What makes people seethe over just the sight of Physical Collections? If the so called "useless plastic" has meaning to me, it was never useless, simple as.
I wouldn't care about people collecting plastic if they weren't up their own asses about doing it.
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/vr/ wasn't like this originallywe even used to have regular pickup threadsnow people seethe if someone posts a picture of an old TV instead of an emulator screenshot
>>12498590>What if a girl saw this?If a chick bailed over it I wouldnt want to waste my time on her anyway.
>>12498605>>12498607samefag
>>12498590Who actually acts like that pic? The only issue I have is people who want to collect collector's items but get upset they have to pay for them.
>>12498646>anyone who agrees is a samefagAnd you wonder why you're so disliked. It has nothing to do with your collecting
>>12498650>doesn't prove it
>>12498646Obsessed
>>12498653nice vpn thoughbeit
>>12498653owned
People in the Scrimblo 3 thread got upset when I posted a pic of my sealed copy. I've never played the game but MY posts are the REAL game discussion! Pay attention to meeeee!!I know! I'll tell everyone that collectors are misunderstood and unfairly prosecuted!
>>12498590 (OP) #Most people aren't seething over physical collections because of some weird stance on physical versus digitalit's more a reaction to what the "hobby" has becomecollecting games is supposed to be a means to an end, letting you actually play the gamesbut we've gone from being able to buy old and unwanted carts at shops and yard sales for a few bucks each to games that were printed in the millions now being sold for $100+ a copythe hobby has become gentrified over time as collectors and resellers gobble up all the games for their sprawling collectionsI have a pretty decent collection myself, and it's crazy how some of the games I own are now worth hundredsI would never sell any of them unless I was forced to, but as I creep up in age, I do start to wonder if I should do so just so I can free up space and put the money towards better thingsas far as degradation, it's just an inevitability with physical media and electronicswe can keep the hardware going for as long as the parts are available, and we can copy and print new mediabut eventually, attrition and decay will claim it all, even if it takes generations to do so
>>12498590I think it's just because of people that like to spam soijaks at everything.
>>12498590Because old games now have value. Because there's more people in the retrogaming community who were not around when old games were cheap and plentiful. As values go up and as more people involved in the discussion of old games are further removed from the glory days of cheap collecting, the more complaining you see.Take from that what you will.
>>12498652>>12498654SnoreTypical collector retard trolling because no one cares about his plastic collection
>>12498741We all have the games, they're all free online. I still have my original SNES from '92 so this isn't what you think.The problem is when people disrupt a discussion about a game only to expect everyone to suck them off for buying something from ebay. Who fucking cares? If they just post their pic and continue the discussion with on-topic insight? That's fine.If it's in a collector thread? That's fine.
>>12498590It's simple jealousy. Every time someone makes a thread about real hardware (which has been a lot considering the spammer has taken a liking to this topic and is possibly even OP), you see a bunch of people posting about why these collectors should just emulate or buy flashcarts despite the fact that someone buying real hardware has no noticeable effect on emulation. Why do they care so much that someone bought Color A Dinosaur for $100 when they can play it for free? Nobody likes the investorfags that eventually creep into any hobby, but someone asking how people store their games or just asking to see some cool things that other people own isn't the same as someone posting a shit stained copy of Mario/Duck Hunt and asking if it's worth anything.
Okay class, let's discuss Bimblo Quest 2!>I thought level 12 was too hard>It's a masterclass in platforming design>I have the original cart and play it on a blown-out CRT so I'm better than all of you>I didn't realize you had to get two of item x to get through the gate on stage 5It's okay to be a collector, it's a problem when you use it as an ego thing outside of collector threads.Look at these sports games I just have lying in a bin - aren't you jelly?!
It was all me actually.
