ICrappedMyPants

On 9/9/2021 at 8:43 PM, inasuma said:

lol walmart still slippin on that discount they let thru on launch day. $52 for my CE 

I got Wario, Dread, and Advance Wars B2G1 from Target. Wario came this week. 

5 minutes ago, Shmup said:

My thoughts when I read about people complaining about modern games being boring lol:

 

Two things I cannot stand in modern gaming: long cut scenes and open world games with side quests. For the former, I’d rather watch a movie, for the latter, I’d rather work than feel like playing a game is work.

3 minutes ago, TDIRunner said:

Oddly enough, the PS4 has a HUGE number of these games.  Probably the most of any generation since the SNES.  

I assume many of these were on the Switch too, which I have bought.

I personally prefer my games to be pick up and play and beatable after a few hours. I don’t have the free time to play games for 6+ hours straight and I hate picking up games after a long break. Therefore, most major games are not for me. 
 

Honestly, I think I would need something like excellent 3D gaming without the use of a large headset to make me feel like there is a huge evolution in gaming. Otherwise, most of it is quality of life improvements to me and lacks the significant jump that we saw in the 80s to 00s.

I just watched The Thing as the 4K UHD was just released. The movie is phenomenal and looks amazing in 4K.

Pocket shipping December at the latest.

Not the collector’s edition, but it comes with a free mug

8 minutes ago, doner24 said:

Lots of people in this hobby have a crazy idea that they deserve to buy anything they want for pennies, or at least what it cost 20 years ago. It’s entitlement at its core. When I was growing up we couldn’t afford games, even though I wanted what my friends had, I never felt like I deserved them just cause. I grow up, get disposable income and can suddenly afford some of the things that I couldn’t before. Still want other things that are above what I feel comfortable with, so I don’t buy them and don’t feel like I deserve them at anything other than what they are going for. 

Amen! I grew up similarly. My dad had a great job, but there were five of us kids. I got some of the big name games growing up, but not most and so I was grateful for what I had. I remind myself that when I wish I had other games. I don’t deserve any of it and I am grateful to have much more than I need.

12 hours ago, doner24 said:

I don’t collect sealed or graded games and couldn’t care less about what those people do. 

I agree, the thing is retro gaming has grown so much more popular due to the ideal demographic getting older and having plenty of disposable income, the Internet making information on game sales so much more available, as well as gaming collector’s showing off their collections and talking about retro games and new ways to pay them via videos and Instagram. 
 

There are a few games that I would like to have that are now out of my price range, but I just accept that the ship has sailed on those for me and maybe if the bubble bursts I can get them. I would love for games to be cheap again when people thought I was nuts buying old games. However, I mostly only collect what looks of interest for me so I don’t worry about missing out on completing my set.

18 minutes ago, DarkKobold said:

Dude, this seems so fake to me.
 

And to add to it, the guy who posted/made the story up, is legit TRYING TO PROFIT OFF IT.

Your alarm bells should be going off about the legitimacy, not the content.

Yeah, I don’t like that.

23 minutes ago, AdamW said:

One thing that would make it less problematic for me, actually, is something that hasn't been discussed much yet - a universal grading scale. AIUI, comic and card graders all grade on more or less the same scale (out of 10, with pretty much the same claimed meanings for each grade). An interesting thing on the coin story for me was that all the coin graders were supposed to be following the same scale (out of 70), and so it was possible to pretty conclusively establish that Halperin's company was overgrading, because there was a wider definition and understanding of the scale they were grading on.

If there was a universal scale in games, defined and understood on a wider level than any one grading company, I think it'd be much easier to discuss "wrong" grading. As it stands, it's hard to claim that a WATA grade is "wrong" because there's no external definition or understanding to compare it to.

I think this, combined with more qualified competitive grading options would go a long way to structuring the industry in a positive manner.

