How often do you use your console(s)?


Doug

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Ever since I lost the ability to waste time on the internet, I've been dropping a good 5 hours or so a day, and finishing a lot of games that I never got around to before, so yeah, a lot.

In order of most frequent use:

PS2

Dreamcast

Saturn

XBox

SNES

The rest I only use once in a blue moon. When I had a 360, it was used almost as much as the PS2. If just playing music counts, I use my PSP more than all the others combined.

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I play my consoles when I have good games to play that haven't gone stale on me.

Which isn't all that often.

Also, my seventeen-year-old TV can't show the HD-reliant 360 games, so I can't play the games that are text-heavy or need a great degree of detail.

Which is why Dead rising was never great to me.

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  • 4 weeks later...

I was prepared to spend a few hours gaming last night, after I went to the store and bought a used game yesterday. I'm going to take it back and get a refund, and I haven't even bothered playing it. The game is a "demo disc." Um, I want the full game, please.

D'oh!

Mistakes happen. I do want my money back though. :laugh:

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Can shops even sell demo discs?

They're not supposed to, but what often happens is that a customer will take advantage of lazy game store employees and trade in a demo disc, pretending it's the full game. Said employee, simply looking at the game title and not the giant "RP-Rating Pending" symbol, or the "this is a demo disc" text, and give them the credit of the actual game for the trade in.

People try it more than you'd think.

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Can shops even sell demo discs?

They're not supposed to, but what often happens is that a customer will take advantage of lazy game store employees and trade in a demo disc, pretending it's the full game. Said employee, simply looking at the game title and not the giant "RP-Rating Pending" symbol, or the "this is a demo disc" text, and give them the credit of the actual game for the trade in.

People try it more than you'd think.

Truthfully, I don't think that there's anything saying that Gamestop and the rest can't sell used game demos; they just usually don't. I think it's a store policy that they don't take them, but yeah, sometimes they slip in. As long as they're not "officially" allowed to be bought/sold, then GS and the rest can stay on good terms with the big three companies.

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Yeah, it's against store policy. There are actually SKUs for certain more popular demos, but more often than not, they don't take them.

As for legality, that's never really stopped them before.

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They're not supposed to, but what often happens is that a customer will take advantage of lazy game store employees and trade in a demo disc, pretending it's the full game.

I was told they got it from "corporate." Given how things can slip through the cracks with large corporations, it wouldn't surprise me. But somehow I doubt it.

Even if the store got cheated, they messed up a second time because the discs are kept in a large drawer, and the boxes on the shelf. They had to pull the disc and put it in the box, and didn't see the big "RP" on the disc. I didn't notice it until I get home.

It doesn't matter. Mistakes get made. No harm done.

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