>>12498590they're jealous they can't afford something they want so bad
>>12498747>phone posterhello, raj
>>12498647majority of people here are likee that
>>12498752It's true on both ends. You have people who are pleased that they were ahead of the curve and accumulated things back before it was trendy and when things were cheap, so you have those who brag about that, and you also have zoomer collectors who have only known a world in which retrogame collecting is a trendy, expensive hobby, so they're proud to show off their collections because they had to pay out the ass for the majority of it, making it a status symbol. And conversely, you have people who want to but can't afford to collect (videogames or anything else) who get mad at people who seem to be flaunting their implied wealth (or at least ability to pass away money on old vidya). There are unironically a LOT more thirdworlders on the internet nowadays than there were even just a decade ago, so you run into them seething about retro collecting as a proxy for seething about firstworlder wealth and wanton spending.Back in the older days of game collecting, buying and playing went hand in hand, with emulation serving as a great way to play games you couldn't find as well as a way to discover new things to buy. It wasn't until pricecreep that there now seems to be this impression that the two are mutually exclusive, where only emulation gamers actually play games, and collectors only buy games to show off on social media and fill their shelves. I do think most people can at least agree on their dislike of circlejerking investors, a lot of whom do indeed view games as little more than currency and tools for dickwaving.
>>12498590I find large collections like that to be kinda tacky, that more games then you will ever realistically play. I have a small curated collection and I still haven't play all of them
>>12498590Dumb image.Hoarding disorder is not fun, but a burden to your sanity and time.
>>12499106>big collection is hoarding even though i dont know what that word means :(((
>>12499114>big collectionI have a big collection of Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Star Wars games and Final Fantasy games. I played every single one of them.Pic related is a collector who just collect, just like hoarding. A miserable individual whose only joy is adding yet another game to his shelf.
>>12499114It's sad you don't know what a hoarder is.
Well the fact that the spent more on those games than they probably did their house isn't good but that's their business
If somebody doesn’t agree with me they are seething.
>>12498637>we even used to have regular pickup threadsI remember those.Golden era /vr/ was quite comfy. It really was an oasis from /v/
>>12498882Super Soccer is a pretty soulful game and quite fun.Never played that Capcom one, how is it?
>>12498605>I wouldn't care about people collecting plastic if they weren't up their own asses about doing it.The problem with statements like this is this - Any number of innocent things can be considered "up their own asses about it," depending on who is saying that. What specifically tells you someone is up their own ass about it?
>>12499159don't worry, neither do you.>>12499131>wordswordswords
>>12498590It's just jealousy, plain and simple. Everyone would rather own the games that they love instead of running them in a shitty emulator but a lot of people can't because they lack the space, can't afford games at their current prices, or live in a shithole country where these games aren't even available (a lot of posters on this board are literally this worlders). They cope by being angry about it and attacking collectors while pretending that they're better off without this stuff even though they know deep down that they wish they had a large collection.
>old system displaying a game on an old monitorReddit>old system displaying a game on an old monitor, JapanSovl.
>>12499290I like seeing a game on the monitor because it tells me what your favorite game is, and for the person taking the picture it's better than having reflections
>>12498605When does that actually happen? Be honest. Because 9 times out of 10 its the opposite direction with people butting in and spazzing out about owning things. The collectors discuss things in related topics amongst themselves and are not going on sperg fests like emus or mister fags or what have you do when they dare spot a picture of something tangible. It's always the opposite.
>>12498752>The problem is when people disrupt a discussion about a game only to expect everyone to suck them off for buying something from ebayI have literally never seen this scenario occur once.
>>12499131How is that any different than stamp, comic or trading card collecting?
>>12499131Bro most collections are made out of things that can't be "played"You are missing the point of collecting.
I remember back when I was a child in the 90s none of my friends ever bragged about how many video games they had. I knew people with a lot and I myself had hundreds of games over the years but noone ever bragged about all the shit on their shelf and how rare and valuable it was. Im picturing the kid that shows up at a birthday party trying to show off that his dad bought him a whole wall of toys and demanding you show him timestamped pictures of your collection. What a tool.
>>12499330>b-back then!!grow up old man, we're in the now.
My favorite cope is when the schizos pretend to themselves that people don't play the games that they own
>>1249933030 years in the retro gaming community and I've never seen anyone bragging about their collection. Only the fake collectors on YouTube that are actually just scalpers who are trying to earn a secondary income through YouTube alongside their scalping. Faggots like Pixel Game Squad. Fake collectors.
>>12499345>30 years in my 4chan containment bubble board and i've never heard anyone talk about their collection, i wonder why?
