Two Dumb Things Gamers/Collectors Do

I understand if you are a collector, buying physical things for the sake of their eventual rarity is something that you do, but as a gamer, it's dumb. Buying games just because they're physical is dumb. I see it all the time. People will buy physical copies from Limited Run Games just because they're physical. They don't care if the game is not very good. The fact that the game is physical makes it seem a little better than it really is. It's like rose-tinted glasses, but instead of nostalgia providing the rose-colored tint, it's the fact that it's physical.

It's the same thing with old consoles. People buy new releases of games on old consoles all the time, even if they're not very good. Sega Dreamcast still gets new games from independent developers. They are very basic games that have superior, free counterparts on smartphones. SNES got a new fighting-game, developed by some former SNK developers, called Unholy Night. I was hopeful for the game's quality, but it turned out to be a slow, bare-bones fighting-game that did not live up to the pedigree of its developers or the hype.

Then there's the Nintendo/Nintendo Switch fetish. I used to be like this. When a game came out on multiple platforms, I would choose the Nintendo-version because I wanted Nintendo to be "great again," even if Nintendo's version was the worst version. I was constantly hoping for the day that Nintendo would return to its great days during the NES and SNES, when they had great third-party support. Now, I would rather buy the best version than simply the Nintendo-version.

With the NS, a new fetish has emerged among gamers, where portability elevates a game beyond its worth. People will buy or wait for the NS-version, just because it's portable, as if the game suddenly gets better just because it's portable. The game is the same. The method of play is the thing that changes, and I understand that. I just think that the tradeoff, in many cases, is not worth it. FIFA on NS isn't nearly as good as the other versions. You can't even play half of NBA 2K18 offline, which makes the NS-version's portability irrelevant. Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 runs at half the framerate of the other versions.

If you wouldn't normally buy a game, don't buy it just because it's getting a cool physical edition, it's on a Nintendo-system, or it's portable.

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