>>745988669
The ones that are essential are old retro games that are being hoarded by resellers, basically everything you'd want to buy from the last 20 years was mass produced and common enough that you'll never really have a hard time getting a copy. Even most ps2 games are still incredibly cheap.

Your boxed copy of MW2 that was never opened isn't going to get more than 30 bucks
That one boxed weeb game that was import only where 100 people played but 20 million people watched a video essay about will probably get a lot more
so basically zero difference to how scamming these collector retards are right now

>CD good
>hard disk bad

>>745988669
I can't think of anything that can't be pirated

>>745988669
>Which physical games are essential
none really
>before the end of the physical media era
it doesn't affect nearly 30+ years of available good media made by gamers for gamers, modern gaming is low quality corporate dogshit for goycattle and it doesn't deserve to take space on a shelf