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Battlefront collection is what I'm most hyped for, but as it's coming to other consoles, I'll get it there.

With that, and the recent Tomb Raider and Metal Gear rereleases, it's nice to see a bunch of that generation of games coming to modern systems.

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General / Re: 2024 Gaming/Collecting Goals
« on: December 22, 2023, 07:46:32 pm »
Main gaming goal is the ever-impossible whittling down the backlog. Main problem is that I keep playing those behemoth games that take 100+ hours to finish. One game in particular I want to finish (or more accurately, get caught up) is Coloring Pixels for Steam, as there's around 1,500 achievements to get in that addicting, casual game.

Collecting-wise I don't really have a goal for games themselves, as I'm barely buying anything physical right now. I do have a few game-adjacent goals though. I got back into the Pokemon card collecting scene this year, and would like to finish up some sets, old and new. Right now, the only ones I've finished are Base Set and Black & White, but I want to get the Scarlet & Violet ones completed and work my way backwards from there. I also want to complete my Pokemon Nanoblock collection, not counting the super mini ones. Currently, I've got 25 of the basic ones and the DX versions of Palkia and Dialga. And finally, I want to keep building up my Team Fortress 2 unusual collection, I'm almost at the 300 mark there.

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General / Re: Amiibos - your experience
« on: December 18, 2023, 10:32:01 pm »
I want to complete the Smash series, but with being unable to find most of the Ultimate characters at non-scalper prices, my interest has certainly waned.

I wish I had finished training up my entire roster into level 50 fighters though. My Zelda and Little Mac in particular were both stupidly good. Zelda was a sniper tank that you needed to get into the 300s to even budge. Mac was even better though, I enhanced him in a way that gave him actual air recovery, and he also had vampirism, allowing him to heal back all damage done to him in seconds. Dude could demolish me in a 3 stock match in a minute and a half once he was full powered.

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General / Re: Warning!!! (do not toss or sell your OG Xbox Consoles)
« on: October 09, 2023, 12:19:56 am »
The 360 has needed a hard drive installed to play OG Xbox games since Backwards compatibility was rolled out. This isn't really new.

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I think in general, it's still got a few years of going up before it peaks. A good amount of casual retro collecting (not just games, but in general) is from people in their 30s who have disposable income and want to get a chunk of their childhood back or to get what they weren't able to as a kid. However, when we get to the point in a few years where that audience's childhood is the PS3/360 era, there's going to be much less of a desire and a need to go hunting for the old consoles and games thanks to backwards compatibility and rereleases. After all, why go through all that effort to buy the old physical hardware, when you you can just load up the marketplace, pay a few bucks, and be scratching that nostalgia itch in minutes?

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General / Re: Video Game Prices
« on: August 23, 2023, 03:05:10 pm »
I always find it amusing how the most rare and valuable stuff in my gaming collection technically doesn't even exist. I've got a bunch of items for Team Fortress 2 that currently sell on the secondary market for around $500+ each. And some of them don't even do anything special or look different than the basic, worthless items in the game.

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General / Re: Anyone else suck at finishing RPGs?
« on: July 11, 2023, 01:10:47 am »
If I get into an RPG, I can usually complete it, but there can be times where I wind up losing interest. There tend to be two big hurdles for me. The first is when I hit a wall where grinding is the only solution, and grinding for the sake of the grind is not typically fun. The other is when the world becomes a little too open and then gives no sense of direction or purpose; Like you just get the airship, allowing you to visit every town in the game and your only objective is something vague like "find the orbs" or "prepare to fight Lord Darkness". You never feel like you're going the right direction as well as potentially missing something. This doesn't apply to games like The Elder Scrolls or Fallout as those were designed with random exploration in mind.

I think replayability does also help in making an RPG finishable, as if it's good enough to play through more than once, then getting though that first time is a bit easier.

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General / Re: What are you playing?
« on: June 23, 2023, 03:21:19 pm »

Sadly, Legend II is the only one out of the three cartridges that isn't working reliably, though I paid a bunch of money for it :( but I guess I'll figure this out soon as I get to play it seriously.

While not on the original hardware, the games do have a compilation rerelease for both Switch and Steam. It's called Collection of SaGa: Final Fantasy Legend.

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General / Re: Best Video Game Rental Memories
« on: June 19, 2023, 12:56:54 am »
My most memorable rental was Tales of Symphonia for the Gamecube. That game sucked me in so much that I managed to beat the entire game in a single weekend rental.

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Separate trophy lists and the PS5 version runs and loads a bit better. That's usually the only differences between non-massive games that release on both generations.

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General / Re: Do any of you folks use gameplay trackers
« on: June 04, 2023, 12:28:40 pm »
Pretty much the main one I use is https://www.trueachievements.com They focus on Xbox/Windows achievements but do have sister sites for PSN and Steam. The main idea of the site is that while games give the same base amount of gamerscore, games are not equal in how hard they are to complete. So, achievements tracked on there have their score boosted based off an inverse proportion of how many people have earned it, so the more rare the achievement is, the more it's worth. This means that a quick completion like Avatar: The Burning Earth gets an adjusted value of 1,013, whereas a game that takes more effort to complete like Hades would have a score of 2,458. It's not a perfect system, as people can still bulk up with easy titles (especially in the era of 1000G title updates) and some games from Game Pass or Games with Gold wind up with higher than normal ratios from all the people who try for free than shelve it after a few minutes, but it makes me still feel a bit prouder of some of the games I've completed.


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General / Re: Your Top Video Game Franchises
« on: May 30, 2023, 07:08:49 pm »
In no real particular order:

Mass Effect
Dragon Age
Pokemon
Civilization
Star Wars: X-Wing
Super Smash Bros.
Dynasty Warriors
Super Mario Bros.
Mario Kart
Advance Wars

I enjoyed Arceus enough for what it was, but Sword/Shield and Scarlet/Violet are so crazy bad, it's really hurt the series for me.

I'm more the opposite, where I'd put Scarlet/Violet near the top if I'm ranking Pokemon gens. While the games were janky at times, I enjoyed the story, characters, open world, and many of the new Pokemon. My main nitpick would be that I wished the game had better level-scaling as it could get too easy to overlevel and it would've fit the open-world aesthetic better if the gyms all got stronger as you progressed (e.g. Larry would have a stronger team if he were the 8th gym you faced than if he were the 5th). Sword and Shield however, I would agree with them being terrible and would rank them near the bottom.

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General / Re: Which games do you value higher than $100?
« on: March 09, 2023, 02:12:37 pm »

The majority of responses posted are not what I was expecting. I suppose most members here simply don't find a higher value in some gaming experiences they have, even for their absolute favorites?


I think it's more that it's not easy to convert intrinsic value to monetary value. I can't look at a purchase and think "this is worth X happiness" or look at something in my collection and think "this was worth $X of joy".
My big problem is that I've got rapidly diminishing returns when it comes to justifying purchases for myself as the price rises, and $100 is a major gatekeeper. Outside of the game consoles themselves, the times I've spent more than $100 on a singular thing for any of my hobbies/collections could likely be counted on one hand. I've got tons of games in my collection where I've spent 100+ hours on, but even with hindsight, I don't think I would've given them the time of day if that price tag blocked my way and I couldn't use alternative methods like piracy or services like Game Pass to play them.

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General / Re: Which games would you be willing to pay $100 to own?
« on: March 08, 2023, 04:22:53 am »
I can barely justify paying more than $60, let alone $100 for a game.

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