Comment on Hot take: Get your game reviews from gamers, not from collectors
WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
I’d go even further - get them from people who emulatecthe games rather than people who play them on (or merely buy them for) the original hardware.
People who emulate retro games are demonstrably SOLELY interested in playing the games, without any of the collector cachet getting in the way.
I guess, by some standards, I could be qualified as a collector - I buy games for OG hardware before playing them.
However, and I don’t believe I’m the only “collector” doing this, if a game is bad, didn’t age well, etc, I will definitely say so and likely would sell said game if I’ve no interest in playing it again.
Sure, there are collectors who don’t play games at all and review based on price, if that, but I know there are also people who do it like I do.
People who emulate retro games are demonstrably SOLELY interested in playing the games
“Eehhhhhh…”
- Me, a data hoarder with severe executive dysfunction
I’m just waiting for a nice breakdown of society that somehow happens with working electricity and no danger or difficulty obtaining food, and then I’m set.
Well… yeah. True.
“My Steam backlog wasn’t enough, let’s add a couple thousand more to the pile through romsets.”
Oh shit, I’ve been cloned!
It took me too long to realize that was an errant “c”
I was like “dam this dude is fancy. must be French”
Hmm, in my experience the are lots of people in the emulation community who just enjoy to get things to work. So the fun comes from building up the romsets, setup the hardware, setup the emulator, test if the games are working, dial in the config for edge cases, maybe layer on a crt-shader, package everything behind a frontend, etc.
They rarely play through an entire game and instead just test out one of the thousands of roms they showed on to their handheld for a few minutes.
Yes, i’m talking also about myself. But after 10 years in the ‘hobby’ this seems to be pretty common.
Great point!
Whateley@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It sucks, really. I prefer playing on original hardware but the collectors market has made that nearly impossible. I’d love to own all my favorite SNES games from my childhood but that is going to cost me around $1200 just for a few titles. That’s almost my mortgage payment for video games.
This is why emulation is such a godsend. It gives enthusiasts access to the game without having to navigate around shitbirds asking $400 for a trash repro copy of Chrono Trigger.
xspurnx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
I use Flashcards wherever I can. Maybe that’s something for you to look into.
WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
I’m just the opposite.
I still own my SNES and all of its games from back in the day (and an NES, an original XBox and a PSX with their games), and they’re all in boxes in my garage. Pretty much as soon as emulation became viable, that became my preferred way to play, since I don’t have screw with wires and connections and consoles and cartridges or discs and all the rest of that clutter. I just click on an icon, select a game from a list, and away I go.