Collection Update

Hello! Thought I'd share something a bit happier after the stuff over the fees. I've been meaning to provide an update on my collection for some time now, and I finally remembered to take some photos last night. So let's take a look!

In the header image, you can see my LE shelf (which is now full, so I need to find somewhere else to put any future limited edition titles, and absolutely definitely not stop buying LEs)

On the top two shelves, we have Senran Kagura 2: Deep Crimson, Shinovi Versus, Estival Versus, Valkyrie Drive and Peach Beach Splash.

Under that we have Hyperdimension Neptunia U: Action Unleashed, Superdimension Neptune vs Sega Hard Girls (which I'm yet to play, I must confess!), Cyberdimension Neptunia: 4 Goddesses Online and Megatagmension Blanc + Neptune vs Zombies.

Under that there's Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 3 and 2 (1 didn't come out physically over here), Hyperdevotion Noire and Megadimension Neptunia V-II.

And on the bottom shelf we have Dark Rose Valkyrie, Trillion God of Destruction, Fairy Fencer F: Advent Dark Force and MeiQ: Labyrinth of Death.

My PS1 collection is pretty small, but I'm pleased with what it consists on. Vib-Ribbon, visible in the foreground, was a particular hit on my Extra Life stream a few weeks back. I'm also happy that I've re-acquired copies of Xenogears, Parasite Eve and Brave Fencer Musashi, three of my favourite PS1-era games that never got a European release. I have Lunar: Silver Star Story, too, and should probably try and track down Eternal Blue again at some point, but I anticipate that being fairly expensive.

The PS2 shelves are the most well-stocked at the moment because the PS2 is so gloriously cheap, easy and fun to collect for right now. I haven't played a whole bunch of these as yet, but I'm really looking forward to getting stuck into them — both the short-form arcadey titles and the more substantial RPGs such as the Atelier Iris series.

They go on and on and on! I think the PS2 is probably my favourite era of gaming, since it provides such a broad mix of different gaming experiences, ranging from sprawling RPGs to short-form shooters, party games and everything in between. There's something inherently pleasing about something like a shoot 'em up being a physical game on a disc with a manual; it makes it feel like a less "disposable" experience than many downloadable games do.

My PS3 collection is almost what I'd regard as "complete", since I own almost every JRPG on the platform. I'm only missing a few multiplatform games, or games in which there are enhanced versions available on other systems such as Dragon's Dogma and the Disgaea series.

I've recently started collecting for PSP. Like PS2, this is a very cheap, easy and fun platform to collect for at the moment, so I'm taking full advantage of this fact while I can. While you can indeed play PSP games on Vita in their downloadable incarnations, like I mentioned with the PS2, there's something inherently more satisfying about inserting a physical disc into the system rather than just firing it up from a menu.

The most valuable PSP title I own there is that copy of Fate/Extra towards the left. The outer box is slightly battered but it's otherwise in good condition, and I'm pleased I managed to pick it up for less than half the price I've seen copies go for on eBay. Having enjoyed the visual novel Fate/stay night, I'm interested to explore the extended Nasuverse!

My PS4 recently reached a notable milestone by filling a whole shelf! I'm going to have to rearrange things when I get any more PS4 titles. That or put the games I have LEs for back in their boxes, since I put the Blu-Ray cases on the shelf to make them more easily accessible and easier to show off.

Dear old Vita. Lots of great games here. I still need to expand this collection a fair bit — though a lot of Vita games have ended up either ported to or released simultaneously on PS4, so where that option exists, I've always gone for PS4 as it's usually a superior version. Portability is nice, but better graphics, load times and frame rates are better!

DS and 3DS are some of my least favourite platforms to collect for. I'm not really sure why, because it's not that I dislike the games on them per se, it's just that I tend to find stuff on other platforms more exciting and interesting. That said, I've still got a reasonable collection here; it just hasn't expanded very much over the course of the last couple of years.

I've also discovered that if you look outside of games with "Super Mario" in the name, the Wii is extremely cheap to collect for — and even better, it has an absolute ton of unknown, underappreciated games, thanks in part to the system's reputation as a shovelware, party game-centric device. I'm looking forward to exploring some of these unusual and interesting games on MoeGamer in the coming months. Like the PS2, there's a nice mix of long and short-form games to play with.

My Wii U collection is almost what I'd consider to be "complete", with only a few outstanding titles like the Kirby and Yoshi games. Here I've got all the games on the platform I'd consider to be essential purchases that are unique to the platform, or that at least have something noteworthy about them in their Wii U incarnation. Aside: I fired up my Wii U last night for the first time since Miiverse closed down, and it was oddly sad to see the main menu plaza without any Miiverse posts on it. End of an era, indeed.

Finally for the consoles, there's the Xbox 360. Like the Wii U, I consider this collection almost complete for my purposes; I have most of the JRPGs released for the platform, and a good number of the Japanese shmup releases from Cave and others.

Right now, my main collecting focus is on PSP and Wii, though I'm keeping an eye on Wii U games to see if I can pick up those final missing pieces. I'm also getting a Switch for Christmas, so those games will need somewhere to live when that happens! I'm really looking forward to this new system; it's a truly unique platform that promises to be a whole lot of fun.