The year is almost up and I have bought....

Sold them all, like with so many things these days I lost interest. Besides I don't think they classify as new.

 

Did order my first DS title this year, I say title as I am not sure if Korg-M01 counts as a game...

I also bought myself 45 FC, SFC and G&W games today to cheer myself up.

 

Curiously, i'm just the oposite. Haven't got a single used game this year, but in fact bought lots of new games. And i still have to get Uncharted 3, Goldeneye Reloaded and maybe Sonic Generations.

Maybe it's just like Yakumo said.

 

Well, a huge chunk of them were bought for completion's sake and I just tried if they'd work for a few minutes. I really played (as in more than 10 hours) maybe 10 games this year (all arcade), about 25% of which were new acquisitions. So yeah, maybe 1% of my purchases LOL. About 75+ of them I couldn't even try because I have no access to my hardware since May this year.
Many of us don't buy the type of games you "play to the point of completion" though, like arcade-ports of games that very few people have the endurance to get good at. Like for instance, those crazy arcade-kit collectors often have pathetic skills and never post scores, yet spend $2500 on new releases.

I should mention that I don't feel a loss when I buy a game and don't play it (right away or at all). I enjoy owning the game and looking at it, filling gaps in my collection, preserving stuff. And opposed to new games, it usually doesn't lose market value over time.

 

Most of the games I bought this year went into a trade pile to be turned into Saints Row the Thrid

 

Wow, I have purchased absolutely zero games this year, which is not the answer I was expecting to give until I really thought about it... There has to be something.... hmmm...
:crying: I guess I really didn't get anything. Oh well, I have been broke this year and have been way to busy with working on my HL2 mod... HL2 is probably the last game I have purchased that was truly worth more than its full retail price.

 

Catherine is the only game that still counts besides a bunch of XBLA games and Dreamcast games.

I did get shadows of the damned but it's in ye olde trade pile right now.

 

Man I must be the only guy here who bought and played more games this year than in the previous 2

To be honest here without counting the Dreamcast this generation has been far better than the last one, and most PS2, GC and Xbox games have aged terribly (with a few exceptions).

The other day I tried to replay Halo2 but I couldnt, the graphics were too fucking ugly, I didnt even get past the space station. Same with MGS2, character's eyes look like crap and the textures were way too blurry.

I too think some people here is just too old and dont really care about games that much anymore, which is perfectly understandable and happens to everybody and which almost any hobby or even careers.

There are some ugly part thought, I'm really hating this DLC and patch bullshit trend that makes half the game either uncomplete or so buggy that you cant play at all and have to wait until a patch and the DLC is released to get the full experience.

Now this wouldnt be a problem if everything was like Steam and we were getting a lot of games for $60 rather than just one, since well, its cheaper! but no, we're paying full price for unpolished short games.

Still it beats the gimmicky crap of the 16bits, the pixelated vomit of the 32bits and the generic gameplay of most 128bit games (again, without counting Dreamcast games)

On that last part I know a lot of people here is going to call BS on the grounds of how popular COD is now, but c'mon people these games arent as bad as FPS bullshit from the lastgen like Black and Killzone, let alone all those POS GTA clones that still persist to this day. At least now we have new stuff like Portal, GoW, and even GTA clones like Saints Row are better than crap like TrueCrime

 

That must be the nerdiest graphics monkey comment I've ever read. ''Fuck how it plays, his peepers aint right!!''

If something as small and innocuous as that is going to stop you from playing a game I suggest you consider seeking help.

 

It's funny that you say that about MGS2. I've been playing the Substance edition recently (playing all VR missions until I get the top score...) and I think the graphics still hold up pretty well today.

 

I wish people would make titles that are more descriptive of what the thread is actually about.

Anyway, I've been playing MGS2 lately (the original PS2 version) and it's great. It's where my name comes from, after all. I think the graphics still look pretty good.

