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prayformojo on 23 August 2014
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spemanig said:
prayformojo said:

For some people like me, playing the game is only 1/4th of the enjoyment. There is the tactical experience of owning it and the collectable aspect of it as well. Both of those will be lost when/if it's all digital. 

I recently bought a used SNES again off Ebay and some games to go with it. Some of them I own on the virtual console. Do you know how much more enjoyment I'm getting out of actually playing these games on a real console, with a real SNES controller via an old CRT TV? It's night and day. 

People like me, they are small in number, but they're out there. If it ALL goes digital or streaming, most of us will just find something else to do with our time. Either that or build retro collections like I'm doing. Those old games will never get boring imo.

Like, would you stop listening to music if record lable stopped making CD's? Would you stop watching movies if Bluerays and DVD stopped existing? Would you stop reading if nothing was ever written down on paper again? Probably not.

I've tried going along with it. I've purchased songs on itunes. I have a Netflix account. I have even read some free books on an ipad. But you know what? It's all watered down for me. The songs I bought on itunes? It's just devalued the process for me. I don't feel like I actually HAVE the music. When I buy vinyl or a CD, I get that tactial feeling. I actually OWN it. With Netflix, I have about 30 freakin' movies in my favorite list that I never watch. Why? Because, they're there. They aren't going anyway. I can get to them anytime. And so, I never actually watch anything. Back when we had video stores to rent from, you went in, browsed the store, picked a movie and took it home to watch it. You had 24 hours and an actual movie which meant the night was PLANNED. It was an "event". Now? Not so much. There's nothing special or fun about browing Netflix and hitting a button. As far as books, I enjoyed that, but only because they were free.

I'm sure the reason you can't understand people like me is because we're just wired differently. I admit that it makes little practical sense as far as PLAYING a game goes. But people like me get a sensory thing when we go to a store, buy a game, rip the plastic off, smell the fresh manual and physically put it into a machine to enjoy. We like taking it back out when we're done, sliding it on a shelf and seeing it there next to the other games that we have collected. It's that entire experience that makes it fun for us as a whole. Playing the game is a part of that, but not the entire one. 

That's the best I can explain it for you.