Will you millenials and Gen x fags just shut the fuck up about blockbuster?
>Muh cute quirky college student at the register
>muh 5 day rental game
>muh atmosphere
Seriously just stfu and embrace and be GRATEFUL that gaming has gone digital and you dont have to worry about late fees for your shitty unreal engine games. Why'll youre nostalgiafagging about psychonauts I'll have chatgpt whip me up 10/10 almagation to every 9/11 slop game you held dear.

Why did you make this thread then

Who the fuck is talking about Blockbuster bro?
Iggy Video FTW!

>>714355471 (OP)
I like the idea you're surrounded by people who won't shut the fuck up about Blockbuster. Where are these people cause I want in.

I miss late night Hollywood Video runs with my oneitis and her sister. Pains me to think what your kind will do when dealing with the fact your nostalgia suffering will be about the same thing you've always done.

>>714355471 (OP)
we had a local rental shop that completely mogged blockbuster i didn't even know anyone who went there because it was agreed to be such jewish dogshit in comparison

blockbusters used to have this very distinct smell. I miss it

>>714355471 (OP)
Stop reminding me when I used to have a quick and easy way to try out new games.

>>714355471 (OP)
>be GRATEFUL that gaming has gone digital

bring back ultimate electronics, circuit city, vstock, and radioshack too please

>>714355471 (OP)
My Blockbuster had a depressed balding middle aged man at the register and he always made sarcastic comments about the movies I rented. Also it was the worst feeling to realize the game you picked out sucked pretty much immediately, but you were stuck with it all weekend now.

>>714355471 (OP)
Someone's just cranky because they never had the experience. Where I was it was Hollywood Video, and getting 3 DVD's for $20 meant movie night was gone be dope

Never got the concessions, though. It was in a farking Walmart Center... we were like 40 feet away from the store where we could get the same exact thing but in bulk for a lot cheaper.

>>714355471 (OP)
My blockbuster has been a mattress store since shortly after the place closed, and I've never seen a customer in it. It isn't fair. That blockbuster had so many customers.

>>714356750
Fry's too, the stores were always cool like Bass Pro but for needs

>>714357657
nerds*

>>714355471 (OP)
>Seriously just stfu and embrace and be GRATEFUL that gaming has gone digital

No. Devs use this as an excuse to release garbage, you often don't technically own the game and often need an open internet connection.

I don't care about Blockbuster, but the general decline of physical media has been a disaster for the games industry.

>>714356938
>Also it was the worst feeling to realize the game you picked out sucked pretty much immediately, but you were stuck with it all weekend now.
Better than the feeling of now-a-days, buying a game for $80 and find out it sucks.

>>714356750
no fucking thanks, i got so fucking tired of going to rad shack to get parts and being asked for my name, address, age, birthdate, phone number, fax number, shoe size, pants size, manual or automatic, average speed i drove to get there, etc. etc. etc. thank fuck for digikey

>nostalgiafagging about psychonauts
lmao how young are you

>>714357929
At least a lot of times now you can refund the purchase, retailers wouldn't take back opened games

>>714358209
Steam only lets you refund so many shitty games.

>>714355471 (OP)
I was pro digital until this thread

fuck you fag

>>714359770
That isn't a problem with steam you can still buy games that don't suck

BuckBuster thread.

>>714355471 (OP)
you're brown

its not just games but movies too. my city had a guy who was a movie autist and he opened up a store with every movie going back like 40 years. the store was as big as a small library and you could see the classics or new stuff, even some michael jackson music videos. he had it all. It was an experience in itself just walking through the isles talking with people about all the different movies you were looking at.

>>714355471 (OP)
it was a better time
renting games was more real than owning nothing now

Fuck yes, OP. I still have kino memories from my childhood of going to physical videogame stores and stealing cd-keys out of the boxes

I think part of the reason it sucks that places like blockbuster or Hollywood video are gone, is that there aren’t a lot of enjoyable places to go anymore in general. YMMV by town of course. When a lot of us were growing up we caught the tail end of arcades being around. If you were a collector or just liked fun shit, you had toys r us or similar shops like KB toys or FAO Schwartz etc. Towns also had malls that weren’t half empty and many malls had interesting stores dedicated to something incredibly niche or specific. My mall had a medieval themed store.


