Post subject: ITT we own too many games for our own good
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Recently I decided to take stock of just how many video games I actually own. The results surprised even me, and secretly I was thankful that I buy most of my games on the cheap and/or second-hand, otherwise I would probably be close to bankrupt. And the worst part? Of the 180-odd games I own across five consoles and PC/Mac, I've only ever properly beaten about 50. That's....rather sad actually. I need to put more energy into finishing games. INCOMING E-PEEN ENLARGING LIST Nintendo GameCube James Bond 007: Nightfire Animal Crossing Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex Crash Nitro Kart Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem F-Zero GX Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles Geist Gun Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup killer7 Mario Superstar Baseball Metroid Prime NBA Courtside 2002 NBA Street V3 NHL 2005 Odama Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Pikmin Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones Prince of Persia: Warrior Within Resident Evil 4 Shadow the Hedgehog Sonic Adventure 2 Battle Sonic Adventure DX Director's Cut SoulCalibur II Spider-Man 2 Star Fox Adventures Super Mario Sunshine Super Monkey Ball 2 Super Smash Bros. Melee The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time/Master Quest Bundle The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess TimeSplitters 2 TimeSplitters: Future Perfect Tomb Raider: Legend Vexx Viewtiful Joe Viewtiful Joe 2 Viewtiful Joe: Red Hot Rumble X-Men Legends ZooCube PC (mostly Steam, bar one obvious exception) Amnesia: The Dark Descent And Yet It Moves Atom Zombie Smasher BIT.TRIP RUNNER Blocks That Matter Borderlands Braid Cogs Cortex Command Crayon Physics Deluxe Deus Ex Deus Ex: Invisible War Half-Life 2 Half-Life 2: Deathmatch Half-Life 2: Episode One Half-Life 2: Episode Two Hammerfight Left 4 Dead 2 NyxQuest Portal Portal 2 Psychonauts Revenge of the Titans Shadowgrounds Spiral Knights StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty Survivor Swords and Soldiers HD Team Fortress 2 The Binding of Isaac Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction TRAUMA Trine VVVVVV World of Goo PlayStation 2 Ape Escape 3 Bully Crash Twinsanity Devil May Cry 3: Special Edition Final Fantasy XII God Hand God of War God of War II Indigo Prophecy Jak 3 Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy Jak II Jak X: Combat Racing Katamari Damacy Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater Primal Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords Ratchet and Clank Ratchet: Deadlocked Resident Evil Code: Veronica X Secret Agent Clank Shadow of the Colossus Shinobi Silent Hill 2 Sly 2: Band of Thieves Sly 3: Honour Among Thieves Sly Cooper and the Thievus Raccoonus The Red Star Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 Ty the Tasmanian Tiger Yakuza PlayStation 3 LittleBigPlanet Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Ninja Gaiden: Sigma Portal 2 Uncharted: Drake's Fortune Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Wii A Boy And His Blob Blast Works: Build, Trade, Destroy Cursed Mountain Donkey Kong Country Returns Epic Mickey Geometry Wars: Galaxies Klonoa Metroid Prime 3: Corruption Metroid: Other M NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams No More Heroes Obscure: The Aftermath Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands Rabbids Go Home Silent Hill: Shattered Memories Sonic Colours Super Mario Galaxy Super Mario Galaxy 2 Super Paper Mario Super Smash Bros. Brawl The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure Xbox 360 Alan Wake Alone in the Dark Alpha Protocol Assassin's Creed Assassin's Creed II Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts Batman: Arkham Asylum Batman: Arkham City BioShock BioShock 2 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Crackdown Dark Sector Dead Space Devil May Cry 4 Fable II Gears of War Gears of War 2 Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter Grand Theft Auto IV Hitman: Blood Money Kung-Fu Panda L.A. Noire Lego Indiana Jones Mass Effect Mass Effect 2 Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie Prince of Persia (2008) Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands Prototype Red Dead Redemption Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) Sonic Unleashed Soulcalibur IV Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Stranglehold The Beatles: Rock Band The Orange Box The Simpsons Game Tomb Raider: Anniversary Turok Vanquish
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I am trying to finish fullsets of NES, N64, and SNES right now. I have approximately 300 of the ~800 NES games, somewhere around 200 of the ~800 SNES games, about 120 of the 300 N64 games. I also have about 100 atari games, 50-80 genesis games, then a handful of games for other systems.
