{"id":65,"date":"2015-07-31T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rustyoutlook.com\/?p=65"},"modified":"2015-07-31T09:00:23","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T14:00:23","slug":"hardcore-gamer-admits-he-prefers-buying-games-over-playing-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustyoutlook.com\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"Hardcore Gamer Admits He Prefers Buying Games Over Playing Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rustyoutlook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/game_library.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-66 size-full\" title=\"You mean people actually play these things?\" src=\"https:\/\/rustyoutlook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/game_library.png\" alt=\"Massive Game Library\" width=\"600\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a>A hardcore gamer stands proudly alongside his massive game collection spanning multiple console generations and platforms. &#8220;This isn&#8217;t even all of them. I have several thousand games in my Steam, GOG and Humble Bundle accounts.&#8221; You give him any game title for any system and he quickly pulls it out. &#8220;Metal Saga for the PS2? Right here. World Series Baseball\u00a02k1 on the Dreamcast? Yep.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He is a proud owner of several limited edition preorder specials as well. &#8220;Oh, I buy multiple copies too. One of each edition, including the eventual game of the year edition released 6 months after initial launch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With such a massive game collection, he must never run out of games to play. &#8220;Play? What do you mean. I don&#8217;t play any of them. I just buy them because I like it.&#8221; When asked if he has ever played any of the game before, he responded, &#8220;Yeah, I tried once in 2003 but couldn&#8217;t really get into it. So I just buy them and display them now.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hardcore gamer stands proudly alongside his massive game collection spanning multiple console generations and platforms. &#8220;This isn&#8217;t even all of them. I have several thousand games in my Steam, GOG and Humble Bundle accounts.&#8221; You give him any game title for any system and he quickly pulls it out. &#8220;Metal Saga for the PS2? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rustyoutlook.com\/?p=65\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardcore-gamer","tag-game-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustyoutlook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustyoutlook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustyoutlook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustyoutlook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustyoutlook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rustyoutlook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustyoutlook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustyoutlook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustyoutlook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}