[quote name='Skylander7']Here's an idea.. buy a game, and then play it or something.
If you'd pass up the chance to play something like.. say.. Castlevania: SOTN on PS1 due to the fact that it has "greatest hits" on the side of it, then you're obsessive compulsive. I'm willing to bet that if someone offered you a used Panzer Dragoon Saga for $20 in mint condition (but used) that you wouldn't refuse it.
Also, as mentioned above, some GH are upgrades of their predecessors (like Devil May Cry 3 SE or Virtua Fighter 4 Evo).
While I think the whole game collecting gig takes the fun out of gaming sometimes (and being someone who once considered himself as such), I really think that unless you have a very large source of income.. you are going to find it extremely difficult to find every game that you desire in brand new shrinkwrap from a first release. That's called naivity and inexperience, at least in terms of being a hobbyist.
If you "rush out" so to speak to purchase every game that is released, you'll soon find yourself with very little in return for the loss of a decent sum of money. It's just poor financial management IMO, but that's your personal preference. The early adopters of the product are the ones who purchase enough copies for those of us who would prefer to pay $20. However, it sounds to me that the packaging is more important to you than the game within.. if that is so, then I pity you for missing out on the enjoyment you could have had for looking beyond green slime or a red stripe and using the software that you paid for.
I'm not personally attacking you.. it's just this is another one of those "I'm going to instigate a response by bitching about something because I lack any sense of self importance, so I am going to argue with people through message board posts."
Waste your money, time, and sanity.. fine with me. However, bashing people for being educated consumers and not respecting their personal preferences (while you waste server space proclaiming your preference) takes any validity that you had hoped to have with your original point in the first place.
Take my advice.. go spend $20 on God of War GH, and quit raising your blood pressure online. It won't be so bad, I promise.[/quote]
I completely agree with what your saying. But I can't help but wonder if your talking about me, the topic creator. If you go back and re-read my original post, all I state is that since getting PSone GH, I decided not to do that with PS2. But I failed in doing so and had to get some GH games because I was too lazy to get the black labels AS SOON as they dropped to $20. I didn't say I won't buy a game just because it is GH. I was saying that THIS GENERATION (PS3 and 360), I'm not going to be lazy and as soon as a game becomes GH, I will rush out and get the black label at $20. I wasn't saying that I'd buy every game at $50 just cuz its a black label, that is as you said, just stupid.
greatist hits...i like getting the best of platinum hits for $10. really though that whole OMG the package is silver or there is a yellow PC bar totally escapes me.
