Ongoing Project
This post is just a little insight to something I working on for myself.
On Facebook, I'm a member in a number of retro gaming swap groups. These are for people to buy, sell, and trade retro games, as well as just discuss them. In these groups I've seen a couple of people posting updates on games they get in regards to achieving a full library for a console. At first, I was intrigued by this. I figured it would be pretty cool to be able to say "Hey, I have every single NES game they ever released". But then as I thought about it I started to shy away from the idea as the market for retro games is pretty high up there. So I tucked the idea away for a couple of months.
Then one day it came to my mind again and I put a bit more thought into it. It wasn't just that the retro market was through the roof, it was that I saw no personal draw towards getting every single NES or SNES game. But there was one console that did intrigue me : the PS3.
The Playstation 3 was the console that really got me into gaming. Before I had picked one up I was very passive about my gaming. (And if you ask anyone who knows me now they will find that extremely hard to believe). I only ever owned one console at a time and never more than a dozen games for each. My first gaming library that ever really grew was for the PS3. I kept finding myself with so many games that even after I had beaten them, I wouldn't want to part with them because they were just that good I'd want to go revisit everything at some point.
So, I decided to go for a modified complete PS3 library. Now, here is how I modified it.
1. I eliminated most sports games. When I say sports I mean the mainstream ones. I'm talking Madden games, the 2K series for NBA and MLB, those kinds of sports games. I didn't feel the need to own almost a dozen football games that are near carbon-copies of each other. The only exception for this was the EA Sports NHL series as I am a die hard hockey fan.
2. I eliminated the majority of anime games. I'm not a big anime fan to begin with, and a lot of the games are based on either shows or mangas that I have no interest in and most likely never would. So I wasn't going to fluff up my library with things that would just sit there. I wanted these games to actually play. There are still a few of these I will get because the stories behind them interest me, but I will not be going for all of them.
3. I eliminated Collections, HD re-releases, and games that saw release on the next gen PS4. For the Collections and HD re-releases, the reason I eliminated them is because I tend to like going for the originals. As for the games that saw a PS3 and PS4 release, the PS4 version would have the better graphics and more improved systems within the game.
4. Lastly, I eliminated music games and Call of Duty/Battlefield series. These were because at the time, I played these games online on Xbox 360 since a lot of my friends at the time had a 360 instead of a PS3, and I still have all of these games on 360, so I didn't see a reason for duplicating them to, again, just fluff my library count.
With all of that being said, I made a list of games that, when completed, will total 531. When I settled on this idea, I was at just under 100 games. I've now grown it 161. Still a ways to go, but it will be a slow work towards my goal. Below are two pictures showcasing what I currently own for this library, and I will update on this blog, as well as my Facebook and Instagram pages when I add to it. Also, and this should be pretty obvious, I'll be working towards playing and reviewing all of these games, even the ones I have previously played. So stay tuned for updates on the progress of this project.
Coming up on the blog, later today I will be posting another Quick Review, tomorrow is the completion of my review for Until Dawn, and I'll be hosting another round of voting on my Facebook page.
On Facebook, I'm a member in a number of retro gaming swap groups. These are for people to buy, sell, and trade retro games, as well as just discuss them. In these groups I've seen a couple of people posting updates on games they get in regards to achieving a full library for a console. At first, I was intrigued by this. I figured it would be pretty cool to be able to say "Hey, I have every single NES game they ever released". But then as I thought about it I started to shy away from the idea as the market for retro games is pretty high up there. So I tucked the idea away for a couple of months.
Then one day it came to my mind again and I put a bit more thought into it. It wasn't just that the retro market was through the roof, it was that I saw no personal draw towards getting every single NES or SNES game. But there was one console that did intrigue me : the PS3.
The Playstation 3 was the console that really got me into gaming. Before I had picked one up I was very passive about my gaming. (And if you ask anyone who knows me now they will find that extremely hard to believe). I only ever owned one console at a time and never more than a dozen games for each. My first gaming library that ever really grew was for the PS3. I kept finding myself with so many games that even after I had beaten them, I wouldn't want to part with them because they were just that good I'd want to go revisit everything at some point.
So, I decided to go for a modified complete PS3 library. Now, here is how I modified it.
1. I eliminated most sports games. When I say sports I mean the mainstream ones. I'm talking Madden games, the 2K series for NBA and MLB, those kinds of sports games. I didn't feel the need to own almost a dozen football games that are near carbon-copies of each other. The only exception for this was the EA Sports NHL series as I am a die hard hockey fan.
2. I eliminated the majority of anime games. I'm not a big anime fan to begin with, and a lot of the games are based on either shows or mangas that I have no interest in and most likely never would. So I wasn't going to fluff up my library with things that would just sit there. I wanted these games to actually play. There are still a few of these I will get because the stories behind them interest me, but I will not be going for all of them.
3. I eliminated Collections, HD re-releases, and games that saw release on the next gen PS4. For the Collections and HD re-releases, the reason I eliminated them is because I tend to like going for the originals. As for the games that saw a PS3 and PS4 release, the PS4 version would have the better graphics and more improved systems within the game.
4. Lastly, I eliminated music games and Call of Duty/Battlefield series. These were because at the time, I played these games online on Xbox 360 since a lot of my friends at the time had a 360 instead of a PS3, and I still have all of these games on 360, so I didn't see a reason for duplicating them to, again, just fluff my library count.
With all of that being said, I made a list of games that, when completed, will total 531. When I settled on this idea, I was at just under 100 games. I've now grown it 161. Still a ways to go, but it will be a slow work towards my goal. Below are two pictures showcasing what I currently own for this library, and I will update on this blog, as well as my Facebook and Instagram pages when I add to it. Also, and this should be pretty obvious, I'll be working towards playing and reviewing all of these games, even the ones I have previously played. So stay tuned for updates on the progress of this project.
Coming up on the blog, later today I will be posting another Quick Review, tomorrow is the completion of my review for Until Dawn, and I'll be hosting another round of voting on my Facebook page.