2 hours ago, AdamW said:

This doesn't seem as odd to me as it does to you. I mean, if you get a gemstone assessed, the same person will decide if it's genuine, weigh it, grade it, and then give you an estimate of its price (and then, possibly, offer to buy it off you). If you get your house assessed, the same person will come and count the bedrooms and check if the roof's falling off and give an estimate of the price. They don't have separate people for each function. They're pretty related functions.

Those aren't perfect comparisons, of course, and there are "checks and balances" in those cases that don't necessarily exist in games yet, but I don't find the very concept that the same person might both grade and value an item weird.

I get what you’re saying. My biggest issue is that WATA has the ability to highly influence the market landscape in providing values because there isn’t much of a competitive market for their services like the example you provided. Also, they are telling the world the value on a game that they graded versus providing a value to a customer.  This is why I’d argue that they cross the line where conflicts of interest become problematic. 

25 minutes ago, Reed Rothchild said:

Sounds like you need to cancel that and get SMT V instead 

Lol, I preordered the collector’s edition of that with the backpack!

Yeah, give me Casey

Beat em ups are my favorite. I’ve probably spent the most time playing FPS though.

I still feel like the art style on this game is off. April’s head seems huge to me, and I get the 80s hair was big. Hopefully this is even half as good as Streets of Rage 4 because I was skeptical of that art style as well and that game was awesome for me.

I like the simplicity of setup. It looks very clean. I really like the Turtles display and I have that case somewhere in my parents’ basement with my old toys.

Hopefully you can mostly recreate this setup elsewhere. I’m sorry to hear about the more recent changes.

3 minutes ago, Crystalis88 said:

His name is pertinent to the story. If he posted his address then that’s definitely not cool.

This is why I think it’s prudent to be careful of what you post online. It’s pretty easy to find people once you know their name and the general area they live in. I think it sucks that his name is out there for so many people to see, but it’s not like it wasn’t available with a little searching.

At least there’s no mention of anyone packing it in their ass.

25 minutes ago, Crystalis88 said:

The ride up must have been fun for deniz and Jeff. People like that think they’re smarter than everyone else, and they pimped Dain like a 5 dollar hooker. Used his name for credibility and then dumped him like an OD’d crack whore with 0 compensation (as he stated above). I suppose this was known for the last couple of years but now it’s bigger news and I hope this goes deeper than it appears. Deniz looks like he’d make one helluva prison bitch and I’m sure he’d be racking up a high score emptying balls on the yard.

I’m sorry, can we please stop hurling personal insults at people we are mentioning? It’s really unnecessary.

I personally don’t agree with some of conflicts of interest and some of the ethically questionable situations that have been uncovered, but I think it’s poor taste to be name calling or insulting people. It’s just not constructive criticism and doesn’t add value to the conversation.

34 minutes ago, PII said:

1st and 2nd place are both occupied by TWIN PEAKS

3rd - NewsRadio (best cast of comic actors ever.)

NewsRadio was really good. I forgot about that one.

Welcome!

Good luck in your quest for a complete N64 set. 
 

Is your game room going to be a spare room or will it be in the basement?

8 minutes ago, Tanooki said:

If that's perhaps the only reason, why not just buy it from walmart?  On a $60 game they sell any of those for $50, and it's scaled back on the percentage off as they MSRP cheaper.  I was considering skyward sword shortly ago, but it was $60, saw no reason to waste $10

Would that include the bundle? The bundle isn’t just two separate cases. It comes in a box. Anyway, the preorder doesn’t hit my card until I pick it up.

4 minutes ago, Tanooki said:

It's a generation I skipped, so for what it's worth I hope whatever they did (mechanics wise) to upgrade this from the DS era it turns out amazing.

I'm considering that and the open world one even more, just don't see a value in a preorder since it'll in some form be everywhere, millions of them.  Given the weird poor turn in not just people whining about visuals or the incomplete pokedex it has, but Shield/Sword weren't very good so you're  better off with this.

I mainly preordered it for the 10% off.