Do i have too many?

[Phoenix Goddess]

367 games are too many according to my jealous siblings, but I get two a week, so the collection just keeps growing

Holy hell! That's $400 a month! That's like....almost my monthly wages! How do you afford rent?!

Haha, my dad's a gamer, when he gets a new game, he gets one for me too!
That's how I got all the CoDs, BC2, AC2, Borderlands and Dragon Age.

He buys the majority of my supply, when he sees one he thinks I may like, he buys it before I can! >_<
That's why I can't wait for my birthday this month, game galore

 

[Cermage]

guess OP isn't much of a collector if he thinks 24 games is alot.

 

[Blaze163]

I WOULD have too many PSP/PSX games on my PSP if any of the damn things worked. Tales of Eternia is the latest to be a bitch...Gives me a red 'now loading' message, my power meter (which can't possibly be accurate) and does nothing.

 

[Burton]

Haha, my dad's a gamer, when he gets a new game, he gets one for me too!
That's how I got all the CoDs, BC2, AC2, Borderlands and Dragon Age.

He buys the majority of my supply, when he sees one he thinks I may like, he buys it before I can! >_<
That's why I can't wait for my birthday this month, game galore

Wao, your dad most be the coolest in the world. Mine hated video games.

 

[The Pi]

367 games are too many according to my jealous siblings, but I get two a week, so the collection just keeps growing

Is 367 just on 360 or across all your consoles?

 

[bason230]

Just a side note, but having many games in Vietnam means nothing. You'd get Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3987327638732 (Yeah, well, hypothetical stuff) for 10.000 Vietnam Dong, which is barely a dollar oO

 

[Maikel Steneker]

Just a side note, but having many games in Vietnam means nothing. You'd get Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3987327638732 (Yeah, well, hypothetical stuff) for 10.000 Vietnam Dong, which is barely a dollar oO

But it's not original then. If you burn them yourself they're even cheaper.

 

[Phoenix Goddess]

367 games are too many according to my jealous siblings, but I get two a week, so the collection just keeps growing

Is 367 just on 360 or across all your consoles?

All consoles, my SD card can only hold 80 right now cause I don't trim them, so take away 80 and 287 across all the other consoles.

 

[imapterodactyl]

Well i bought my xbox 360 on march the 9th 2010, and between then and know i have purchased 24 games, im starting to think i have way too many, what do you guys think?

24 games isn't a lot for an entire collection, but 24 games in 4 months? That's 6 games per month, so unless you're finishing a game every 5 days, or it turns out you don't like a lot of the games you've purchased, then yes it's too much. Maybe you're buying older, cheaper games? If you're buying new titles at $59.99 a pop, then it's ridiculous. You'll find that game's you paid 60 bucks for are selling for $30 by the time you actually get around to playing them.

 

[The Pi]

Ok, your not as crazy as I thought you were.

My collection is about 200-250 across all my consoles (legally)

Illegally (i don't have a clue)

 

[seahorsepip]

I might be disposing of a fair portion of my PS2 collection later to get a PSN card. Primarily 'cause my AVG has expired and as such I can't download anything like PS1 games any more. Sad face

AVG is not verry good....use Avast 5 home

 

[Phoenix Goddess]

Ok, your not as crazy as I thought you were.

My collection is about 200-250 across all my consoles (legally)

Illegally (i don't have a clue)

Haha, it's good to disappoint you

 

[imapterodactyl]

Just a side note, but having many games in Vietnam means nothing. You'd get Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3987327638732 (Yeah, well, hypothetical stuff) for 10.000 Vietnam Dong, which is barely a dollar oO

Yeah, but pirated games don't count. Hell, half this board probably has close to 500 games on their hard drives that never get played. A Vietnamese silver disc is no better. If you've got 5 original games, and 234 Vietnamese bootlegs, then you've got.... 5.
If you pay full price for a game, not only are you actually supporting the developers, but you're almost guaranteed to appreciate the game more and are far, far more likely to actually play it through.

 

[Blaze163]

If we're not counting pirated games that takes care of all but one of my DS games. But if we're including games that are in the house but not necessarily owned by the one posting (IE: my old man's collection) then that restores the balance for me. He plays games to cut down on how much he smokes now that he's unemployable. Works for me, means I get access to the latest and greatest games without expending a penny, and yet not resorting to piracy

 

[imapterodactyl]

guess OP isn't much of a collector if he thinks 24 games is alot.

Purchased in 4 months? Come on now; it most definitely is. At full price, we're talking just about $400 a month in games. Once again, pirated junk does NOT count in the context of this thread.

 

[imapterodactyl]

If we're not counting pirated games that takes care of all but one of my DS games. But if we're including games that are in the house but not necessarily owned by the one posting (IE: my old man's collection) then that restores the balance for me. He plays games to cut down on how much he smokes now that he's unemployable. Works for me, means I get access to the latest and greatest games without expending a penny, and yet not resorting to piracy

Nice. Sorry your dad's unemployable, but it seems to be working in your favor.

