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submitted 1 month ago by yarr@feddit.nl to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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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[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Or he's trying to drive the price up for resell.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Already do. I don't even use professional review sources. I just ask what people who already like the same shit I like what they think about thing I am interested in.

Also: The best game I ever played on the Jaguar was the Aliens game. And that game still sucked ass lol to be fair, I played it on an actual Jaguar and what made it suck the most were the controls. With emulation, that might not be the biggest problem.

[-] yesman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Had a buddy with an impressive vinyl collection and an audiophile setup. Awful taste in music, just dogshit.

[-] Trail@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Nah, music is subjective. I'm sure your music is dogshit to him as well.

[-] Krudler@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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

[-] Trail@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] Krudler@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

People who emulate retro games are demonstrably SOLELY interested in playing the games

"Eehhhhhh..."

- Me, a data hoarder with severe executive dysfunction

[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"My Steam backlog wasn't enough, let's add a couple thousand more to the pile with a few romsets."

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

Oh shit, I've been cloned!

[-] Whateley@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

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.

this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2025
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