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@phart010 It looks like preorders went live again at Target and Best Buy about 6 and 4 hours ago while most people, myself included, were sleeping.

KH 1-3 coming in cloud format. Why couldn’t they at least do the first two physically or digital download? Yuck.

7 hours ago, Quaze said:

Nice to see the Switch thread going strong still - I feel like it's been about 75% of my collection since it came out, I just don't think anybody foresaw this volume of releases coming out for it.

I wish we could get some old PC games like the Dark Forces games since we got all these SW ports.

21 hours ago, Reed Rothchild said:

Dying Light physical is up

There's also double packs for the Jedi Knight games, and Republic Commando + Pod Racer.  $30 each.

 

Obviously that makes the LRG releases look pretty shitty in comparison.  I always prefer more options, so I don't see it as a bad thing.  Just means I look for a possible opportunity to unload the LRG games, and buy these, if I can come out ahead.

I totally understand on the LRG front. I bought all these games from them. I am hoping that as we see more and more of these games republished, the publishers will realize that there is still a demand for physical editions of some of these games from the bigger publishers that they will skip the LRG FOMO process.

9 minutes ago, CodysGameRoom said:

If they want to see the content they will find it one way or another. 

Yeah, that’s my point. The Internet has made my job as a parent drastically more difficult in this area than it was 30 years ago.

This is a sure fire way to be put on my ignore or block list. It doesn’t matter to her, but I’m not interested in seeing this kind of stuff. Having kids in an era where this and much more graphic stuff is prevalent is pretty daunting. Sure, I can get filters, not allow laptops, tablets, or phones until a certain age or in private spaces so that our family can do our best to avoid this stuff. However, kids of a certain age are likely to test boundaries and find ways around safeguards. I don’t look forward to that battle a few years from now.

5/10

Seen it once, wouldn’t watch it again. Like many movies, seeing it for the first time as an adult made it hard for me to enjoy it. I’m looking at you Goonies.

I just realized that I preordered two copies of the Collector’s Edition, lol. I still haven’t seen any new postings for it yet.

45 minutes ago, ThePhleo said:

Am I the only one who think VR is the future?

Between all of my nephews and neices under 10 years old, NONE, ZERO of them play console games anymore.

They've all abandoned Fortnite for Oculus headsets. They may not be the best on the market, but they've adopted the Nintendo model and made them the easiest to use and hit the sweet spot in price.

The reality is that gaming is growing, but console gaming is losing ground to mobile and pc gaming. I agree that VR is the future outside of mobile gaming.

1 hour ago, Estil said:

In what way?  Besides the high price it started with.

The price issue was a huge deterrent and put it in a large hole compared to the 360. Multiplayer games generally ran better on 360 versus the PS3. Xbox Live was vastly superior to PS+. PS3 eventually caught up to the 360 in sales, but it took almost the entire generation and was a huge fall in console sales compared to the juggernaut PS2. Go read old gaming articles and look at Sony’s financial results during that time, PS3 was considering a disappointment and that made the hype for PS4 much less than it could have been. Generally, people still look at the 360 as more successful despite Sony making up on the sales front toward the end of the generation. How do I know this? I frequent the most popular forums, Reddit, and discords that talk about these two companies and the general consensus is that yes the 360 lineup limped through the last couple of years of that gen but that it had built a great fan base for the next gen. They screwed it up with pushing Kinect, trying to restrict game sharing, and making an underpowered console with the Xbone. 
 

In full disclosure, I did not own a 360, but I did own two PS3s.

15 hours ago, Shmup said:

Agreed, too many grumpy people here haha. The PS5 is selling faster than the PS4 and is Sony’s fastest selling console, even with shortages! 

I can’t disagree that the gen has started very meh with the games on offer, but to me the console itself is great.

The PS3 was a huge disappointment for many, so PS4 was in a worse place market wise than the PS5. PS4 was an incredibly successful console, putting PS5 in a much better position for higher sales. Personally, it would take significantly better VR or AI, especially adaptive AI to excite me because the graphics jumps are no longer so drastic at this point.

16 minutes ago, Estil said:

May I ask in what ways?  And where in the 90s would you want to go?  I mean 1990 =/= 1995 =/= 1999 for example (the last two happen to be my middle and high school graduation years believe it or not)).

I don’t want to derail the thread too much, so I responded to you privately. Personally, I’d probably prefer around 1994, even though Jordan retired from the NBA.

Just now, Estil said:

PERFECT example of being careful what one wishes for...you hear all the time about "I wish I could go back and live in so-and-so time" but would you really?  I mean I would love love LOVE to go back in time and visit those time periods (though you can mostly do that with YouTube and such) but I certainly don't want to live there!

 

I am 100% certain I’d rather live back in the 90s for several reasons. I remember what it was like and I could easily give up many modern conveniences to return to that era. This isn’t nostalgia. I am not happy with what the world has become since then.

Anyone pick up Ys VIII or Disgaea 4 from the NIS America store restock? I was able to get both but Ys is now sold out on Switch. It’s still available on PS4.

On 9/26/2021 at 1:03 AM, ConfusedCollector said:

Whenever I think about this, I think about old monster movies from the 1930s.  People still consume them.  You can buy large sets of brand new prints on blue ray for a reasonable price. No one expects you to hunt down original movie theater reels to get an authentic experience. 

Old games like NES will get repackaged over and over for years into the future on new mediums (consoles,fpga,emulator).  30 years from now, NES games will serve a similar purpose.  Something interesting,  classic, and different for an evening. 

Except for a few exceptions, it will not be very collectible.

Yes and no, cinema is different. Technology can actually improve the movie, like 4K HDR. Plus, there was never really a huge demand for the old film. There is a demand from purists to faithfulness to the original film and audio. Emulation on other consoles, does not always run as well as the original and is not comparable to the movie comparison. The comparison for casuals will be similar though, but it will just be through ports and emulation on the main consoles/pc game retailers or on phones just like streaming movies.

Hmmm, I read your list and I’d gladly go back to life like that over what it has become. A world without social media alone would be worth it to me.

My dog got hit by a garbage truck when I was 4. I never liked any of our dogs as much. I refuse to get a dog to this day. I’ve been scared for life. It’s tough to lose a pet like that.

Yes, the Mega Sg works with the Sega CD.

On 9/24/2021 at 7:15 PM, DoctorEncore said:

One game for my birthday and one game for Christmas. This was my life.

Yep, story of my life. I would sometimes get a game from my grandma or cousin so I’d get a few extra a year.

5 hours ago, twiztor said:

you know, for how much this board is against repros and stuff like that, i'm kind of surprised to see half the responses suggesting that he pirate the games illegally, where the OP was looking at legally purchasing digital copies.

I’m personally against pirating games, but my biggest problem with repos is them being passed off as authentic and ripping people off.

4 hours ago, a3quit4s said:

Nintendo really is the internet explorer of the console world lol

Don’t the other consoles not support Bluetooth audio and that’s why you have to use the stupid dongles for headsets?

4/10

I saw it once in a hotel room on a trip. I’m good never seeing it again.