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Are videogames for children?

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I work at a thrift store and got this today for only $18 (games not included).
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A favour for a part-time gamer, friends.

I am looking for an RPG which is similar to Skyrim in setting and scope, but frankly, one which isn’t beholden to Todd Howard’s updates; nor one so broken it requires an extensive ModList/ModOrganizr/Loot to get running adequately.

I have Skyrim working well with a good modlist (STEP Forums), but I’m a bit - well, jaded with it.

I hear good things about Dragon’s Dogma but I’m not overly sold on the prospect of jRPGs. Witcher 3 is on my backlog; as is Kingdom Come Deliverance.

Any suggestions, please?
 
Mix Me a Molotov! said:
A favour for a part-time gamer, friends.

I am looking for an RPG which is similar to Skyrim in setting and scope, but frankly, one which isn’t beholden to Todd Howard’s updates; nor one so broken it requires an extensive ModList/ModOrganizr/Loot to get running adequately.

I have Skyrim working well with a good modlist (STEP Forums), but I’m a bit - well, jaded with it.

I hear good things about Dragon’s Dogma but I’m not overly sold on the prospect of jRPGs. Witcher 3 is on my backlog; as is Kingdom Come Deliverance.

Any suggestions, please?
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New Vegas or any of the STALKER games. Dragon's Dogma is also great.
 
Mark Knopfler said:
I work at a thrift store and got this today for only $18 (games not included).
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I used to go to thrift stores once a week, every week from pretty much 2007ish-2014ish. It was wild before video game collecting became super mainstream and basically priced me out of the hobby. Your find reminded me that I bought a complete boxed SNES in great condition for $10 at a Goodwill and stuff like this was a somewhat common occurrence. Not holding anything against you here since you legit want the SNES for yourself, but nowadays (and even slightly before the mid-2010s) when the hobby caught on the lion's share of the stuff was being bought up by employees or resellers. It really made things feel like a grind towards the time I stopped.

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Yup, back in the days when smartphones and instant info was less readily available and every grandma didn't assume any copy of Combat on the Atari was worth $1000 having specialized knowledge of what was interesting in retro games really payed off. I miss it a lot. Hopefully with the edge of working at a thrift store you can find more cool things, though. Good luck, it's always exciting when something really unusual shows up!
 
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SolidZone 26 said:
I own them on steam so I will just mod them out to look way better than the "remaster".
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A Note from the Rockstar Games Team RE: Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition - Rockstar Games

We want to provide an update regarding the unexpected technical issues that came to light as part of the launch of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition.
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The updated versions of these classic games did not launch in a state that meets our own standards of quality, or the standards our fans have come to expect.
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Really tired of hearing this sort of shit from games companies. If the games are not up to your standards of quality before launch, don't launch them.

We will be adding the classic PC versions of Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas back to the Rockstar Store shortly as a bundle. Additionally, everyone who has purchased Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition for PC from the Rockstar Store through June 30, 2022, will receive these classic versions in their Rockstar Games Launcher library at no additional cost. We will update everyone as soon as these are back in the Rockstar Store.
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This is a step in the right direction, I think, though as a Steam partisan I'd like to see them come back to Steam too.
 
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Professor G. Raff said:
I used to go to thrift stores once a week, every week from pretty much 2007ish-2014ish. It was wild before video game collecting became super mainstream and basically priced me out of the hobby. Your find reminded me that I bought a complete boxed SNES in great condition for $10 at a Goodwill and stuff like this was a somewhat common occurrence. Not holding anything against you here since you legit want the SNES for yourself, but nowadays (and even slightly before the mid-2010s) when the hobby caught on the lion's share of the stuff was being bought up by employees or resellers. It really made things feel like a grind towards the time I stopped.

**Sips Monster Energy **
Yup, back in the days when smartphones and instant info was less readily available and every grandma didn't assume any copy of Combat on the Atari was worth $1000 having specialized knowledge of what was interesting in retro games really payed off. I miss it a lot. Hopefully with the edge of working at a thrift store you can find more cool things, though. Good luck, it's always exciting when something really unusual shows up!
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I don't know if it ever felt like it became like a grind for me. It just hit the point where there was nothing left that I really wanted or the old games were getting released in a new form.

