BackInTimeSime Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 Hey all I was making a list of games to review and there in my pile of Neo Geo MVS games is a puchased from new, fully boxed Samurai Shodown V, now I love Samurai Shodown and was super excited when I purchased this, somehow though it just got forgotten, terrible really, I now need to give it some good play (else my review would be terrible)... Are there games you purchased new and at a great deal of expense that kinda slipped through the net that now you kinda feel bad about??? Taaa Sime 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverfleet Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 I have an insane backlog of games right now. Whenever a console's retail generation ends, I'm there to pick up the scraps, which I've been doing since the days of the PS1's demise. Did the same thing for the past two generations, and still doing it now by snagging all the PS3, 360, and Wii games I never bought. I was actually going to post a similar thread about my backlog of games last week. I was really sick and quarantined to my house for a week, so I started actually playing some of those games! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzip Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 I don't seem to remember forgetting any games.. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BackInTimeSime Posted April 6, 2018 Author Share Posted April 6, 2018 Have to admit I am way more careful now, this was just at a time when I seemed to have a lot of new stuff coming in... Sometimes more is not better... I actually get on my own nerves sometimes when I really want something to then just spend a few hours with it... Better when you where a kid and got 2 games a year, boy you really did play those suckers to death... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deepthaw Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 So, we're not counting Steam sales here are we? Because more than once I've tried to impulse buy something on sale only to realize I already bought it and have yet to play it... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BackInTimeSime Posted April 6, 2018 Author Share Posted April 6, 2018 Ha yer, STEAM is something to itself right, crazy the games I have that I have never touched... So cheap though you just cant stop yourself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deepthaw Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 Ha yer, STEAM is something to itself right, crazy the games I have that I have never touched... So cheap though you just cant stop yourself Then Humble Bundle started offering Steam keys and well... According to this I've played less than half the games I own. https://steamdb.info/calculator/76561197960282507 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BackInTimeSime Posted April 6, 2018 Author Share Posted April 6, 2018 Then Humble Bundle started offering Steam keys and well... According to this I've played less than half the games I own. https://steamdb.info/calculator/76561197960282507 Ohh fun site, love this meta stuff... https://steamdb.info/calculator/76561197972669216/?cc=uk My average play time is 50% yours, but I have played a unimpressive 67% of mine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhd Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 Whenever a console's retail generation ends, I'm there to pick up the scraps, which I've been doing since the days of the PS1's demise. I was relatively late getting into both the PlayStation and the PlayStation 2, and I did very much the same thing -- I bought whatever looked interesting and was reasonably priced. Alas, far too many of these games are still in their original shrink-wrap. A few years ago, I did some weeding of titles that I know that I will never play (e.g. racing games), and donated them to a local thrift shop for some lucky reseller. There is no point in wasting storage space on something that I do not want. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BackInTimeSime Posted April 6, 2018 Author Share Posted April 6, 2018 I was relatively late getting into both the PlayStation and the PlayStation 2, and I did very much the same thing -- I bought whatever looked interesting and was reasonably priced. Alas, far too many of these games are still in their original shrink-wrap. A few years ago, I did some weeding of titles that I know that I will never play (e.g. racing games), and donated them to a local thrift shop for some lucky reseller. There is no point in wasting storage space on something that I do not want. Yer I recently thined my Dreamcast collection, it was complete, but now only 75% complete, but no longer felt the urge to own them all... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverfleet Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 I was relatively late getting into both the PlayStation and the PlayStation 2, and I did very much the same thing -- I bought whatever looked interesting and was reasonably priced. Alas, far too many of these games are still in their original shrink-wrap. A few years ago, I did some weeding of titles that I know that I will never play (e.g. racing games), and donated them to a local thrift shop for some lucky reseller. There is no point in wasting storage space on something that I do not want. Yeah, I know that feeling. Check these out that I haven't opened yet, more or less because I forgot about them: The top two pics were games I found in my stash a few months ago that were sealed. About half the games in the bottom pic are still sealed, including those PS2 ones up above. There's a Gradius V sealed hanging out up there too just out of frame that I'm almost afraid to open at this point. I also have a ton of 360 games, some Wii titles (including Fire Emblem!) and a handful of DC and PS1 titles still in the wrapper. I picked up a lot of these when FYE and Hollywood Video were going under for dirt cheap. