What do you do with games you've completed?

corblimey

Since I stopped trading in because of the bad prices, I've built up quite a little collection of current and last-gen games, without even really trying. The problem is that some of the older games in my 'collection' would fetch next to nothing in Game or Gamestop on trade in, so it's barely worth my time even trying. I'm just wondering what people do with games they've finished?

Sephiroth_dude

Put the classic ones into storage and throw the ****ty ones out

mayordenis

i seem to be stockpiling

Riesen_Meal

Ah sure I never finish them!

Never have time, more money than sense!

Dont trade them at all really, give a lot of them to my mates kid....

Mind you he wouldnt be a fan of condemned!

kaimera

mayordenis wrote: »

i seem to be stockpiling

Ditto.

Altho at one stage a sold a good few pc games on the old FS forum but now I keep.

Burning Eclipse

Yup, I hang onto them all. Currently have 37 Xbox360 games sitting on my shelf.... I'm a "hoarder" according to my g/f. What does she know, she keeps shoes as long as I keep games!!:rolleyes:

Retr0gamer

I stockpile them. Always keep them because I keep saying to myself I'd like to play them again even though I know I probably never will since I seem to be stockpiling unplayed games as well. Only ever traded in 2 games, the darkness and kane and lynch and that was because they were utter **** and I got 40 euros off another game in xtravision for each one.

johnny_ultimate

Would only trade if I a) don't like the game and b) if will get some sort of decent saving. Traded in FEAR and Dead Rising (too games which I knew Id never play again) for Halo 3 on release day in Xtravision, which wasn't bad, as I wasn't going to pay money for it anyway Otherwise: hoarder.

Smellyirishman

Hoard.

monkeyfudge

I build a small fort out of them...

Actually I reckon when I'm old and retired I'll spend my days completing all the games I didn't get a chance to when I was younger.

Doctor DooM

monkeyfudge wrote: »

I build a small fort out of them...

Actually I reckon when I'm old and retired I'll spend my days completing all the games I didn't get a chance to when I was younger.

Thats my plan too. playstation 10 better have backwards compatability!

TheDoc

im a complete stockpiler

fingers crossed for future electronics and cars that run on the spinnig power of discs

monkeyfudge

SDooM wrote: »

Thats my plan too. playstation 10 better have backwards compatability!

I reckon I'll be about 65 when the Playstation 10 comes out. I heard it's going have 17 times the graphical capabilities of the Playstation 9

Doctor DooM

monkeyfudge wrote: »

I reckon I'll be about 65 when the Playstation 10 comes out. I heard it's going have 17 times the graphical capabilities of the Playstation 9

It's higher definition than real life, I hear. Deffo got to use that to play PS1 games on.

Who keeps their old consoles? I have all mine back to the megadrive. Brother sold our C64 though

monkeyfudge

My first console was the Dreamcast.

But I have since bought up a few of the older consoles.

Computer wise... I still have my Amiga... too bad none of my games work very well any more. Time isn't too kind to Amiga floppy disks.

Stephen

I used to trade the console ones. Now I hoard them too (unless they're really sh1te). I have a good few years worth of PC games making my shelf creak though!

hoppo254

I usually trade in the ones i will know i will never play again (Fifa 08 etc) but i keep ones i really enjoyed playing (Mercenaries) or ones that are classics or part of a good series (Devil May cry 2 wasnt great but kept it as part of the series)

Been doing this since i was a kid , as far back as the spectrum and Commadore 64

Kinetic^

If they've got online stuff I'd keep them but if not I'd sell them on or give them to friends.

djkeogh

I tend to power through a game and as long as I'm interested in it I'll finish it and either sell it on, swap it or trade it in. There are only 3 games I've been holding recently and thats cause the replay and online value is still very good in them. COD4 is really getting in the way of me getting on with new games.

CCCP^

I stockpile them. If I have kids someday, I'll introduce them the relics of gaming yesteryear.

o1s1n

It's not stockpiling, it's collecting

Yeah I have visions of myself sitting in a retirement home finally getting a chance to play through some of my games. Just hope the arthritis doesn't get to me first.