The one thing that annoys me about it is that sometimes there's really nothing you can do to avoid being seen, so you just have to sit there and wait for the enemies to kill you so you can try again. It becomes much more enjoyable once you get the M9, cause then you can just sneak up on people and knock them out one by one.

 

I don't believe I've acquired a single new game in 2011. Or turned on a console except the GBC out of desperation. What am I doing here?

 

What are you, the "cool guy"? nerdiest comment? this is a forum for game purists, douche...

Check the upscaled version, textures are blurry as hell

Bad graphics kill the game's atmosphere, and MGS games are supposed to be "serious games" get it?

 

The textures are blurry because it's a PS2 game. However, the quality of a game's graphics are not limited to the resolution of its textures. It's not even limited to realism. The quality of a game's graphics is a purely subjective thing.

Some games don't require incredibly detailed, realistic graphics to suit the purpose of the game. In some games, graphics play a minimal role. Games that are 100% about the graphics and nothing else tend to suck. In some games, the graphics are intentionally stylized. I would argue that MGS2 is stylized in many ways.

Also, you've obviously never finished an MGS game or you would know that they are not strictly "serious" games.

P.S.: How many times have we had this argument?

 

Well you have a yummy daikon as you avatar so maybe you want to become a chef instead?

 

Getting older doesn't kill the enthusiasm for games, im still going strong as ever. Loads bought this year & yet theres still more awesome stuff coming out, completed about 95% of the stuff i have bought so far & that includes everything in my collection not just new purchases.

This month i'll end up with a PS3, do i want one? No not really, but i can't play Ninokuni & Boku no natsuyasumi 3 without one. I love Ninokuni enough to get the console just for that game alone, also Onepiece gigant battle 2 & Skyrim coming out this month plus a new Mario & Zelda. Yup plenty of import gaming ahead & a bit of domestic gaming too, going to be pretty busy this xmas

 

The last current gen game I bought was Assassin's Creed Brotherhood back in January, which has since been completed and sold.
Also bought Blast Corps, Wonderboy in Monster World and Micro Machines.

Don't know why, but lately i've just lost interest in gaming

 

Forum for purists? Douche? And just who the FUCK are you? Correct me if I'm wrong - which we both know full well I'm not - but this is a forum for collectors and those with an interest in the history and archiving of computer and console gaming, be it through hardware, software, peripherals, promotional items or a mixture of all these things, the absolute last thing it is is a forum for purists. So, as you started your opening salvo on me with a term of abuse I feel it only right and fair to retaliate with one of my own, however mine to you is much more appropriate and fitting than yours was to me so here we go: you thick cunt.

What's your point? As we are all aware these games haven't been recoded from the ground up, for the most part the original elements have been utilised and a coat of sheen added to them. However hard you try and no matter how much you polish it, a turd will only ever be a turd.

This is where all you fucking idiots get it wrong. The graphical appearance doesn't kill the games atmosphere, it's that you somehow inexplicably fail to see it for what it is, a game. Gran Turismo 5 and Forza 4 are meant to be ''serious games'', so does that mean if I get rear-ended in a 3 car pile-up and I don't sustain whiplash that I have somehow been shortchanged by both the game and the developers because they have gone on record as saying that these two games are the most realistic driving games currently on the market? Don't be fucking stupid.

Bad graphics sometimes make a mediocre game a chore to play, however if the game is suitably entertaining and engaging then you should be able to look beyond its graphical shortcomings. Gaming is supposed to be about the suspension of belief, the ability to do something in a fantastical world that you could not do in ordinary life, not sitting there in a state of complete apoplexy because you're not bleeding to death after being hit several times at close range in an FPS title. Its not meant to be real, it's just pretend.

Get it?

 

Remember the crappy EA Madden games from 2001 - 2002 (you know the ones that came out for the much-hyped PS2)? The character models in those games had these creepy dead "shark eyes" which completely ruined whatever realism that EA was hoping to achieve. The eyes never moved...they just looked painted on or whatever.