Sprash said:
setsunatenshi said:
Sprash said:
Can I know why some people wait for emos to maybe work decent on some games in some years from now on, instead of just buying a ps3? and play all games on it, to support the industry, the devs who worked on them and in the end to get more from those type of games you like and want more.
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your avatar made me lol irl :D
yeah, emulation is awesome, because a ps3 won't live forever, but PCs will. Should I also keep a CRT television at home to play my old Sega Mega Drive games as well?
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that depends how you use it, seems like this greedy mentality kinda bugs me for some reason:
"What! cool those emulator are getting better and better yippie I don't have to spend money for hardware and software to play those games I don't have to invest money for my hobby^^ pefect"
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having an emulator has abolutely nothing to do with the fact you pay for the software you play or you don't. I'm much more interested in the game history conservation part of the phenomenon. It's unrealistic to expect people to keep legacy consoles into the future in order to play these older games.
It seems perfectly reasonable for me that developers/publishers will profit for several years from their work and creativity, but as with many things in life there's a reasonable limit to it.
One of my favourite game series of all times was the Shining Force saga, I bought all the available Shining Force games I could, it still didn't prevent Shining Force 3, scenario 2 and 3 to remain unreleased outside of Asia and untranslated. Thankfully through Saturn emulation I managed to finish the games many years after, not only the death of SEGA as console maker, but of the console itself (with the fan translation applied to the games .iso's).
Perhaps now that the consoles seem to be adapting an X86 architecture, it will make these games more futureproof, in order not to require fan emulation for us to enjoy Bloodborne when the PS6 is around.