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My brother and I compiled a list of all our handheld and console games (except Atari, we were feeling lazy about that), we have 180. Who knows how many PC games we still have, much less whether they can still run.
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Post subject: I have owned way too many games.
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I own 0 games at the moment. The highest number of games I ever owned was about 5. All were PC games. I think five was still too many considering one of them was Mortal Kombat II. I have never owned a console and I probably never will. I'm also not going to buy any games, ever.
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Somebody was thinking about this comic when creating this thread, no? And no, I'm not listing all the games I own. I would break the forums when I'm done at the age of 40. Assuming it still exists.
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Post subject: Re: ITT we own too many games for our own good
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theenglishman wrote:
And the worst part? Of the 180-odd games I own across five consoles and PC/Mac, I've only ever properly beaten about 50. That's....rather sad actually. I need to put more energy into finishing games.
When I bought my first PC (that was in the mid-90's) and started buying games, I had the principle of "if I am paying this much money for a game, it better last a long time", so I really took my sweet time to complete games. I really hated it if I finished a game in just a week or so. It felt like a waste of money. This had the negative side-effect that I got bored of many games and left them unfinished. "To be finished later." That "later" never came with most games. At some point the feeling got gradually inverted: Not finishing the games started to feel more of a waste of money than finishing them, even if finishing the game took just a few days. Hence I changed my attitude completely: When I buy a game, I finish it before playing anything else (on the same system, at least). I only make an exception with games that happen to be so utterly bad, boring or unplayable, that playing them is a pain. (There are only a few of those so far, and they have all felt like ripoffs.) At some points I have taken the project to finish those old games I didn't back then. Examples of such games include Grim Fandango, Curse of Monkey Island, Myst 3 (all great games, btw), and others.
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My list is here. Not huge, but I am happy with it!
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In this "diagram", I present to you the amount of Games you own vs. how Awesome you are. Congratulations DarkKobold! You've made it past the uncanny valley! :D
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Kuwaga wrote:
In this "diagram", I present to you the amount of Games you own vs. how Awesome you are. Congratulations DarkKobold! You've made it past the uncanny valley! :D
Nah, I'm pretty sure I'm still in that weird creepy phase, where people give me the odd eye. Also, until I get about 100 more games, I have to walk with a cane and a slight gimp.
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DarkKobold wrote:
Also, until I get about 100 more games, I have to walk with a cane and a slight gimp.
You've been here long enough that we expect you to do that anyway, you know.
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I don't own too many games. Only PC/Mac and PSX games. The few PS2 games I bought were given away to my sister. So I have about 40 PSX games and maybe 20 PC games, most of them in big box.
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Here is a working list of games in my possession; some are borrowed, some are my sister's: DS
  • Animal Crossing: Wild World
  • Big Brain Academy
  • Bomberman
  • Bust-a-Move DS
  • Cooking Mama
  • Game & Watch Collection
  • Harvest Moon DS
  • Kirby Canvas Curse
  • Kirby Super Star Ultra
  • Mario Kart DS
  • Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
  • Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time
  • Mega Man Battle Network 5: Double Team DS
  • Mega Man ZX
  • Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt
  • New Super Mario Bros.
  • Nintendogs: Chihuahua & Friends
  • Nintendogs: Dachshund & Friends
  • Nintendogs: Lab & Friends
  • Planet Puzzle League
  • Pokémon Dash
  • Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky
  • Rhythm Heaven
  • Sonic Rush
  • Super Mario 64 DS
  • Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop
  • Tetris DS
  • Texas Hold 'Em Poker DS
  • The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
  • Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble
  • WarioWare: D.I.Y.
  • WarioWare Touched!
  • Worms Open Warfare
  • Yoshi Touch & Go
GB(C)
  • Brain Bender
  • F-1 Race
  • Hyper Lode Runner
  • Mega Man: Dr Wily's Revenge
  • Pokémon Yellow Version: Special Pikachu Edition
  • Star Wars
  • Super Mario Bros. Deluxe
  • Tetris
  • Tiny Toon Adventures: Babs' Big Break
  • The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
  • The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages
  • The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons
  • The Powerpuff Girls: Bad Mojo Jojo
  • Toy Story 2
  • Wario Land II
  • Wario Land 3
GBA
  • Cartoon Network Speedway
  • Dogz
  • Donkey Kong Country
  • Dragonball Z: The Legacy of Goku
  • Game Boy Advance Video: Pokémon
  • Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town
  • Inspector Gadget: Advance Mission
  • I Spy Challenger!
