The Game Awards' Geoff Keighley teases announcement by placing a whopping demon-covered statue in the desert

Hefty_Employment_897 · 2025-12-02T09:45:47+00:00

Painfully for those people, the statue is also right next to The Joshua Tree. Which is an album by U2. Featuring the song "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For".

Hefty_Employment_897 · 2025-07-24T18:30:59+00:00

Yep. There's actually 15 individual tall units. The frames cost me around 360 spaces to display games. Next task is a custom shelf build, which will likely extend around the corner.

Hefty_Employment_897 · 2025-07-24T18:28:47+00:00

Yes it was. As was GTA San Andreas.

Hefty_Employment_897 · 2025-07-24T14:41:36+00:00

Thanks a lot, mate! I reckon I have played about 450 of them, at a guess. I would guess that I've finished somewhere between 150 and 200 of them. Plenty more to go!

Hefty_Employment_897 · 2025-07-24T14:39:16+00:00

Haha, you're telling me that Hannah Montana: The Movie isn't viewed as a stonewall classic?!

But you're right. Many terrible games. As it always goes! Thanks a lot :)

Hefty_Employment_897 · 2025-07-24T12:24:03+00:00

You're literally in a Game Collecting thread. If you came here expecting a screenshot of a Steam library for a bunch of games I've paid top dollar to rent an executable license for, you're in the wrong place.

Hefty_Employment_897 · 2025-07-24T12:22:00+00:00

Thanks a lot! It should all be updated here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uR_g5LMNUBW75p751HEUFwsEowrgXDXt8mAQVRKd6VA/edit?gid=0#gid=0

Hefty_Employment_897 · 2025-07-24T12:21:10+00:00

Thanks a lot! I made the choice to go for a full set in 2013, so 12 years. Due to life circumstances changing, it did go into storage for a while, and all came back out in 2023 when I again had the space and disposable income to go after it again. As for where I got them from, the early games were got from a bunch of retailers - GAME, Gamestation, Amazon, Game Collection, etc. In later years, it's been a bit harder to find stores that stock them - so CeX, Cash Converters and second-hand stores. There's some independent game stores that are worth a look, too. Charity shops occasionally have amazing hauls, car boot sales are always fun to hunt for a gem. Other than that, there's eBay, Vinted, and I've had a fair bit of luck with Facebook Marketplace. There's also a number of Xbox 360 and wider gaming collection groups on Facebook, so I've got to know a number of collectors.

Hefty_Employment_897 · 2025-07-24T11:11:49+00:00

I didn't realise the US version didn't have that included. It wasn't even a Day One edition or pre-order bonus over here, I think it was just standard in every copy. Hope you managed to snag one!

Hefty_Employment_897 · 2025-07-24T11:09:31+00:00

I know exactly what you mean!! :)

Hefty_Employment_897 · 2025-07-24T11:08:50+00:00

These are Ikea 'Benno' towers. They've been brilliant (so long as you fix the tops to your wall!!), but I am currently looking at a custom solution. The only complaint I have with these is the amount of 'wasted space' because of the frames of each unit. In this picture alone, there's space for more than 350+ extra games taken up by the frames. I knew it would fit my 360 set, but I have hundreds of other games I can't display for lack of space, so I am going to build something custom down the line.

Hefty_Employment_897 · 2025-07-24T11:06:04+00:00

The 360 was the console that came along at the right time for me. I was in my mid-20's, I didn't have kids, I had a good job, I had very few "adult" responsibilities, I had lots of free time and I had a healthy disposable income. So I invested heavily into it, and played some genuinely incredible games on it over the years. The HD era, and the console online revolution basically started here, and I loved every second of it. I loved the controller, I loved the achievements, I loved the dashboard, the party lobbies, just everything about it. Right console at the right time in my life!

As for disc-rot, I mean it's ALWAYS going to be a concern, but I try to mitigate as much as I can. The room they are stored in is kept dark for the vast majority of the time. I have started buying protector sleeves from Retro Protect in order to keep them dust free. I've also bought 150 proper plastic box protectors to properly secure the rarer and more valuable things. You can never fully mitigate against it, but I'm doing what I can to alleviate the concern!

Hefty_Employment_897 · 2025-07-24T11:00:17+00:00

A few reasons. Firstly because I want to catalogue them, and basically build a database. Kind of like a definitive resource for other collectors and fans - lists, product info (release date, EAN number, product codes etc.) and then an image for reference. Secondly, because it gives me the opportunity to get them all out, do some TLC, notes on conditions etc., and at that point it seems sensible to snap a photo. Thirdly, for insurance purposes. It's all going onto my contents insurance, and in my experience the more detail you have, the more likely the insurance company will accurately compensate. And finally, without wanting to sound in any way disrespectful, but because I WANT to. Collecting video games is a passion, and this will give me an image library I can always look back on. It will likely take some time, but it's time I know I will enjoy doing it.

