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Modern Video Games / Re: Where do you draw the line? New Game Prices

« on: February 27, 2024, 08:54:46 pm »

It's going to keep going up until the economy callapses like everything else. $150 would be stupid. Many wouldn't buy it or wait until the price drops down. We're already paying $130 for Gold Edition games from Ubisoft, but that does include a season pass and other DLC. For just the base game? I don't know. I'm fine paying $70 for new games as they should have gone up years and years ago. If anything games have gotten cheaper over time adjusted for inflation.

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Modern Video Games / Re: Xbox going third party

« on: February 16, 2024, 08:54:52 am »

My issue with this is we need exclusivity. So many younger gamers are saying "End the console wars!" No! Don't! Competition breeds innovation. Without these exclusives, there's no reason to push their platform forward more. If Xbox put all of its exclusives on other systems there would be no reason to be loyal to the brand or for it to exist unless it went 100% software-based like Sega did. Microsoft keeps making these same mistakes and losing all of its exclusives from third parties or themselves. They either cancel them or let them go to other platforms. Microsoft hasn't had a good new IP since the mid-2000s.

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General / Re: Your Own Opinion About Collecting Today

« on: August 24, 2023, 05:47:31 am »

From the very beginning when I started (around 2008 or so) after I started working out of high school I told myself I have to want to play whatever I buy. There are a lot of collectors who just buy everything in their path and end up with so much stuff stuffed into boxes they never see again. I started a wishlist way back then and have gotten a good majority of it over time. Thankfully it was before the huge rise in prices during COVID, but now I'm just left with a few rare games for some consoles. I talked to my wife about this a few months ago and I've pretty much stopped collecting. I will buy an expensive game that's on the top of my wishlist (not many left) once in a while. She got me one as a surprise gift a few weeks ago randomly walking into a used game store. But, the days of going into a retro game store and walking away with an armful of games (including rare ones) for a few hundred bucks is gone.

Right now I'm just restoring and modernizing consoles to preserve them. New power supplies (internal), new LCD screens for handhelds, amplifiers/sound boards, rechargeable battery mods, replacing blown capacitors, buying modern controllers for older consoles, etc. The preservation and restoration is super satisfying and I know these consoles will now last forever without worrying about moving parts breaking and dying and things going pop one day. I'm of course collecting for modern consoles regularly, more so than retro ones over the last 4 years, and that will always continue.

Bottom line, anyone who wants to start collecting retro games today is screwed. I feel really bad for them. I talked to a few store owners near me and everyone is flipping games for profit rather than just collecting to have them. People who don't even play games are buying them up in droves. It's super sad.

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Modern Video Games / Re: Are "triple A" games dead?

« on: August 10, 2023, 01:06:00 am »

I can understand why you would think this. After the arrival of the HD consoles (PS3/Xbox 360) development time increased so much that most AAA games can take up to five years to complete. If you look back prior to that AAA games were released all year round some times dozens in a week. The PS2/Xbox era was probably the last generation of frequently released AAA games that would take two years or less to make. Some times we only get a single game in a franchise per generation now. I feel like indie titles over the last decade and a half have been keeping gaming in general alive. Without those smaller releases, many people would have lost interest.

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Site Feedback / Re: Edit button losing data on collection page

« on: July 22, 2023, 10:07:55 pm »

Still happening to me. I just lost a bunch of edits today without realizing this was happening. I went back and changed everything, dozens of items are either at 0.00 or 0000 for year.

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Modern Video Games / Re: Limited Run Games Showcase 2023

« on: July 12, 2023, 02:51:26 pm »

They're turn-around time pre-pandemic was okay. Some pre-orders during that time took 18 months or more to ship. It got pretty stupid, but most of that was out of there hands. I remember getting an email from them for the Quake collector's edition (big box) saying they just needed the die cast metal figures made and it would ship at the end of that month. It wound up shipping some 8 months later.

I also found the quality of the items aren't exactly what they were described or shown to be. For example, the BloodRayne: Fresh Bites deluxe edition extras were pretty bad. The pen was terribly made and looked cheap. Probably had to cut corners on some stuff to get things made. Here's hoping now that supply chains have eased up that the quality will go back up.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Error Listings and rejected edits 2023

« on: July 09, 2023, 05:06:24 pm »

https://vgcollect.com/item/63876

There seems to be a misunderstanding for a Box Text for a strategy guide. I was told in the rejection comments "do not denote where the text is located." However, this specific text is actually printed on the guide. It's also on a different variant.

The misunderstanding might be where it starts with "[it's back]" That's actually on the back of the guide in brackets as well right at the top. It's not me notating where the text is located. This is where I copied the text from as it's the exact same except for a single bullet point that's different.

https://vgcollect.com/item/38352

Maybe I did type something in wrong, but I'm pretty sure that was it.

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General / Re: Anyone else suck at finishing RPGs?

« on: July 09, 2023, 02:52:34 am »

Story of my life. RPGs (specifically JRPGs) are the bane of my existence. I purposefully have to set aside all of my gaming time to finish one. I have to not play any other games and just dedicate a couple of weeks to that RPG. I usually have to make sure it's worth doing this such as having a good story. The last JRPG I finished was Persona 5 Royal and it took me about two weeks and 90 something hours. I rarely ever finish them. Usually, if the story doesn't capture me I stop around 4-6 hours in and don't bother again.