  • Justice League: Chronicles
  • Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land
  • Kirby & The Amazing Mirror
  • Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
  • Mega Man & Bass
  • Mega Man Battle Chip Challenge
  • Mega Man Battle Network 3: Blue Version
  • Mega Man Battle Network 3: White Version
  • Mega Man Battle Network 4: Blue Moon
  • Mega Man Battle Network 4: Red Sun
  • Mega Man Battle Network 6: Cybeast Falzar
  • Mega Man Zero 2
  • Mega Man Zero 3
  • Mega Man Zero 4
  • Namco Museum
  • Nintendo e-Reader
  • Pokémon Emerald Version
  • Pokémon LeafGreen Version
  • Pokémon Ruby Version
  • Sonic Advance
  • Sonic Advance 2
  • Sonic Advance 3
  • Sonic Battle
  • Super Mario Advance
  • Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World
  • Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3
  • The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past & Four Swords
  • The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap
  • WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgames!
  • WarioWare: Twisted!
  • Yu Yu Hakusho: Spirit Detective
GC
  • 007: Nightfire
  • Action Replay Max
  • Amazing Island
  • Animal Crossing
  • Burnout
  • Game Boy Player
  • Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life
  • Harvest Moon: Another Wonderful Life
  • Harvest Moon: Magical Melody
  • Kirby Air Ride
  • Mario Party 4
  • Mega Man Anniversary Collection
  • Mega Man Network Transmission
  • Mega Man X Collection
  • NBA Courtside 2002
  • Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
  • Pokémon Channel
  • Pokémon Colosseum
  • Pokémon Colosseum: Bonus Disc
  • Sonic Adventure 2 Battle
  • Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut
  • Sonic Gems Collection
  • Sonic Heroes
  • Sonic Mega Collection
  • Sonic Riders
  • Soul Calibur II
  • Spider-Man
  • Super Monkey Ball 2
  • Super Smash Bros. Melee
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  • The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures (I have 2 copies for some reason)
  • The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time / The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Master Quest
  • The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
  • The Simpsons: Hit & Run
  • The Sims 2: Pets
  • Worms 3D
N64
  • 007: The World Is Not Enough
  • Bomberman 64
  • Bomberman Hero
  • Diddy Kong Racing
  • Donkey Kong 64
  • Dr. Mario 64
  • Goldeneye 007
  • Hey You, Pikachu!
  • Lego Racers
  • Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards
  • Mario Golf
  • Mario Kart 64
  • Mario Party 2
  • Mario Party 3
  • Mario Tennis
  • Mega Man 64
  • Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon
  • Paper Mario
  • Pokémon Puzzle League
  • Pokémon Snap
  • Pokémon Stadium
  • Pokémon Stadium 2
  • Super Mario 64
  • Super Smash Bros.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
  • The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
  • WCW vs. nWo: World Tour
NES
  • Astyanax
  • Battletoads
  • Dr. Mario
  • Felix the Cat
  • Friday the 13th
  • Hydlide
  • IronSword: Wizards & Warriors II
  • Journey to Silius
  • Kung Fu
  • Little Nemo: The Dream Master
  • Loopz
  • Marble Madness
  • Mickey Mousecapade
  • Milon's Secret Castle
  • Rampage
  • StarTropics
  • Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt
  • Super Mario Bros. 2
  • Super Mario Bros. 3
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters
  • Tetris
  • The Adventures of Bayou Billy
  • The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle
  • The Karate Kid
  • The Legend of Zelda
  • The Little Mermaid
  • Top Gun
  • Totally Rad
  • Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II
PC
  • AudioSurf
  • Battlefield 2142
  • Disney's Villians' Revenge
  • Hoyle Board Games
  • Hoyle Card Games
  • Hoyle Casino
  • Pokémon Play It! Trading Card Game
  • Soldat
  • Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos
  • Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne
  • Worms 2
  • Worms Armageddon
  • Worms Blast Demo
  • Worms World Party
Pico
  • A Year At Pooh Corner
  • Alphabet Avenue
  • Math Antics with Disney's 101 Dalmatians
  • Mickey's Blast Into The Past
  • Richard Scarry's Huckle and Lowly's Busiest Day Ever
  • The Berenstain Bears "A School Day"
  • The Muppets On The Go!