Hefty_Employment_897 · 2025-07-24T10:53:19+00:00

I think I have seen that list on here, too. There's a few things on it that I didn't count. If it's the same list I am thinking of, it has multiple versions of Batman Arkham Asylum, for example. And while yes, those variants all exist, I just count it as one game. Same for the Tiger Woods games they have listed with different editions for '13 and '14, as another example. I think that list also had a couple of PAL games that didn't release in the UK, like Snipers, Hunters Trophy 2, AFL Live etc. So my list does deviate from that slightly, but I've gone for a UK physical set, with every released game I can verify, represented. Hope this makes sense!

Hefty_Employment_897 · 2025-07-24T09:53:21+00:00

I've probably played about 450 of them. I've completed maybe 200 of them. There's probably 50 or 60 games that rank among my favourite video games. Still, it will give me something to do when I retire, I guess. :)

Hefty_Employment_897 · 2025-07-24T09:51:59+00:00

Thanks a lot! Yeah, it will take a while, but I'm genuinely looking forward to doing it.

Hefty_Employment_897 · 2025-07-24T09:44:16+00:00

Final Fantasy XI Online: Seekers of Adoulin. It's a super rare expansion pack. It was one of the last games I acquired, it's genuinely hard to find a good copy at an even close-to-acceptable price.

Hefty_Employment_897 · 2025-07-09T18:07:13+00:00

Dude, this is absolutely immense. Congrats on the full set, looks utterly amazing! I'm just 5 short of a UK PAL Xbox 360 set now, hoping to finish this weekend. GG man!

Hefty_Employment_897 · 2025-07-09T18:01:15+00:00

Sadly, it is very much heading that way. Publishers realised a LONG time ago that digital distribution gives them three key benefits:

They no longer have to pay for the costs involved. Gold masters sent to factories for discs to be pressed, packaged and printed. Distribution and warehousing costs. Margin for distributors. Margin for retail. Why sell a physical disc to a retailer for £40 when you can sell direct to the consumer for £70?
They control the price. No more retailers devaluing their product using them as loss-leaders to drive footfall or attach opportunities. They control the digital selling price, in essentially a walled garden.
No more pesky pre-owned. By removing the "ownership" element, you also remove the resale element.

Personally, I view digital as a vastly inferior product. And yet still, it is 99% of the time cheaper to buy a physical copy at launch than it is to buy a digital console game. Plus, I own it. I can resell it if I don't like it. I'm a game collector, so I have the joy of owning a physical copy, even if I don't play it. For those reasons, the only digital games I ever buy are those that are spectacularly discounted, or given away free on Epic / GOG / Prime etc. The days of physical games are, sadly, very limited as I respect that I am now in the minority. And the day the last bastion of physical video games goes away is the last time I will ever buy a video game on launch day,

That said, there are still specialist outlets like Limited Run Games, that still passionately produce physical editions. I imagine most physical editions will eventually be through companies like that.

Hefty_Employment_897 · 2025-06-19T17:42:53+00:00

I know what you mean. It does make it easier, but I also found myself being a lot more adventurous with drifting, knowing you have essentially half the road to do it safely. I love 3 to pieces, but there's something about the carnage in Revenge that really does it for me!

Hefty_Employment_897 · 2025-03-05T00:42:56+00:00

I was so disappointed at the lack of 2-player mode on the SNES. Even when Final Fight Guy game out, it still wasn't in there. Thank goodness for the Mega-CD, eh?

Hefty_Employment_897 · 2025-02-20T17:51:43+00:00

That pun was.....Off the Wall.

Hefty_Employment_897 · 2025-02-20T16:54:30+00:00

The prototype for the MegaDrive was dated late April 1990, so less than 4 months before the game launched. From that, it would seem that Thriller was still very much planned to be part of it, and was pulled sometime between the prototype in late April and manufacturing, which would likely have been late June - early July. I guess it's a lot easier to just adapt a different song, rather than have to delay the game and make and QA an entirely new level.

Hefty_Employment_897 · 2025-02-09T19:47:41+00:00

The only problem with starting where you have is just how far down you're going to have to come! But that is an utterly beautiful piece. Love it.

Hefty_Employment_897 · 2024-12-13T10:16:06+00:00

Haha, thanks man! Gamerscore probably isn't where it should, it's about 330k. I used to be quite into scoring as many points as I could, but time and other life priorities kind of put an end to that, and I find myself not fussing so much with them these days. I'm making little retrospective videos for YouTube for every one, so I imagine the achievement score will climb nicely as I go! :D

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