/v/ - Video Games

Don't really have the money for it, I imagine that's most of /v/'s problem. If I could, I would do it but it's not feasible for me. So I compromised and just back up load on original hardware. If I could collect feasibly, I'd still back up load on original hardware just for convenience sake, probably just buy/collect games I really like. I do get related goods like some old collectors items or advertisements because I think they're a lot of fun.

if it's not hardware, don't bother

>throwing out perfectly good electronics in favor of new electronics running digital formats that dont perform as well.

is that what we're calling keeping/owning now? collecting?

is this a new jew tactic to get you to voluntarily throw out perfectly good physical products so you can consume the next one?

>"did you ever just grow out of collecting money? spend! spend! spend!"

fuck this whole mentality.

>>15923719

You know you can sell stuff online and not throw it out?

>>15923692

>room full of sad shit

>it's all nintendo

imajuhn moi shock

>>15923760

<Cuckchan exodus

<Mods ban all the fun bantz but leave the samefags, literal fags, retards and furries

<meta only allowed in /meta/ because vidjagames

<most active threads are who the fuck cares industry drama

Having all my games being digital has been the number one best thing in the last 5 years.

I threw out every single last physical game I owned when I got it digitally.

I have absolutely no space to have a huge collection of disks and hardware with how often I have to find new places to live.

Anyone who still owns physical games is stuck in the past like the luddites they are.

The era of having every game of an entire generation for every console in your hand is now.

It's generally people who feed the aftermarket for these space wasters who hold back gaming.

>>15923779

>this is what emucucks actually believe

Yes, I'm a buyfag. I have a setup in the corner of my room with a Commodore 1701 monitor, a refurb PSX and my childhood Genesis Model 2 and SNES.

I have S-Video cables for my PSX and SNES and the picture they produce is beautiful, and lightgun games are the shit. But I haven't found any similar kind of solution for my Genesis Model 2 and I'm just using standard composite cables for it. The composite picture from my Genesis is… unsavory, to say the least. It's not much better than the RF switch I used to have for it.

>>15923692

>collecting video games

I never grew into it in the first place.

>>15923868

s-video is separate y/c (luma/chroma) with a simple adapter you can use that commodore video input.

>>15923868

Yeah I have a little adapter coupler. It reads it just fine and it looks beautiful.

>>15923759

Fuck Earthbound

I rented that game all the time as a kid, I've had enough. Now that I'm an adult the magic is gone and that game can rot in hell. Never buying that garbage.

>>15923879

>>15923874

Interdasting. Thanks for spoonfeeding me.

I had a temporary period where I stopped getting physical games, but that had more to do with only having handhelds and never being at home. Physical copies are better overall, and my only gripe is that dedicated hardware to clone physical copies doesn't really exist, among other things.

Unfinished physical copies and day 1 patch bullshit

>>15923759

The ultimate flaw with collecting is the notion of value, as if it is something that will appreciate in value until you will one day be able to offload it all and finally make your money back. Having games on your shelf that you loved playing makes sense. Hoarding old shit because you think you're being a clever businessman who will make a gorillion dollars in 50 years is just fucking retarded. It's like the dumb shits who bought tons of baseball cards because they heard about some single card with a print error on it that's valued at $50,000 or some shit. Turns out the only time those kinds of things have value is when other obsessive retards are burning their money trying to fill out their own collection because they think they're going to get an assload of cash someday for their worthless pile of garbage that no one actually wants.

>>15923692

No, I even go to second hand stores to rescue them from the chinks and collectors.

>>15923931

A game has hours of entertainment value though. A baseball card is just something you look at, which has none of the fun of the actual sport itself.

>>15923778

>be rootless

>own nothing

Good goy.

>>15923738

how is trading it in any better? youre still getting rid of it, a thing you own, so you can get money and exchange it for something shittier that you dont really own.

Nope I have an amazing collection and don't regret a thing. Didnt break my bank to grt it also.

>>15924006

Yeah still legal, you are still legal to copy videogames to whatever format as you please, unless you agreed to a license that fucks you over

>>15924011

Eulas are debatably legal, too. Especially since 99% of them say you can't sue for anything that turns out to actually be illegal in them

>>15924008

In the same situation. Kind of regretting actually selling my gold Zelda cartridge. Also, being dumb for letting "friends" borrow my games because they said they had a super secret hack and never seeing them again. Internet wasn't even common back then so I wouldn't have known better but I should have been more careful. Fuck you Ian Espirito. This is why I don't hire Mexicans.

>>15923990

Why keep stuff you aren't using? Seems awfully Jewish to not let someone else take it off your hands and enjoy it.

>>15924011

>>15924018

Even so, I am from Eastern Europe, so I doubt video game pirates are a priority for authorities, plus I don't intend to sell or distribute them, so it's not pirating(it's just a backup), I will even put a little GoG.com watermark on the cases and DVDs so that I and other people can know that they aren't original games, so that I can't be accused of fraud or whatever bullshit. This is more of a trifle than something practical(like putting all the games on two huge hard drives and make a RAID-1 type backup).