 

[Phoenix Goddess]

Just a side note, but having many games in Vietnam means nothing. You'd get Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3987327638732 (Yeah, well, hypothetical stuff) for 10.000 Vietnam Dong, which is barely a dollar oO

Yeah, but pirated games don't count. Hell, half this board probably has close to 500 games on their hard drives that never get played. A Vietnamese silver disc is no better. If you've got 5 original games, and 234 Vietnamese bootlegs, then you've got.... 5.
If you pay full price for a game, not only are you actually supporting the developers, but you're almost guaranteed to appreciate the game more and are far, far more likely to actually play it through.

You're sort of right.
I can promise you I've played through more pirated games than I have the ones I own legally.
Some games bore me too much to play and a pirated game is much easier to get rid of.

If you have the money, you'd be surprised at how many games you can own in 4 months.
To me, it isn't very much at all, but to others, it may be. To each their own opinion.

 

[imapterodactyl]

You're sort of right.
I can promise you I've played through more pirated games than I have the ones I own legally.
Some games bore me too much to play and a pirated game is much easier to get rid of.

Right, but you've played through more pirated games because you've had ACCESS to more pirated games. It still surely would have been more satisfying (at least for the majority) if you had actually purchased them. If a title is released that you've been dying for, and you have no money, then sure you'll download it and play the hell out of it (Super Mario Galaxy 2 in my case).... but if you like it enough, it should certainly be added to your legitimate collection. And the majority of downloads are games that people don't actually have that much interest in anyway, and as you said, they're much, much easier to get rid of after 10 minutes play. This is often unfortunate, because it's easy to hit the delete button before realizing that if you'd given the game a little more of your time, it may have turned out to be an absolute gem. This is very similar to pirating music. It's easy to give a pirated album a quick listen and dispose of it as garbage if it's not catchy enough to keep your interest in the first few minutes, but if you'd actually purchased said album, you may listen to it long enough to discover something deeply layered that may turn out to be a favorite for a lifetime.

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QUOTE(phoenixgoddess27 @ Jul 13 2010, 03:37 PM) If you have the money, you'd be surprised at how many games you can own in 4 months.
To me, it isn't very much at all, but to others, it may be. To each their own opinion.

Agreed. It IS a lot to me, and I do indeed spend too much (2 to 3 new release titles per month; more if you count those that I wait for a price drop on and low-cost downloadable titles).

And while I stand on my pedestal, I must admit that I download too many pirated titles to count. I just always find the purchased ones manage to hold my interest longer, as well as fit the context of this thread better.

 

[Phoenix Goddess]

You're sort of right.
I can promise you I've played through more pirated games than I have the ones I own legally.
Some games bore me too much to play and a pirated game is much easier to get rid of.

Right, but you've played through more pirated games because you've had ACCESS to more pirated games. It still surely would have been more satisfying (at least for the majority) if you had actually purchased them. If a title is released that you've been dying for, and you have no money, then sure you'll download it and play the hell out of it (Super Mario Galaxy 2 in my case).... but if you like it enough, it should certainly be added to your legitimate collection. And the majority of downloads are games that people don't actually have that much interest in anyway, and as you said, they're much, much easier to get rid of after 10 minutes play. This is often unfortunate, because it's easy to hit the delete button before realizing that if you'd given the game a little more of your time, it may have turned out to be an absolute gem. This is very similar to pirating music. It's easy to give a pirated album a quick listen and dispose of it as garbage if it's not catchy enough to keep your interest in the first few minutes, but if you'd actually purchased said album, you may listen to it long enough to discover something deeply layered that may turn out to be a favorite for a lifetime.



How in the world did that make sense? If you had read my posts, I actually have access to more LEGAL games that I bought myself or my father bought me.
So unfortunately, I'd have to disagree with you.

A pirated game, I could delete and retrieve all over again.
A legal game, once it's sold, I'd have to spend more money to retrieve it once again.

QUOTE(phoenixgoddess27 @ Jul 13 2010, 03:37 PM)

If you have the money, you'd be surprised at how many games you can own in 4 months.
To me, it isn't very much at all, but to others, it may be. To each their own opinion.

Agreed. It IS a lot to me, and I do indeed spend too much (2 to 3 new release titles per month; more if you count those that I wait for a price drop on and low-cost downloadable titles).

And while I stand on my pedestal, I must admit that I download too many pirated titles to count. I just always find the purchased ones manage to hold my interest longer, as well as fit the context of this thread better.

You double posted.

 

[thegame07]

Well i bought my xbox 360 on march the 9th 2010, and between then and know i have purchased 24 games, im starting to think i have way too many, what do you guys think?

I now have 156 ps3 games

I don't play most of them though