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Do you still support physical media?

Always 30 41.10%
 
Mostly 19 26.03%
 
Sometimes 9 12.33%
 
Rarely 8 10.96%
 
Never 4 5.48%
 
Don't care 2 2.74%
 
Don't have the space 1 1.37%
 
Total:73

I'm trying to buy the Evercade VS R but keep finding it sold out. -_- Might get the Evercade Nexus too, since it has dual sticks for PS1 and N64 games.



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curl-6 said:

Physical media for the win

Rating stamp wants almost as much attention as the product itself!



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CaptainExplosion said:

I'm trying to buy the Evercade VS R but keep finding it sold out. -_- Might get the Evercade Nexus too, since it has dual sticks for PS1 and N64 games.

But what if the developers used AI in the creation of the game?  What would your reaction be?       



G2ThaUNiT said:
curl-6 said:

Physical media for the win

Rating stamp wants almost as much attention as the product itself!

Yeah, quite intrusive.

I'll send a picture of how it is around here later on, really like how they do it here, like a mini PEGI but no text whatsoever and every different rating has a distinct color.



I've gone on a bit of a spending spree lately, much to the chagrin of my wallet. I've picked up some Switch/Switch 2 imports and a bunch of PS3 reprints.

But I feel like now more than ever it's important to get my physical library where I want it to be. And, just maybe, send some message to the universe that physical still matters.



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Good luck to those still fighting for pyhsical games, as a PC gamer I surrended in this battle 15 years ago. I was physical only into 2011 then I bought dragon age 2 and the only thing on the disk was a less then 1 mb files that started a downloader for the game. I relize I was fighting a loosing battle and fully embrase steam like every single one of my friends already had.

I did put rarely since every once in awile for movies like dune I buy the blu ray but for gaming am all digital these days. That being said I never bought a digitial console game but last console game I bought was dragon quest 2017 so that make 9 years since last time I bought a physical game.

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Cyran said:

Good luck to those still fighting for pyhsical games, as a PC gamer I surrended in this battle 15 years ago. I was physical only into 2011 then I bought dragon age 2 and the only thing on the disk was a less then 1 mb files that started a downloader for the game. I relize I was fighting a loosing battle and fully embrase steam like every single one of my friends already had.

I did put rarely since every once in awile for movies like dune I buy the blu ray but for gaming am all digital these days. That being said I never bought a digitial console game but last console game I bought was dragon quest 2017 so that make 9 years since last time I bought a physical game.

Damn, hard to believe how long its been now. The last physical PC game I bought was StarCraft 2: Legacy of the Void in 2015, and by then, it was already a rarity to have.

I try to buy on GOG when available at least, and store my games.



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@G2ThaUNiT (and everyone else that cares), here are some comparisons from my collection as promised.

Image heavy post ahead.

We we have 7 different age tiers for rating, one will be missing in these photos as I don't have a single game for that rating, as it was added just October 2025, and the only game I've personally seen with that rating so far is the new Switch 2 Yoshi, which I don't have.

The tiers are L, 6, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18. They are based on the minimum age that is supposed to be able to have access to it, just like for PEGI. The one missing will be the tier for 6+ years old, as it is the new tier, it's color is pink, btw.

L stands for what the E stands in the ESRB rating tiers, it comes from word "Livre", that stars the phrase "Livre para todos os públicos", which means its allowed for everyone, just like in the ESRB as mentioned above.

It's only those colored squared number boxes, and unlike PEGI, every one of them have a different color, which comes from a rainbow gradient color pattern, aside from black that is purposedly use to indicate adult content (18+) as the last rating.

Here is PEGI sharing green for different age ratings for example.

For comparision with games from other regions on my collection, here is how it is compared to the ratings from Germany, USA and Europe, so you can see how much space it actually ocuppies in the front cover. Sadly I don't think I have any Japan's Cero rated game to compare.

So there it is, I consider the Brazilian rating the best rating around, I think it works very well to both do its job as a rating very effectively, and trying not to mess much with the front cover, the color scheme is actually clever and ellegant IMO.

I don't like when companies translate subtitles sometimes here tho, like in the Ratchet and Clank picture, or even the titles, but those are very rare gladly, it actually can make me completely want to avoid our version here like for the upcoming 10th gen Pokémon games, as because they finally are going to provide text translation for the games for Brazilian Portuguese (only took them 30 years, LOL), which is good, they decided to also translate the subtitles and they won't be called Winds and Waves here, but Ventos and Ondas, and I'm definitely not adding translated covers to the rest of the 30 year long franchise games I have here, much less as they are translating all moves, abilities and nature names, it's completely going to mess everything but the Pokémon names... but that's unrelated to the matter, just pointing there can have stuff I also strongly dislike about our versions here, lol.



I always support physical. I only buy digital when there is no physical copy. Just bought Rift Apart for less than $40 when its still $70 on PS Store.



Oh that’s a nice age rating sticker! Lol I thought ESRB’s ratings were pretty small, but Brazil takes the cake on that. I love seeing box art shown off as much as possible!



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