PS2
  • Amplitude
  • beatmania
  • Dance Factory
  • Dance Dance Revolution Extreme
  • Dance Dance Revolution Extreme 2
  • Dance Dance Revolution SuperNova (I have 2 copies for some reason)
  • Dance Dance Revolution SuperNova 2
  • DDRMAX: Dance Dance Revolution
  • DDRMAX2: Dance Dance Revolution
  • Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
  • Guitar Hero
  • Guitar Hero II
  • Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
  • Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s
  • Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland
  • Intellivision Lives!
  • In the Groove
  • Magic Pengel: The Quest for Color
  • Marvel vs. Capcom 2
  • Ninja Assault
  • Pump it Up: Exceed
  • Time Crisis 3
  • World Championship Poker
SNES
  • Battletoads / Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team
  • Inspector Gadget
  • Mega Man 7
  • Mega Man X
  • Mega Man X2
  • Mega Man X3
  • PGA Tour '96
  • Spider-Man / X-Men: Arcade's Revenge
  • Super Battleship
  • Super Game Boy
  • Super Mario All-Stars
  • Super Mario World
  • Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time
  • The Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past
  • The Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse
  • The Simpsons: Bart's Nightmare
Wii
  • Animal Crossing: City Folk
  • Cooking Mama: Cook Off
  • Endless Ocean: Dive, Discover, Dream
  • Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility
  • Kirby's Return to Dreamland
  • Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
  • My Sims
  • New Super Mario Bros. Wii
  • Punch-Out!!
  • Super Mario Bros.
  • Super Paper Mario
  • Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars
  • The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
  • WarioWare: Smooth Moves
  • Wii Fit
  • Wii Play
  • Wii Sports
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My game collection is so large that I'm too lazy to write them all down here. Here's a photo I took (yeah, I know, the image quality is horrid, but I don't own any actual camera currently) about a year ago to give you an idea. (My collection has grown since then by about a dozen games or so.) I have also bought quite some games on Steam and Xbox Live, so they obviously don't show up there.
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Uh...I have a "collection" of ROMs. Does that count? :P
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Brandon wrote:
If a thread like this already exists, forgive me, but I searched a bit and couldn't find one.
Thread #11919: ITT we own too many games for our own good
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I own more dance games than Brandon.
Warp wrote:
omg lol this is so fake!!!1 the nes cant produce music like this!
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DarkKobold wrote:
I am trying to finish fullsets of NES, N64, and SNES right now.
Good luck trying to obtain grey and gold carts of Nintendo World Championship.
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Who needs a thread like this when there is Backloggery?
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I own more dance games than Brandon.
Check again.
All the best, Brandon Evans
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Would you look at that, we're even. I think. Haven't had time to go through the big ol' chest of unsorted games (Yes, I do have a chest for my video games)
Warp wrote:
omg lol this is so fake!!!1 the nes cant produce music like this!
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Ok Uh... you might have to give me like 5 months to get my list I have alot of ps2 and ps1 games like more than 400 combined
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My collection of GCN/Wii games that I "own": GCN GHCE4Q GGZE52 UGPE01 GQWE69 GKYE01 GZLE01 GLME01 GP6E01 GQPE78 G8ME01 GPVE01 GC6E01 GXXE01 GK2E52 GMSE01 GALE01 Wii RJIP6M RMCE01 RM3E01 RB4E08 R85EG9 RSBE01 RHAE01 RSPE01 Good luck figuring out what they are, since some don't "exist" in redump's .dat files as noone dumped them yet except probably me :P.
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Pretty boring collection jlun2, it's pretty much the "GREATEST HITS" series, lmao. Why do you "own" the GB player if you don't have any GB games? Haha
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jlun2 wrote:
G8ME01
jlun2 wrote:
Good luck figuring out what they are
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door! What do I win? Seriously, though, you can just right-click those in Dolphin and go to the Info tab. It should tell you the name of all of those games. I just know TTYD's code because I've opened it so many times in Dolphin.
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NitroGenesis wrote:
Why do you "own" the GB player if you don't have any GB games? Haha
That's why I wrote "own". I don't actually have some of those games at the moment, but instead, I burrowed dics from my relatives and dump them on the wii. :P