Poll: What do you do with games you've beaten?

[Onyx Oblivion]

Sell them, assuming they are long RPGs with low replay value. I sell a lot of RPGs...

 

[ssgt splatter]

I keep it for awhile jusst in case I want to play it again. Some games however I will sell when I don't want to see it sitting on the ground collecting dust.

Left 4 Dead 2 and Assassin's Creed Brotherhood are two such games right now.

 

[VaudevillianVeteran]

I keep them, put them away and most likely play them again in a year or two's time. Unless the game was terrible and I definitely wouldn't play it again, then I sell it/trade it in.

 

[warprincenataku]

I rarely play a game more than once. Usually it takes a well put together RPG or a RTS to keep me playing more.

Games like Oblivion, Saints Row 2, Fallout 3 and the Civilization franchise tend to stay on my gaming shelf. Everything else is usually forgotten.

 

[joshthor]

i pee on them.

 

[linwolf]

Keep them, I won't get a game unless I believe that they are worth keeping. Games are far to expensive for anything else.

 

[Drakmorg]

I used to sell games after I'd beaten them. But eventually that started biting me in the ass when I wanted to play some of my old games again and I had to either rent them or buy them again.

Not really a bad decision since game retailers rarely ever make it worthwhile for me to trade in anyway.

 

[badgersprite]

Keep them. Usually, if I like it, I try to beat it again in a different way, either through getting achievements or by trying to do things I missed or doing it on a harder difficulty or as a different class, etc.

I also keep games I don't beat (because I dislike them) because I never know when I'll want to take it on purely for satisfaction.

 

[Gladiateher]

I keep them between a badass set of antique bookends that are shaped like globes on a shelf near my computer. I like to think one day i'll have a study and i'll line it's walls with them lol.

 

[moretimethansense]

I keep most, sell maybe a third, I only sell the ones that have no replay value AND left no real impression on me.

 

[Clockworkjester1295]

I never sell my games, even if they are the worst, most unplayable piece of crap under the sun, i still keep them. Although i have obsessive compulsive hoarding disorder, so that may have a say in why i do it, because i do own a few games that are beyond terrible, and ive only played them for, say, 20 minutes each. Yet i still keep them. I even have double copies of some games.

I have 3 copies of Forza Motorsport 2's because of back in the day when almost every Xbox 360 console came with a copy of them game. I have 3 Xbox's because my father seems to think we need one in every lounge room in the house... and also the dining room >.<

 

[Woodsey]

I very rarely get rid of games - biggest regret was getting rid of Chaos Theory.

Never again.

 

[V8 Ninja]

I usually keep them. It's always nice to have the option to go back to a game when you want to play it. That and I have bought a LOT of games off of Steam, meaning that there's really no other choice for me.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

Keep them. I sold my PS1 and my 20ish games for it and really regret it, same with a bunch of gameboy games. I rarely sell games anymore.

 

[ZeroMachine]

I keep them. With very rare exceptions, I usually enjoy games the second time through, because at that point I know what I HAVE to do, so I can spend more time on what I CAN do. I can also pay more attention to the little interesting bits of a game's story and/or universe when I'm not having myself bombarded with the big stuff.

I think the only exception to that rule in recent history would be Alan Wake.

 

[ShifterChaos]

Ill rarely sell a game, and if I do ever give a game to a friend, I ask for it back once they have beaten it, but leave the offer for them to take it back whenever. Did I mention in my group of friends, we ALL do this. It cuts down of cost by a crapton (Im very precise in my measurements)!

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Most of the time I'll replay a level I enjoyed or thought too hard, then I'll just pack the game away then play it who knows how long later.

 

[Pariah87]

Money is far too tight for me to just keep games sitting on a shelf. Blockbuster have a deal here where if yu trade in a recent game you can get a brand new one for £14.99 instead of £40. Aha says I, that'll do nicely.

As a result, I'll get a game for £15, Black Ops for example. I'll do what I want to do with it, complete it, get as many achievements as I can, then take it down, trade it in and get Dead Space 2 for £15.

Some games I have kept, mainly because their trade in value isn't worth it now and I know I can get the 1000/1000 score on them when I go back to them. Viking: Battle of Asgaard.

I don't really see the point in collecting things. Movies I rent or wait untill they come on TV for free, Games I work on a constant cycle of trading, Books I borrow. I don't like spending money on something for it to just sit there.

 

[Cavan]

I usually try and play around with other modes and achievements, so after beating a game on normal I might immediately jump back in on the hardest setting it will let me.

Apart from that I leave it until the storyline and mechanics are a little duller in my mind, so that going back to it feels more like getting an old friend back than more of the same

 

[Haydyn]

Depends on the game. I've played through Resident Evil 5 dozens of times. Some games I just want to get to the end to say I have beat it and never pick it up again.

Edit: Also, to get out of the game a whole playthrough. The game has something to offer, and I often want to see the story to the end. That and achievements.