic / Re: What Was The Last Movie/Anime You Watched?

« on: September 15, 2024, 03:59:22 am »

Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior yesterday afternoon. Still the best in the franchise.

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General / Re: Do y'all have your digital games added to your collection list on this site?

« on: August 23, 2024, 03:56:10 pm »

No, and I never will. This site for me is for my game collection, not my game libraries. I could make a case for adding the items from my GoG library and the DRM-fee stuff from my Steam library, since those I actually own, but I decided it' will only be for my physical games.