Video games not worth the expensive price tag

[xelement5x]

Yet Chono Cross NEW on Amazon is only like 19.99. Weird.

They printed a shitton of copies of Chrono Cross that's why. I think you can still buy them new from Square even.

[j_factor]

Is Chrono Cross one of the silver bottom games?

[Curryman123]

They're that expensive I would assume because they are new and still sealed. Also it really depends on which versions. I know the GC ports of RE 2 and RE 3 have gone up quite a bit recently. I would never pay more than $25 for RE 3 though.

People who post on Amazon generally make up their own prices.
I've seen Burning Rangers go for $300...used I think.

If you have the patience, you can find a decent deals on eBay. For example, I'd picked up Parasite eve 1 n 2 complete for $42 shipped.

[Breetai]

Ever tried injecting a ROM into a VC wad? It's perfectly possible. Until someone pointed that out I totally forgot that I was playing it via an injected wad and that Earthbound isn't actually available on the VC tbh.

Yes I have, and you have explained yourself pretty well.

[Breetai]

Super Tempo should be a $300 game.
It is that unique.

It was $300 on eBay in 2010.

I had 5 copies, one of them sealed, that year. I traded the sealed one straight up for Radiant Silvergun, sold three of them in the $150 range, and kept one for myself. It's definitely one of those unique Japanese what-the-fuck-am-I-playing-and-why-do-I-feel-a-strange-sexual-attraction-to-men-this-game-is-very-fun-I-cannot-stop-playing-it games that are totally worth blowing a wad of cash on just to play it.

[The Jackal]

If you have the means to run injected wads (modified Wii), then why not use Snes9x GX? It's much better than Nintendo's effort and has far more features, and it's easier to use...

[sketch]

No game worth more than $50 in my book.

Rep'd for truth. Even for current gaming, I tend to pay $20 tops for a game. You usually don't have to wait that long until a new game drops to $20-30. And I expect classic gaming to be cheaper (because I'm a cheap bastard).

I can see paying extra for good games, but I never understand people paying extra for games just because they are rare. And paying over $100 for a game is insanity...

[Thunderblaze16]

Rep'd for truth. Even for current gaming, I tend to pay $20 tops for a game. You usually don't have to wait that long until a new game drops to $20-30. And I expect classic gaming to be cheaper (because I'm a cheap bastard).

I can see paying extra for good games, but I never understand people paying extra for games just because they are rare. And paying over $100 for a game is insanity...

Don't listen to him Alien, you were worth every penny.

[Breetai]

If you have the means to run injected wads (modified Wii), then why not use Snes9x GX? It's much better than Nintendo's effort and has far more features, and it's easier to use...

That's what I use on my Wii. I gave up on the VC, and then VC wads, very, very early on. I tend to just have ROMS of stuff I own anyway, unless I use them to "rent" (ie. test) a game. Emulation is more of a convenience for me than anything else.

And paying over $100 for a game is insanity...

Let me invite you over to hang out at Neo-Geo.com (or even PCEngineFX).

[SpaceFlea]

I never understand people paying extra for games just because they are rare. And paying over $100 for a game is insanity...

It's called prestige, and there's only two ways to gain it - money and effort. Money, being the route of least resistance, is the obvious path for many. Everyone has an opinion of what they feel makes or will make them great in the mind of one community or another. So seeking such grandeur is far from insanity. It's quite the opposite actually. Directed toward a different end than you find immediately appealing, but the norm none the less.

[Curryman123]

Don't listen to him Alien, you were worth every penny.

And don't listen to him MUSHA you where worth every...cough...cough....sorry.

[sheath]

It's called prestige, and there's only two ways to gain it - money and effort. Money, being the route of least resistance, is the obvious path for many. Everyone has an opinion of what they feel makes or will make them great in the mind of one community or another. So seeking such grandeur is far from insanity. It's quite the opposite actually. Directed toward a different end than you find immediately appealing, but the norm none the less.

The love of prestige is a disease in my opinion. At least in video game collecting it is relatively harmless, but in business or academia I have seen it ruin more lives than not. Everybody I know infected with this desire for personal notoriety is WAY too self obsessed to be able to handle the slightest criticism. I must be biased though, as I have been run over by these people's self promotion machines more often than not.

I collect games because I want to play them, if anything I think my collection makes me look worse in most peoples' eyes, not better.

[EclecticGroove]

The love of prestige is a disease in my opinion.

That's because in extreme cases it also tends to be associated with quite with behavior and attitudes most commonly found in a sociopath.

If you have ever thought people like that don't give a crap about you and would sell their own family out to get ahead... in many cases it's at least partially true. And in some, it's completely true.
They can get ahead simply because they have no concern about stepping upon others to get what they want. That whole social morality/golden rule thing just doesn't click with them.


Anyways, to get back on topic. On the one hand any game for any price is worth it provided you feel you got value from it.

You don't want to pay $1kUSD for some rare game? Maybe it is the last game someone needs for a particular collection, and the satisfaction they get from obtaining it and finally putting it in place is priceless. They may never even think of the money spent on it again.

That goes both ways too. I've bought games based upon reviews/comments that made it sound really good. I waited, got it cheap... and I still felt ripped off. Others I've had to hunt around and pay much more money for... but they were well worth it.

The value is subjective for everyone.

The only exception is when people intentionally price gouge. If the game is actually rare and hard to find, and you're selling the only copy of it that anyone in the world is willing to part with? You have the freedom to set whatever price you think you can get for it.

If it's not rare but you buy up all the copies to inflate the rarity and start selling them for absurd prices well above and beyond the actual value? Then you're scum and the "value" is going to be skewed towards the "not worth it" category.

[xelement5x]

If it's not rare but you buy up all the copies to inflate the rarity and start selling them for absurd prices well above and beyond the actual value? Then you're scum and the "value" is going to be skewed towards the "not worth it" category.

Welcome to the modern TurboGrafx/Duo market.

I've hunted for some games for a long time to be eventually rewarded and find that missing puzzle piece cheaply. Some times it'll show up on eBay and if I can justify not having to wait another year or so for another copy to show up I will pull the trigger to get it and not have to wait any more.

As satisfying as it is to get a new game that you've wanted for a long time, another separate pleasure is being able to delete a saved search from my eBay account that I feel like has been on there forever.

[QuickSciFi]

The love of prestige is a disease in my opinion. At least in video game collecting it is relatively harmless, but in business or academia I have seen it ruin more lives than not. Everybody I know infected with this desire for personal notoriety is WAY too self obsessed to be able to handle the slightest criticism. I must be biased though, as I have been run over by these people's self promotion machines more often than not.

I collect games because I want to play them, if anything I think my collection makes me look worse in most peoples' eyes, not better.

Tell me about it.