bryan_65 wrote:Getting rid of the fat worked for me. Although selling stuff for other stuff I wanted more has left a few holes I need to feel again (Resident Evil 2 & 3). I still always say less is more. RE is my favorite non-arcade style game and I hate seeing the rest of the series alone on the shelf, yet I know I will not really play then. I have yet to get them back over a year latter.
One of my hardest choices was selling Giga Wing 2 for the Dreamcast. It's my favorite shmup and a top 5 game for sure. Now why did I sell it? I have the Naomi version and after I got it I have not touched the DC version since 2011. I gladly took the $60.
On the rare collection part, Mega Man X4 I hate you. I bought a mint Saturn copy for $35 shipped back in the day, and now I fear selling it even though I played it once in 3 years.
Of course I have nostalgia too, Mega Man 1 CIB and Mint. This is my childhood right here, so it would be the hardest to part with as it is a one owner I have had since the 80's and it is the only NES box that survived, somehow perfectly too. Yet sometimes the $200 that they go for on Ebay is tempting.
On the digital stuff. If I can not recoup the money invested I will never pay for them.
This really echoes a lot of the issues I have with my collecting habits. Especially with Giga Wing 2: I have both the US and JP version, and although the JP version is my preferred copy, I can't seem to let go of the US version because of its rarity, condition, and because It's single-owner, and the only shmup I originally owned/played for the console before I started really collecting. I have this issue predominantly with 6th gen consoles (DC, PS2 and GC) because It was the first generation where I actually had a sizable number of games, and I didn't really have access or interest in imports at the time; so my original save files, and time spent are all pretty much in the US releases I owned originally. I'm actually less apprehensive about getting rid of PS2 games that overlap with other region copies I own, but it's not really a great time for getting rid of PS2 games, anyway. Skies of Arcadia Legends, though, for instance: I have almost no reason to own it--I don't particularly care about the additions, I prefer the DC version for visual/sound quality, and already have the US version, and Limited Box--but I just feel like if I got rid of it, I would regret it, even though there's little reason I should. I should get rid of my US DC copy too, but it was how I originally played through the game, and so practically impossible for me to get rid of.
I have this conflict of numbers and quality that are constantly warring on inside my head as I'm collecting, also. On one hand, I only want to have quality games that I'm interested in (to varying extent) in my collection--JP Saturn falls outside of this for some reason, though--and on the other, I get sad when I feel like purging crappy games that I've somehow accumulated because it means the number of games I have for that particular system will go down. I'm also keenly aware that I can't have it both ways.
So, what is a man to do?
Burn it. Burn it all: That's the only answer. Burn it to the ground and never look back, noise.
