I was watching some YouTube, trying to find some forgotten gems from retro systems. I ran into one about the Jaguar and decided to watch it.
Well, the fellow said a lot of the games were great, and I was kind of curious about that because I don’t think it’s controversial to say there’s only a handful of decent games on the Jag, but this fellow was rating everything highly.
Later on I sat down to think about it and I realized something… after every game the fellow would say “Oh, and you can get it for about $XX.XX.”
At that point the light-bulb went off and I realized this fellow is probably deriving enjoyment from collecting the Jaguar games, not playing them. To him, if he buys a game, plays it for a few minutes to make sure it works, it’s probably a winner for him.
For me, who is getting Jaguar games from uhhhh a friend, I don’t care about collecting them, I just want some fun stuff to play.
Anyway, I learned my lesson: I’ll believe non-collectors’ opinions more than collectors because they are mostly concerned with gameplay instead of how it looks on the shelf, or how rare and difficult it was to acquire.
P.S. I don’t know how “hot” of a take this is, but I figure it’ll probably hurt the feelings of collectors, so that’s why I prefixed it.
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Had a buddy with an impressive vinyl collection and an audiophile setup. Awful taste in music, just dogshit.
Nah, music is subjective. I’m sure your music is dogshit to him as well.
I disagree.
Just in the same way we can point to McDonald’s and say there is nothing good about it from a food perspective; that it barely even qualifies as food…
We can say the same thing about music. There is music that is so devoid of any kind of artistic output and merit, that no one could say it’s good. In 2025 are still listening to musical greats from several hundred years go but in 50 years, nobody will have a clue who Nikki Manaj is
I don’t think it’s an equivalent comparison. If you judge McDonald’s for their nutrition value, I’m sure all will agree they are crap and this is something that is objective and scientific.
There are people though that say they like McDonald’s and buy their food, and people that don’t like it and stay away. This is the subjective part. Musical taste is like your taste in McDonald’s. Some like McDonald’s, some like Mikki Minaj, for their own whatever reason. And it’s fine that they like it. It is their taste. It doesnt have to have artistic merit for them to like it, similar to how McDonald’s doesn’t have to have nutritious value for them to like it.
All the word games in the world don’t change the underlying truth and you know it. McDonald’s is awful it’s not even food, music is similar, most of it is not really even music, the same way McDonald’s isn’t even food, it’s hyper engineered food ingredients. I know it hurts to accept that most popular music is dog shit but that’s the truth and you know it’s true.
Music is completely objective. If I like it than it’s good, if you don’t agree then you are wrong
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.
People who emulate retro games are demonstrably SOLELY interested in playing the games
“Eehhhhhh…”
- Me, a data hoarder with severe executive dysfunction
“My Steam backlog wasn’t enough, let’s add a couple thousand more to the pile with a few romsets.”
Oh shit, I’ve been cloned!
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.
It took me too long to realize that was an errant “c”
I was like “dam this dude is fancy. must be French”
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.
I use Flashcards wherever I can. Maybe that’s something for you to look into.
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.
He’s creating a market that will boost the value of the assets he already owns…
My recommendation is snes drunk. While it has a lot of snes reviews, there are reviews for a lot of diferent systems.
No sponsors, no frills, just the game and a review of how fun it is without rose tinted glasses.
Hot take part 2: Form your own opinion and play a game without review!
grinds teeth remembering renting “Superman” on the NES
Superman 64 has entered the
chatfogSuperman 64 was a game before its time. It’s actually kinda fun in VR.
Thank you, this got by me before.
If you want to save your friends, solve my maze!
Or he’s trying to drive the price up for resell.
