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    PC collecting scene implosion, big time collector/seller found counterfeiting games!!!

    in General Collecting Discussion

    Posted

    Interesting read. I collect big box PC games but I never dealt in the "ultra high end" items, so I can always compare copies and contents easily. Most of my games come from a big bundle of games from a Finnish collector (with original store stickers on a bunch of them) and from an American collector with a couple thousand games accrued over decades. Luckily I'm not looking to expand my collection too much from this point on and what I'm seeking is high supply high demand type of stuff.

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    Limited Run Games

    in General Collecting Discussion

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    8 hours ago, goldenpp72 said:

    I had a kind of weird question that might fit this thread.. Has anyone done 'full set' for LRG and maybe decided in hindsight to give up and only grab stuff they really want? If so, did you regret it?

    I've never been one to collect just to collect but I got the full set on Vita and PS4 up to now, and Switch of course, but I'm debating on selling stuff I don't care much for and slowing down on buying it since it's kinda stressful and expensive to keep up with.. Anyone ever have a similar thought and maybe not regret it?

    I started buying from LRG since the beginning (Breach & Clear Vita) and was buying basically every Vita and PS4 release they put out up to a certain point but after they started pumping out insane amounts of stuff I became picky with what I get while still going for the Vita full set - only skipped Gunhouse Vita from the source but got one second hand (R.I.P. my Revenge of the Bird King Vita, if that's a thing for full set buyers through LRG - depending on how strict they are with it). They do release a lot of games that I want to own physically but it's annoying that with the current pre-order model the turnaround times are very long in most cases. I've ordered 0 PS5 games so far from LRG and I'm likely to be ultra picky with PS5 overall after being a super buyer on PS4. I don't care about full sets from any other "limited game companies" either - there are just too many games being produced, the wait times are long and some companies are doing shady shit, so it's harder to justify the money, trust and time required.

    I'm probably going to let some LRG / "Limited" stinker games go in the future excluding what stinkers are found in the LRG Vita set. Unless I'm after a set I don't regret missing or letting games go and most LRG sets are just too big and without any concrete cut-off point for me to care. A full LRG set is just never-ending insanity anyways but since you are already so deep into some platform sets, I'm not sure if now is the time to drop the pursuit for those sets but then again that probably only eggs you on to keep going with any new platforms they put out and it's just gonna suck out the fun out of it and maybe other collecting also. I would personally get out of the set collecting, if the amount of money and effort required is becoming a source of worry and stress. It's kind of annoying even how far LRG milks some things like Shantae. I enjoyed collecting for a Shantae "set" but then suddenly there are random PAX exclusive things, random merch and same games on 4 different systems with Limited Editions repeating most of the contents between couple platforms and such, so I guess I'm not even a Shantae setter anymore - though at the end of the day only each unique game release really matters in a series and not every platform's version of them or extra items or swag editions, so in that sense it's not too big of a deal but still speaks of the bloat in the hobby and by extension my annoyance with it.

    In other LRG news, I reserved a PS4 replacement disc for DOOM: The Classics Collection.

    What's new in your collection/Pick-up Thread !!!

    in Show Off

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    February Funkin' and it's mostly a motherload of LRG blowout sales and pre-orders arriving. The game with too much reflection is Ys IX: Monstrum Nox LE. Nordic rental version of Wonder Boy in Monster World is also my first Mega Drive rental - the game is a certified childhood classic. Shadow Dancer got a vinyl release finally... da bomb. Also really glad I picked the Genesis style Castlevania Anniversary Collection; it was a tough choice between it and the classic NES silver Konami box style, even with me being a huge Genesis/MD fan, but the red and green color scheme sold me on it and it's a beauty when it's in your hands.

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    Game Debate #88: Mortal Kombat

    in The Gauntlet

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    It was fun playing it on my family's DOS PC but beyond the digitized mocap, fun gore and spooky oriental atmosphere there's not much meat in the game; small cast, shared basic moves and stiff gameplay. I enjoy it enough to play it infrequently but the later installments do it bigger and better.

    6/10

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    31-Day Video Game Music Challenge 4 - Day 31

    in The Gauntlet

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    Day 31 List with 5 song picks from each participant besides me:

    AverageOliver98

    Aguy

    fox

    0xDEAFC0DE

    ZeldaFreak

    rdrunner

    PII

    nesmaster14

    tigerwolf

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    31-Day Video Game Music Challenge 4 - Day 31

    in The Gauntlet

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    Well the category I created for Day 23 is First Person Dungeon Crawler, even though I'm not adding that descriptor on my actual list to keep it uniform and within single lines.

    I put in both original and super arrange version of the song Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan - Battlefield - Brush With Death, also called Battlefield - One Step From Death or Battlefield - The Fall of the Final Enemy depending on the source but it's called Battlefield - Brush With Death on spotify, so I'll go with that, although I took the Battlefield part out for it to fit nicely on the line.

    The original version is menacingly groovy jazz fusion played by real musicians and the super arrange is for the most part a chiptune demake until it gives you a surprise pummeling with some epic saxophone. I love the duality of these versions a lot. Give them a whirl.

