Do videogame hoarders not realize all the plastic is going to wear out? All the CDs are going to rot. None of these games you're playing a fortune for are going to last. Do they not realize that torrenting them all is free?
Some of us consider ourselves gaming historians and only play first press, first editions on the original hardware. Anything less is not actually playing it how it was intended.
>Why ever buy a house? it's going to decay.
I have all of those games, for free
it belongs in a museum
>>12812903They'll definitely last my whole lifetime. I don't live in a tropical climate in a house without ac. Disc rot isn't that common on CDs if the discs are stored under reasonable conditions. I'd be more concerned about the durability of DS and 3DS games, but I don't really have many of those
This rhetoric makes me think they will start confiscating games like how they took gold from people during world war 2.
The physical media thing feels like a hyperbola.
Why do anti-physical fags always use "plastic" as a means to demoralize people who own things when consoles and carts also have metal in them?
>>12812903Houses rot, people die, investment funds go red and bankers jump from windows. Even the government sometimes swings by to confiscate your gold and silver at gunpoint. The only thing that is forever is Jesus Christ and the eternal peace he brings. Till he comes back I'm going to play Ace combat on ps2 and my 27 inch crt.
>>12812915>why eat when it all just turns to shitFood is a terrible investment
>>12813010NASA found a solution for plastic waste and food shortage. I wonder if OP will eat this
>>12812903>playing a fortune forSome healthy coping bait. Root emotion is butt mad. All good anon. Just emulate. I do both. Both are applicable. Even the physical hardware and titles I do have are carefully curated. The mass hoarding of plastic alludes me. But that's me. I'm not mad enough to REEEE about it. Disc rot is a meme. Plastic takes hundreds of years for degradation. I think perhaps touching grass would be good for you.
I don't usually collect stuff but I got a sudden bug for the Famicom since it has a great library and the cartridges look cool, they have different colors and stuffAnyway I plan on actually playing through everything I buy (or getting a decent score on the score attack games,) and I don't want to buy any of the insanely expensive games, so I kept it to a pretty small list. I think I'll prioritize Castlevania, DuckTales, and Kirby's Adventure next since those are some of my favorites. Kirby's the only one with a battery though so I'll probably have to replace that.
>>12812903Thats why it should be a fun hobby, not your life mission
>>12813148Doing it right, Anon. >>12813150all of my This
>>12813148Visualization of my future Famicom collection. Look at all the pretty colors. No other console has that.
>>12812903why not just do both, collect and torrent?
>>12812903I trust my shit from 30+ years ago vastly outliving any consumer tech from the past 20 years.
>>12813148This seems reasonable and modest even.>>12813115Truth and the way>>12813187Again truth
We did this thread last week anons
>>12812903>open PS2 game case from 2001>game still there>disk not rotten >no Day 1 patches, no DLC, not locked behind corpo servers or online licenses>put disk in console >it just fucking works
>>12813183games on disks (with a K) are probably the most susceptible to degradation out of any medium discussed here and that's why I've never considered buying FDS games, even ignoring the fact that most listings I've seen for the system have it in some form of disrepair. Just play the NES counterparts instead
The awesome thing is that you can do both.
>>12812915A house is significantly more important than a bunch of random video games that you played during your naive impressionable years as a child.
>>12812903I have NES games from the 80s that still work fine. wtf are u even talking about? I have burned cds from the late 90s (the cheapest brand) that still play music and have some pirated games like the sims on them. I keep a de humidifier in my collection room just in case but I’ve also had consoles work that were stuck in my parents attic in Georgia for years w the heat and humidity and they still worked just fine. I think my generation will be long gone before the “plastic toy pieces” wear out.
>>12812986Haha fucking amen. You won the internet today sir. Even if I would’ve gone w a 64 game as my choice I feel you.
>>12813148See that’s reasonable af. Honestly do other hobbies on this board or anywhere for that matter where we get people A. So concerned with how other people choose to spend their money and B. Make up ridiculous stories and reasons so dissuade enthusiasts to not actually buy items for their hobby? Like do people go on forums for books and demand people stop buying books because u can just down load it, or complain about ur movie collection when you start buying up some VHS tapes, DVDs, blu rays and 4k? What about cars which are infinitely more expensive and can go wrong in so many ways? It’s like it’s only games w the mindset that people like OP push and I find it really bizarre.Your list is perfectly reasonable and cheap compared to other hobbies.
>>12813190This, between anti physical and modern tech products being designed to not last long so u constantly have to upgrade I put way more faith in old school tech as far as duration goes than modern crap.
>>12812903Yes, plastic degrades. Discs can rot. Batteries die. Cases yellow. Entropy is coming for every physical object you own. That’s just physics.But digital isn’t immortal either. Hard drives fail. SSDs die. Bit rot happens. DRM servers shut down. Companies delist games. “Forever” digital libraries disappear the second the infrastructure or the company does. Your free torrents only exist because someone is still seeding and keeping the lights on. That’s not free, it’s just someone else paying the cost.A physical game that’s already survived 25 years in a normal room has a better shot at working in another 25 than most modern digital storefronts. I still have PS1 discs from ‘98 and NES carts from ‘87 that boot fine. The plastic isn’t the fragile part. The fragile part is the guy worrying about it instead of playing.And the “you’re paying a fortune” line is cope. Most collectors aren’t dumping life savings on sealed Stadium Events. They’re buying the ones they actually want to hold — the ones with cool boxes, manuals that still smell like 1996, the weight of a real case in your hand. You can’t torrent that feeling.So the real answer both sides keep missing: do both. Buy the ones that matter. The ones with history and good packaging. Torrent the rest so you can play everything without going broke or filling your apartment with plastic.The plastic will outlive you. The digital files might not. The only thing that matters is whether you enjoy the games while you’re still here.
>>12813265>most listings I've seen for the system have it in some form of disrepairI've experienced the opposite, it seems like most listings nowadays advertise that it had its drive belt replaced.
>>12812903It's interesting that you posted a library of SNES games when you can store every SNES game in less than 2 GB total. Once downloaded, you don't have to rely on torrents.
>>12812903Do you not realise that this post figuratively screams the fox and the grapes, and that equating the value of games with a fortune is poverty-coded?
>>12812903>Do they not realize that torrenting them all is freei love piracy but theres nothing like putting a cart or disc into a console, i also end up actually finishing games if im playing the physical version idk why
>>12812915That's actually a pretty big factor you should consider with buying your first house.Or it was when buying a house was reasonable. Or when homes being constructed weren't being built to fail like they are today. Man, some things just keep getting worse without ever getting better.
it doesn't wear out or rot you fucking gay retard
>>12813290Apparent by the house being significantly more expensive than any video game
