(April 30, 2012 08:21:02 PM)Waldo Lang Schnitzeldong Wrote:  I'm careful about keeping disks clean but as for the console itself I'm not too concerned. I am wary of playing my PS3 for too long and it overheating because I was the victim of a YLOD a while ago. I don't even know if that makes a difference but you can't be too careful.

Thankfully I've never suffered YLOD, but I also worry about overheating. If I'm sitting up late into the night to complete a game in a single sitting, my PS3 can heat up really quickly. I worry about it, but it's never been an real issue.


Am I the only one that's ever been protective of controllers? XD

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I don't leave my discs out, I can be very picky with even storing their cases - I'll only have one game box off the shelf at a time, and that will be the game I'm playing. I'll make sure the disc goes back in it's box and it will go back on the shelf after.

I haven't lent a game in several years (though when I was living with my best mate a few years ago, we'd frequently play each other's games on our own consoles). The last game I remember lending someone was FFIX a good ten years ago - the day he gave it back to me, I took it out of my school bag and both the case and disc 2 had cracked

When I was living at home with my brothers and sister (and before I had my own PS2, back when had a console for the house) I'd look after the games I bought for myself and get picky with my brothers when they don't put discs back in the box. My younger brother is like that at the moment with his Wii games but not the games for his brand-new-Xbox

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Awesome responses, love hearing everyone's take and stories. Except for the lost/stolen ones. I feel your pains! I remember a long time ago, back in the early SNES days. Ever since my brother lost some NES games to a 'friend' theft, my mother would always permanent marker ever game we got with our last name on the back. Well, that didn't stop another 'friend' from claiming a few of our SNES games as his, and we knew they were ours because our name was scribbled out on the back! Oye.

Then there's the fact that I lost all but a few of my 1-5thGen Games (hundreds of games) during a cross country move. I guess that's why I'm so protective now

(April 30, 2012 02:53:02 PM)Chloe Wrote:  I will never ever leave discs out, but I'm one of those people that rarely puts them back into the right case (they just get put in the case of whatever I'm looking to play next). I'm also very conscious about not getting scratches on the screen of my handheld consoles, however not to the extent that I've actually gone out to buy a carry case yet.

Haha, that always drives me crazy when people do that with my games. I have to go through a scavenger hunt to find the game I want to play >_< "Okay.. UC is not supposed to be there, let's find UC case, Mirror's Edge is in there, okay let's find Mirror's Edge case..."

(April 30, 2012 02:53:02 PM)Chloe Wrote:  I never used to let my brothers use the main controller for my PlayStation and always made them use the second one, whether or not they were playing on their own (which thinking about it is a little silly, considering the spare controller was used much less, thus was nicer). My younger brother has been known to ragequit. I'm not so bad with that anymore, because I know if they break a controller, they'll just buy me a replacement.

Wow, being around ragequitters would change things substantially. I remember back when me and my brothers were way young, we could throw some tantrums and chuck a cartridge or controller (back then it was harder cause they had wires HAHA). But when I started to really appreciate games, we weren't big on ragequitting or throwing stuff.

I can't say I've ever been big on controllers. I remember stickering up my N64 and Gamecube controller of choice so I guess I've been selective in the past. Nowadays, it's whichever one is most charged. They build them so well and I never have to worry about kids messing with them.

(April 30, 2012 03:02:56 PM)Zero Wrote:  Well, interesting topic indeed. When I was younger, I wasn't really all that protective of games, but then again, I grew up gaming in the era where games would actually last a long time due to being protected by a nice thick plastic coating. As I grew into the era of disks though, I was a little more careful, as I tried to keep disks in cases of some kind (even if it wasn't the original.

Ah, good ol impervious game Cartridges of gaming passed, how I miss thee. Getting a batch of games from our childhood back from my oldest brother (the CD neglector), the CDs were all scratched to death but the cartridges still look solid even sitting all in a box together.

(April 30, 2012 09:28:00 PM)Varnis Wrote:  When you live in house with little brothers...you need to be 'over-protective' of your games...That's all I need to say XP

Or be the youngest brother like me! ^_^ Which is funny because I've always been the protective one of the family. Wonder how that worked.

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I had one of the first run original Xbox controllers (the really big ones) and it stood up to a lot of punishment. It was thrown, dropped and stepped on numerous times and it still worked, although the vibrate device came loose inside it and instead of vibrating it would rock from side to side.

That was back when my siblings and I had a house console. I'm more careful with my own stuff.

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I mean, I'm sensible in looking after my games and consoles, but I am not overprotective. I know people that are, who get really worried if I so much as touch their stuff, but I'm usually fairly relaxed. I wouldn't lend a game to someone I didn't trust, but as long as they put the disc back in the box what is the worst that could happen?

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I'm definitely guilty of being overprotective of my games but that's also in part to me being a little obsessive compulsive about them.

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After years of suffering my younger brother's lack of care/respect for my things, I've become rather protective when it comes to anything. He used to borrow/take my games and never put them back in the cases, they'd get scratched and lost. If I told him no, he'd tell my parents who would then make me give him my stuff. Totally sucks, but that's how it was.

These days if my brother lends something (which isn't that often thankfully) I tell him he has to look after them, put it back in its case and give it back to me as soon as. It tends to be DVDS as the only games he plays is WoW and minecraft xD

I'm dreading on the thought of leaving my playstation 3 at home when I go to Aus for a year... I'm too protective, I'd rather hide it somewhere than let anyone use it, especially my brother xD

As for cases/covers and stuff, the clear screens really annoy me, I cant stand them, however my DSi/PSP have cases to protect them from getting broken and scratched. Can't say it helps much against my rage biting, but hey... ^,^

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