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    31-Day Video Game Music Challenge 4 - Day 31

    in The Gauntlet

    Posted · Edited by sp1nz

    My VGMC 3 picks:

    VGMC 4 - Lunatic mode:

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    Game Debate #74: Tomb Raider

    in The Gauntlet

    Posted · Edited by sp1nz

    Another copy pasta to start with:

    "I got PlayStation 1 for my 9th birthday in 1997; It was a complete surprise when I came home from school with a friend that day. The console was hooked up in the living room with Lara Croft proudly standing in the starting cave on the TV screen. Over the following week or two my friend visited me daily and we beat the game."

    Delving more into the experience: The locations were very interesting and I appreciated how you start with basic animals as enemies but then meet extinct or fictitious enemies in the mix. Deadly traps, obscure paths and secrets create sense of oppression and discovery; the game doesn't hand the raiding to you on a plate and that's cool. To my memory there is music to accentuate certain areas while others get silence and grim ambiance, this enhances the aforementioned oppression and discovery aspects greatly. Lara Croft is a great character and it is cool that they chose a female character to lead such a pioneering 3D game too. It has tank controls but I don't mind them, as they create a sense of danger in the combat encounters alongside the limited ammunition and healing items you may scour in the areas, and the platforming is well designed for accuracy for the tank controls, if you know how to do it - like hold walk while going to an edge -> backwards hop -> start running and holding jump -> maximum distance jump often accompanied with grabbing a ledge. I've beaten the games in the original trilogy once and they're all important to me despite not playing them endlessly. I've tested one or two Tomb Raider after those but they didn't grab me, I'm still curious to play them all eventually, at least the modern variety. The original is not a game for everyone now or even back then but it will always haunt my brain in a positive way, the way successful raiding of historical artifacts from deadly massive tombs should.

    So I put it as a defining game for me in the thread I linked, naturally for being the first for me on a revolutionary console, still how would I rate it... I think experiencing it back then as it was all fresh and exciting a clear 10/10, even today just thinking of these vibrant memories and how I have a great appreciation for how well the game was made and recently placing it as my GOTY 1996 (I played it in 1997 but I go by release years in this assessment), I have to say it stays a 10 for me. I think everyone should try it for historical reasons, even if they end up hating it. I'm very happy that I grew up alongside game evolution, so I don't feel like antiquated controls or design choices take away from my experiences, they're more like pockets of nostalgia and flavor and I'm very open to most flavors. Also a game doesn't require a huge replayability factor, if any, to be a true great in my eyes.

    10/10

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    Blank Crisis!

    in The Gauntlet

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    I have more nostalgia for Point Blank and it offers something different than the usual on-rails campaign most light gun games offer. I remember playing the arcade cab whenever I visited a certain one store with my dad, might've encountered it in some other places too. I most vividly remember the stand-offs with the falling leaf challenge.

    The most nostalgic light gun cab for me is Area 51 though and Silent Scope rocks the second place. Point Blank would be my third pick, if I were to buy arcade cabs.

    General Sealed & Graded Discussion

    in Sealed & Graded Collecting

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    The way Wata grades seals now asks for the end buyer to be an expert in a system that is not explicitly explained to them. Sure there are different seals and methods of sealing for different platforms and that can result in said platform possibly not being able to get maximum grade seals in an uniform system but it feels unintuitive and dumb to go with a mixed system. It'll produce bigger money results though when you have your As or even A+s with gaping holes that buyers don't seem to care about due to the letter being there on some systems. Of course the games on a single platform will compare to each other in seal grades but not at all to other platforms. Disgustang.

    Million Dollar Mario...1.56M...What the..?

    in Sealed & Graded Collecting

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    8 hours ago, Gulag Joe said:

    The scarcity is definitely a big factor. I spent some time the other day looking at only SNES games that sold 1 million or more copies, and out of that list, there are only a few titles that have still not seen at least one HA listing in factory sealed condition. Titles that come to mind are Final Fantasy VI, Dragon Quest V, Dragon Quest VI, and Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball. That's only SNES and HA, so those games may have been listed on other auction sites. Some of those are SF games, so I guess the one US title that sticks out the most is Griffey. You'd think Goldin would've had one of those!

    You can't just look at overall sales numbers and equate them to a single region or a country unless the game released in a single region or a country. Also Final Fantasy VI was released as III in America and Dragon Quest V and VI never had American releases for the SNES. Super Famicom versions never came sealed in Japan so you'd be talking about "qualified" Japanese graded games for the exact RPGs you mentioned, not about anything that could have a seal grade anyway. No clue why Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball hasn't shown on HA though.

    FF III SNES on HA past sales:

    https://www.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?N=0+790+231&Ntk=SI_Titles-Desc&Nty=1&Ntt=final+fantasy+iii+snes&ic4=KeywordSearch-A-K-071316

    Small FF VI (III) comment on USA sales:

    https://nintendoeverything.com/sakaguchi-says-final-fantasy-vi-didnt-sell-well-in-the-u-s-when-it-originally-hit-the-snes/

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