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Modern Video Games / Re: Fatal Frame V
« on: August 25, 2015, 04:53:22 am »
Booo... hiss...
Freaking turrible.
Freaking turrible.
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General / Re: VGC's Anonymous/"General" Topic:
« on: August 24, 2015, 05:25:40 pm »
I hate that I can't count on FYE for CD hunting anymore. They don't stock anything niche, these days. I remember when you could find any album in one of those stores. Now most of the artist markers on the shelf are empty. When you ask about an album, they actually try to burn you a copy and charge you for it. 
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General / Re: Would you ever consider this?
« on: August 20, 2015, 07:33:44 pm »
Would I consider buying it? Maybe, depends on how much I wanted Kronker. I've considered buying a total reproduction cart of Earthbound for my collection, if I can get it cheap enough.
You'd be lucky to find a store that would discount "Kronker" from the cost of an immaculate copy. Nobody does that anymore, for whatever reason everything is the eBay average price regardless of condition. Though everyone knows, there's not a collector of any sort out there who wants that ripped up Kronker because it looks like crap. So might as well fix it.
I think when a cart as been resto'd, it should also be priced at the lower end of the spectrum of condition that nobody pays attention to. It should say reproduction label (most label sources do this). Obviously I'm not opposed to existence of reproductions. I make reproduction boxes myself, they are labeled as such so as not to cause confusion. IMO, they don't really increase the value of a loose game and definitely do not reflect the value of an original box.
You'd be lucky to find a store that would discount "Kronker" from the cost of an immaculate copy. Nobody does that anymore, for whatever reason everything is the eBay average price regardless of condition. Though everyone knows, there's not a collector of any sort out there who wants that ripped up Kronker because it looks like crap. So might as well fix it.
I think when a cart as been resto'd, it should also be priced at the lower end of the spectrum of condition that nobody pays attention to. It should say reproduction label (most label sources do this). Obviously I'm not opposed to existence of reproductions. I make reproduction boxes myself, they are labeled as such so as not to cause confusion. IMO, they don't really increase the value of a loose game and definitely do not reflect the value of an original box.
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General / Re: VGC's Anonymous/"General" Topic:
« on: August 19, 2015, 01:27:29 pm »
Selling used games didn't really work out for Walmart. I doubt it will work for RadioShack. The only way it works, is if the store allows customers to come in and directly unload stuff into that store. None of that mail it in, drop it off at the service desk, have it inspected at a warehouse and sell online/redistribute to stores junk. That's what I hate about Walmart, Best Buy, and GameStop's method with retro. Hire smart people, and operate out of the store.
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General / Re: What's your best gaming deal to date?
« on: August 16, 2015, 11:05:42 pm »
Vectex with games, at a community yard sale. Paid $20, probably saved about $250+ on the lot.
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Off Topic / Re: What Are You Listening to Right Now?
« on: August 16, 2015, 10:47:35 pm »I'm listening to Leitmotif by dredg right now.
Ahh dredg... one of my long time favorites. Leitmotif was a younger side of them, it shared some commonalities with their EP (I wanna say Orph?). Something like that. My favorite track off of Leit was always Yatahaze. Haven't heard much from the band in a while. I wonder what they're up to.
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Modern Video Games / Re: Obscure, good Wii games
« on: August 16, 2015, 10:25:59 pm »
I recently got Obscure, The Aftermath for Wii. I wonder if that is a good obscure game for the Wii.
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General / Re: Collector's frustration (missed deals, deals gone bad, general mishaps)
« on: August 15, 2015, 03:38:49 pm »
One time I went on an hour long flea market trip to look for games. Little did I realize that literally, right beside me on the highway was a game reseller the whole way there. We get there, hesitate about where to park, then go in and start looking. We come around a corner to a table where this yard seller had tons of games for all systems, dirt cheap. With out even looking at the stuff, the reseller makes an offer to the guy for everything he has and takes it. Right in front of us. So he shovels a ton of games into his van that we rode beside the whole way, and royally craps on our day. We were moments too late.
