/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.10516917]

Which was most trusted?

[Anonymous No.10516924]

don't care, almost never bought discounted games during 6th gen

[Anonymous No.10516935]

Complete shovelware regularly got Greatest Hits reprints
Nobody cared about Xbox
Anything that actually sold well enough to get a Players Choice reprint on the flopcube was probably actually good.

[Anonymous No.10516959]

Trusted is a bs concept but the Greatest Hits label is the best graphic design imo, perfectly period appropriate garishness done really well.

[Anonymous No.10516984]

>>10516917

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[Anonymous No.10516991]

>>10516935

[Anonymous No.10516994]

>>10516984
I loved how good the Platinum PSX Wipeout releases looked.
Shame Sony lost their way completely the following gen

[Anonymous No.10517009]

>>10516994
perfection would have been a mix between first and second ps2 platinum covers

[Anonymous No.10517017]

>>10516917
og Xbox Platinum Hits because the cases looked cool. Adding the yellow banner on GCN cases and the hideous green PS1 used/dull red PS2 used made them look like shitty bootlegs. Also usually meant the full colour instruction manual was reprinted in black and white.

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[Anonymous No.10517065]

>>10517020
Holy shit you can build a race track out of those

[Anonymous No.10517091]

>>10516991
kek
>>10517040
really hitting their creative stride here

[Anonymous No.10517118]

>>10516917
I'm pretty sure the only metric was that the game sold like a million copies, at least that's what it was for sixth generation consoles. I don't know what the sales threshold was for PS1 Greatest Hits, but there are in fact some shovelware trash mixed in there like Wheel of Fortune and Casper so it had to have been much less than a million.

[Anonymous No.10517757]

>>10517118
I think you're underestimating how much shovelware sells

[Anonymous No.10517764]

>>10516917
Player's Choice, no contest.

[Anonymous No.10517786]

Greatest hits got put on literally everything
Player's choice was mostly Nintendo's own stuff, and first/second party developed Nintendo shit carries their consoles, so you had some confidence
I never owned an Xbox, but I have noticed Microsoft didn't liberally put "platinum hits" on stuff

[Anonymous No.10518680]

>>10516917
Player's Choice by far. GameCube install base is small so if a game sold a lot you know it's good

[Anonymous No.10518682]

>>10516991
Well it was players choice. Blame the players not the game

[Anonymous No.10518698]

>>10516959
>having one color is garish
wow
make sure your walls stay gray, anon, don't get spooked now

[Anonymous No.10519147]

>>10518698
NTA, but having neon puke green with bright red text on top is very much too garish for most corporate products today.
>t. graphic designfag, it's a depressing industry

[Anonymous No.10519180]

>>10517118
PS1 greatest hits was 100k

[Anonymous No.10519204]

Don't know about the selection but I always found that the PS2 Greatest Hits with the red trim was the best-looking.

[Anonymous No.10519208]

european platinun required to sold between 200.000 and 250.000 units.

[Anonymous No.10519257]

>>10516994
god damn it konami

[Anonymous No.10519258]

>>10516917
honestreviews
and
Gfaqs user reviews.

[Anonymous No.10519265]

>>10519180
>100k
Yeah that would explain a lot

[Anonymous No.10519287]

>>10516991
looks good to me boss

[Anonymous No.10519308]

god, the psx slapped so fucking hard

[Anonymous No.10519397]

>>10516917
Platinum

[Anonymous No.10519407]

>>10516917
The All Stars one

[Anonymous No.10519649]

>>10517118
don't you fucking call Vanna White trash dude -__-

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[Anonymous No.10520135]

>>10516917
Honestly I just cared about playing the game, I mostly ignored those banners. A lot of my game choice at the time came from word of mouth, whatever franchises I was into, and maybe a gaming magazine if I bought one for whatever reason.

[Anonymous No.10520539]

>>10519843
it is just an average game.

[Anonymous No.10520569]

>>10516917
they all look like shit

[Anonymous No.10521190]

>>10519147
Same, it's sad. We only use safe and neutral colors these days. Don't want to trigger anyone.

