| JackHandy said: Yes, because (at least in my case), there's a lot more to games than just playing the game. Same with movies and everything else that's gone virtual. There was something intangibly fulfilling about the entire process of finding, buying, opening, smelling, holding and collecting media that is lost now, and I'm none too happy about it. |
Sadly gone are the days of Laserdisc collector's editions. I still have a film cell from the Sorcerer's apprentice framed on the wall from the Fantasia Laserdisc special edition.
Sadly half my Laserdisc collection was damaged in a flood, nor do they make new players anymore. (Mine broke a decade ago). But the rest is still there to browse through, enjoy and then put on the blu-ray remaster.
I also have 5 different versions of Princess Mononoke next to the whole Ghibli collection. About 1,000 blu-rays collected over the years, after collecting about the same amount in DVDs.
My 4K blue-ray adoption is very slow though. Dunno if there is any correlation, but since the move to digital it feels like movies have declined in quality a lot. So many crappy CGI movies and life action remakes. Give me animatronics, puppeteers, scale models, stop motion, real stunt work instead of fake CGI. (Even though it might look somewhat realistic, the physics involved certainly are not believable)
I think I need to watch Box Trolls again, one of the last great (actual) stop motion movies. (Lego movie was disappointing, all CGI)
Maybe it's because I grew up with 35mm cinemas, film grain hiding the 'shortcuts' and giving the illusion of more detail. Yet these sterile modern movies just look busy for no reason.
And yes, buying a game, holding it, reading the manual! while installing or waiting for it to boot up, checking out the extras >>> digital pre-download.
Plus the act of changing discs also makes me more decisive of what to play and keep playing. While with Netflix I seem to spend more time browsing than actually watching...