Another time at a flea market, my brother finds a box with Earthbound in it a couple of dollars, so because he found it, it was his. But he's never heard of the game before, and I had wanted it for years... *sigh* ...and I still don't have it.
Once on the website Half, I found a listing for the Saturn game Shining Wisdom for about $25 and jumped on it. Well, I never got the game in the mail. Seller claimed they "lost it". Yeah, sure. As in lost their mind when the realized they under priced it.
Last year, among many jewel case games I bought online, I payed through the nose for Magic Knight Rayearth on Saturn and the hinge was broken in the mail because the seller sent it in a bubble mailer. Really?! A bubble mailer, guy? Mailman kept curb stomping all my stuff last year too.
A near mishap occurred once when I decided to pick up Silent Hill 3 and 4 in one place. Store was having a 20% off sale, except "rares" which are under glass. Guy at the counter asks me did you get these from the glass case? The answer was a simple no. But it still annoyed me he would try to quiz me on them just because he realized he wanted to put them under glass but I guess forgot to? Guess he really didn't want me to get a deal on em. They're not rare, anyhow.
Back when I originally bought a Saturn on eBay (around 2002), I purchased the console sight unseen (was common then). I was told it was all there and had two games. 3 weeks later I receive a painted on system with no video cable, and only one game. That kind of crap was just common back in the day on eBay. There was no buyer protection, you rarely got to see pictures, and people got burnt all the friggin' time.
Another time at a flea market, my brother finds a box with Earthbound in it a couple of dollars, so because he found it, it was his. But he's never heard of the game before, and I had wanted it for years... *sigh* ...and I still don't have it.
Once on the website Half, I found a listing for the Saturn game Shining Wisdom for about $25 and jumped on it. Well, I never got the game in the mail. Seller claimed they "lost it". Yeah, sure. As in lost their mind when the realized they under priced it.
Last year, among many jewel case games I bought online, I payed through the nose for Magic Knight Rayearth on Saturn and the hinge was broken in the mail because the seller sent it in a bubble mailer. Really?! A bubble mailer, guy? Mailman kept curb stomping all my stuff last year too.
A near mishap occurred once when I decided to pick up Silent Hill 3 and 4 in one place. Store was having a 20% off sale, except "rares" which are under glass. Guy at the counter asks me did you get these from the glass case? The answer was a simple no. But it still annoyed me he would try to quiz me on them just because he realized he wanted to put them under glass but I guess forgot to? Guess he really didn't want me to get a deal on em. They're not rare, anyhow.
Back when I originally bought a Saturn on eBay (around 2002), I purchased the console sight unseen (was common then). I was told it was all there and had two games. 3 weeks later I receive a painted on system with no video cable, and only one game. That kind of crap was just common back in the day on eBay. There was no buyer protection, you rarely got to see pictures, and people got burnt all the friggin' time.
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General / Re: Do you ever just stare at your collection in awe?
« on: August 14, 2015, 09:56:32 pm »Since my bed faces a wall that has a bunch of PS2/XBOX stuff on it, it's pretty much the last thing I see at night and the first thing I see waking up. I sometimes think to myself - when did I become this wall-o-games person? Then I remember I've been at it for 7 years, maybe longer, buying more games every single week.I do that too, I buy a game I probably won't ever get around to playing. With my Wii U though, I've completed or at least tried to complete every game I've purchased for it. It may sound odd, but sometimes when I pop a game in and start playing it, I feel guilty, like I should be doing something else. Every game I've gotten recently is something I genuinely wanted to play, but sometimes I don't end up doing so.
Yeah, it's pretty awe inspiring seeing all of this great software in one place, but also sometimes scary. I buy them because I intend to play them, but I fear that I won't for most of them. It's difficult for me to do stuff like play a game, especially living with untreated depression and anxiety. Popping in a game often seems like building a house with my bare hands, in my mind. So imagine what playing all of them would mean. Just going out and buying another one is so much easier.
But I keep looking at this light at the end of a tunnel. There are strict limitations to what more will be added to the pile and that feels good. I'm not collecting games beyond 7th gen except for Nintendo consoles, from this point, and my wishlist keeps shrinking ever so slowly.