[Anonymous No.10521225]

>>10516917
Nobody used these a metric for if the game was good or not, you bought these if you were poor

[Anonymous No.10521302]

>>10516917
This was.

[Anonymous No.10521310]

When did these "greatest hits" lines stop being a thing? The last I remember of them was about 10 years ago. I remember some Wii U games and some early PS4 games getting this treatment. I guess it's the fault of digital games that these special editions died out, but you'd think they'd still be a thing in some form or another.

[Anonymous No.10521317]

>>10521310
Last I remember was seeing red PS3 cases. Then no more. I really miss it. Alternate color schemes are always kino to me, it adds variety.

[Anonymous No.10521329]

>>10521317
PS4 ones definitely existed. I bought a new copy of Assassin's Creed 4 for PS4 from Amazon not too long ago, and it was one of these. Dunno if Xbox One had an equivalent.

[Anonymous No.10521334]

>>10521329
Forgot about those. Though the fact that it's just a red strip below the banner now is probably why I forgot. It blends in too much and just looks like the same as the rest of minutiae they would slap on the cover anyway. Changing the spine or case I think stood out way more as a result.

[Anonymous No.10521342]

>>10521334
I feel like it was intentional. The more obnoxious "best sellers" cases you see in this thread for the older consoles were much maligned at the time. Most people hated getting a game and having the art ruined by adding those huge logos and making the box a different color.

There were a few games it worked out well for though. I have the "greatest hits" version of MGS4 which looks really nice in an all red box.

[Anonymous No.10521369]

>>10521310
Around the point where people switched to Digital and companies realized they could just have releases be a fixed price that they might bring down during sales time (unless you're Nintendo, then Mario Kart 8 deluxe from 2017 (based on a game from 2014 or so) is still 60bux)

[Anonymous No.10521570]

>>10521342
>were much maligned at the time. Most people hated getting a game and having the art ruined by adding those huge logos and making the box a different color.
I have never, in the history of anyone or anywhere, heard this or seen this until I came to this board years ago. No one in person, and I've had realtime exerpeince with many different groups over every generation. Why does this board care so much? I think a lot of them look cool. Not the silver ones to me, but the alt colors were eyecatching in a good way. Never met a human being in the flesh who cared in a negative way.

[Anonymous No.10521616]

>>10519407
>>10521302
>over half is just sports games
lol
lmao

[Anonymous No.10521680]

>>10516984
that cover is peak european autism
fuck how is that much sovl possible

[Anonymous No.10521761]

>>10516917

The original Players Choice line up for me. Nintendo started it with the SNES and OG Game Boy, where the SNES game swere discounted to $35/$39.99 and the GameBoy games were discounted to $20/$25. When I had a Super Game Boy player for the SNES, I owned a large number of GameBoy Players Choice games.

[Anonymous No.10521857]

>>10521761
the snes player's choice is fine except for Link to the Past, what even happened there

[Anonymous No.10521896]

>>10516984
>>10521680
mickey got the US/UK sonic treatment

[Anonymous No.10521901]

>>10516917
Greatest Hits

[Anonymous No.10521903]

>>10516935
Maybe in the PS2 era.

[Anonymous No.10521909]

>>10521857
New cover to make up for the flat one of the original release, then again they should just released LttP in a gold snes cart like the NES ones.

[Anonymous No.10522192]

>>10521616
And they're actually fun, too.

[Anonymous No.10522225]

>>10521342
Those red cases are so sexy

[Anonymous No.10522571]

>>10516917
Platinum hits, but it had the ugliest aesthetic out of all the select series for consoles.

Greatest Hits was the most aesthetic, but it also was completely unreliable where you had shit like Stuart Little 2, Monopoly, and WCW Nitro getting that label.

[Anonymous No.10522581]

>>10521896
Nah, that's the games actual cover in all regions.

[Anonymous No.10522689]

Never got disappointed with this one.

