/v/ - Video Games

I did all kinds of work for money but my parents would never let me buy it myself. They always made me give them the money and buy it for me.

I saved up every penny I could to buy Metroid Prime 2 back in the day.

Worth it even if the dark planet sections spooked younger me.

The phazon cave in the first Prime also spooked me. I would panic if I fell inside it. That acid burning noise the game made when damaged by phazon didn't help, and those long metroids were weird as fuck.

>got my N64

>go to the local dingy game shop that sold N64 games pre-owned for low prices

>pretty much just buy whatever they have in my price range

>sometimes luck out with something really cool like Beetle Adventure Racing

>other times end up with Blues Brothers 2000

>still really enjoy playing Blues Brothers 2000 because I'm a child, and what else am I going to do?

>>16364417

I was barely allowed vidya when I was younger. Parents saw it a waste of my time and their money, and the likes of the PS1 Spyros and Pokemon Crystal/Emerald/FRLG/Colosseum were apparently all the vidya they deemed I'd ever need to be satisfied. I didn't get an allowance, or paid for chores, and having to trade in what little I had to get anything new to me, or have to wait for birthdays or Christmas for more spending money, I honestly just stuck with Spyro and Pokemon back then, and aside from those, a cheap Runescape 2 membership. I didn't know about piracy/emulation for quite a long time either. Mom wasn't a fan of what games friends would try to introduce me to (especially Legend of Zelda, where Windwaker was simultaneously "too childish and too violent", Twilight Princess "too dark and violent", and Ocarina of Time "[looking] like garbage"; never bothered showing her any of the others I've played since), and all dad really cared about vidya past his old Atari to begin with (and whose current interest is specifically in scalping potential; says I ought to sell all my games and just play what's available cheap on mobile). Didn't really bother with vidya related magazines back hen either, as that would just feel like taunting with stuff I couldn't have. It really took starting to lurk /v/ back in late '06 or so to slowly start building more of an interest and awareness for vidya in general on my part, and until I was basically done with high school to really start getting better access to what I'd missed up to that point. And I still have plenty of games, both worthwhile "must-play" classics as well as more niche games, to get around to playing and enjoying. I'd rather have a backlog comprised mostly of those while the industry flails and shits itself.

>when was the last time you bought a game?

Pricing fuck up at a second hand shop last week? I try to avoid paying average prices unless the average is like $10-15, so getting stuff more than that half or so off is nice, if also a slow process. Not that I'm averse to loaders and emulation as needed though.

>and is there any story like this you have?

Not exactly, but I recall the end of my senior year in high school, I picked up Eternal Darkness for a cheap $15 complete during Fucking Gamestop's "Fuck stocking this system" sale at the time. Was effectively the start of actually accessibly being able to buy games more as I felt like, and was the first time I was able to get anything M rated. I didn't get to play it for a while though, since I was going out of state for vacation and a friend wanted to borrow it while I was out of town. Didn't get it back or able to play it myself for three months or so though, and even then, it took helping him find his own copy to buy for him to return it. Good game though.

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>>16364440

>Christmas

>Metroid

Reminded me of how a friend of mine said that when they were younger, their mom just up and decided that, as a family, none of them would be allowed to play any games for a year. Cue them getting Prime 2 for Christmas the year it came out, but having to wait another six months or so before any of any of them were allowed to play it (and Metroid was quite popular in that household, so everyone was forced to suffer waiting).

>>16364417

I fucking loved the GBA era, so many good games and I loved all the different colored cartidges. Zelda,Pokemon,Samus,Advance Wars,Fire Emblem,Mario,Yoshi,Wario, Golden Sun, FF, +++ it keeps going man those were good times as a Nintendofag.

I've bought so much used shit I don't recall where it started. The most recent physical game I got was LEGO Undercover, no real story to that other than I ended up with someone's 360 that they thought was unsalvageable.

>>16365184

I did a lot similar as a kid, surprised I didn't end up with the 'betes for subsisting on skittles and root beer.

I think the saddest passing of vidya is the end of used game stores, at least in the west. There used to be some top places that'd let you try before you buy. I remember having so many giggles at the trash in the Sega CD library.

When I was a kid I’d have to ask my parents for a new game if I wanted one. or wait and see what my siblings brought they had decent taste so I was lucky.

I think the first game I actually bought myself was fallout 3. I went out and bought it after seeing the preview on xplay. I got the last copy too, got called a fat ass for it good times.

>>16365339

Depends on where you live. There's a number of independent brick and mortar game stores in the towns surrounding mine, though their quality, prices, and stock vary widely. All the ones directly in town got killed and/or cannibalized by Fucking Gamestop though, to the point we had a good ten locations in a five mile radius at one time, way more than was needed (try one across the street from a mall and another inside the same mall). Multimedia places (the ones that weren't movie rental ones doubling as vidya stores )being exempt from that due to multiple focus. Thankfully the towns here are all gridlocked, so you can drive from one into another in a good ten minutes or so. Overall, I've come to realize this area is good for those into vidya, niche vidya even, so long as you've got the patience and perseverance to both search and wait for decent prices to potentially roll around.