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Classic Video Games / Re: Should I build a windows xp or windows 7 retro gaming pc as my primary gaming pc

« on: July 03, 2023, 12:43:32 am »

You should make a retro XP machine as games that came out during Windows 7 work on Windows 10/11 just fine.

That's actually not accurate at all. Literally 2/3 of my physical PC games won't work on the current Windows 10. That's because at some point maybe 2-3 years ago Microsoft brought a security update that straight-up refuses to run some older CD/DVD software that have a security "certificate" that is obsolete today, rendering at least 2/3 of CD/DVD games uninstallable.

Didn't know this. I don't have a disc drive on my computers. Haven't had one in 7 years. I was basing this off of using Steam for Windows 7 stuff. Maybe it's not an issue with digital content.

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Classic Video Games / Re: Should I build a windows xp or windows 7 retro gaming pc as my primary gaming pc

« on: July 02, 2023, 08:36:05 pm »

To explain due to censorships,censorship of what we love,wokeness,politically correctness & people who support censorships & people who support censorship of what we love I had to ask.

& like I said that I'm a otaku,I'm a gamer,I'm a final fantasy fan/huge fan aka final fantasy nerd,I'm a hentai fan,I love hentai both vr & non-vr & I love hentai stuff.

& yes I know I know that sooner or later they will make the games that I love & I still love & the games I want to play unplayable on new & modern pcs. So I acted like fine then if I have to I don't mind to build myself a retro gaming pc.

& sooner or later I will get even more into pc gaming & to end it here or at least for now don't worry I'm including mods too as well

Political views aside, do you mean as a dedicated retro gaming PC? Microsoft stopped updating Windows 7 so you shouldn't have either connected to the internet. Both OS support different eras. By the time Windows 7 came out the support for XP wasn't great at all. You should make a retro XP machine as games that came out during Windows 7 work on Windows 10/11 just fine. XP was built around 32-bit architecture with very little supporting or working on XP 64-bit. XP retro PCs are becoming really popular, laptops as well, so expect era appropriate hardware to be a bit pricey.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Epic Games now has a category!

« on: July 02, 2023, 02:08:50 pm »

I always thought the PC-Digital category was digital games without launchers which are pretty much non-existent these days. Back in the day when Steam was young, there were sites like Direct2Drive (a shadow of its former self these days) and directly from Microsoft's Windows store site where you could buy PC games digitally and had to redownload them through that website. I remember buying Gears of War for PC and I nol longer have it because that service is gone and MS never migrated those games anywhere. They are all gone now. Every site just offers a code to a launcher. I feel each launcher (Ubisoft, EA, etc) should have its own category as well, but that might be too much work for when they disappear like recently with Bethesda.

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General / Re: Steelbooks with Games

« on: July 02, 2023, 01:57:32 pm »

I remember getting the Rage 2 Collector's Edition and in my steelbook there was a cardboard disc with the Bethesda.net code printed on it. I've never been more offended.

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General / Re: Video Game Resolutions and Goals in 2023

« on: December 28, 2022, 08:55:46 am »

1. Get back to collecting. I don't just hoard games. I have a very curated wishlist of games I want. My goal has always been, "If you won't play it, don't buy it". We have been saving since the pandemic started so I have hardly bought any retro games since. We can finally start doing fun stuff in a few months.
2. Complete my modded handheld collection. I need an Atari Lynx, NeoGeo Pocket Color, Wonderswan, Sega Nomad, and TurboGrafx Express to complete my main handheld collection. I have most of my handhelds with modded screens (some I've done myself), so they're more enjoyable to use.
3. Play more retro games. I have several hundred and have so many I need to play if not finish, or at the minimum spend an hour in.
4. Get better lighting and a photo booth/box setup and get back to Instagram posting. I was doing fairly well and stopped because I don't have a dedicated setup for it.

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General / Re: Witcher 3 New Gen Release and General Chat Thread

« on: December 28, 2022, 08:40:50 am »

I still haven't finished this game so it was nice to get this update. I've had it installed on my PC since launch and just keep poking at it and getting distracted. I also have it on my Steam Deck. Sadly, the next-gen update on PC is awful. Ray tracing is broken. DLSS and FSR don't work at all (just 2-3 fps gain), and framerate fluctuates around 15-30 fps when you swing the camera around. Thankfully they kept the DX11 mode in without ray-tracing. DX12 is still broken even with ray-tracing disabled. I have an RTX 3080ti and it can't maintain 60fps with ray-tracing disabled and DLSS on Performance. That's incredibly sad and clearly broken. Hopefully, they can patch it up soon.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Fallout 3 Xbox 360 DLC incorrectly flagged release dates

« on: October 14, 2022, 05:06:21 am »

XB1 didn't become Backwards Compatible until 2017, so that wouldn't be the reason for those dates. It didn't even come out until the end of 2013.

According to this article, it became available November 12, 2015.