How do you feel about video game collections Zig Forums?

Bitter tears from a collectorfag who actually thinks his useless hoard of plastic isn't trumped by a few HDD/SDD full of games and backups.

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Pure idiocy
they'll never get around to playing 90% of those games

Soiboy cringe

They're a fun past time that also doubles as an appreciation for the history, especially if your collect the manuals and other aspects that had all the fluff and unique art or bullshit lore. A mix of emulation, backup carts, piracy and physical with a good CRT (for authentic looks and lightgun games), a good HD TV with high end upscaler or converter, and a good PC if you can afford that combo is a great seamless experience.

It's too bad investment collectors and flippers have made parts of the hobby too income locked in just two years. I'll also never understand box graded collecting, I think the biggest advantage of physical gaming is the ability to just play whatever and get the original experience of opening up the box, slapping the cart in and using the original controller. Once you seal that shit in plastic for eternity it looks both ass as a display piece and guarantees it'll never be played period. I can understand if you had some 50,000 dollar game but normal and common shit is audio boomer tier.

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Waste of time and space. Wow look I bought all these games what an accomplishment come congratulate and compliment me on my overpaid purchases

The number of games I ever bother to replay can be counted on one hand.
Having a huge collection feels like a pointless waste of space

I'm a physicalfag but it's kinda embarrassing to bring someone over and they comment on your game collection, like "wow, so you play games huh?". Make me feel like an autist.

don't think wrong then, retard.

such as?

I collect collector's edition of games but also have virtual copies of them. None of it matters for today's games though as even an offline singleplayer games still needs you to be connected to whatever DRM permanently or at least re-authorise every 30 days.

Or don't take part in online discussions at all or be an edge retard that screams "nigger" every 5 seconds because you're a mouth breather. Freedom of speech protects you from the government, it doesn't protect you from private companies whose ToS you agreed to.

I guess the whole idea of game collections are noble, but too risky, expensive and time consuming.

just don't take the words and ideas you parrot on Zig Forums to the rest of the internet then

>spending your life collecting media that degrades over time

I say I do it for historical purposes. Which at this point is true. I even by blank cases to replace games with damaged or no cases. It’s definitely my autism but I detest using storage wallets. Even if it looks like shit because I’m harvesting old dvd and album cases it’s better then pic related

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Just mod your consoles bros

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where's the soul

I've been collecting old games of all generations for most of my life and only recently started casually collecting NES games with a goal to someday have the complete library.

I have close to 500 unique carts now. Some have manuals...a few boxes but mostly just cartridges. I collect for myself and not to impress anyone. Its an enjoyable hobby. To each their own i guess.

At the end of the day "physical" games are just digital games stored on an obsolete storage medium which is annoying to work with and wastes space.

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had to make room for vidya so i got one of those for my old DVD/BR collection of two or three hundred discs. only purpose it serves now is to remind your of a good title but then we just download or stream it anyway.

Honestly the only cart based games I want boxes for are those without end labels. N64 games need a box or custom end labels. Same with any portable systems.

>You need to keep them around until emulation is perfect which for consoles gen 5 and up isn’t the case
I really don't. Aging consoles break down and so do cartridges and CDs. A virtual copy will never age and I'd rather have slightly inaccurate emulation than something that doesn't work half of the time.

Inside the games.
I have a rare collection of Max payne 2 mods from 2004, some of which can not be found anywhere on the internet anymore.
There's your soul right there.

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any sort of collection is stupid. fags on Zig Forums with their stupid anime doll collections are just as bad.

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CIB is nice but i really can't be arsed to find decent looking pieces of 30 year old cardboard. and once i hit maybe 70 NES carts i've been struggling to think of any other ones worth getting. prices doubled over the last few years and the Rona isn't helping.

I know that people seem unusually mad at people that have disposable income. It's not the games themselves but a larger cultural issue.

The same people that complain about physical collections would be mad at people that post in large digital collection threads.

I like physical copies because of the artwork on the cases. Otherwise I'm used to buying games before digital became popular.
That being said I have way more digital games than I do physical because of discounts and lack of being near used game stores.

Fucking based. Switch, Wii, And PS3 modded after i sold my PS2. I never had a gamecube so i got to play a fuck ton of gems. Shit's comfy

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