[Anonymous No.10522841]

>>10522689
Because it only includes around 15 or 16 titles, all of which are basic-bitch.

[Anonymous No.10524414]

>>10522225
Truth. I'd ogle the red case all by itself.

[Anonymous No.10524548]

>>10521342
i think midnight club LA works great with it too

[Anonymous No.10524550]

>>10524548
Probably the most iconic red case to me. Helps that the original cover art has red as a dominant tone as well.

[Anonymous No.10524592]

>>10524550
yeah

[Anonymous No.10525429]

>>10522841
Pretty sure it's more than 16.
Even if it was just 16, that's a good number. It's supposed to be a curated list of games.

[Anonymous No.10525520]

>>10516991
It's the best 3D sonic of that era, no idea why everyone hates it so much

[Anonymous No.10526365]

>>10516991
This game is a platinum game on xbox too

[Anonymous No.10526431]

>>10516917
All in all Greatest Hits clearly had the best library of games.

[Anonymous No.10527587]

>>10525520
Because it's not.
t. beat it 5 times as a kid, 4 of which were because no one gave me a memory card

[Anonymous No.10527592]

>>10516991
It's alright

[Anonymous No.10527601]

>no one mentions the PS2 Japan The Best boxes

[Anonymous No.10527604]

>>10527601
Wierd, image didn't post

[Anonymous No.10527704]

>>10527604
So fucking gross
Thank god I never saw these regularly in person

[Lennon No.10527741]

>>10516917
Platinum/greatest hits were cheaper but the manuals and discs were printed in black and white, whereas the original was in full colour.

[Lennon No.10527750]

>>10519204
The American versions look better because at least you still had the full cover instead of some ugly border.

[Anonymous No.10527759]

>>10517065
This is the kind of autism I come here for.

[Anonymous No.10527813]

>>10516935
>Anything that actually sold well enough to get a Players Choice reprint on the flopcube was probably actually good.

[Anonymous No.10527832]

>>10517065
Holy soul of a post. Now I want to do this.

[Anonymous No.10527839]

>>10517040
Reminds me of that rapper showing his game collection and calling classic to every shovelware garbage he had.

[Anonymous No.10527903]

>>10516989
You're right, Halo is one of the best games ever and its inclusion in the platinum hits lineup only proves that the platinum hits designation is indeed the most trustworthy. I'm glad we're on the same page Anon.

[Anonymous No.10528740]

kek i remember being a lil kid and having my parents buy me sonic mega collection, and the chick getting it out of the display case was talking about how she loved the player's choice games
that was the first, and last time ever, that i know someone mentioning it and caring at all.

God i don't need to be reminded that was almost 20 years ago.

[Anonymous No.10528801]

>>10528740
All things being equal, I definitely think Player's Choice on GameCube was the most trustworthy, since I don't remember it ever steering me wrong. Everyone else seems to be a mixed bag on what it's signaling, other than sales, though seeing a yellow Player's Choice or orange All-Stars, felt like I was in for a good time. The SNES ribbon was good too, though nowhere near as noticeable to me, so I never associated it with much. Platinum and Greatest Hits are just all over the place.

[Anonymous No.10529197]

>>10516991
He did say probably

[Anonymous No.10529229]

>>10525429
>>10522689
SOUL

[Anonymous No.10530469]

>>10516917
Player's Choice, going by Metacritic

[Anonymous No.10530480]

>>10516917
These never meant anything to me.

[Anonymous No.10530786]

Seeing threads about good old games doesn't really do anything to me, but seeing stuff that shows how pro-consumer the industry used to be (old games getting discounted rereleases, old engines being made open source) just wrenches my heart out. Vidya used to be so cool, bros, it hurts to remember what we lost

[Anonymous No.10530830]

>>10516917
>tfw fell for the "these are better than the original release" meme
I definitely have a few PS1/PS2 games where I specifically picked the Platinum version when the original was available. Has there ever been one that actually did anything (aside from pic related)?

[Anonymous No.10530946]

Some of the xbox ones were versions with the DLC included.

