That's insane. There's still stores around where I'm at that sell used games, apart from Game Stop. So they have a bit of competition.
Awesome. That's similar to how I've built up mine as well. Generally go through used stores, unless it's something that's too hard to find (for me it was Soul Reaver 2 -- had to go through Amazon for it).We have this really cool video game store called Disk Traders where I live. They sell retro games and newer gen games PS4/Xbone/Switch. I've actually built up my gaming collection thanks to Disk Traders. I recently purchased a good amount of Dreamcast games.
I remember Funcoland back in the day.
Awesome. That's similar to how I've built up mine as well. Generally go through used stores, unless it's something that's too hard to find (for me it was Soul Reaver 2 -- had to go through Amazon for it).
Used game stores are running into problems as things become more digital. GameStop has famously tried to get someone to buy it for a few years now with no takers.
Used game stores are running into problems as things become more digital. GameStop has famously tried to get someone to buy it for a few years now with no takers.
Word. There's no way to replace that feeling of finding a copy of a game that you've been hunting for. Digital is ok enough, but it's a different animal in my opinion to actually having the game there physically.Nice! I love game collecting! Yeah, some games I have to look for on Amazon or even Ebay lol.
This is so true :/ I absolutely love having physical copies of games, but digital is such a big thing now. I still always go for physical copies first, but if there's a good deal on PSN/Xbox/Switch I sometimes will buy digital games.
The PS Vita is so underrated! It's such a shame that Sony neglected it. I love RPG games and the Vita is loaded with them. I haven't played my Vita in a while as I've mostly been playing my home consoles as of late. Persona 4 was the last Vita game that I beat. I need to beef up my Vita collection.
I bought another copy of Vandal Hearts at my local game store yesterday! It's a PlayStation 1 classic! It's one of my favorite tactical role playing games of all time. Another PlayStation 1 classic that I've been looking for is Azure of Dreams. For anyone that has never played Azure of Dreams make it your mission to play it. It's a fantastic game!
If you want some good vita recommendations I can give a few that hopefully you haven’t already played so this isn’t pointless haha
Trails of Cold Steel - we’ve already talked about this one a lot in this thread so I’ll just say it’s a heckin gud JRPG
Gravity Rush - hella fun action-type game with awesome characters n graphics n gameplay hell yea
Final Fantasy X/X-2 - I couldn’t get into it because the random encounter screen crash freaked me out every time it happened but the story and characters were looking heckin awesome and the whole fandom loves it
Akiba’s Beat - we’ve also mentioned this one in the thread before, it’s got split opinions but I personally think it’s a flawed yet fun experience that’s worth its current cheap price on Amazon
Lost Dimension - it’s got a meh ending but the rest of this game is brilliant, it’s short but it gives a hell of an experience to the player
Danganronpa - pretty much THE game for the Vita, vv good I highly recommend, lots of murder mysteries
Exist Archive - actually haven’t played this one yet but it’s arriving soon and has a pretty awesome concept and the graphics look cool so yea
I feel like I may have missed out just a slight bit by not having a N64 (or Ps1). I mean I loved having a super nintendo and lot's of cheap games, but I missed out on quite a few cultural touchstones like Banjo Kazooie and DK64. And Crash Bandicoot, I played that first the first time last november after the person I was dating was shocked I had never played a Crash game before.
It's been a while since I posted here, long enough that my 10 year anniversary of being here is quite a bit past. Damn I am old, I was an adult when I started posting here.
Ah, the good ole days. Back when I would come home from Elementary School, drink a bunch of Surge, and play N64. I miss those days so much.
Used game stores are running into problems as things become more digital. GameStop has famously tried to get someone to buy it for a few years now with no takers.
Half of the reason I own an Xbox 360 was to play the Banjo-Kazooie games digitally (although I have them and an N64 somewhere, the control sticks on those things are pieces of crap -- especially since my little brother and his friends used to play Mario Party all the time). Literally the only other game I've played on it is Tales of Vesperia, which I now have on Switch (but haven't played). Incidentally, since that just re-released on systems that don't suck, I implore anyone who hasn't played it to buy it.
