I suppose I have become a collector in the last few years... I hover over shelves and bins and garage sales picking up games for past systems (and my PS3), buying games I wanted back when they weren't $1.99 for a copy. I just bought "NARC" for my Xbox a few days ago. I don't buy everything as a complete-ist would, when the game reviews well on a technical level I'll buy it, but a miserable title is not something I need on my shelves.
So, I guess I collect playable, "good" games. I put the word "good" into parentheses because taste is a very subjective thing. I have found pleasure in games like "GoldenEye: Rogue Agent" for my GameCube, though really, it's not what the broad majority of the public would consider a good game. I get a twisted gas out of seeing how the devs took movies which are sacred to a lot of people, and completely bastardized the stories and villian set to suit their own alternate-reality vision... A good amount of folks would look at it (rightly so) and decry it as against canon and there-for a bit of an outrage, and to a degree I do as well. But being an FPS junkie since "DOOM", and a Bond fan, I wanted to play through it. It's playable. And there are some interesting ideas with weapon wielding, and tech-super powers, and it plays at a silky-smooth framerate. There's really nothing to "hate" about the game, then or now. I just didn't buy it at launch.
All of the games on my shelf are, theme-wise, something I'm interested in playing or to preserve for future players... But since I'm not into RPGs like some people are, the "collection" is light in those areas... So it's hard for me to look at my library as a true "collection".
But I guess in a way, yeah, I'm a collector.
:P
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