Games You'll Never Sell

[saintchristopher]

In this age of used games, trade-ins, and -most notably- recession, It's getting a little harder to justify hanging on to our old games if we want to keep up with new releases without bankrupting ourselves.

Having said that, I think there is something to be said about building a collection; your own personal Criterion Collection of games, if you will. I'm sure most of us have been doing this with DVDs for years in varying degrees of scope, so why not with our games?

Of course I can't speak for you, but from my experience working at Gamestop, it seems to me that the average gamer is content to just keep a few recent releases around until they trade them in for newer releases.

So how about it? What's in your Criterion Collection? What games are you never selling or getting rid of? And what games do you think should be in your all-time collection?

 

[Anah'ya]

I dun' sell any of ma games. They mine. Mine alone.

Dun' sell ma books either. Ma shelves are kinda full. Don't care. Need more games. Need more books.

MOAR!

 

[manaman]

All of them.

Well unless I get a second copy. I keep a copy of all my games. I also collect them.

 

[Akihiko]

All of them also. Hate getting rid of games, I always end up wanting to play them when I do.

 

[Matt_LRR]

there should also be a copy of chrono trigger in there, but when I went looking for it, it wasn't with my other games. I'm now super freaked out that I've lost it. shit shit shit.

-m

 

[Schwerganoik]

Syndicate. In the art of games, Syndicate is Judgment Day in the back of the Sistine Chapel.

 

[Lust]

Silent Hill 2. Can't bring myself to sell it. Nooooo.........

 

[saintchristopher]

there should also be a copy of chrono trigger in there, but when I went looking for it, it wasn't with my other games. I'm now super freaked out that I've lost it. shit shit shit.

-m

Well, shit. I hope you find it. Incidentally, I've nearly come to the point of pulling my own hair out looking for a copy of Rez. Good on you.

 

[Schwerganoik]

Syndicate. In the art of gaming, Syndicate is Judgment Day in the back of the Sistine Chapel.

 

[Mr. Mike]

I dun' sell any of ma games. They mine. Mine alone.

Yeah, regardless of if I think I'll play it again or not, I keep all of my games. They'll probably be worth something some day anyways.

 

[erbkaiser]

All of them.
I still have all my games dating back to my first NES (need to find a clone console to play them on one day soon), although most of them are in storage somewhere.
I flattened out all my cardboard PC boxes and have them in storage as well, couldn't rightly tell you why. The manuals are also all somewhere.

I've only sold some games I got in bundles, such as Killzone 2 which came with my PS3. Didn't care one bit about that game and wouldn't have bought it if I didn't have to.

 

[Gigaguy64]

Iv got so many i cant name them all.

But they span from the Game Boy Color and the SNES to the Gamecube and the 64.

Games like Starfox64, LoZ:OoT, LoZ:Links Awaking, Metroid Prime Trilogy, Super Mario World, Super Mario All Stars, F-Zero, Starfox(SNES), Wind Waker, Fire Emblem, and Megaman Battle Network 3:Blue.

I will never sell.
NEVER.
My Grand kids shall see these games.

 

[Miumaru]

Morrowind, and Oblivion. Esp cause my Oblivion is rated T.
Most games though, I keep, because I never know when I will go back some day. I do it often.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

I want to keep all of them except for, PGR 3, Spider-man 3 (I don't wanna hear it), Prototype, Section 8, and GTA 4. Maybe Condemned 1-2 if things get desperate

 

[Rylot]

Snip

You are my hero. btw good luck finding Crono, that would suck to lose.

 

[PTSpyder]

I dun' sell any of ma games. They mine. Mine alone.

Dun' sell ma books either. Ma shelves are kinda full. Don't care. Need more games. Need more books.

MOAR!

Amen! Preach on brother!

 

[Upbeat Zombie]

I don't think ill ever sell either mass effects.
I never know when I might want to start a new character from scratch, besides it being one of my favorite series.

 

[Plinglebob]

The only game I've ever traded in was Uncharted 2 and thats because I'd completed it and it got me £20 off Final Fantasy XIII. I normally keep my games because I find if I sell one, I will just want to play it again at some point and go out and buy it.

 

[Anah'ya]

-snip-

Amen! Preach on brother!

Need a choir for that. Can't preach without proper background support.

Anyways. To explain my reasoning a bitter better: I'm a collector by heart, so the thought of tossing out games that brought me joy for many an hour disheartens me. Especially when they come in cool boxes. I still own my original two cardboard Thief boxes, which are dutifully watching over my room from the top of the bookshelf.

Nowadays 'normal' editions jut come in their thin, bland sleeves though. It's not as fun to collect them as it used to be. So I moved on to collectors ED boxes. More eye candy!