>>12499259No...? I used to collect 10+ years ago, but I exclusively emulate now (even though I still have 98% of my collection). Emulation is just plainly better. It's infinitely less cumbersome, it doesn't cost anything, it's quicker and better. Collectors always have to resort to the circular reasoning of "it's legitimate, so it's better, and it's better because it's legitimate". Collecting doesn't have anything to do with actually playing or appreciating games, it only serves as a fulfilment or signal that you're more "legitimate" than someone else. The idea that you like a game more than someone else because you paid money for it is essentially a non-sequitur. Nobody is jealous of owning physical games that they can play for free. The whole thing is ritualistic in a very literal sense. You think that doing something in a certain way opens up a "correct" path that lets you experience emotions that emulation doesn't. And this simply isn't true, as someone who was done both forever. It's a ritual. It's made up.
>>12499350/o/ has bus riders./k/ has nogunz./vr/ has _________?
>>12499350I haven't been on 4chan for 30 years, and you're twisting my words. Faggot.
>>12499351>Collecting doesn't have anything to do with actually playing or appreciating games, it only serves as a fulfilment or signal that you're more "legitimate" than someone elseIf this were the case than collectors wouldn't have entire rooms set up specifics for the act of PLAYING GAMES. You see shelves full of games and you seethe so hard that you always ignore the televisions with dozens of consoles connected to them. What a fucking faggot you are, go back to >>>/lgbt/
>>12498590Games not being played is a tragedy.
>>12498590being brazillian instantly invokes this reaction when they see real hardware, they are the eternal poorfags
>>12498590>seethecringe is a better worc
>>12499360shut up nigger :DDDDDDD
>>12499401Turn on your monitor.
>>12499351The fact you think the act of collecting is the only "legitimacy" to owning the physical items, screams a whole lot that you never understood it to begin with. It's also funny you think physical buyers are out there constantly blustering about owning stuff and it being the supperior option, when it is consistently, without fail, always the emufags that feel the need to boast that their life choices are the true way everyone should experience games. You even fucking did it with your own response. Your attitude is the exact reason hardware fags just completely mentally filter out all of your bitch posting.
>>12499412
how fucked this is?
>>12499246Soccer Shootout is great. Great sound, great UI. I played it a lot. There's an indoor mode where the ball bounces off walls so play only stops for goals or time.. Played it a lot with my brother.
>>12499416wrong thread, lol
>>12499414nta but if you own multiple games than you own a collection of games which makes you a collector. What you're seething about is a fantasy you dreamed up about people supposedly not playing with the games that they bought.>>12499415That's a cute elephant, thank you for sharing that with me.
>>12499414>you never understood it to begin withOkay, enlighten me: what function does collecting games achieve besides a subjective emotional one where you believe it's more real?>emufags that feel the need to boast that their life choices are the true wayThis is just simply not true. The hostility almost always comes from one direction. Emulator fans simply state the factual unbiased advantages of emulation, and this causes collectors to get really upset. It's bizarre. How is me informing people that they can play games in a better way for free worse or more confrontational than calling people poor or jealous or whatever? The whole premise of this thread is to bitch about emulation. I'm not telling people how they can or should spend their money. If you get a subjective emotional response from buying games, don't let me stop you.
>>12499602>Okay, enlighten me: what function does collecting games achieve besides a subjective emotional one where you believe it's more real?Playing games on real hardware is like eating fresh fish. Emulating them is like eating factory farmed fish. If you know anything about emulation than you will understand this analogy.>The hostility almost always comes from one direction. Emulator fans simply state the factual unbiased advantages of emulation, and this causes collectors to get really upsetNot that anon, but 9 times out of 10 what I see on this board is poorfags having meltdowns because someone else owns something that they want and can't afford.>play games in a better wayFactory farmed fish>for freeYou can play games on real hardware for free too. I don't own Metal Storm, and yet I was just playing it this morning for free.>If you get a subjective emotional response from buying gamesIt's not about the act of buying games, it's about the experience of playing games.To give you some analogies: I'm going to the cinema, you're watching Netflix. I'm shooting film photography, you're shooting digital. I'm listening to a vinyl record with a proper stereo set, you're streaming on Spotify with a cheap Bluetooth speaker. I'm reading physical books, you're using an e-reader. I'm eating home meals made from scratch, you're eating restaurant food. If you can't understand the difference between playing games on real hardware and emulation than that's a you-problem, stop lashing out whenever you see that someone prefers to eat fresh fish caught from the ocean rather than your factory farmed slop.
>>12499618>You can play games on real hardware for free too. I don't own Metal Storm, and yet I was just playing it this morning for free.someone with real hardware but only an everdrive isnt a collector so you just want to move the goalpost.
