Honestly, a lot of what people like Yahtzee do on the escapist is pretty meaningless for me. It gives me a context to talk about the most recent games but I don't really fit into it. Most of my current gen titles are played over at my friends house. I play most of my games off my PS2, a PS3 nowhere in my immediate future. Everything else is on my DS Lite (The L trigger sticks) and my PC.
But I've found a lot of comfort in older generation titles. The used games section over at Gamestop is like christmas for me, anything where I can get a good title for 5 dollars is amazing (I'm probably the only one who appreciates this, but the title I'm referring to is the B-Daman Fire Spirits game from Atlus on the GBA). I have quite a collection (even though the newest game I happen to own is Pokemon: Diamond and Pokemon: Pearl, both of which were obtained in a rare moment of financial windfall) but every game I play I usually pick up sometime again in about a year or so (Right now I'm going through a title from about 2004 if memory serves, and I recently had the funnest run through Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortex, and don't get me started on my PS1 titles). Usually I get about 5 games a year if I do it right, most of them on Christmas, the one's that aren't are often used or generously discounted PC titles. It also gives me a rare position on the graphics debate, what I mean by that is I couldn't really care less, polygons are all right with me.
I'd like to draw attention to the fact I'm only 16, so I'm not complaining and I certainly didn't spend much of my own hard-earned cash on this, but anyone else like me wanna share their stories? Anyone else still happy using the 60$ that would have bought them maybe 1 current gen title and instead getting 3 games off the used shelf? Anyone else thinking people in new release lines are somewhere between eccentric and completely out of their mind? Please tell me I'm not alone here. I'm not that retro.
But I've found a lot of comfort in older generation titles. The used games section over at Gamestop is like christmas for me, anything where I can get a good title for 5 dollars is amazing (I'm probably the only one who appreciates this, but the title I'm referring to is the B-Daman Fire Spirits game from Atlus on the GBA). I have quite a collection (even though the newest game I happen to own is Pokemon: Diamond and Pokemon: Pearl, both of which were obtained in a rare moment of financial windfall) but every game I play I usually pick up sometime again in about a year or so (Right now I'm going through a title from about 2004 if memory serves, and I recently had the funnest run through Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortex, and don't get me started on my PS1 titles). Usually I get about 5 games a year if I do it right, most of them on Christmas, the one's that aren't are often used or generously discounted PC titles. It also gives me a rare position on the graphics debate, what I mean by that is I couldn't really care less, polygons are all right with me.
I'd like to draw attention to the fact I'm only 16, so I'm not complaining and I certainly didn't spend much of my own hard-earned cash on this, but anyone else like me wanna share their stories? Anyone else still happy using the 60$ that would have bought them maybe 1 current gen title and instead getting 3 games off the used shelf? Anyone else thinking people in new release lines are somewhere between eccentric and completely out of their mind? Please tell me I'm not alone here. I'm not that retro.
