Did those high score encourage people to work and pay for games to make a collection?
I think collecting games has it's limited and I reached mine.
I think it was back in the 1980s arcades encouraged gamers to collect as much points as they can. I think some gamers took that idea and applied it to how many titles they can put in their collection in there rooms and it's been stuck every since.
I think that era of mass collecting has already ended and this was back in the early 2001. Playstation 2 was around and popularizing the console race (thus smashing the Dreamcast out), it allowed Sony to create a more better and cost effective development kits for developers, thus allowing them to more as much games as they possibly can. Thus making it harder for ANYONE to collect every title for one console.
What could happen is that someone now a days could collect a series and make something out of that. Let's say someone wants to collect the PS2 Need for Speed Series or SSX
PS2 RPGs is almost impossible but someone's already done it and to think they played each one amazes me.
This is worth noting because developers were bleeding the hardware and actually making good games. I like what I see but there is a limit for all of this and that is when to stop playing. I'm not saying stop playing games. I just want to cut down and make gaming simpler for myself and I plan not to have a powerful computer that takes me a minute to load Team Fortness 2.
It's something I learnt about the Neo Geo. It was a niche Arcade hardware but decided to go on sale for the home, selling carts for hundreds and SNK bleeded the machine with games such as Garou: Mark of the Wolves, SNK vs Capcom Chaos and King of Fighters 2003. It goes to show how much developers love what they do.
I noticed this alot. Atlus did this with the PS2 as they created Persona 4. Now it's the most talked about RPG in Japan considering that the game was made last generation.
For me, I'll should take a PSP or DS and play that instead, because it's more lightweight and doesn't take as much time to load games or just choose one game and stick with it. I'm going to play the previous titles on the PS2 until I get bored (which there somethings that I am) and sell it or keep it in my collection or another time. I bought Jackass: The Game this week and I'm actually loving it.
Backward compliabiity and virtual emulation is maybe the best solution as it keeps this games availible in which people would play. It would mean that I would stack those games which I've bought in a package in a box somewhere and put it in the attic for safe keeping until something comes up. That's what I did with some of the pass PS2 games because I've played them until I got bored. I've got PS2 games that are 10 years old that I've kept and they're not being touch and I don't really care.
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