>>12499618many of your analogies are retarded anon.
>>12499723You might have a stroke when you learn this, but most people who own everdrive's already have game collections and just use the everdrive to play games that they don't already own.>>12499726How? Clearly you know nothing about emulation.
>>12499602Emu fags, such as yourself, are the vegans of the hobby. No one gives a shit if you play on an emulator. The reason no one enjoys your presence, is because you are spouting off pointless shit unrelated to the topic.>hey guis, lets see photos of your childhood bedroom!>DOOD DID YOU KNOW EMULATORS EXIST??Yes, retard, we are aware. I take it 90% of the anons that frequent this sess pool have been playing games for 25+ years and are very aware that emulation exists and have used it at one point. Maybe stop bringing it up in topics where it doesn't matter. Go groom some kids on Roblox who may not actually know emulation exists. Bringing it up on this board of all places, specifically in hardware focused threads, is like telling a black about food stamps. They are aware it exists.
>>12498590Because most of these fags don't actually play games and it raises prices. on the flip side it keeps these preserved so they can... sit in someone's collection and be overpriced.In the end it's just whatever, the more popular retro gaming is, the better it will be. The more new products we will have, the better emulators, new retro games for old consoles, the more official rereleases. The more the younger generation is exposed to these games the sooner they can break of the slop they play on modern consoles. Retro gaming popular creates accessibility so collectors hoarding stuff as a byproduct is not the worst thing that can happen from the perspective of someone who actually plays games. Worst case has to do with rarer consoles that are hard to emulate becoming very expensive.
>>12499350>30 years>4chan
>>12499602This is some top-tier bait. Holy shit.
>>12498590i dont think its really collectors. it people who dont play the games at all and kind of see it as an investment. also people like metal jesus have done things to make games more expensive and people like him own like 60 copies or something of a rare game. make a gay top 5 hidden gems on X console video then all of sudden the game triples in price. then he puts out some faggy video like idk what youre talking about dudes.
>>12498590>>12498637Because 9/10 times it's some reseller faggot trying to advertise his stock, and also one of the primary reasons prices have inflated to such a retarded degree, or some dipshit who thinks that owning a lot of video games gives him e-cred.The only reason to post your collection is in related threads about what games you actually have, like posting your RE collection in a Resident Evil thread, or your Sierra collection in a Sierra thread.Starting a thread saying "Heh, look at my collection" is faggot behavior. Always has been, always will be.
>>12499750>Emu fags, such as yourself, are the vegans of the hobby.That's some top tier projection.>spends exorbitant amounts on old games he can get for free and cheaper>deliberately plays on antiquated dying hardware with rampant graphical glitches>actively attacks anyone with his dipshit purist mindset if they play ports or, god forbid, EMULATORSOther way around, princess.
>>12499797more or lesslike, sometimes it can give you a quick idea of what they like to play, or help give you an idea of how to set up your own collectionbut by and large, they're just guys wanting to flexyou visit any subreddit, and 95% of the posts in any hobby where collecting is involved will just be photos devoid of any real information or even an interesting anecdote
I know the image that came out saying about 70% of 4chan users being from Israel was doctored, but I swear so many bots just flood the boards to act as contrarians for the topic the board is about.>v: only talk about woke and tits, never games>co: ai shit of old cartoons made without any love, >m: more threads about the females that show up in mecha shows than the machines themselvesAnd more.It doesn't make any sense, outside of people just wanting to troll/legit believing the "You will own nothing and be happy" shit. They act like having the carts and stuff will kill your first-born child in the night by abducting them from their crib and sacrificing them to the demon puppetting Shigeru Miyamoto.I have a decent-sized collection of games right now. I also have a lot of game ROMs and ISOs saved on my computer. I barely touch either one because I don't have enough time to play either, because I'm stuck at work or I have to take care of college shit now, and when I'm done with either I'm too exhausted to think about playing anything. It's not a matter of "Oh you have too much shit and you're depressed", I'm depressed because I don't have the time or energy to interact with the shit I've loved since I was a kid.
>>12499801>rampant graphical glitchesBut enough about emulators.No point in responding to you anymore since you are clearly too dense to get why no one likes your type spewing shit-to- text in these threads where no one asked for it.
