Post by wyldephang on Nov 19, 2020 21:34:25 GMT -5
O.K., so I missed several months of gaming-related acquisitions. After that short burst of activity in January, the rest of 2020 was rather slow with regard to video game collecting. In February, I made my most significant purchase so far: a Dell G5 gaming laptop. I bought it just as my old laptop was getting ready to fail. Sure enough, as soon as I got the G5 configured, my old one died along with the hard drive, so I ended up losing a lot of files! Oh well. Life carries on.
Because the G5 is a gaming laptop, though, I'm finally able to play PC games, which is something I haven't done since 2003. I won't bother listing all my PC game acquisitions in this thread--even though that's what the thread is about--because I've made almost 100 of them since February. I've collected a mixture of new and old titles, but the ones I've been playing the most have been Civilization VI and Resident Evil 2. Bear in mind that my PC games are all digital, so there's no exciting box art or physical tokens to show off. On a side note, I'm almost certain I issued some invectives against digital gaming on this forum several years back, and I assure you that I haven't gone soft on the matter, but because this laptop doesn't have a disc drive, I'm left without much of a choice here.
I do collect physical copies whenever I can, and my most recent pick-ups in that category have been as follows: Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 (PS2), Primal (PS2), Mega Man X4 (PS1), Battletoads & Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team (SNES), WeaponLord (SNES), Assassin's Creed: Origins (PS4), Assassin's Creed: The Ezio Collection (PS4), Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (PS4), Devil May Cry 5 (PS4), Final Fantasy VII Remake (PS4), Dragon Ball FighterZ (PS4), Shadow of the Tomb Raider (PS4), The Evil Within 2 (PS4), Mortal Kombat 11 (PS4), Terraria (Switch), Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (Switch), Carrion (Switch), and Super Mario 3D All-Stars (Switch).
O.K., so that's a lot more than I was expecting to type. Looking back on it, I guess 2020 wasn't so uneventful after all! A few of the games I listed merit some explanation. First, I should acknowledge that I already have copies of Battletoads/Double Dragon and WeaponLord on the Genesis, but I purchased them on the Super Nintendo because that was the console I wanted to own them for originally. The main factor behind my purchasing them on the Genesis first was that they were less expensive on that console. Cost also factored into my PS4 acquisitions, as they were all purchased on sale. I normally wouldn't splurge on a current-gen console like that unless I could do so without driving myself to the brink of financial ruin. Carrion is a limited-edition physical release of an indie game; I received a digital code with it, too, but I gave that to my cousin. Incidentally, he beat the game several months ago and I'm still waiting on my copy to arrive. Finally, Super Mario 3D All-Stars is going to go out of production in March, so I wanted to get the game before it became unavailable. It's nice to have three of my favorite Mario games in one convenient place. If anyone owns a Switch and is on the fence about buying All-Stars, do it. I've been looking for an excuse to do another 120-star run of Super Mario 64.
Because the G5 is a gaming laptop, though, I'm finally able to play PC games, which is something I haven't done since 2003. I won't bother listing all my PC game acquisitions in this thread--even though that's what the thread is about--because I've made almost 100 of them since February. I've collected a mixture of new and old titles, but the ones I've been playing the most have been Civilization VI and Resident Evil 2. Bear in mind that my PC games are all digital, so there's no exciting box art or physical tokens to show off. On a side note, I'm almost certain I issued some invectives against digital gaming on this forum several years back, and I assure you that I haven't gone soft on the matter, but because this laptop doesn't have a disc drive, I'm left without much of a choice here.
I do collect physical copies whenever I can, and my most recent pick-ups in that category have been as follows: Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 (PS2), Primal (PS2), Mega Man X4 (PS1), Battletoads & Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team (SNES), WeaponLord (SNES), Assassin's Creed: Origins (PS4), Assassin's Creed: The Ezio Collection (PS4), Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (PS4), Devil May Cry 5 (PS4), Final Fantasy VII Remake (PS4), Dragon Ball FighterZ (PS4), Shadow of the Tomb Raider (PS4), The Evil Within 2 (PS4), Mortal Kombat 11 (PS4), Terraria (Switch), Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (Switch), Carrion (Switch), and Super Mario 3D All-Stars (Switch).
O.K., so that's a lot more than I was expecting to type. Looking back on it, I guess 2020 wasn't so uneventful after all! A few of the games I listed merit some explanation. First, I should acknowledge that I already have copies of Battletoads/Double Dragon and WeaponLord on the Genesis, but I purchased them on the Super Nintendo because that was the console I wanted to own them for originally. The main factor behind my purchasing them on the Genesis first was that they were less expensive on that console. Cost also factored into my PS4 acquisitions, as they were all purchased on sale. I normally wouldn't splurge on a current-gen console like that unless I could do so without driving myself to the brink of financial ruin. Carrion is a limited-edition physical release of an indie game; I received a digital code with it, too, but I gave that to my cousin. Incidentally, he beat the game several months ago and I'm still waiting on my copy to arrive. Finally, Super Mario 3D All-Stars is going to go out of production in March, so I wanted to get the game before it became unavailable. It's nice to have three of my favorite Mario games in one convenient place. If anyone owns a Switch and is on the fence about buying All-Stars, do it. I've been looking for an excuse to do another 120-star run of Super Mario 64.