That is a pretty rude way of putting it dude, putting judgement on people as 'being a crap collector'. Some consoles have completely digestible libraries.
I wouldn't use a term like that! Did you read my post before that one, where I explain what I meant by that with a lot more words? See
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=225144537&postcount=5993
I've seen these "my collection for [X] popular console is complete now" posts all the time, and there's no way there aren't more games for those systems that most such people would like if they were interested enough to look more. If your collections are complete because you don't want to collect games anymore, okay, that's fine. But claiming "I have all the interesting PS1 games, all two dozen of them" or something, to make up an example... hah!
Seriously, it is exactly because I'm a collector who now has so many games that is why I so greatly doubt it when people say this kind of thing; there's usually something interesting out there that you haven't heard of...
I literally have every Virtual Boy game I want and know all the games I do not have, and do not want them. I don't need space taken up with crap games. I'm almost at the same level with NGPC, Super Cassette Vision, Sg1000 and Mark III.
Yes, and in my first post on this issue I mention the 32X CD for exactly this reason -- systems like that one, or the NGPC, SCV, SG-1000, Virtual Boy, that have very small libraries? Yeah, it's easy to know about all the games for one of those systems. I agree.
Famicom, PS1, Super Fami, PC Engine etc sure, they will never be complete. But some can be.
But there are some people who would say this about pretty much any console. Maybe saying "I have all the [NES/PS1/whatever] games I want, all 15" is more an attitude for the person just wanting to buy the games they remember playing for that system as a kid than for the serious collector, but you see it all the time.
RetroGAF types probably do. People here probably have a really good sense for what's worth looking into on a given system.
But there are posts all the time in these threads by people, some regulars, who have never heard of some game others probably would consider common or well-known. I agree that people into retro gaming are much more likely to know more than other people would, but no one knows of everything, there are too many games out there!
Yeah, I don't think it's too bad. The only exceptions would be a couple of the shmups, and Super Street Fighter IIX.
Those are some big, and high-quality, exceptions. I'd love to own actual DC copies of games like Border Down, Cannon Spike, and Under Defeat, for example! There are other pricey games for the system as well, too...
There's fun in trying something new but unless you have a system that sold gangbusters you can run out of stuff you're interested in pretty quick on a lot of consoles. These are systems where you maybe saw a few hundred releases max. Like I could pretty easily tap out on Master System, N64, WonderSwan, Dreamcast, GameCube, and Wii U.
A couple hundred games is a decent-sized library for many people, though, if a fair number of those games are worth playing... but even for the collector, it's so much easier to buy games than to find time to play all of them (instead of doing things like wasting it all on the internet...
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The issue of when a library is "tapped out" is in interesting one though, and a hard one to judge. If you only want the most highly acclaimed games it's easy, but I've often found lesser-known titles to be really good, so I'd never take that approach, it can lead you astray. You need to look at everything, which, even with a library of "only" a few hundred games, isn't so easy.
For example, consider my favorite console, the N64. I currently have 206 N64 games, or a bit over half of the 380-something released worldwide. I've "only" gotten 23 N64 games over the past two years, but even if I have the best titles now some of those newer purchases are pretty interesting too. But even though there are some diminishing returns there, does that mean that I have all of the interesting N64 games? No! There are still some I really want but don't have, both US releases and Japanese, such as Stunt Racer 64 and Last Legion UX to name a couple. Or outside of actual games, even though it's near-useless today, the super-weird and uncommon Mario no Photopi thing sure is interesting...
So yeah, when someone says "I have all 20 good N64 games", I think they just aren't looking very hard and just want to stick with what they know / are nostalgic for (and that really is okay, you only have so much time after all!). It's either that, or they dislike the system as a whole and don't care to play the rest of the library. I know most people won't want to buy mediocre or even bad games sometimes like I do, but you never know if you'll like something or not if you don't take that chance and I at least find that worthwhile.
