While I've been furloughed for these past few months, my life's been upheaved. Looking for work, re-writing my CV and trying to keep myself motivated while essentially, being paid to do do nothing.
As time went on, I had to do something to keep my mind from going mad, so I made myself go for a run each day to give myself structure, only looked for jobs for 30 minutes each morning on LinkedIn and obviously, decided to clear out my backlog of games. What started as a distraction (I didn't play any games early on as I started to obsess about work) eventually became a great heal and I really started to play and complete loads of games. Witcher 3, Halo MCC, Doom, all were fantastic games to see the credits screen of and all of them were completed on Steam. During all this, I picked up a Switch and was presented with the dilema; Do I pick up all new Switch games on cartridge or download online? Eventually, I purchased Zelda, Animal Crossing and Virtua Racing on the online Nintendo Store as downloads.
As furlough continued, I started sorting out our house and a mate asked me have I sorted out my games collection? Well, since my PS4 2 years ago, I sold all my physical games and now just have a PC and Switch. On them, I have Steam and the Nintendo Store for all my main games but my PC doubles as a font of all consoles and handhelds, so I can emulate a PS2 to play Gran Turismo 4, to a SNES and fire up Super Mario Bros. 3 or do a few laps of F355 Challenge on Dreamcast. Slowly, it's fully dawned on me I'm digital only and I have no desire to go back to physcial media. Although there's clear advantages to physcial with no DRM etc, I feel emulation on PC combined with the convience of digital games on Steam really have convinced a previous luddite like myself, that the small number of pros of physcial collections have become null and void with emulation.
As we're all pretty hardcore gamers and collectors round this neck of the woods, I was wondering has 2020 convinced you that physical game collecting is pointless in the age of day 1 patches and emulation or has the thrill of owning boxed copies and digital store shut down's made you swear digital is a con that'll never replace a box on your shelf?
As time went on, I had to do something to keep my mind from going mad, so I made myself go for a run each day to give myself structure, only looked for jobs for 30 minutes each morning on LinkedIn and obviously, decided to clear out my backlog of games. What started as a distraction (I didn't play any games early on as I started to obsess about work) eventually became a great heal and I really started to play and complete loads of games. Witcher 3, Halo MCC, Doom, all were fantastic games to see the credits screen of and all of them were completed on Steam. During all this, I picked up a Switch and was presented with the dilema; Do I pick up all new Switch games on cartridge or download online? Eventually, I purchased Zelda, Animal Crossing and Virtua Racing on the online Nintendo Store as downloads.
As furlough continued, I started sorting out our house and a mate asked me have I sorted out my games collection? Well, since my PS4 2 years ago, I sold all my physical games and now just have a PC and Switch. On them, I have Steam and the Nintendo Store for all my main games but my PC doubles as a font of all consoles and handhelds, so I can emulate a PS2 to play Gran Turismo 4, to a SNES and fire up Super Mario Bros. 3 or do a few laps of F355 Challenge on Dreamcast. Slowly, it's fully dawned on me I'm digital only and I have no desire to go back to physcial media. Although there's clear advantages to physcial with no DRM etc, I feel emulation on PC combined with the convience of digital games on Steam really have convinced a previous luddite like myself, that the small number of pros of physcial collections have become null and void with emulation.
As we're all pretty hardcore gamers and collectors round this neck of the woods, I was wondering has 2020 convinced you that physical game collecting is pointless in the age of day 1 patches and emulation or has the thrill of owning boxed copies and digital store shut down's made you swear digital is a con that'll never replace a box on your shelf?
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