>There used to be some top places that'd let you try before you buy.

The best local chain is perfectly happy to let you do that on their own systems. They'll also let you try games you bring in to get buffed to make sure they're working again before you pay for the service.

>>16364417

You could have spent that money on two or three better games from greatest hits at the time than on boring FFIX.

>>16365782

>VIA DAMNLOL.COM

Somewhere out there is an watermark free original cap. Have the decency to find it instead of reposting tagged shit.

>>16365710

Pretty sure most parents will still at least give money or gifts for Birthday or Christmas, assuming they're on good terms. My mom used to get a hundred or so from her dad when he was around, and and I think dad still gets that much from his mother. Both parents are in their sixties. Just saying I'm not sure that's something to be surprised about.

>>16365453

That's a nice situation you have going there, I'll have to give that a try since I'm in one of those unfortunate larger cities but surrounded by smaller towns.

>>16364440

>Metroid Prime 2

>look up the trilogy seeing as you can get all three in one for the wii

>it's 8 gigs in total

>my usb stick only has 14 and already has another game on it currently

>it's shit so changing the two around would take an hour

fuck

>>16364499

So the kid's dad was a deadbeat energy drink junkie and a soyboy? Huh.

I just bought an Xbox and some games about to start Turok Evolution when my pal arrives

>>16365954

Technically this still counts as the greater capital area, but it's far enough out to not be a super congested shithole like the actual capital is. The towns here aren't especially "small town" but also not what I consider to be particularly big, so its got some benefits from both angles, as far as attracting game stores that might otherwise stick to big city areas.

>>16366244

Bro, for some reason you missed the most interesting part of the story. Why is that guy your ex-friend and why were his parents so strict with him? Sorry your dad acted like a dick instead of a role model. Mine worked hard to support his family financially, but thought children were women's work and wanted zero role in raising or teaching us anything at all. Given stories I hear about other people's childhoods, I'm thankful for what he did do, but I've never had and never will have any sort of relationship with him at all. I survived to adulthood, so he considers his job done.

When I was a young teenager, I heard Final Fantasy VII was going out on Playstation and I felt super betrayed, because I'd always owned Nintendo systems. But fine, whatever, I just needed to save up money for a system and the game. It would definitely take some time, but I was willing to work for it. Thing is, I'd need both the game and the system to play it, so it didn't really matter which one I bought first. The game cost less, so I bought it right away, and spent a month and a half just reading the instruction booklet that came with it, waiting for the day I'd saved up enough money to actually play the game I owned. But I was pretty dumb, and because I'd always had nintendo systems where the game saves were stored on the cartridge, I didn't realize you needed a memory card as well. So I finally had the game and the system, but no way to save my game. I played the first few hours over and over and over again for three days until we finally took a family trip back to the store so I could get the last piece to actually play this stupid thing for real.

I don't remember buying much shit as a kid. My parents were well off but I never really got an allowance. They told me to do chores and I did, I never really wanted or needed to have my own money. I got my games as birthday or christmas presents at that point. All my friends were into gaming around that time (late 90s) and they had tons of games and played all the time while I usually played outside. Never really cared too much about gaming at that point in time I guess.

My first console was a PSX. I got in (probably) 2001 or so when my cousin got a PS2 and he sent me his old PSX as a christmas present. I remember really liking Spyro 2 and THPS2. I also had some racing game where you were on some sort of hover motorcycle. I also had a GBC and later got a GBA SP when those came out. Then a PS2 and a PSP (still have the PSP). The PS2 is the first console I really started buying or asking for games, and I played the shit out of it. I got my PSP in 2005 and it went about the same. I guess it wasn't til around then that I became more reclusive since we had been moving around a lot and i basically had no friends.

>>16365425

The first console I bought for myself was a PS3 in ~08 when I was working part time in HS. Went into GameStop and bought one plus FO3.

I was in my teens around the time of the Wii, and the best thing to do with my 20 dollar allowance was to just pack lunch and spend the money on wii shop points and gamecube games. The wii shop was a really great idea since a lot of the wiis regular library was ass. I got to play most of what was on the SNES and Genesis VC since it was cheap but also not 1-2 hour arcadey like the NES stuff was. The biggest moments was whenever N64 games were released(there were only like 20 total put on the VC). Yeah I was paying for emulators, but I was also not one to use a PC until I was going into college.

>>16364417

>$42.97 considered cheap now

Help……..

>>16368722

>When I was a young teenager, I heard Final Fantasy VII was going out on Playstation and I felt super betrayed, because I'd always owned Nintendo systems.