A lot of my PS2 games were found next to a dumpster at GameStop and I have no interest in about half of them, I just grabbed them because they were there. I've been thinking of selling off the games I don't want so my collection is just all the games I like, but I keep telling myself it's quantity over quality when I know it's not true.
I've come to accept that my intention is only to play these games, not to beat them. I'm okay with it, as long as I've given it a go for a few hours. Whether I love it, or hate, it's likely that I won't come back to playing it that many times. Unless it's really, really something special and I'm in a really positive mood.
I couldn't sell my games off. As sad as it sounds, this collection is one of my life's biggest achievements, and I've put a lot of my soul into it. It's flawed in some ways, but it is my creation I guess. That's why right now, I see it as worth keeping basically forever.
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Off Topic / Re: Lets Learn More About Each Other: What Is Your Daily Driver?
« on: August 13, 2015, 05:46:38 pm »
An OG Focus, the debuting year model for the states. I love the car. There are only 3 other cars to this day, I'd consider trading my Focus for - a Mazda 3 (OG, or Smiley revision), a B16 Sentra (most hated Sentra but I dig it), or the 2008 revision Focus (not the current one).
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Classic Video Games / Re: What video game generation do you think was best time to be alive?
« on: August 13, 2015, 04:21:08 pm »
Probably 4th gen... At that time you had fewer, and more importantly purely gaming oriented companies completing for best product and putting out some of their most highly regarded classics. Of course, I'm talking about Super Nintendo and Genesis. The period predating this rivalry was a mess of junky hardware and crappy games (1983), and the period that followed the 16-bit wars, brought on more junky hardware and crappy games from every electronics company that wanted to throw their hat into the ring... and in my not so humble opinion, today we have huge non-gaming oriented companies building generic boxes that really aren't much different from today's PC gaming scene, and is ever so slowly becoming Steam, rehashing content out the wazoo especially with the collecting scene in a bubble.
So my vote goes to what was probably the purest console gaming generation, the 4th.
So my vote goes to what was probably the purest console gaming generation, the 4th.
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Classic Video Games / Re: The top 5 games that defined your childhood
« on: August 13, 2015, 04:06:22 pm »What are the top 5 games that defined your childhood? You can include honorable mentions if you wish.
Super Mario 64
Duke Nukem 3D
Face Ball 2000
Driver
Roller Coaster Tycoon
+ HM
Crusin' USA
Super C
The Sims
Sunset Riders
Golden Eye 007
Shenmue
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General / Re: VGC's Anonymous/"General" Topic:
« on: August 11, 2015, 07:26:21 am »
So my friend did some psychedelic drugs and went off the deep end. I seriously think it damaged him. He is totally manic. Couldn't make much sense of his rambling, but from what I gather the insanity has been going on for over a week straight, claims that he hasn't slept, but keeps talking about "dreams" that give him more knowledge of the universe. All sorts of bizarre rambling, he evidently thinks he is god, wants to take over the church of Scientology. Actually thinks he's gonna do it.
I feel really bad for his family, they have no idea what to do. The psych ward didn't help, they probably should have just left him there.
I feel really bad for his family, they have no idea what to do. The psych ward didn't help, they probably should have just left him there.
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General / Re: VGC's Anonymous/"General" Topic:
« on: August 10, 2015, 07:28:20 pm »
You're right. I'll take $175, but I ain't throwing in Shaq Fu.
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General / Re: VGC's Anonymous/"General" Topic:
« on: August 10, 2015, 02:30:39 pm »
Thanks guys, it really means a lot that you would considered doing that for me.
One helpful tip that I thought of when looking for it, is to remember that it comes in a clear-plastic DVD case, unlike most DVDs which come in black. So when you look at a line of DVDs you can pretty much know that the black ones aren't it by looking at the edges.
One helpful tip that I thought of when looking for it, is to remember that it comes in a clear-plastic DVD case, unlike most DVDs which come in black. So when you look at a line of DVDs you can pretty much know that the black ones aren't it by looking at the edges.