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I kind of like this thing. At the very least it's not just "another screen on which to play games" with just of phone or PC games, looking at you Amico, Ouya, Luma, Stadia. I'm interested in how much ongoing developer support it's going to get. The biggest issue seems like no backlight. I don't know that there's any device without a backlight I've ever really enjoyed looking at.

I like real obscure stuff like the Coen brothers and Parasite. You probably just watch Marvel movies and wouldn't understand!

9/10. Wish I was in film school so I could put the poster on my wall so people know I'm into films.

Not a rental, but Aidyn Chronicles on N64. Probably got it used at Hollywood Video used for <$10. I only had so many games, so I generally played the hell out of everything, but Aidyn Chronicles was just too awful. It was likely around the time I was playing Neverwinter Nights too, which made it seem like even more of a joke.

10/10. Literally the system for everyone. You could purely enjoy Japanese rhythm games and historical tactical strategy games and there are dozens of exclusive games worth owning the system for alone regardless of how you feel about the popular GTAs, GoWs, SotCs, and MGSs.

I know 10s are rare, but what are we even grading? You can open 100 sealed copies and how many discs would get graded a perfect 100/100 by the Disc Grading Authority? I'm sure it's basically impossible to get a CGC 10 Zelda Wii U manual insert if you send the manual insert to CGC, should a CGC 10 be worth $1000s in that case? The world's most perfect incomplete collectible is still incomplete. The people tossing big boxes to grade their components are just the most egregious to me. People are going to start opening sealed big box PC games to grade the inner jewel cases for higher numeric grades, lol.

An actual 10 on something in original packaging is one thing, although I personally wouldn't pay $1000s more than a virtually identical 9.8. Throwing away the only condition-sensitive part of the collectible, the outer box, then just grading the inner case and calling it perfect is crazy IMO.

Is the end buyer of random 10s a "Wata collector"? Not a collector of video games graded by Wata games, a literal collector of items produced by Wata games? I think someone on VGS bought an incomplete TLOZ they graded from HA, AFAIK literally the only incomplete game they've ever graded without a manual, which I guess in a way is a "Wata collectible". I guess there are mistakes and test runs you could collect too? I just can't imagine the mental gymnastics for someone to seriously think this is the best condition Wii U Zelda TP ever, even if you believe the gap between a 9.8 and 10 grade is worth extreme premiums.

$4000 for an incomplete Zelda TP remake. What's the motivation? Is it a number-collecting thing? Hoping you can short term flip anything that says Zelda/10? Buyer didn't know it's a big box game? Does someone seriously think this DVD case outside of its packaging is one of the most collectible video games of all time? https://www.ebay.com/itm/164896558800

Shush on computers games. They've gone up enough already. Even as a computer game collector I'll see some BS like Mach Rider or whatever and be like "$100, yeah that makes sense now", but something actually on my want list like an Oregon Trail or Might and Magic variant I'll see and it will be like "$100, that's nuts, I'll wait to see if the seller lowers the minimum bid".

If you’re dropping this money on a JRPG promo item you’re at least XL buddy

9/10, love it. My favorite Layton game. Why did they get rid of the matchstick puzzles? So fun!

Not many exercise games actually resemble a workout pre Ring Fit Adventure, although maybe someone can give me one. I mostly think of games that emphasize jogging in place or using a bad stationary bike. Wii Fit is yoga and balance crap. I've never broken a sweat with Wii Fit. It certainly failed at its goal IMO. Other Wii fitness games like EA Active are just crappy minigame compilations that use excessive motion controls. DDR is more exercise than any Wii game!

Actual art and history museums have tons of stolen one-of-a-kind cultural artifacts. Looking at you UK! I’m not too worried about keeping mass produced media in its country of origin. Foreign games belong one place: my shelves! It would be weird to stop yourself from buying a Roman coin, a British stamp, or a Gutenberg Bible because your area of interest isn’t where you live.

5 for me Wii motion controls suck and not in a "motion controls suck" kind of way, in a Wii motion controls suck kind of way. They're just laggy, imprecise, and the worst. Playstation Move was amazing, it just had no games. It basically got left out of an entire era of RPGs and action games because it was underpowered. There is no Elder Scrolls, Far Cry, GTA, Uncharted, or Mass Effect equivalents on a Wii. Lots of developers decided shitty 3D was a better option than 2D. Ctrl+F Muramasa in this thread for proof enough of that. If there were more 2D games or games with timeless art styles, a wider variety of non-Nintendo games would get represented looking back on it. It should've been "Nintendo's PS2" in terms of third party variety and quality, after all PS2 was underpowered and extremely popular. But it wasn't. It was a dumping ground with a number of diamonds in the rough.

15 years ago I watched every press conference, argued about it online, and got excited with friends. Unless there’s something really new and exciting in games, a 4D console or something, I have way more than enough to play so don’t really care what’s coming out beyond some Nintendo stuff.

VGA does too! Oh you mean intentionally.

Anyone remember that Reddit post about a guy who was considering buying 677 empty clamshell cases and printing out NES box art for them. No intention to ever buy the carts. It was wild.

Sad, you have to play SMB3 40 times before you've extracted the fun out of it, meanwhile 5 minutes at Walmart with SM64 is enough to set you for life because it's that good.

Mario 64 because N64 is a great console with an ergonomic controller that isn’t blurry and has a deep library But for real it’s way more fun to dick around in SM64 even after 120 stars. Movement feels too good. You can also max out the coin totals for each level as a goal.

Literally the only thing that matters is that your game isn’t PAL or Japanese

It’s a rare first print tho

I'm starting to think Estil doesn't even have a Metroid Prime bobble head and made the whole thing up.

I think it's great all around. It's not overly long so I didn't get bored of the stealth, combat, or walking simulatoring around super detailed areas like I eventually did with 30 hours of Part II. It does a good job not letting any one of those aspects overstay its welcome. It does repeat the same plot cycle like 4 times of: We need to get to (far off structure) > Oh no, zombies! > The real enemy... is man! Ellie is probably the strongest female child character in any game in TLOU1. It's easy to get behind the survival-at-all-cost characters on a quest to save humanity even if they're not "the good guys". TLOU2 made that pretty impossible, and it was filled with long sections trying to sympathize or humanize characters that are actual murderous psychopaths. 8 for me