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An interesting thing nowadays is that in Gamestops, many PS2 and XBox games are reduced to $5-10, even the top-rated classics.
I've started quite a collection of PS2 games (~280 so far) and I see so many people just brush by the giant bins of "old" PS2 games because they either can't stand the graphics or need to have only the absolute latest games.
This week (Buy 2, get 1 free on used games) I'm slowly working my way up and down each bin and shelf and usually walk out with a hefty stack of games. There are so many forgotten gems that just go by the wayside.
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I've noticed this since about the start of the PS2, casual gamers and the industry as a whole are
very fickle on how good a game is unless it's staring them in the face, although 280 games? Come on now there's no way those are all must have classics I sense some klepto in you sir.
Retailers base a games worth on age, sales, how much the company wants for it and however much profits they want (Soul Calibur 2 for around £15 or less but something like rumble racing still demands at the very least £20? Wtf) not how good it really is, case in point every movie tie in game ever made.
We can't forget the classic games and what they taught us makes a fun game if this industry wants to avoid getting as stale as most of Hollywood (which it's working on) here's hoping virtual console style features will continue to remind people of that. God forbid there comes a time when 'bad' graphics are frowned apon, to the point of ignored like most people do with black and white movies x.x
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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