Well I've been on a spending spree and have bought four new shooters and I'm waiting for them to arrive. As I was thinking of what game I was going to play first I suddenly thought that maybe buying as many as I did in one go was not a good idea. Perhaps having 4 to chose from would cheapen my purchases and therefore the experience?
I find the same thing with MAME. Lots of shooters and so I find the whole experience a little cheap. I'm sure I wouldn't feel the same way if I had the PCBs.
Any thoughts?
TS.
Last edited by Tigershark on Sun Jul 15, 2007 7:20 pm, edited 1 time in total.
My trick is to keep a todo pile. When a batch of games arrive I play them a few times each to see what they're like then they go on the todo pile. I'll have a couple active games at once and when I finish one or cant progress any further I pop another of the todo pile into the active pile. Only problem is my todo pile is freaking huge and growing all the time.
Nice idea. I also find that some games you just have to be in the mood for. I'll be sitting on the train on the way home from work and I'll suddenly think of a game I haven't played for a while and then it's back in fashion.
My todo list is huge also.
ps. Can a mod please correct the title to "many" instead of "may". Cheers.
I used to feel this way about MAME but i've been using it for so long that i'm fairly familiar with my entire collection of roms give or take a few and that hollow feeling is gone. One trick i learned to avoid diminishing the experience is to not use cheats or savestates at all, even to just preview the game.
Now i anticipate each new MAME release to see what games have become available this time around. (Speaking of which, a few CPS3 games have become playable in the newest version, 0.117.)
MAME is a great great way to find out which games are really your bag and which aren't. To this day i still haven't found Batrider, Progear, and Dimahoo appealing despite thier popularity amongst shmuppers. I keep them around and try them over again every few months just to see if i'll 'get it'. On the other hand without MAME i would never have discovered Garegga and ESP Ra.De. In the end the usefullness outweighs the initial feeling of overkill you get from using the emulator.
I have those same 'waiting for the train' moments Tigershark has. This week i've been sort of feeling like playing Ordyne. My todo list works like this, i just go with the flow. Even if i'm in the middle of something i haven't mastered yet. I know i'll just come back to it later when the moment is right again - and probably appreaciate even more since i'll already have some skill at it.
I haven't bought a game in months for any system, and only ever play one or two games at a time anyway (usually for a period of between three months to a year). Setting targets for yourself is a good way of getting more replay for your money. Unless a PCB on my to-buy list goes down in price, or a port of something good gets released, I'll probably be sticking to playing and mastering what I have.
It may well be true that buying in bulk is not the best way to maximize the pleasure of getting new games, but it does save on shipping.
Did you buy the four games during the Play-Asia sale? In that case you probably did the right thing. Sales are good, unless they lead you to buy things you really don't want in the end.
With shmups, half of the time I hear of a new one that sounds neat, it's off to the ROM archive to download it for MAME...... I do that pretty often, my list of roms is growing fast.
Or, if I hear of PS2 shmups that I dont already have, ZOOM out to the store to get it (when available here)
But it's not JUST shmups, no.......
I also just cant stop buying stuff in general....
Heck, just a couple days ago I was just waiting in the Gamestop, just looking around while my friend got his hair cut next door.....
.....and when we walked out, I had bought something :/
Despite the number of games I already have that I havent finished (which is ALOT)
Must try to stick to just one thing at a time better........ argh.
circuitface wrote:
MAME is a great great way to find out which games are really your bag and which aren't. To this day i still haven't found Batrider, Progear, and Dimahoo appealing despite thier popularity amongst shmuppers.
We'll see. I've Ibara coming tomorrow. About time I saw what all the fuss was about. I'm not a Cave hoar (though I do like them) but Raizing is better imo.
Sorry I should say the four games coming are as follows:
Ibara
Sol Divide/Dragon Blaze
Castle of Shikigami 2
Rainbow Cotton
circuitface wrote:Well then! I guess it's not so abnormal to dislike Dimahoo.
I think that its has one of the most anal-retentive scoring systems out there, and the overall presentation throws everything out that I liked about Garegga/Batrider/Bakraid. Most of the bullets and patterns are just...weird.
I wouldn´t go so far to call it a bad game per se, but it´s just terribly inaccessible.
