Wow. Let's do that again.
-Donkey, Shrek
While in JB, I overheard a guy telling his brother that he traded in Zelda: Twilight Princess and Medal of Honour on Wii for Super Smash Bros. Brawl. His brother got pissed off, because it turned out both of those games belonged to him, and he didn't want to trade them in for SSBB. The guy's argument was that his brother never played them anymore, so they might as well get a game for free in exchange for the games they weren't going to play rather than let them sit there and collect dust. His brother said that he might want to go back and play Z:TP again.
The whole trade games in for money/other games thing that seems to be appearing in lots of stores makes me a little sad. On one hand, it means I can get second-hand games for a slightly lower price than the original price (*cough* EB giving a $5 discount for pre-owned games *cough*), but it makes me wonder what happened to the days where owning a huge shelf full of games was a source of pride, and looking at games that you had played in the past gave you a sense of nostalgia. I've played through Zelda: A Link To The Past at least 6 times from scratch, and every time I play it, it feels like seeing an old friend that I haven't seen in a while. We have a box full of SNES games that we bring out every now and again, because playing them reminds us of the times when gaming wasn't about, "OMG, look at the graphics, it's so realistic, I can see individual grains of sand on the beach, but oh no, I have nobody to play with and nothing to do in this game because other than awesome graphics, there isn't anything else to this game, and everybody got bored with it within a couple of days, so I'm just going to watchporn anime instead", but gaming was actually about playing games.
When we were at his beach house, MrMan5.5 was playing Super Mario RPG while I worked on my HLT project. He said he has spent hours playing that game, and even though he finished at least 10 times already, he still had fun playing it again. The graphics aren't awesome, but who cares?
Maybe I'm just getting old, but lately, I haven't found many new games all that exciting. I want to play TF2 (mostly because Afoxi has been going on about it for aaaaaaaaaages), but none of the new DS/Wii games has really caught my attention for very long (shhhh, Pulkit, it's not because Nintendo sucks). My most played games now are War3, Guild Wars, Freecell and Tetris. Hardly cutting edge games, but I still manage to get a lot of enjoyment out of them.
My sister and I have been playing Brawl a bit lately, which I starting to bring back that whole playing games for the sake of playing games, rather than just to beat the ultimate boss at the end. We both suck, but it's so much fun, especially watching her be a noob. *ahem*
Anyway, I just wanted to say the whole trading games in thing makes me sad.
Oh, and I can receive SMSes on my phone again! :D
Another oh! Bean is coming to Melbourne! :D x 2
Julian says EB does give a big discount on pre-owned games.
-Donkey, Shrek
While in JB, I overheard a guy telling his brother that he traded in Zelda: Twilight Princess and Medal of Honour on Wii for Super Smash Bros. Brawl. His brother got pissed off, because it turned out both of those games belonged to him, and he didn't want to trade them in for SSBB. The guy's argument was that his brother never played them anymore, so they might as well get a game for free in exchange for the games they weren't going to play rather than let them sit there and collect dust. His brother said that he might want to go back and play Z:TP again.
The whole trade games in for money/other games thing that seems to be appearing in lots of stores makes me a little sad. On one hand, it means I can get second-hand games for a slightly lower price than the original price (*cough* EB giving a $5 discount for pre-owned games *cough*), but it makes me wonder what happened to the days where owning a huge shelf full of games was a source of pride, and looking at games that you had played in the past gave you a sense of nostalgia. I've played through Zelda: A Link To The Past at least 6 times from scratch, and every time I play it, it feels like seeing an old friend that I haven't seen in a while. We have a box full of SNES games that we bring out every now and again, because playing them reminds us of the times when gaming wasn't about, "OMG, look at the graphics, it's so realistic, I can see individual grains of sand on the beach, but oh no, I have nobody to play with and nothing to do in this game because other than awesome graphics, there isn't anything else to this game, and everybody got bored with it within a couple of days, so I'm just going to watch
When we were at his beach house, MrMan5.5 was playing Super Mario RPG while I worked on my HLT project. He said he has spent hours playing that game, and even though he finished at least 10 times already, he still had fun playing it again. The graphics aren't awesome, but who cares? Maybe I'm just getting old, but lately, I haven't found many new games all that exciting. I want to play TF2 (mostly because Afoxi has been going on about it for aaaaaaaaaages), but none of the new DS/Wii games has really caught my attention for very long (shhhh, Pulkit, it's not because Nintendo sucks). My most played games now are War3, Guild Wars, Freecell and Tetris. Hardly cutting edge games, but I still manage to get a lot of enjoyment out of them.
My sister and I have been playing Brawl a bit lately, which I starting to bring back that whole playing games for the sake of playing games, rather than just to beat the ultimate boss at the end. We both suck, but it's so much fun, especially watching her be a noob. *ahem*
Anyway, I just wanted to say the whole trading games in thing makes me sad.
Oh, and I can receive SMSes on my phone again! :D
Another oh! Bean is coming to Melbourne! :D x 2
Julian says EB does give a big discount on pre-owned games.
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