In a thread about some new gay old game download service: "$5 for a version guaranteed to work in XP? No brainer.

I'm a PC gamer. $5? It's nothing. NOTHING. I spend $1,000 dollars US on video cards every year."

5 dollars for mediocre PC games?? Bleh thats NOTHING, I spend thousands every year to pad my patently worthless existence. If I want to play games on my 10k gamin' rig that could run on an old Pentium II its my problem OK??



Yoyo check out my unhealthy obsession with a mediocre first person flying shooter series from 10 years ago.

Nice lil thread about collecting gaming art to put in your 500/month studio apartment, on the wall between your katana set and anime wall scrollz http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=326463

I find packing games up for a move to be pretty terrifying.

I've spent most of my life playing and collecting tons of games. These aren't just games to me, they each hold memories of their very own. Super Mario World isn't just a Super NES cartridge, it is also the feeling of triumph I felt when finally defeating Bowser. Castlevania for NES is the broken controller and the Game Over screen. I keep all of my games someplace easily accessible, either in my bedroom or in the room where I play games the most. Sometimes I just pull them out and look at them. It's like a book you keep on the shelf, only having read it once, but you take it down every now and then to leaf through the pages. It gives you a reflective moment, that for me satisfies my need for nostalgia.

Packing them all up in boxes and throwing them in a truck is worrying me. It's a pretty horrible/crazy thing to worry about games, most of which I don't actively play any more. I'm the type of person who gets really upset when a game has the slightest imperfection on it's disc or box. I can't help it, it's just how I am. It's a compulsive desire that comes with collecting anything. Comic book collectors of course are known for obsessively preserving their comics in polybags and acid free boxes. Gamers are the same way. Browsing the forum NeoGAF's 2008 Gaming Setup Thread you find many people's gaming areas to be uniform. Games are organized usually by system, then alphabetically. Some people do by developer or series. All of their games are in one place. Sometimes they have a designated "game room" in their home, or sometimes their entire apartment is devoured by gaming.

Then there's this need to show it off, the reason threads like this exist, and have hundreds of pages on some forums. Are gamers just interested in finding the optimum method for displaying and shelving their games? Or are they just looking for some validation? If other people are doing it then it makes it feel alright.

Not that this is wrong. I'm the same way. But is it really healthy to keep all these things around? I have a bunch of Gameboy games just sitting around, but I no longer have a device capable of playing original Gameboy cartridges. I have both a PlayStation and a PlayStation 2 around even though I have a PlayStation 3 that can play all of my PlayStation platform games. I have no use for these items. But am I really going to discard or sell my copy of Pokemon Blue that I sunk so many hours into 10 years ago? Remembering those days is not enough, for a collector there is a desire to keep physical evidence of those memories around because it makes them feel more real.

So Capcom finally is making another vs game and it looks sweet, only problem is no one knows what Tatsunooko is. Some anime?? Gay shows!! I'll be pickin Ryu and Akuma as always who cares!!

Do u think it will be as dope as Marvel 2? Or a button mashing scrub fest like 3rd Strike?

Will u be pickin Ryu or Ken? And what will you're 2nd character be.. Akuma or maybe Sean? Will it have yet another limited edition joystick? Will Capcom finally put in some net play that doesn't suck? Will they finally consult the GGPO krew? I cant wait to find out!

Castlevania 2, I wanna get to know u better..














Castlevania 2 is probably the illest new game to have come out this year with fresh tile designs and pumpin' tunes. But if u are like me you are wonderin'.. "Yo what up with those dolla signz. This game got me seein' em even when my eyes closed."

Do you think Konami thought this would appeal to American gamers who are fixated on wealth and status? Maybe Konami is really trying to make a statement with this hot new game title.

Perhaps by doing this Konami is sayin "Yo, chill out and just enjoy the game. Stop bein' so serious, PRO gamers." Just some random thoughts for yall. But if you'll will excuse me..

