Do you collect PC games?

Well do you? I know a lot of people use Steam because it saves you space and everything is just ready to access on any PC at your convenience but I love collecting PC games. I love the experience of tearing off the shrink wrap, smelling that new game smell, flipping the discs to inspect it and reading the manual. Yea some manuals are poorly put together (Activision), some have none at all (Ubisoft) but others really go all out (Witcher Enhanced Edition). Anyway, the only digital download games I have are Silent Hill 5 and Saw and I most of the PC stuff is retail. I also purchase collector's edition if they're reasonably sized, (the StarCraft 2 one is too large for me to put anywhere so I went for regular, recently I tracked down the Morrowind Collector's for a cheap price and its brand new so that's coming on Tuesday). So do you collect PC games?! If so, why?

I mostly go for digital copies these days, but it depends on the game. I love having physical copies of older, obscure or straight-up classic games, and then there's always the odd franchise that I love so much, I have to buy the collector's edition. And yeah, there are even several games which I own both physical and digital copies of, which I tend to think of as just another form of collecting, kind of like owning music albums on both CD and vinyl.

So hell yeah I collect PC games. :)

I love getting collectors editions.

Nope console games take up enough space as it is without the fat PC boxes

With College coming up I will be collecting titles to anaylze components for Game Design. My past and current games are purchase out of the interest for a good gaming experience bud.

Yup, but only the good classic ones.

my closet looks like a Gamestop Store :?

some ya, like my copies of planescape torment and alice... those wont be sold anytime soon. I dont think we will see many games of value anymore now that gaming is so mainstream.

I have very few disc games nowadays:
*Bad Company 2

*Mass Effect 2

*Call of Duty 4

Ones I no longer have (gave away):

*Battlefield 2142

*FEAR 1

These are ALL the games I've bought through retail since 2005 :p

I collect games too. I especially like getting my hands on collectors editions. I do buy games off Steam as well. But, a lot of my games are from retail. :)

I've collected just a few on my shelf. There are eight boxes total, many of them small. Everything else I get digitally.

Yeah, my shelf with PC games is looking pretty good. I got a couple of special editions on there so it's worth owning.

Not anymore. Id rather get the money and buy new ones. Gamesterpheonix