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BackInTimeSime Posted April 6, 2018 Author Share Posted April 6, 2018 Question is, will you ever be playing them?? cheap enought right now though I guess it dont matter quite as much... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derFunkenstein Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 So, we're not counting Steam sales here are we? Because more than once I've tried to impulse buy something on sale only to realize I already bought it and have yet to play it... I have so much Steam garbage that has 0 hours of play time. I haven't bought a new Steam game in over a year. Barely anything on my PS4 aside from MLB The Show in that time, either. I've bought a ton of flash carts and popped for a pretty pricy USB-GDROM, and those have gotten the majority of my time. Some of that Steam garbage includes games that lots of people really like. Braid. The Binding of Isaac. FTL. So it's not really garbage other than it's a waste of money. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoshiChiri Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 It's become something of a running gag with my friends these days that, when asked about most any retro game, I answer with "Oh I have that. Haven't played it yet though." I don't worry about it too much- it flips around when I don't have spare money but want a "new" game. I simply go through my cabinets & re-discover titles I forgot. If I had to pick on for this topic though, it'd be the Katamari series. One of my favorites, but I've only finished the first two. I should work on that! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BackInTimeSime Posted April 9, 2018 Author Share Posted April 9, 2018 Yer retro collecting for sure is as much about timing than anything else, todays junk is for sure tomorrows treasure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 I suppose the upside of liquidating my game collections for just about every system over the last few years is that I don't have much of a backlog anymore. The only games I own and have yet to play are Lego: The Lord of the Rings and Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop for the Wii. Oh, and I guess Scooby-Doo!: Classic Creep Capers for the Game Boy Color. Anyone want to buy a copy of Scooby-Doo!: Classic Creep Capers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoshiChiri Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 (edited) New entry for this- I was just going through my photos looking for what gingerbread I made last Christmas (I can't remember what design I did), and I found my game pickups photo from the last PAX West. Bombastic for PS2, yep, remember that, played a bit, interesting puzzler... Game & Wario, yep, only tested to make sure the disc ran... Ys Origin from Limited Run, uh-huh, first stop in the expo hall... Pokemon Snap? Forgot that was PAX, but ok... Ogre Battle for PS1. I bought f**king OGRE BATTLE? I don't remember buying Ogre Battle! So, yeah- apparently I own Ogre Battle & didn't know it. And I have such a soft spot for Matsuno's games, how the hell did I completely forget I got a new one? Edited April 9, 2018 by HoshiChiri 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 New 3DS Metroid is still sitting in my 3DS never played. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 The only *new* game I think this ever happened to me with was Mirror's Edge for PS3, which I still haven't played. I was excited about it, had watched all the previews and trailers, bought it, and it was sitting on my coffee table for literally like a year, unopened. I didn't have time that first day to play it, then days grew to weeks and it kind of just went out of my consciousness. Then every once in a while I'd look at it, and with the initial excitement gone I'd think "man, it's gonna take me like 30 minutes just to get into it, I don't feel like dealing with that..." and of course I had a lot of other games to play by then. So eventually it just went on the shelf, unopened, despite my having really wanted it when it came out. I've got a bunch of classic games I've never played, though, like probably a lot of other people here. And every time I go to Japan, I buy at least 5-10 games for various systems and I probably only ever play half of those. I will get to them eventually. It's usually just a question of getting the system they're on hooked up. But I do also have like 50 total PSP games at this point because they're literally like a buck a game in Japan right now, and I've only played about half of those too... and my PSP's sitting right next to me! Maybe this will inspire me to play some more of those games today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BackInTimeSime Posted April 10, 2018 Author Share Posted April 10, 2018 Interesting point about modern games, you do need that 30-60 minute window to even consider starting a new game, maybe longer... Retro for sure has the advantage there with many games having much more initial pick up and play value. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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