692d80 No.13625117
>What is your opinion on Greatest Hits prints of vidya?
>Do the new color schemes make or break the box art?
>Should greatest hit be determined by how many copies a game sells or should it have been how well a game scores in reviews?
>Favorite and Least Favorite Greatest Hits color reprint?
6a1b08 No.13625130
>>13625117
It's shit and I'm glad they got rid of it
3f8d1a No.13625229
>>13625117
the PS2's red is much nicer to look at than the PS1's virulent green
the greatest hits system was created by sony for games with high sales numbers and dwindling stock to provide an additional batch for public consumption. It technically doesn't ruin collectability of the original (if indeed one cares about that) and still allows more people to play the game and at a reduced price (a godsend for RPG players in the 90s)
it'd be interesting if it was game review scores, but how many metrics would you have to add up here?
e6c5c5 No.13629466
Some greatest hits releases had changes or patches. I think more copies of a game floating around is a good thing.
d5aaa1 No.13629495
>>13625130
>reducing the price is shit
How big is your nose?
7dd4ec No.13629529
>>13625130
How is it shit to reprint a game?
b486ff No.13629542
Fucking hated the EU PS3 "Platinum" games with the yellow outline and a silver case. Shit stands out like a sore thumb on a shelf next to a regular red outline with clear case games.
e1ac7f No.13629550
>>13625229
Nintendo had their Player's Choice back during Game Boy and SNES era, and probably runs long before that, in certain ways, like reprints of cassette games on Euro Microcomputers.
I do know PS1 Greatest Hits tended to cut a few printing corners. Discs would have simpler designs on them
cecad3 No.13629945
>>13629550
Yes, discs would have the art in black and white, manuals too.
62ba59 No.13630096
I appreciate great games for a cheaper price. I think people are way too autistic about "muh box art".
664429 No.13630123
>>13625117
I prefer when they go full on cost-cutting and provide you with the cheapest shit possible. There used to be a lot of publisher-independent companies that did this with PC vidya but it's a harder market to stay in with the rise of digital distribution.
ecadeb No.13630137
It's great, but sadly it's never going to happen in the modern era and most games will be stuck with the initial press run.
But IIRC games get more initial prints, so it isn't so bad.
c696d1 No.13630151
>>13629529
Because then collecterfags have to try even harder!
7dd4ec No.13630167
>>13630123
God I miss these kind of deals.
ecadeb No.13630182
>>13630137
Also it is fucking aids and cancer that PC games never get reprints
ecadeb No.13630186
>>13630182
And I mean games that aren't Diablo 2 or the sims
c696d1 No.13630206
>>13630182
>PC games never get reprints
>not just pirating it and burning the game and the crack on the disc
>not saving tons of discs full of vidya just in case
ecadeb No.13630216
>>13630206
Fuck you I like buying things
c696d1 No.13630257
>>13630216
Can't buy what they don't offer. :^)
88a339 No.13630259
>>13630216
Do you like selling things?
ecadeb No.13630268
>>13630259
It depends.
I do like Garage Sales.
664429 No.13630297
>>13630167
If you're in bongland visit Cex and look in their PC section. Games average 50p each outside of big series/licensed vidya because there's so little demand. I stock up on the best 20-30 every month or so.
88a339 No.13630301
>>13630268
I'm not saying you should do this, but you should think about the selling or trading of *illegal* copies of games.
ecadeb No.13630318
>>13630301
>suggesting I be a doublenigger
c696d1 No.13630330
>>13630318
>Bending over for the eternal jew
Don't to pay your taxes and die for israel your nation. :^)
664429 No.13630335
>>13630297
>>13630167
Also charity shops, they're often even cheaper.
ef594d No.13630343
>>13625117
I prefer it when they go the extra mile and use new cover art.
>Should greatest hit be determined by how many copies a game sells
Yes
>should it have been how well a game scores in reviews?
>trusting game journo cucks
88a339 No.13630367
>>13630318
Be the world you want to see in the change.
eae2cb No.13630648
Aesthetically, i don't like most of them, like some of the early ones just place a badge on the cover art and it's fucking obnoxious.
>>13630137
Bullshit, tons of modern games get reprints all the time, to the point where it pretty much crashes the value most of them have. Shit like Class of Heroes 2g, some Asian english vita games like Oreshika, Infinite Space, and Class of Heroes 2g, for example used to go for much, much more than they do now
ecadeb No.13630850
>>13630367
Selling pirated games ain't changing shit.
eae2cb No.13630895
>>13630850
>Selling pirated games ain't changing shit.
It makes people more cautious, but that's about it. Far as i can tell SNES mini has done more to make games cheaper than shitty bootlegs nobody likes or wants.
d86360 No.13631120
>>13625229
Design variations aside, what's important is:
>>13629466
Games like GT2 had some pesky bugs fixed in the Greatest Hits version.
Today we have the GOTYAY HD+ FULL DLC versions instead. I prefer them because they're cheaper than the original game, have smaller (or even zero) updates and include all the crap I'd normally have to shell out extra cash for. I'm glad I didn't get neither RE7, Nioh nor Horizon early this year - it hasn't even been a full year and GOTY editions of those three are incoming… Waiting pays out.
3966e5 No.13631938
>Collecting vidya for profit
Only retards do that, like collecting hockey cards thinking they could be worth something more than the print and the material in the future.
b8db9f No.13631974
>>13625117
GameCubes is Ultrashit. I wish i Had an original print of every GC game i own.
Ps2s is ok.
7f5a86 No.13632194
>>13630297
>Getting old disc-based PC games to install on modern systems
It's a fucking ordeal, let me tell you
664429 No.13632470
0ebd3f No.13632627
>>13630343
Pretty sure this only had different art because it had additional outfits added.
