Guest Submission by Titanus
Recently, I was browsing some of the local online gaming bazaars, having a look at the games and other products being sold inside. Surprisingly, many of the so-called “old games” can be considered new, having been on retail for the past one or two months.
I briefly consider the value of the really old games purchased in the late 80s and early 90s. Back then, the game packaging usually includes a hefty-sized colour manual, a cloth or leather map, or even goodies such as a comic book or newspaper clippings. With the advance of graphics, sound and multiplayer capabilities, there seems to be something truly lacking in the $59.90 boxes we usually buy from gaming shops.
What do we get today then? Well, a thin black-and-white manual, PDF files, CD in jewel casings (or, in the lack of one, paper jackets), and…. That’s about it. Once in a while there are the one or two colour maps, but then they are made out of paper. I hardly think that cloth or leather are expensive.
With that in mind, I would like to say that PC games are sadly lacking in long term collectibility, what with the low prices of recent games being resold, and the apparent lack of quality in today’s game packaging. Is it surprising that PC game piracy still remains rampant after all this time then? Perhaps the situation would change if the publishers aren’t so bent on only making money.
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Guest Submission by ElyrionX.
Recently, I got so bored with the insane and ungodly difficulty of Ninja Gaiden that I decided to put it down for a minute. So, I popped Winning Eleven 7 International (the U/C version) into my PS2. It’s an excellent game that seriously improves upon its predecessor in many aspects. However, one major flaw becomes apparent right from the start; it’s simply amazing how long the game takes to start up. Getting to the main menu involves sitting through eleven glorious and unskippable screens and pressing the X button a grand total of four times. This is something that is absolutely ridiculous yet entirely avoidable from a designer’s standpoint. I mean, seriously, by the time I get to the main menu, China would have already retaken Taiwan, dinosaurs would once again roam the Earth and Duke Nukem Forever would have already been released AND bashed by the gaming media. I kid you not.
So after what seems like (and probably is) two million years, I finally get to the main menu. I load up my oh-so-elite Juventus team and proceed with my next match. Coincidentally (haha, maybe not), it’s the WEFA Championship Final against a weirdly-named team called Trad Bricks. Hmmm, looking at the players on this team and the jersey that they are wearing, I’m pretty much convinced that space monkeys have taken over my PS2 and changed the name of my beloved Manchester United team (yes, I’m a huge fan and don’t ask why I’m not using them as my ML team) to the impossibly-funny-yet-incredibly-sad moniker that is Trad Bricks. That is pretty much the only possibility. Who else but space monkeys can possibly come up with the name “Trad Bricks”?
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