When you’re off work unless you are just going to go to a restaurant or something a lot of towns don’t really have any fun places to go unless it’s a bar which really isn’t the same thing.


Renting games in person was fun because it got you out of the house and seeing everything in person made the experience more exciting. you could be in and out in 5 minutes or you could spend a half hour there with your family. You could leave with a game some snacks a movie and while you were bored you could have flipped through the gaming magazines and discovered a lot of cool stuff.

also games back then did not require you to download them to the hard drive or anything stupid like that. So when you got home you could literally play the game 5 minutes after you got inside. While one person may argue downloading the game is more convenient it’s worth pointing out if you lived close to the store you could probably go to the video store, get your game, get home, play the game, faster than a lot of games today would download onto your console in modern times with how bloated modern games have become.


A rental store also has a better selection than gamepass. you found hidden gems this way.

>>714355471 (OP)
you just don't get it. the vibe of getting a new game on the weekend as a rental and playing with the boys till sunday night was kino. Sometime mom or dad would even get some of the overpriced snacks they had there or pizza too.

>>714361708
Agreed rental was kino also you could rent a whole system and that way play weird consoles that you would never otherwise have played or just try it out. Owning games is deeply overrated, just look at collectorfags who languish with 1000+ games on their shelves that they never ever play. It makes more sense to rent a game, play it through and then return unless it's like a multiplayer title that you got severely hooked on.

>>714355471 (OP)
nigga it's purely zoomers and another one of their weird nostalgia larps. We killed Blockbuster/rentals at the first opportunity because they were so shit. Movie renting was dogshit.

>>714356541
Are you retarded?

>>714355471 (OP)
I just have good memories of taking a walk 15 minutes away to rent and often beat a game.
Nowadays you can get games with lots of content on-sale for about the same price as a few rentals.
If I really want a cool physical case design I can just make it myself.

>>714355471 (OP)
Tbh as a guy who literally got to witness the last Blockbuster in the US close down, I always preferred the local rental store since it was both closer and sold novelty Nintendo candy back when that stuff was hard to find.

>>714355471 (OP)
>Will you millenials and Gen x fags just shut the fuck up about blockbuster?
No, never.

If i'm forced to live in a country that is now overrun with people the colour of piss and shit and run by kikes you are forced to be reminded that things use to be better.

>>714355471 (OP)
I met a girl at blockbuster, we hung out watched movies and had lot of sex. Your move zoomers.

>>714355471 (OP)
never rented, but they had the cheapest used games

>>714362308
I don’t think there is anything wrong with owning games physically i just would argue most people would be better off keeping their collection to something like 50 -100 games. No reason to keep something you probably will never play again. Stuff they know they will replay over the years. I personally only have I estimate, like 30 console games. But most of them I have some sort of attachment to or I just find it really good. Someone that has 0 games seems kind of soulless to me but obviously someone with like 500+ games after. A point on average I would argue is more of a collector or consoomer. However some guys just really fucking like games and have a lot of consoles. Idk.

>>714362779
>reminded that things use to be better.
>shit selection of movies
>always out of stock
>store is dirty
>employee's mentally checked out or on drugs
>anti-consumer practices out the ass
>"things used to be better"
Kill yourself, retard.

>>714363158
I just see coollecting as sort of an absurdity peculiar to the modern world, like when you think about it there's no reason for you to collect things that you aren't actively using. At least the chipmunk who hoards nuts has the intention of coming back during the winter to his stash so he can survive off the nuts, coollecting things that you used to enjoy (or might hypothetically enjoy in the future) has no sense to it.

>>714363212
>"things used to be better"
They did.

Get the fuck out of my country thirdie.