88a339 No.13632878
>>13630850
You're creating and distributing physical copies.
e34e7e No.13632921
PS1 platinum is the only one that doesnt look like fucking trash.
91a48d No.13632952
>>13630297
tfw got an original copy of VtmB for $5
f432e8 No.13641005
>>13629466
Jet moto 2 greatest hits version is different from the original. It had only 4 racers in a race and all original tracks unlocked. It also ran at a steady 30 fps. http://jetmoto.wikia.com/wiki/Jet_Moto_2
9b4268 No.13641019
>>13625117
Try living in Cuckada where all box art is polluted by 50% french, completely ruining the collectability. Futhermore, nobody on ebay will buy it.
7ae527 No.13641235
>>13631664
>getting this mad over stupid shit
>not expecting publishers to brag about their sales
4d8488 No.13641303
I didn't mind the original PS1 "Platinum" range since it was simply a tasteful platinum recolour of the typically black Playstation branding. But over time they changed it to some garish black and yellow scheme or something IIRC.
>>13632921
knows it
7ae527 No.13641443
>>13641303
I thought it became green?
a73b40 No.13641447
This will always be the best Greatest Hits box.
2ed380 No.13641463
>>13625130
pretty sure they just transformed it into "definitive editions"
2ed380 No.13641499
>>13630123
>full-on cost cutting
>have fun time collecting pieces of shattered CD that was decentered / poorly balanced on an chink conveyor belt in some vietnamese underground bunker
sure as shit was fun times
e6956b No.13642140
It's the same damn game. That aside, I really like the Xbox ones and prefer that silver case over the green by a large margin
b42f1c No.13643066
To be fair, there are other ways of saying "this game sold 1M+ copies" without ruining the original packaging. Double-sided covers, small inserts, stickers on the shrink wrap, cardboard sleeves, you name it.
Not that I really care. I mean these aren't made for collectors, they're made to grab as many sales as possible with a lower MSRP. The label is a deliberate marketing strategy: They want to show you that it's good and cheap.
57bd61 No.13643146
>>13643066
good and cheap isn't really a bad thing. Like I said, I think it's a good thing that more high demand games are out in the world for people to get. Earthbound sold a million units but nobody was reselling them, so prices went nuts. Imagine if it got a re-issue with no guide? 2 million more units floating around maybe? Much cheaper copies?
692d80 No.13654802
>>13641019
What part of Canada do you live in? I'm a leaf too, and the box art for my vidya isn't 50% french.
b724a1 No.13665154
>>13641447
>>13641470
God i always hated those covers.
Also the European cover for the PS "platinum" series were Always terrible looking.
The idea of a cheap release was great and should come back, but the cover aesthetic was awful.
b724a1 No.13665334
>>13641303
Yes that was the best one, not overly colorful and with the original artwork intact.
>>13641443
In America was green and called "greatest hits" in Europe we had those ones called "Platinum" series.
1007c3 No.13665581
>>13665154
I don't know why they didn't just stick with the PS1 way of doing it and just change the black bar to platinum.
3f56f1 No.13665749
>>13665154
Did somebody at Sony have a hate boner for Europe? The American versions of those covers look so much better. Instead of a fiant yellow border, there's just a tiny box at the top saying platinum hits.
60af4d No.13665964
Not inclined to buy Greatest Hits style prints myself (I have none, and many of my favorite games didn't even sell enough to warrant that treatment). That said, I will say that the red PS2 and PS3 cover banners aren't too awful compared to how bright the PS1 slime-green and Gamecube caution-yellow ones are, and for a cover-within-a-cover style print, the Wii's Nintendo Selects actually look rather classy (compare with how bland Japan's PS2/PS3 the BEST line look, or how awful the attempted "Konami's Best" DS covers were). "Touch Generations" style GH DS prints can go fuck themselves (moving the cover art down and cropping it off to fit an ugly orange banner), and with the PS3, the bold red cases can be rather ugly and have more issues going with the cover art compared to the clear original label cases. I will admit though that some Greatest Hits do have perks over the original (IE: Spyro games having music/bug fixes), but I really hate how some companies get lazy and just make what should have been (or even was in other regions) a separate special edition rerelease into a GH style reprint, like Konami did with Silent Hill 2's Director's Cut here in NA.
Speaking of Sony, they really fumbled their banner/spine tag style for seventh gen, compared to prior generations. Looking specifically at NA releases:
>Original label with Spiderman font PS3 logo.
>Greatest Hits red case with Spiderman font PS3 logo.
>Original label redesigned logo.
>Greatest Hits red case redesigned logo.
>PS4 style BLUE label/spine tag.
I don't know if any of the games that fell into the last category sold enough to get a Greatest Hits version, and it seems to have been up to the publisher if they wanted to use that format, but still. Even with just the original label ones, forgoing any red cases, it still makes any row of PS3 spines kind of ugly under standard alphabetization.
c67ded No.13675100
>>13625117
>Game of the year
How in the hell that happened?
86f896 No.13675667
>>13629945
Not always. Square tended to leave the manual's color printing intact for GH reprints.
c2cfac No.13675984
>>13625117
>repaint&reprint
>something worthwhile
now check this shit out
664429 No.13676623
17532f No.13680928
bc5de5 No.13680953
The covers look like shit, but I have nothing against cheaper games that are hard to find.
9b3b7d No.13680958
>>13625117
PS2 greatest hits was the worst for me, the shade of red was an eyesore. Platinum hits for xbox was less of a problem, and I never complained much for different prints of ps1 era titles.Must have been the color alone.
053d26 No.13687964
>>13632921
>PS1 platinum is the only one that doesnt look like fucking trash
Yep