Like I mostly play RPGs and outside of Computer stuff, I've got nearly everything on consoles. I've got Dragon Quest 1-9 and 11 in some shape or form, I've got all the main line Final Fantasies, I have Earthbound, I have Chrono Trigger, I have Valkyrie Profile, Suikoden, Suikoden 2,3,4,5, and tactics. I've got Tales of Destiny 1 and 2, Persona 1, Persona 2, Persona 2: Innocent Sin, I even have stuff like Koudelka and all 3 Shadow Hearts. Hell the one PS2 RPG I was missing was Soul Nomad and that just got re-released on the Switch.
 
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I don't know if it ever felt like it became like a grind for me. It just hit the point where there was nothing left that I really wanted or the old games were getting released in a new form.

Like I mostly play RPGs and outside of Computer stuff, I've got nearly everything on consoles. I've got Dragon Quest 1-9 and 11 in some shape or form, I've got all the main line Final Fantasies, I have Earthbound, I have Chrono Trigger, I have Valkyrie Profile, Suikoden, Suikoden 2,3,4,5, and tactics. I've got Tales of Destiny 1 and 2, Persona 1, Persona 2, Persona 2: Innocent Sin, I even have stuff like Koudelka and all 3 Shadow Hearts. Hell the one PS2 RPG I was missing was Soul Nomad and that just got re-released on the Switch.
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For the most part, games I want to play I can just emulate because I'm not a normie. However, there is something to owning physical games, just the look of a collection as well as the benefits of it not being a pretend ownership that could potentially be yanked from you easily.

There is a real bit of excitement to finding interesting games, either for cheap or to just see them in person in the wild. I have a physical version of the majority for the games you listed and I found them in that time, mostly for great deals. Even things that I might not care about too much on their own are exciting when they are unexpected and cheap. I'm never going to seriously play a Fairchild Channel F, but when you buy a complete boxed one for $5 from grandpa's garage sale it's a story.
 
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Marissa Moira said:
I don't know if it ever felt like it became like a grind for me. It just hit the point where there was nothing left that I really wanted or the old games were getting released in a new form.

Like I mostly play RPGs and outside of Computer stuff, I've got nearly everything on consoles. I've got Dragon Quest 1-9 and 11 in some shape or form, I've got all the main line Final Fantasies, I have Earthbound, I have Chrono Trigger, I have Valkyrie Profile, Suikoden, Suikoden 2,3,4,5, and tactics. I've got Tales of Destiny 1 and 2, Persona 1, Persona 2, Persona 2: Innocent Sin, I even have stuff like Koudelka and all 3 Shadow Hearts. Hell the one PS2 RPG I was missing was Soul Nomad and that just got re-released on the Switch.
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You have the exact same taste as I do. I gave up on collecting games eventually and just emulate though.

Long story short I use to own Valkyrie Profile, Suikoden 1,2,3, all the psx and snes FFs, Chrono Trigger snes in box and many other jrpgs for psp, psx and ps2. I lived with a heroin addict for awhile and one day all those games were gone. The whole experience sucked ass for many reasons but ever since I've been very demoralized about owning physical games.
 
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Jinmen said:
You have the exact same taste as I do. I gave up on collecting games eventually and just emulate though.

Long story short I use to own Valkyrie Profile, Suikoden 1,2,3, all the psx and snes FFs, Chrono Trigger snes in box and many other jrpgs for psp, psx and ps2. I lived with a heroin addict for awhile and one day all those games were gone. The whole experience sucked ass for many reasons but ever since I've been very demoralized about owning physical games.
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Emulation is the only smart way to play old console games anyway.
 
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Just wanna hop in to say that the kof 15 demo's rollback netcode is so fucking smooth it's like butter and have had fun playing it the past 2 days, can't wait for the full version
 
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Kof 15 is out now? I loved Kof up until Kof 14. The 3d graphics didn't really do it for me. But 15 looks a bit better. Glad to se Heiden and King make a return.
 
I've been thinking of checking out the Yakuza games but not sure where to start. Suggestions?
 
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Kof 15 is out now? I loved Kof up until Kof 14. The 3d graphics didn't really do it for me. But 15 looks a bit better. Glad to se Heiden and King make a return.
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It was a small demo on ps4/ps5 that lasted until the 19-until earlier today/yesterday I think. The available roaster was chris, shermie, yashiro, shun-ei, iori, chizuru, kyo and deloris, I really like 15's art style compared to 14, but it's obvious the starting roster of 39 was a compromise to improve graphically while improving the net code.
Full game is out February and this demo just reinforced it will be a day one buy on pc for me
 
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