>>15923692

Proper furniture might slightly increase my desire to own boxes, but at the end of the day it's still just a thing to uselessly look at, so I'll pass. Digital only for me, and mostly pirated at that. I only care about games so far as actually playing them, possessing things is a waste.

>>15923931

Let me guess, you missed the train huh?

>>15923726

unironically this.

>>15923692

No, people either sell them, because they need money or their wife tells them to. My collection tripled in value over the years. Feels good not be a digital cuck.

I collect vidya that i've pirated before and enjoyed, how jewish does that make me? I generally don't pay more than $5 for a game unless it's a rare game, and even then i have a hard cap of $35.

>>15923692

Yes. I realized giving money to fat fuck faggot scalpers is a scam. The original developers get no money, plus all cartridges and CDs are beginning to die from age. The only reason to buy games is for preservation. Dump everything and preserve it so it can exist forever instead of holding on to a piece of plastic which is functionally the same as data.

>>15924316

>all cartridges and CDs are beginning to die from age.

Cartridges will last longer than you or I, and CD's can last anywhere between 25 years and 500 years, depending on manufacturing quality.

My country is very small and therefore we don't have too many video game companies. However a few years back there was a now defunct company that made 1 or 2 semi-decent games before going bankrupt. I have been collecting and buying their games for over 5+ years from small video game stores, thrift shops, garage sales etc.

>>15923692

Decreased income, increased chronic depression. I can't afford to roam around buying shit anymore, I don't enjoy playing most games anymore, and I don't have the drive to even fake it anymore. Hat trick.

>>15923860

Genesis s-video mods aren't terribly complicated.

Flash carts and optical drive emulators (PSIO, Super SD System 3, RHEA, et al) are the perfect way to play everything without worrying about dead lasers, fucked up connector pins, and all that.

>>15924378

That's a woman Anon, and judging by the sound of things you are too.

When I was young I pirated because I didn't have money

Now I have money but I don't like video games anymore

>>15924618

>>>/anywherebuthere/

>>15924618

That's usually the case. You would think that you're simply crippled by choice, but when you get sick of a game before playing for five minutes…

I didn't grow out of it - just never had the opportunity to do so. And I would have loved to have a collection, but now when I DO have (some) money, developers just don't release physical anymore so it's pointless. I have my old games still though.

I keep my physical copies for my older games, but I've pretty much moved onto emulation, softmodding, or flashcarts depending on the system and whether or not I own it. Even for games I own like Pokémon, flashcarts let me have multiple saves or even play ROMhacks on original hardware.

I use emulation for consoles I don't own, or occasionally to mess with 3D games at increased resolution, but ideally I'd like to get said consoles when I have the money and space for them.

A better question is, will /v/ ever grow out of video gays?

>>15923692

Yes I don't have the room for it. I stopped buying physical video games in the PS2 era. There was no reason once I moved to PC. Nobody would see my games anyways.

seems like a huge waste of money, I'm content with my completed romsets.

I stopped buying whenever I could start pirating instead. I have a collection of burnt PS1 and Dreamcast games that I got from copying rentals from Blockbusters and local rental stores. Beat that fagits.

>>15927968

>thinking anyone wants recognition for emulating

>implying value is not inherently subjective and that something has value to everyone just because you put more work on it

Got a real case of buyer's remorse there man

Yes. Trying to sell all my shit on ebay. The differences between emulation and the actual hardware only matter to autists. I can't be bothered to hook up numerous consoles and waste space keeping them when most of the time they're just collecting dust

>>15928000

>Can't be bothered to like video games

u wot

I collect, but not for any objective value or eye to selling them someday. It's just personal - I like to buy physical games and keep them as a legacy, both to remind myself of all the games I've played and to someday pass them on.

>>15928036

I can emulate all of them, why would I bother keeping half a dozen consoles laying around ready to get hooked up, plus a lot of older consoles don't work with hdmi

>>15924026

I lost probably 70% of my gamecube games from loaning to people. It sucks. At least I have everything emulated.

>>15924618

Such is life. Though I still play games, most have lost their magic.

>>15924618

because videogames aren't made for people who liked games 10+ years ago. There made for normalfags who can't recognize a skinner box even when it smashes their face in.

No, it actually got worse as my income went up.

After the first year of running my own business I brought it a great amount of many that dropped like $4000 on buying physical copies of JRPGs I had missed out on when I was younger. the collectors versions of Arc the Lad, Lunar 1 and 2, Panzer Dragoon Saga (No collectors editions), and Vanguard Bandits were just a few of the games I bought that year

>>15927763

no

>>15923967

yeah like lets totally establish the federal reserve