What makes a game collection "Legendary"

In the eyes of many my Video game and Anime collection is already legendary.
In my eyes it's a work in progress.

Huge collection with complete catalogs of games for systems might be impressive but is it really legendary?

I think it's a real waste of money to get all 250 US dreamcast games when you could just try to get every great game made for the system from all over the world.

Hording a game doesn't raise a collection to legendary status either, that just makes you a selfish asshole who won't share. I PLAY all my games.

In my eyes a legendary game collection is a wide variety of games that the owner shares with friends across many platforms. Of course the rareer ones are treated with Care (I'm getting a special glass case for all my rare games) But shareing and quality over quantity are what makes a collection legendary. Not volume.

Agreed or is there more to be added to this?

We're all huge collectors here so what's your take?

 

In my eyes, if you can carry on a conversation about any and every game in your collection, it can be viewed as legendary. Maybe you haven't played them all, but you bought them with the intention of playing, or it has meaning to you. Of course size has something to do with it, but its all about how you use it

 

IMO it depends: having every game and accesory released for the Genesis and the SNES in mint state is pretty impressive, but having an AES with every game available could be even more impressive (and valuable too).

It also depends on who you ask: a fanboy may find any collection not related to his/her favourite brand to be anything from "meh" to completely worthless.

I believe the best way to know how good is your collection is to go take it with you to a convention, and see what the people in-the-know think about your stuff.

 

My collection is already there. But to gamers like you guys it's a small and humble collection.

 

If, when seeing a picture of it, people go 'wow'.

That, or you've never played any of them, ever. Or all of them.

 

Non-gamers go "wow" if you have more than 2 or 3 consoles, or (in case they're young) if your consoles are from more than 10 years ago.

 

I can't say whats a legendary collection and what not, the most important thing to me is to see passion in a peoples collection. If there are 25 PAL PS2 games on an ugly shelf and in bad condition, add to this that 10 of the games are FIFA and NBA games by EA, I honestly don't feel impressed.

I mostly grade collections in how much devotion I can notice and in what way they are presented. Although I prefer japanese games by far, there are quite some very impressive and astonishing us/pal collections which I would call "legendary".

 

IMO it's more quality over quantity, of course, quantity might be interestingm but not as important. I'd rather have a collection of quality games I play, than having 300 games I've never played, and never had any intention to play them.

 

I've got about 250 games. But I've never bought a video game I had no intention of playing.

 

I agree with most of you, I think quality over quantity is what makes a collection impressive. In my case, my collection is small and nothing really out of the ordinary but I've played almost every game I own, unless for some bad PS2 and XBOX games that came in a bundle I bought long ago.

And it's true, non-gamers go nuts when they see you've got more than 2 or 3 consoles... And some people think you are a total freak when they see you've got 15 consoles al hooked up and in the same room XD.. more if they are girls, they totally freak out lol.

That's why I'm trying to get furniture with dark glass doors to keep the consoles with a bit lower profile.

Anyway, what also makes a great collection are rare items such as protos/demos unreleased stuff or limited quantity stuff, and also the condition in which you have your stuff and the way you keep it organized and how much you know about it.

 

Having every Neo Geo AES game = Unhealthy fanboy, as you obviously bought expensive games with no intention of playing them and telling someone you spent $$$s on Chibi Maruko Chan Quiz Deluxe, you might as well tell them you spend your saturday nights at home, cataloging your collection and sorting it into different orders.

Having every decent Neo Geo AES game = Cool.

I have a large Megadrive collection to the extent that the only games I really need now are expensive (and lets face it crappy) Acclaim games and games that would require a kidney or two and to be honest I rather use the money buying other games or doing something more useful and waiting until the game comes up cheaply...

Although if you have a collection of 1,000 games or more then thats cool.

 

Are you TRYING to piss of Neo Geo fans and encouragning them to "Raid" us again?:icon_bigg:lol::dance:

 

First off, I doubt anyone who collects games would be considered by their non-collecting peers as the typical "cool guy", nor one that collects movies, comics, books or stamps.

By our standards (and I mean all that, not just games) a collection is as impressive as the amount of items it has.

Therefore a collection thats legendary is one that has the most games, consoles and accesories possible.

And yeah at that level it isnt healthy, but who the fuck cares? Nor is driking and partying either, yet theres am entire culture around that (much bigger than ours) and its even more socially accepted these days than being a grown-up guy who lives with their parents and collects videogames.

The world is a pretty fuck'd up place, I know...

 

The fact that many of them have an objects that would not be present in other collections, such as prototype materials or even proto games or betas

 

Having prototypes of barbie games is something I would keep rather quite about in polite company.

 

But if you collected the (and lets face it crappy) Acclaim games you said you really need, you could be critised too, because you might spend $$$ on the Virtual Bart game and not play it very much or at all because you said Acclaim games are crappy. But maybe you will find them cheaply like you said but because they are Acclaim games I could asume you paid $$$ for them (just like you have done) and maybe you might get called something that's not very nice.

 

What makes a game collection "legendary"? Thats pretty easy just add this to your collection:

 

lol @ wombat

Meh, no need to argue about the right way to collect, what to collect, if it's healthy or not. You just recognise a legendary collection if you see one. Just because you have your favorite 200 games across 10 systems hardly makes it a LEGENDARY collection imo.

Ofcourse that's all in the eye of the beholder...

 

if there's some great extravagance stuff in there!