So I recently had a massive trade in at Ebgames, mainly consisting of DS games. I realized that there are some games, which can be extremely good games, that I don't mind parting with, whereas some I will never think of selling, regardless of whether or not I actually play them ever again.
Its hard to put the finger on why the idea of selling certain games is so hard, why do you choose to keep the games you do?
For example: These DS games I would never sell:
TWEWY
Contra 4
Space Invaders
Prof. Layton
Tetris
NSMB
Advance Wars: DOR
but games like Yoshi's Island, Metroid Prime Hunters, Pheonix Wright, and Lunar Knights (The last three of which I loved), I knew I would rather sell.
On the Wii side of things I also ran into the same problem (though I tend to buy and thus keep alot more wii games)
ex:
Galaxy
Brawl
Mariokart
Trauma Center 2
Zelda
Metroid
Super Paper Mario
Boom Blox
Fire Emblem
Okami
RE4
No More Heroes
ZW
Even Mario and Sonic
and a few others I'm forgetting
Whereas I got rid of games like the Godfather, SSX, Sonic and the Secret Rings, Rayman, RedSteel, I sold without much second thought (actually SSX and Bwii were hard to part with). I still have Bwii and MOHH2, but I could see myself selling those in the future.
Reflecting on it, I think I have an attraction to the unique games, or the ones that represent the best in that particular genre available currently on the system. Its why games like SSX were hard to sell, because even though they were good games that were unrivaled on the wii, I figured something better (balance board enabled) would come along and displace it. MOHH2 is another good example of something like that, as once the Conduit comes out - I won't have much reason to play it. I would also guess that something draws me towards exclusive games, as they just feel as if they "belong" with the system, so even good multiplatforms will often get the boot. Artsyle and Premise play a part as well
So what about you guys, what puts a game from "good fun purchase, but time to trade it in" to "This game is staying with me forever"