[Anonymous No.10530972]

>you can have this game for a deal!
>but you get an ugly version for poor people
why do they do this? they could easily make it look nice, but its always ugly on purpose.

[Anonymous No.10530997]

>>10525520
Adventure 2 was better, both OG and Battle

[Anonymous No.10531001]

ENTER

[Anonymous No.10531013]

>>10527587
Beat it many times as a kid as well great points you made
>>10530997
The third that is sonic yeah maybe, the knuckles/rogue levels are tedious, and the tails/Eggman levels are mind numbing

[Anonymous No.10531024]

>>10516917
HERE I COME ROUGHER THAN

KNUCKLES

THE BEST OF THEM, TOUGHER THAN

KNUCKLES

YOU CAN CALL ME

KNUCKLES

UNLIKE

KNUCKLES

I DON'T CHUCKLE

I'D RATHER FLEX MY

KNUCKLES

[Anonymous No.10531035]

>>10516917
Honestly, the only budget rerelease line I ever actually liked was Game Boy/SNES/N64 Player's Choice. They didn't completely ruin the boxes (though they were cardboard so who fucking cared back then) and they just had a little gold ribbon on the sticker. AND there weren't that many of them compared to on Gamecube

[Anonymous No.10531042]

>>10516959
When it comes to spines, the PS1 GH bothers me a LOT less than the Gamecube PC does, to the extent that I completely avoid all Gamecube PC games (I have one on my shelf, and it's Pac-Man World 2 with Pac-Man Vs, because Pac-Man Vs. didn't get a non-PC release), and 1/3rd of my PS1 collection is Greatest hits. Not entirely sure why, though.

[Anonymous No.10531054]

>>10531035
The old graffiti tag ESRB logo looked better.

[Anonymous No.10531067]

>>10517020
I don't want to do a mass reply so I'll just hit the first one, did they just let every publisher do whatever the hell they wanted to in PAL regions?

>>10530830
I know that for some games, the Player's Choice/Platinum/Greatest Hits version of the game is a later revision. Pokemon FireRed/LeafGreen's English release had a display bug in the initial release that took species descriptions in the pokedex and cut off any words after the first, so Squirtle changed from being the "Tiny Turtle Pokemon" to being the "Tiny Pokemon" along with like twenty other Pokemon that were "Tiny x Pokemon," and the Player's Choice releases fixed this. Tomb Raider 1-3 (and maybe 4, I don't remember for sure) on the Playstation had Demos for other games on the disc starting with the Player's Choice releases (with Tomb Raider 1 having at least FIVE different Player's Choice revisions, with each one having different selections of demos), but AFAIK the main game is identical.

[Anonymous No.10531294]

>>10530830
Patches weren't a thing on consoles back then, so budget rereleases were the only chance the devs had to fix glitches and what not.
I know FFIX, for example, has a bug that allows you to access Disc 3 storylines on Disc 2. This was patched on the GH release

[Anonymous No.10531312]

>>10531294
I had actually read that some games fixed bugs in their Platinum version, and that some even had added content!
like V-rally on PS1, it has an extra car in Platinum version.

I can't find a list of all Platinum/Greatest Hit games with fixes and additions.

[Anonymous No.10531351]

>>10531013
No points to make. It's a slog besides Neo Metal Sonic because you have to do the same things over and over, whole game feels like a torture test. It was not enjoyable. The final boss is the only positive thing I took away from it. The rest I regretted.

[Anonymous No.10531367]

>>10531312
Dragon Ball Z Budokai 3 actually had 3 extra costumes (Goku with a Halo, Piccolo with his dad's outfit, and Future Trunks with long hair) and also has the Japanese voices as an option, which is kind of insane.

[Anonymous No.10531369]

>>10531367
>Future Trunks with long hair
did TK3 even have this?? that's fucking kino.

[Anonymous No.10531372]

>>10531369
Honestly unsure, I never played Tenkaichi 3, but I'm pretty sure that Tenkaichi 2 had Future Trunks with the sword and Future Trunks in the Saiyan armor as completely different characters, so probably. This is pretty much the only time Future Trunks can use his sword in the Saiyan armor, which is really cool.