Anywho, I've been watching way too much anime recently. I feel like I went through a lot of the good stuff early on when I started watching, because now it seems 50/50 whether a series is watchable or straight-up garbage. As an example of the latter, I watched this one that was about some middle-school edgelord who reads shitty 19th century poetry and whines about how dark his emotions are, who steals the gym shorts of the girl he fancies and has an existential crisis over it. I wish I were joking, or that at least this series was universally reviled, but plenty of people apparently think it's a masterpiece (and not just tryhard teenagers -- adults, too, if the ages on profiles I checked are to be believed). Not to mention it used rotoscoping, which is where they record everything with real actors, then draw over the footage to make crappy animation: the end result is that it looks like they made clay models of the actors and then bashed them in the face with a frying pan and used them like that.
I agree, as blood is necessary for human health.Anime is blood
Anime is blood
Yeah Tales of Vesperia was an immediate buy for me. The Tales series is one of the only kinds of video games that I would still be interested in playing nowadays, mainly because skits appeal to me more than pretty much anything else.
Isn’t it that they think it’s a masterpiece because it’s bad? Like, a “so hilariously bad that it’s good” kind of thing?
Anime is blood
What anime have you watched so far Grizzlyb?
also I think the anime GrizzlyB is referring to is Aku no Hana, which I could not keep up with because it felt like it was janked together from spare parts, although I appreciated its unique art style for being unique (not necessarily good, but a lot of other anime looks like ass anyway so w/e /shrug)
I haven't watched too much anime lately, but this weekend I was introduced to Hi Score Girl and I am kind of totally dweebing out on it. So many video game references. I have become what I hated, which is people who are way too amused by references to things.
Like honestly even though at this point I have realized anime culture is pretty cringey, it's kind of started to have an ironic appeal for me. Being kind of trashy is kind of the vibe I have been feeling lately, whether it be weeb trash or edgy alt kid trash (like my avatar). I dunno, I guess there is a certain innocence in being unaware and unashamed of how over the top weird or Xtreme you're being, it kind of speaks to me.
Why is that? If it's because of the back-and-forth character interaction -- and I know I've said this to more than one person here -- Trails of Cold Steel could be up your alley. It doesn't have the voiced character cut-ins like Tales does, but a big part of the game's appeal to me is how much other characters are developed through dialogue and sidequests (both party characters and dozens of NPCs).
So, anyway, here's an ethical dilemma. There's this guy at the place I work who, for the past month or two has been working a pretty brutal schedule. He usually comes in at about midnight, and leaves at about 4 in the afternoon, and works every single day of the week (though I dunno if he works the same hours on weekends, he at least goes in at midnight-ish). So, he essentially spends 8 hours of his day NOT at work. I had a chat with him one time when I failed to avoid him, and he told me where he lives -- it's at least half an hour from where we work (with no traffic, probably an hour+ with rush hour traffic), so he's spending, max, 6.5 to 7 hours a day at home. That's barely enough time for most people to sleep, so he sure as **** ain't doing anything besides working and sleeping (and probably not enough of the latter). I should point out, he's a relatively new employee in a position that doesn't have overly-high earning potential (I'd wager that at most, his salary is $20/hour, but probably lower). So, it's not like he's making bank working massive amounts of overtime, nor will the company fall apart if he drops dead tomorrow. And on that note, here's the dilemma: couldn't it be argued that the humane thing to do here would be to bludgeon his head in with a cinder block? I understand assisted suicide is a touchy subject because it's hard for a single person to determine whether their life is worth living anymore, but what about a scenario like this, where any rational observer can look in and say, "That person would be better off not alive."? I should also point out that this guy is in his mid-late 50s (or has aged very poorly), his neck is flappier than a turtle's, he has only a few wispy strands of hair left, and he has a lizard face.