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Quality vs Quanity collecting: What do you focus more on?
FritzWhite:
In the beginning of my collection, I grabbed everything I could, but I became dissatisfied with the amount of space my collection took up and after playing some junk (I used to have Batman Forever for SNES), quality over quantity became much more important in my eyes. I think it's neat to see a complete set if someone has enough space to display it, and know that any title out there that you might be curious about you can try on a whim and see what the appeal of a game might have been for player back in those days, but personally, I prefer collections with nothing but solid titles all around. If I'm looking for something to play I don't want to waste time sifting through filler (I do enough of that while game hunting). I like knowing that everything on the shelf is worth the space it takes up and spending time with. I'm more of a player than a collector (though I love the look of a well displayed collection; why I'm here pretty much), so I now avoid games that I have no intention of playing. With thousands of great games around, I only want to spend my limited time playing the very best.
SegaNomadman:
I've always been a quality over quantity kind of guy. I'll only grab crappy games if they're either a) a source of nostalgia for me, b) a ridiculously great price, or c) I really, really want them for some reason. (no explanation for that third one, I just do sometimes) ;D
Epitomalist:
I guess it depends on the system for me. Quantity for the NES, and mostly quality for the SNES and N64 collections. But I assume once I have obtained the other 20 or so games that I am still looking for on the SNES and N64 I will too just try to get as many as I can.
AAD_ADD:
I definitely fall into the "quality" category myself. I'm SUPER picky when it comes to the games that I play, and for some reason whenever I come across a game that sounds interesting it almost always turns out to be a title that received a small print-run, but that makes it more exciting when I find it so that's the trade-off.
kingjohn3:
I started out thinking I would get em all but quickly realized that would interfere with little things like car payments, college, insurance, etc. SO, I decided on quality stuff starting with my own personal Hall Of Fame which are the games i grew up with and have those cib. Then once those are completed I moved over to what's considered "the best" and then a few quirky hidden gems. I'm doing this with NES thru Gamecube and will prolly start with ps after that.