ve been recently getting back into playing video games after graduating from college, more specifically consoles. However even before my college career, an addiction to MMOs and other online computer games, led my astray from the major consoles. I almost entirely missed out on the playstation 3 and Xbox 360 generations so now I find myself going back and playing many of the titles I missed. On top of that I have also purchased a Playstation 4 and have been playing some of the newer titles I personally find interesting.
The last time I was really into consoles over the computer was probably near a decade ago so its amazing to see the amount of video game player infrastructure that has popped up since then. Compared to the early 2000s, theres a plethora of resources out there for the regular player. Even just the social connection that consoles now have through their network platforms is amazing. The competition via statistics and trophies are some of the best additions I have seen yet.
Due to the price of crypto going up and thus having more money to spend, I started collecting some of the systems that I missed out on, specifically the PS3.I started by taking advantage of many of the new resources I hadnt seen been aware of in the past that were now available. I wanted to track the collection and I started to look for a few websites for doing so, what I ultimately found was collection.gamevaluenow.com. It is still a work in progress, but I have been volunteering a bit adding pictures and the owner is a great guy who loves games and collecting.
The site is free and offers features like tracking your collection value over time and will soon be integrated into a phone application. Like I said, I help do some remedial stuff, but the owner has many big things planned in the future. If youre interested to see my still pretty small collection you can see it here https://collection.gamevaluenow.com/share/collection?id=2413.
Another site I wanted to look into was something I could compare trophies with other people online. Im addicted to collecting things in games and showing off my progress, so the trophy systems are perfect for people like me. I found exophase.com to be one of the coolest sites I stumbled upon. There is basically an entire community of trophy collectors and game collectors who compete for the top ranked spots. You link your various network accounts like steam, PSN, Xbox live, ect and can show your friends your progress, what you are playing ect. I will never have that much time to play, but it is cool to be able to show my friends what im currently playing. If you are interested to see my profile you can check it out here. https://www.exophase.com/user/calaber24p/.
There are so many resources for players and collectors since I was last really into gaming that its amazing. I couldnt imagine that so many awesome services would be available and mostly for free. That is one of the reasons I got back into gaming, its a community of people who are dedicated simply to the love of the art and are willing to spend their own time to help others appreciate it as well. Im looking forward to playing some of the great titles ive missed from my time off and ultimately getting back into things after such a long break.
-Calaber24p