>>12499801>actively attacks anyone with his dipshit purist mindset if they play ports or, god forbid, EMULATORSLiterally does not happen. It's always emufags shitting themselves over the mere implications of someone using real hardware. Hardwarefags don't give a shit what you are using.
>>12499845welcome to adulthood, anontake solace in that you're at least working towards a better life down the road
>>12499845There aren't bots, just people who post like them.If you're on a board long enough you get tired of writing out long posts detailing individual things about every game once every few days.How many times do I really want to give you by breakdown of why "battle system X is better?" Not many. Eventually the regular posters stop caring and give simple throwaway replies unless the thread is of a unique topic or has a little salacious drama in it.
>>12499353>/vr/ has shitters who either watch a youtube vid or play a game 10 minutes then spend 30 minutes writing posts about why it "sucks" or "rocks."/o/ main here. I only visit the same three boards, except replace /k/ with /s/.
>>12499910>Literally does not happen.i see it constantly on this board,theres post about "not beating the game" if you played on an emulator or how its not the right way because it goes against nature or some shit like that.like it or not but its true that original hardware purists are the vegan of the retro vidya world,they only get their nutrients (games) in some way perceived as the only right way while the rest use any efficient or cheap way to get them.
>>12499351trvke
>>12499971>you didn't beat the game posting>he thinks shit posts are serious No wonder you are angsty.Even still, the shit posting is far outweighed by emufags butting into every hardware related thread inorder for them to stroke off to not owning stuff and informing strangers of it.
>>12499797>>12499813Real
Emulation is simply the better option for the reasons listed in this thread. colon dee
>>12500125>>you didn't beat the game posting>>he thinks shit posts are serious>No wonder you are angsty.yea,no one eve said it seriously im sure...
>>12498590Because it makes them seethe. Plus they're poor fags who couldn't collect all those games themselves. They're usually the pro-piracy types who has a bunch of CD-R's that mess up the laser on their PS1 or Dreamcast.
>>12499351This is all true but if you like games and playing them, owning physical is good and not bad. These are the actual games after all in their original factory "as intended" format. Not to say that emulating detracts in any meaningful way, thi sis the slippery slope of reasoning people fall into which leads to "emulating means not playing the game". That could have been a reasonable argument 20 years ago but not in the modern day.Nowadays we are truly blessed with technology that preserves and propagates these games to a larger audience and makes them easier to play on modern technology and provides optional enhancements and whatnot. Both should be embraced and we should always pursue new products and technologies that allows these games to be played in a high quality, true-to-original format; i.e. rereleases, clone consoles, FPGA, emulators, etc.
>>12499247>What specifically tells you someone is up their own ass about it?Acting like you're superior to people who emulate games.
>>12498605lol poorfag
>>12499797>9/10 times it’s a reseller advertising his stockYou’re a deranged poorfag if you think this
>>12500889It's not an act, it *is* superior to enjoy the medium the way it was designed to be.
>>12500889owning arcade hardware is satisfying while you brazillian monkeys play improperly emulated games and i can enjoy the real thing
>>12499351>Collectors always have to resort to the circular reasoning of "it's legitimate, so it's better, and it's better because it's legitimate".Physical is better, not because of some legitimacy argument, but because many consoles are just plain better at running the games. Emulation for Saturn and anything after it is shoddy and shitty. Of course you have no idea about this, because you haven’t actually played anything. You are speaking from ignorance.Emulation isn’t “simpler” either, there’s nothing good about having to use the computer to run a game unless you’re some 22 year old faggot who lives in front of it because it’s the only thing they have. There’s a fuckton of scenarios where having the computer running to play a game isn’t preferable. Not to mention the spinning plates hell of managing games that need fixes and specific settings because durrr it freezes at the level select screen if you don’t patch it uhhhh>saar don’t you know how to use a computaThe argument isn’t that it’s impossibly hard to emulate, but that it’s not some hassle-free paradise as emutoddlers like to claim, and along with the obvious performance issues there’s plenty of legitimate reasons to disregard emulation.I emulate older (pre-5th gen) games on my “modern” consoles because they perform decently, I don’t care about them, and they don’t have to run on my PC. I’d rather die than play PS1 on Cuckstation
>>12502070>Emulation for Saturn and anything after it is shoddy and shittyEmulation for anything before Saturn is also shoddy and shitty.
>>12500889I’m not superior to people who emulate games.I AM superior to people who say emulation is better
