The Blackangel

It's seeming to me at least, that working in the video game industry at any level is an extremely toxic occupation. It doesn't matter whether you're the designer, actors, or retail seller. The position you hold is irrelevant. Jobs in gaming have become so toxic that I don't know whether to feel bad about buying new games, or if it even matters at any level. My $60 isn't going to make or break any company. But do we, as gamers, have to take any responsibility for the abuse in the industry? That's the question I want a coherent and unbiased answer to. But considering that everyone will have a different view, I don't think we could ever get an unbiased answer to that question.

That's what sucks about Nintendo. Their greed drives me nuts. They have a lot of the best games, but they just won't let the prices go down any. The bastards.

SMB3 was definitely a mass produced game. But you have to realize that due to its popularity, people weren't buying it to collect it. They were desperate to play it. A sealed copy is extremely rare. There are almost none left. To collectors, it's the find of a lifetime. With Little Samson, the most a copy of that has ever sold for is roughly $6000. But that one was perfect condition, sealed, and graded. The reason Little Samson sells for so much is because it was made during the early SNES days when most had upgraded to the SNES and left the NES behind. Hence, not many people bought it, so it became a rare game. People have taken out mortgages and loans to afford some of these games. When given a chance they leap at it, if they think there's any way they can afford it. I have several copies of SMB3, but they're loose and just to play. They're worth maybe $8-$10 if I'm lucky. So, just because it's mass produced, doesn't mean it's not rare in certain circumstances.

The vast majority of my games, I play silently. I turn the volume all the way down so it's completely silenced. In all honesty, the ONLY game I can think of that I don't play in silence is RDR2. I keep the sound on for it. But that one has so much dialogue, it's kinda pointless to try to play the game without the sound on. Now if we're talking music like Disturbed, Whitesnake, Poison, White Lion, Cinderella, Damn Yankees, and so on, then yes I LOVE LOVE LOVE music more than gaming.

Actually quite the opposite. My skills are better than ever, and I'll be 40 in less than a month. So I would have to dispute this one.

Personally, if I'm reading your description correctly, I always thought of it as finding easter eggs.

As far as collecting goes, I can only think of two at the moment. The Legend Of Zelda franchise and FF8. I've gone nuts for both of them since they came out. I can't get enough of them. I play them all the time. I also have a lot of collectible items from both. Most of it is Zelda stuff, but I also have rare FF8 guides, and rare copies of FF8. So I guess I'm a bit of a collector there. If I think of anything else I'll post it, but I honestly can't think of anything else at the moment. I'm more into collecting Zippos and skulls.

Classic ("retro") games are a special class of games that typically only appeal to a niche market. We need to consider a few things here. Collectiblity, and popularity. As you mentioned the SMB3 game going for over a million. SMB3 was the most monumental game ever created. It back then was like the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S is right now. No one could get it because everywhere was sold out. Scalpers were raking it in with people paying $200+ for the game. There were movies based around it and tournaments. It was the inspiration for eSports tournaments that we see today. So a CIB, unwrapped copy is one of the most highly collectible games in existence. Now you take a game that was either virtually unknown or just not very popular. We'll say Astyanax. Most don't even know of its existence. Hence, they're not looking for it, CIB or otherwise. On eBay, a CIB copy of Astyanax is going for $40-$60 on average. A far cry from the million that was paid for the CIB copy of SMB3. So it all depends on the game, its popularity, and its collectible factor. Most games aren't all that collectible. Hell even Little Samson couldn't bring in anything even close to what that SMB3 went for. And most games that people are after in the classic market aren't going for more than $100 anyway. And if a game from N64 back reaches $100, that's pretty damn rare, and most likely either a stupid and/or greedy seller.

It's not a huge deal. I didn't see where the thread was initially posted, but you didn't do anything severe. Also welcome to the VGR forum.

I'm always suspicious of the smallest compliment. "I like your shirt" I'm looking for what they mean behind that, and what their motives are.

No. I just deal with the ads, and don't pay for any microtransactions.

After watching the video @skyfire posted, it looks boring as hell to me. And if it's strictly on mobile, well that's another lost point for it. I'm not going to be playing it any time soon.

I couldn't find anything on their site about this, but do you think they would ship internationally? Just for the hell of it, I designed a PS4 controller, and I really love what I came up with. But judging from everything I could find on their site, they only ship within the UK.

@Rain Dew picked one up for me to give to my best friend as a xmas present. I also gave her a copy of the FF7/FF8 cart and FF8 guide with it. Needless to say, she was surprised as hell.

I actually had to check out a trailer on YouTube to see what the game was. That said, I've obviously never played it, but it looks like a hell of a lot of fun. My only is the cost. I checked the Nintendo eShop, and Splatoon 2 is going for $60. I can't spare that kind of money for a game at the moment. It's a lot of the reason why I put games in my wishlist, but wait for them to go on sale, or I shop in the $10 and below section as almost every single game there is on sale. And a hell of a lot of them are really awesome games.

With antivaxxers going on the attack on people they have never even seen before when they overhear them talking about having gotten their vaccine, the pandemic isn't going to end anytime soon. If it was me I would make the vaccines mandatory, and if it had to come to it, forcibly administered. The government can order other medications forcibly administered, so why not this one?

I think the only city you would need a map in would be Saint Denis. It's massive compared to anything else, so I always have to set a marker to wherever I'm wanting to go and follow the path that's set out for me to follow. But everything else is so damn small you don't need a map. Sure finding some stuff before you've explored the map is a major pain in the ass, but once you've explored and removed the "fog of war" for lack of a better term, then you can find anything easily. And once you acquire fast travel, you can get there lightning fast. That is if you don't want to pay a stage coach or take a train.

My only question is what this will do to some of the AAA titles. Our bigger franchises may suffer for a while, as different companies may end up hiring programmers that, while talented and completely qualified to do the job, don't have a clue about the game they're assigned to work on. We could get someone who has never even seen gameplay of a GTA game, end up being assigned to work on GTA6. That's not going to turn out well. So even though they are huge, massively successful games that are still going strong, the next few entries into whatever AAA franchise you want to consider could really get fucked for a while.

Some of them do charge a lot. But if someone is a really big fan of a game, then it's well worth the money. They will cherish it. I saved that Roger Clark cameo to my computer, my phone, and a thumb drive just to make sure I always have it.

I talked about that here. The reason is just too embarrassing for me to make them live until I can figure something out.

Probably to keep it as clean as possible.

For me, I'm stuck to RDR2. I can't get away from it.

Having grown up on a farm and a country life, RDR2 feels kinda natural and very real. They live rough, and are basically country people. So everything going on in the game just feels natural to me.

He's meaning small places that have one, or at most two locations that focus on game sales. If there were any around here, I would definitely be going there at least to browse and see what they have. As it sits right now, I have to go to eBay to find the games I want. Nowhere around here sells NES, SNES, and N64 games anymore.

If we're talking current games, then I give it to a possibility of three games that I just can't decide between. RDR2, Tell Me Why, and Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice. Tell Me Why and Hellblade are games I heavily relate to in many ways, as I face many of the challenges and issues the characters do every day myself. For example, Senua is schizophrenic and I am as well. We both have to try to ignore the voices, and it's never easy. With RDR2, it's the first time I have ever felt like I have a family. The gang are so loyal to each other through the first 4 chapters, but start falling apart after that. But in the beginning they are tighter than a hangman's noose. I never had a family, with the exception of my Gramma. She didn't know the meaning of the word "hate". She was nothing but love. She would give you the shirt off her back in the dead of winter if you needed it. And I'm rambling and getting off topic. AGAIN. So those are my pics for the best games.