I think fullset collecting has been a thing in the scene since atariage and nintendo age. I think it is also an easy thing for content, it is a story line beginning middle end that pays off over multiple videos. I don't think anybody is copying other channels it's pretty common in collecting even without youtube. If there ever is a list people are going to go after that dopamine hit of scratching a game off the list. Every set has that one bad game that is only desirable for Fullset collectors (color a dinosaur, packy and marlon, pga european tour, ribbit king, fritz chess) the value on those games has stayed pretty consistent, it's a rare game that only full set collectors care about and they stay around $100. The top games / grail games will continue to rise because of rarity and demand for them.
@@BlakeBickerstaff Yes. I have completed the North American and Pal Nintendo 64 (only 20 ish left of the Japanese for a full worldwide set). Finished Sega Pico, Finished Magnavox Odyssey 2, Finished Game Com, I’m 150 or so away on the North American SNES set currently with 200+ Super Famicom games, I have around 300 left on the GameCube and still early on for the NES so I haven’t counted yet. There may be some others near complete like Virtual Boy, Atari Jaguar, and Sega 32x and maybe another couple complete.
I’ve found so many good channels because of this, GamerAhmer for example. I’m not going for a full set, but I still try to find things I want for a curated collection, so following others who are going the next level is enjoyable. If they get more views it’s just more people interested in the hobby. That’s a win!
Collecting full sets makes a good RU-vid series but it really ruins the authenticity when people immediately sell those games off because then it’s obvious it was just for views. As a regular guy with no RU-vid channel I don’t see any merit behind collecting full sets I just get stuff I actually want. I am collecting all things Yoshi and thankfully that’s not a hot thing people care about so it’s fairly easy and cheap to find stuff. On a side note I want to mention that I was at SEGE and saw riff talking to so many young fans and being so genuinely nice and caring to all the kids. Lots of respect for that.
I finished the N64 set in 2016, the NES set in 2020 or so…200 or so from SNES set. I’ve been in that complete set and complete series collecting for a long time now. When I say series, I have all retro Pokémon cartridge based games CIB, all Zelda cartridge based games CIB, Mario cartridge based games CIB, etc…many different series and try to get them all CIB. My RU-vid short on my channel you can see a lot of these.
I like them, it feels like they found their style with podcast clips now. In the past their thumbnails were slightly misleading for their podcast clips which I’m sure hurt retention. At least now the people that really want to see the clips are seeing it now, probably helps them out a ton view wise.
I 100% copied all of you 😂 jk in all seriousness you all inspired me to even go for a full set and it’s been a blast going for the full ps2 set and with 1850 games in the set I have a long ways to go but like riff said it’s about the journey 😊 much love fellas! ❤️
RU-vidrs have been affecting prices on games for a long time now. It is what it is, and not something worth getting emotional over. There are a lot of games I'd never even know about if it weren't for all the videos highlighting certain genres and lesser-known games. I will never spend more than $100 on a game, and emulation is pretty much always available (at least for retro). So I'm fine with finding alternate ways to collect and play something like Lords of Thunder.
I have all complete NTSC-U consoles and games from 1980-Now I’m working on NTSC-J now as of late I have all the consoles but working on all the games what a life of gaming throughout the decades
I just completed my 8th CIB set. NES, TG16, SMS, Sega CD, Sega Saturn, Dreamcast, VB, and Wii U. I have absolutley no intention of selling any. I strictly collect games. I dont collect displays, standees, posters etc. Just games. So getting complete sets makes sense for me.
I actually enjoy watching all of you guys go on collecting journeys I don't consider it copying. Now I will say, just passing down finds from one to another rather than going out and finding them does leave a weird taste in a lot of peoples mouth.
Unpopular opinion Game set collecting is not fun to watch lol I’m sure it’s a great personal accomplishment but not as a viewer No hate, much love to yall guys Just my opinion, still here enjoying the content🎉
I love collecting things I had as a child or things I wanted as a child. I’m finding things now I never knew existed…. Don’t need/want. I’m filling my nostalgic itch. 😂
I was actually in RetroGames Plus a couple weeks ago. Drove down from Mass. Took me like 2 1/2 hours to get there. I saw the flyer for the convention, so I will definitely be there looking for turbo and snes stuff.
The general story arc of "collecting a full set of X" makes for a great roadmap to bring / grow an audience to participate in a longer term episodic series. That said, anyone with a RU-vid channel can start a set collection series. Just as network TV has had hundreds of situation comedies over the last several decades. We all remember the ones that excelled in the format - and in this format, the difference between a "meh" set collection series and a must-see series comes down to the storytelling - of both the various sellers' stories, the stories about games connection to the collector, the curated trivia about the less well known games - that makes a series memorable. Just my two cents.
I started my complete nes set , stopped at 210 and now I started the snes , got 95 , it’s hard to stop . Although I moved on to snes . I still buy nes games I need .
Gonna roll in and finish SNES & NES in 1-2 years. 11 games away from finishing FDS. Quick in and out! Now TG-16 collecting... boy lemme tell ya... 😂 Prices gonna go up because everyone is talking about these games now. It's literally inescapable. What matters now is how insane you are to keep going when others give up.
I'm not crazy enough to go for a full set for a single console, but I do go for smaller subsets. At the moment I've got 14 out of 16 on one set and 36 out of 38 on another.
@@Retrobash80 The first set is the 16 games that featured on the four European McDonalds Playstation demo discs, the second is the 38 EA home console games with the "blue banner" on the bottom, from the early/mid 2000's. I decided to go for those two because I had a lot of them in my collection anyway, and while there's some less than stellar stuff in those sets (X Squad and Catwoman come to mind) it's a good percentage of decent games, and it's been fun hunting for them.
I mean a couple years ago not everyone was even collecting games at all. Used to go to swap meet at 10 am and find nes snes games for cheap. RU-vidrs ruined the game
You think collecting the full set of a video game collection is bad, try being a completionist for action figures it's way harder and crazy expensive. Also Watta is owned by PSA that's how PSA got into video game grading and now they are doing comic book grading, funko pop, action figures, movies etc
Also crunching the numbers to see if it will cost less than $100 to cancel and rebook my airfare for RWE today so I can run up to Kris at show open. And then make a video documenting how profitable a move this was. LOL
Would you still collect games when the discs n carts start rotting? We don’t play our games anyway . Emulation is an option. I probably would but won’t pay much for them.
Complete sets is dumb… I prefer getting a collection of games I would actually want. But there are a ton of games I just don’t ever want or need… No hate on guys who want the full sets, just not for me.