>>714363371
idk dude I never thought about it much. I think seals or some animals horde shiny rocks. and I know they have found old antique figurines that people owned hundreds or thousands of year ago. I think humans like owning things. And maybe some animals do to.


collecting stuff I think is cool as long as it’s done in a sensible way. A guy who collects all the games for one console at least accomplished his goal and it’s cohesive and doesnt take up an entire house you know? I would argue it’s when someone is collecting games for like 5 consoles when it starts to get out of hand. like just collecting them to complete the set.

idk though man. We live in a shitty world and I think people just like doing projects and working in self imposed goals because we don’t know what the fuck we are doing here and we are just looking for something to get excited about. Why do women collect and own like 100 pairs of shoes or like 50 purses?


When I was younger I had many collections of various things but as I’ve gotten older I have narrowed the collections down massively because I think your possessions start to own you after a point and it can be overwhelming keeping track of so much shit. But at the same time it’s a nice problem to have versus owning nothing at all and living on the streets.

While some people would argue collections of random shit are a waste of money you could make the argument that someone who blew all of his pay from work in a giant house without much in it wasted his money from a certain perspective because he can’t do anything with it.

>>714363953

>>714363961
>idk though man. We live in a shitty world and I think people just like doing projects and working in self imposed goals because we don’t know what the fuck we are doing here and we are just looking for something to get excited about. Why do women collect and own like 100 pairs of shoes or like 50 purses?
Exactly I see it as kind of a surrogate activity like like Ted Kaczinsky wrote about

>your possessions start to own you after a point
I think they always do, to an extent. I used to care about owning games but now I don't, I see the games only as "mine" if I'm actively playing them right now, if not why should I care who they belong to.

>>714362779
This. White people are just nostalgic for high trust functioning societies. Not the third world gulags that have been foisted upon us.

>>714364154
I just don’t think oversimplifying things in extremes usually helps with anything. I don’t think that living a spartan lifestyle free of possessions improves anyone’s life in any meaningful way because you still live in and interact with a completely unnatural modern world on a daily basis. So going out of your way to own nothing accomplishes nothing. I think people should just have a healthy approach and not buy an excess of things but that is their own call where that line is drawn.

In the context of owning videogames it’s a matter of convenience. I think if you have a relatively small collection of games that you know you will play again at some point or ones you are nostalgic about it makes sense to physically own them. If you can only play them if you are signed in to some account then you can’t play the game if your internet is out, that server or service goes down, that game is removed from the marketplace and you deleted it to make room for another game. Idk just theoretical examples. If you own the disc for an older game on an older console it just works. If your console breaks and you get another one the game just works. Even though 50 games sounds like a lot, if you had 5 consoles that would only be 10 games per machine for an entire library. Not very many.

>>714355471 (OP)
Only ameriturds care about that shit and gaystop. Rest of us don't give a fuck, so i agree with you alphazoomie

>>714365815
>I think people should just have a healthy approach and not buy an excess of things but that is their own call where that line is drawn.
I think the reason why this doesn't work is you don't take into account what people are like, you know maybe this works for you and I, but there's people out there who legitimately will hoard things like maniacs and take no care or consideration for others, like if we just let these people consume to their hearts content they will literally consume all the resources in the society.

> I think if you have a relatively small collection of games that you know you will play again at some point or ones you are nostalgic about it makes sense to physically own them. If you can only play them if you are signed in to some account then you can’t play the game if your internet is out, that server or service goes down, that game is removed from the marketplace and you deleted it to make room for another game.
Yeah this might make sense unless you take piracy and abandonware into account, there's websites out there that let you download basically any game whenever you want it, I'm saying you can go and get the game when you feel like playing it and there's no real need to coollect stuff. At the end of the day video games are bits and bytes, 1's and 0's, the media is just the means through which you get them, in the olden days they used to put games in code in magazines that you would type into the computer yourself, it works today if you still have the magazine laying around, but it would probably make more sense to just DL off the internet.

>>714357657
sneed*

>>714366150
>thinks blockbuster was only on the US
My sides. Thirdies mad.

>>714355471 (OP)
americans can't help themselves and worship corporations whenever possible

>>714355471 (OP)
>Be me
>see other people's saves
>Nearly 100% completion
>Deletes them because they're 'not my saves' and starts over from scratch

>>714366332
>thinks it has anything to do with a corporation