Apart from the GameBoy, I never played Nintendo games unless I was at a friend's house. I always had Sega systems and PC growing up - so FFVII going to Playstation didn't bother me one bit. In fact, being a dumb teen, I was kind of glad to see Nintendo get knocked down a few pegs for being bastards. Still, it wasn't even really on my radar until it blew up and became a phenomenon, so I rented it from a local video store - but didn't have a memory card at the time, and wasn't about to pay the money they were gouging customers to rent a card with the game. So I just left my Playstation on for like a month straight and played VERY carefully. Well, careful in-game. I used to fall asleep with the controller in my hand and when I'd roll over in the middle of the night I'd end up yanking the PSX off the table. When I got up in the morning, the system would be upside down with disk tray open, and the disk sitting a few feet away. That happened a lot, actually, but I could always just pop the disk back in, close the lid, and it'd be good to go.

Fucking system still runs like a champ too. So long as you prop it up on it's side anyhow. By the time I returned the disk, I'd racked up about $350 in late fees which I never paid. A friend of my cousin's was the son of the guy who owned the store, so they never came after me for collections - and he set me up with a new account. Also, he ended up stealing a bunch of memory cards from customers who'd leave them in their systems when they were brought in for repair so I eventually got one of those too.

>>16368722

>betrayed

I do hope you realize now why that's kind of silly, being that Square wasn't a first or second party of Nintendo, nor Final Fantasy a case of being third party developed but Nintendo owned, and thus Square could take the series wherever they wished. I mean, obviously it's easier on the consumer to not have to switch/buy a second company's system just to play the same series, and there is a perk for a company to keeping a series to a particular line of systems (in that there's already an established base and reputation), but its not like they had any binding reason the series had to stick with Nintendo. Especially how Nintendo treated their third party support back then that made a number of companies who had previously had their series/games as exclusives look elsewhere come fifth gen.

Though, I suppose good on you for overcoming it, even if annoyed. Seen some Tales fans over the years that refuse to play any of the games that weren't for Nintendo systems (which as far as English games go, limits them to Phantasia, Symphonia, S2, and Innocence), on grounds that if a game or series got its start on Nintendo's systems, the devs have to show loyalty for their game being allowed a home in the first place, and thus Namco being repeat offenders and "traitors to their true fans". This ignores that the actual "true" fanbase, the one Bamco focuses on catering to as a developer, is the native Japanese audience, who have had a long tradition of preferring Sony to Nintendo or Microsoft (the latter being completely understandable) for Tales, and thus every main game not developed for Playstation first being ported or remade for it later. Naturally, Graces only seeing its PS3 version brought west (on account of 10-15 hours extra content being a selling point) and not the Wii original, as well as the English fan-translation for the Wii version cancelled, was grounds for that sort to screech over being "cheated". Note that the Wii original was so glitchy at release in Japan that it was outright recalled, as the Wii couldn't patch game content.

>>16368722

>>16369560

>Memory cards.

I suppose it's been the opposite for me. By the time I was first getting interested in vidya, the PS1 and GBC were the first systems I had, so I quickly attributed that discs (thus often consoles) needed memory cards and carts didn't. Hence annoyance with modern cartridge systems like the Vita for (very often) not being able to save to the game cart itself and forcing a need for memory cards. I mean, I suppose one has to get one anyhow what with modern handhelds having firmware updates, patches, installs, DLC, and unfortunate digital only release states at times, but still. At least with the PSP using UMDs, it made sense you needed a memory stick, though one can of course question the UMD's quality as a medium to begin with.

>>16365844

Maybe it's because all my friends and their families are poor, but I have not seen any of my friends get money from their parents unless they were on the cusp of being evicted.

>>16364499

>PS Mini

I know you were trying to be nice, but you could have bought him a modchipped 360 or a PS3 with CFW instead, that way he gets his fix of casual games and old games via emulators, don't let him buy an xbone or turn him into a fatass PC gaymer either.

>>16370460

>modchipped 360 or a PS3 with CFW

Usually an already modded 360 costs around 200 bucks, a PS3 that you can mod usually being around 100 or so. If all they wanted was PS1 games it'd be the best value, seeing how nowadays the PS Classics are around 40 bucks.

>>16369171

Adjusted for inflation, $42.95 in 1997 is equivalent to around $68.66 in 2019

>>16370424

Did you cum?

>>16370424

hot

>>16370772

I would've gotten him a Wii since they're out there for real cheap and can play most of what you're looking for. But, if you got him a PS mini it's fine. I got my nephews into Genesis games through emulators and they seem to really enjoy the arcade ports.

>>16371851

Going to second this idea. A softmodded, backwards compatible Wii with stuff like homebrew emulators, particular VC games, and GC/Wii loaders could do a lot for exposing him to good games. And as a plus, Wiis are common and cheap these days so I doubt you'd upstage his mom, and if you get an old enough model, can save bootmii as the system's boot2 and thus have bricking reversion in case he does something wrong.

>>16366819

Those are more or less the same consider a heavily soy based diet, or really anything using crop based meat and dairy replacement, tends to lead to chronic anemia thanks to vitamin B deficiency.

>>16370213

>I do hope you realize now why that's kind of silly, being that Square wasn't a first or second party of Nintendo

Bro, I was a kid and this was 22 years ago. Yes I know it was silly. It's a storytime.