[Anonymous No.10531375]

>>10531372
FUCK that's so cool.

[Anonymous No.10532221]

>>10531001
lol I have Valkyria Chronicles like this. Doesn't even have a manual or any insert. The box itself and the disc also feel kinda cheap.

[Anonymous No.10532329]

Weird to see how many people seem to not know what these labels actually meant and how games got branded with them.

[Anonymous No.10532338]

>>10516959
I loved the green PS1 labels. Really made the game feel more special, despite later figuring out that it meant that if a game reached 1 million units sold, then it gets a reprint as a GH release. Wish they stuck with it, because it got worse with each generation after PS1. PS4 GH copies feel like a cheap redbox rental I found being sold at Krogers

[Anonymous No.10532539]

>>10532338
PS1 Greatest Hits were 150k (and eventually got changed to 250k) sales, not 1m sales.

[Anonymous No.10533184]

>>10530830
for v-rally, g-police and other games is true on psx.

[Anonymous No.10533217]

>>10516935
>>10527813
>The Player's Choice line was introduced for GameCube titles in January 2003. However, the sales barrier for games was decreased from 1 million, down to 450,000 by June 2003 and eventually only 250,000
Lol
Lmao

[Anonymous No.10533281]

>>10533217
tbf it was only 250k on PS2 at the time and Xbox has never given an exact amount.

[Anonymous No.10533310]

>>10533281
https://web.archive.org/web/20071012203154/http://www.us.playstation.com/News/PressReleases/127
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Hits_(PlayStation)#History
>When Sony introduced the program for PlayStation in March 1997, games could become Greatest Hits titles after selling at least 150,000 copies and being on the market for at least a year. Minimum sales required eventually rose to 250,000. When the program came to PlayStation 2 in 2002, games could become Greatest Hits titles after selling at least 400,000 copies and being on the market for at least one year
>To qualify as a PlayStation 2 “Greatest Hit,” a title must have been on the market for one year with 400,000 copies produced, proving to be a force in driving software sales and the demand for the hardware that supports it. PlayStation “Greatest Hits” game sales must be in excess of 250,000 units during the life of the product

[Anonymous No.10534583]

>>10516917
i didn't even realize they were supposed to mean anything

[Anonymous No.10534590]

>>10527813
hang on, an underwater adventure sounds fu-
>its a minigame scotformer

[Anonymous No.10535303]

>Platinum Range titles were recognisable by a platinum/silver coloured band on the game's casing, both the front and the spine. The PlayStation design used the same logo that was introduced in early 1997 for all PAL region game cases,[2] the differences being the colouring and that it indicates itself as Platinum. The PlayStation 2 design of the platinum games had a silver band to act as a border and to contain the game's original cover, which is shrunk to fill about 75% of the platinum cover. The early platinum games that were released prior to 2003 had the PlayStation logo repeated twice on the front case, once on the platinum border, and once on the original game's case. (with the original game's case dropping the PlayStation logo after 2002.) In 2005, a new featured layout was introduced; these have a black border, and silver outlines around the shrunken original game cover. There is also a red orb located at the bottom of the original game cover with the words Platinum The Best of PlayStation 2 and for PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable games respectively. The platinum band can also be seen on the manual.

>PlayStation and PlayStation 2 platinum game discs do not feature any of the original game disc design; instead, it is replaced with a simple silver design – which, along with the copyright notices around the edges, features the game's name in the centre surrounded by a black outline.

>To become a Platinum release, it was initially required that a game have over 500,000 sales in its first six months of release.[3] By 2006, the requirements had been revised to over 400,000 sales after six months on the market[4] (PAL region sales in particular; games that sell over 400,000 units in another region alone, such as Japan or the U.S., do not necessarily qualify for a Platinum title).

[Anonymous No.10535341]

>>10517024
>worms armageddon and worms pinball uses the same art
Certainly no one was confused by that