*Straps on diving goggles, makes sure Capri sun is firmly placed in cup holder and pulls up lever on La-Z-Boy*

After a long day of 'ardcore gamin' do you ever just think to yourself "What would I do if I wasn't this INTO games?"

Prob something you think about a lot. Hardcores are known for bein pretty cerebral heh

Next week I am moving out of my childhood home. I have a PS3 and a Wii and a DS, but right now, I am playing my Super Nintendo the most. A few nights ago it struck me to hook it up. It's odd that with all these boxes around me I've decided to take an old system out of it's box which it's been resigned to for a few years.

The only games I dug out with it were Super Castlevania 4, Final Fantasy 3 and Super Mario All-stars. I had to clean my system with tons of alcohol wipes first, because I guess I had spilled a Coke on it at some point.



What I've found myself playing the most is FF3. I've started a new quest and am up to the Phantom Train sequence. I had forgotten how great this game is. For a few years now I've considered FF2/4j to be my favorite Final Fantasy game title. Although for the record I don't really consider there to be much competition as of all the recent games(7-12) only 12 is actually worth a damn and of the older games(1-6) 1-3 are pretty awful to play today, which really just leaves me to rank 4, 5, 6 and 12.

For the record the official ranking for me is:
6
4
12
5

ANYWAY. FF3 does a lot of things that I wish more RPGs would do today. And I am saying this as someone who really LIKES Japanese role playing games, even newer ones.

For one, the battle system is fast. Random battles are a pretty difficult to reason abstraction in JRPGs(though not all have them), and the less time spent in them, the better. While they are fast(and you can make them even faster if you choose, by altering the battle speed in the CONFIG menu), they are not devoid of strategy.

Also the story is linear, however it is very good at making you think that it's not. Early on, after maybe 2 hours of playtime(FF3 is pretty short as well, maybe 30-35 hours tops. Not bad!) you get to decide on the order you want to play through three scenarios. The game of course will only let you do these three, so it maintains some form of linearity, however the player is given a degree of choice. Want to get stealthy with Locke in South Figaro? Go for it. How about find out where Sabin went after that battle with Ultros? That's your choice. It makes the player have more interest in the story, as it makes them feel they have a more active role in it. Off the top of my head I can't think of any other RPGs that do this, although I am probably wrong.



Lastly, in the second half of the game FF3 takes a major risk by becoming a more open, free form game. In the World Of Ruin section you can choose to go tackle the final dungeon/bosses with only three characters. You need to split your team into teams of 4 for the dungeon(which is by far one of the best dungeons ever designed), so if you really wanted a challenge you could just use parties of one. The game doesn't force you to find all the characters again, it merely gives you incentive to do so. If you don't, then you are in for a tought, though not impossible challenge. If you do, then the dungeon is easier for you, and you get to do sidequests that are actually linked with the story, and provide closure/resolution for the characters.

So yeah, Super Nintendo. I think it would be really nice to play through Super Mario Bros 3 on the day before the move, hopefully I can do that. It would just seem really fitting. I will do a post sometime about SMB3 and how it is the pinnacle of human achievement.

Squaresoft-Enix-Electronic-Arts makes excellent games! I am playing Final Fantasy Tactics Advance A2 and it is truly wonderful. What graphics this game has. So many classes and skills, I love em!



I feel like a teen mom with a new baby! This shit owns! Need weapons to get class skills? TIGHT. No 3D battlefields so that you cant see where your cursor is half the time? NICE. No ability to skip cutscenes that you have to watch every time before a battle! SCORE.

Good to know Japanese developers are staying on the cutting edge of gameplay regression technology(GRT). After slaving thru the first two battles I found out you cant really customize classes early on in the game, you really just gotta wait it out. I wonder if I will ever even beat this game(or turn it on again)

Now where the heeeeeck are Dragon Quest 4-9 on DS. I want a box set of em