Clover

i stockpile them also , i'm not big into trading them in or selling them on .

johnny_ultimate

Actually, I think a decent reason for hoarding is to try and stop those ridiculous prices game shops try to pull off these days. Sell a game to them for fifteen (optimistically), they sell it for fifty or even sixty (I've seen 2nd hand games cheaper than the new). Rather keep my games than support Gamestop's effective money laundering business!

Mr Bloat

I have a huge pc game collection but that's only because I can't trade them!

I used to hoard console games but now I trade them in, unless I think I might replay them. Having said that, my gaming time is too limited to fool myself into thinking I might replay anything more than only the best games.
I see what some of you are saying about not wanting to give up games because of the poor value you get for them but surely it's better to have even €15 off a new game than have it gathering dust on a shelf!

Also, while people are willing to pay €60 for a second hand game (while it's €65 new), why shouldn't the game shops try to charge that much? Until they realise we won't pay those prices, they win!

Gummy Panda

Clover wrote: »

i stockpile them also , i'm not big into trading them in or selling them on .

Matty,

Dean, uber and the others lads have sent out a search party for you. Haven't seen you post on the other forum in awhile.

Back to topic, I generally trade them as i'm trying to save space and prevent clutter at home. Though i only trade after i've had them for awhile.

1huge1

Put them on the shelf to be one day played again

pixelburp

I keep 'em. I always get a sudden hankering to play through an old game that I completed & enjoyed. Sure only there the other week I re-installed DeusEx2 to remind myself why I enjoyed it before.

ShaneU

trade them in, no point keeping it once I'm finished with it.

writetojd

Generally hoard them because the trade in value is rubbish, besides its like having a big shelf of trophies. Show all the games i completed Nice to go back and give them a blast again every once in a while.

DamoBrad

i love beatin thru a new game that makes u constantly swear and scream at the screen and beat the joypad or mouse and keyboard and keep u up late at nytes sweatin like a racehorse till you've gotten thru to the next level...

but..

once i've completed it.. if it didn't have enough memorable moments in it like manhunt or Fight Night R3, i kinda lose interest in it... like the other day i bought FEAR FILES with Extraction Point & Persuas Mandate for the 360, completed it in two days both parts of it.. and now its jus sittin on my shelf... collecting dust...

althought i sometimes do invest in the collectors editon of games and those ones i keep..

or if a game has a fantastic quirk i love i keep it.. like MANHUNT.. man i still have the original that came out on the PS2 on my shelf, and the colectors edition of Silent Hill2...

but it has to have a great customisable factor for me sometimes to keep me going back to it...

Otacon

I tend to keep all my games purely because I could want to play them again at any time. Usually this happens when I see/read/hear someone talking about the game. I remember it and immediately get an urge to play it again.

This happened most recently with MGS. I now have it on my PSP and am up to the second Sniper Wolf section.

seraphimvc

Otacon,registered Abuser ?lol are you an admin too?

OT:
all the games before i bought are highly identified for my gaming collection ,either i have played the series before and i love it or i tried a new game from friend's so no trade in or whatsoever ,they are my lovers!!!

S.I.R

i have most old game consoles... even a P1 laptop with original ROM's from about 5 yeard ago ( with pac man and the like ) , battery dont hold charge...

i dont sell any games though , every game i have i bought or was given....


Yar..... Me be the greedy game pirate.

corcaigh07

i keep the classics, mostly trade in the others or sell on adverts

Mr.Nice Guy

corcaigh07 wrote: »

i keep the classics, mostly trade in the others or sell on adverts

Same here. I've traded in quite a few games but there's some I'd never get rid of such as my Metal Gear Solid games. :cool:

Ross_Mahon

I only buy games that can be played again when you finish them, like GTA theres always things to do when you finish it. And also multiplayer games, as you can keep playing them over and over, i get a lend of single player games which you cant play when you finish it, As its a waste of money.

Holsten

Put them back in the pile.

Maybe to play again another day if the game was really good.

I'd never give away nor sell my games... dunno why.

Sarky

I'm a hoarder. Games I've finished are always games I've loved playing, so throwing them out or selling them doesn't make sense. I play through Thief every year or two. And one of these days I'll get round to playing through the whole Baldur's Gate series again with a different character.