Greatest Hits PS2 games invading your shelf

[porlino87]

How do you feel about owning / collecting the "Greatest Hits" PS2 games. You know, the ones with the ugly red stuff on the cases.

What about the same for PS3?

[j_factor]

I avoid them. I've been lucky to get a few games in the brief window when they're Greatest Hits but only have a sticker.

Virtua Fighter 4 is a bit of a conundrum, though.

[fahlim003]

Virtua Fighter 4 is a bit of a conundrum, though.

Yeah, if you want the penultimate home version of VF4, Evolution and its red badging is the only way to go. I bought this for my friend several years ago and didn't have much issue. If more Greatest Hits releases were like this (as in significant upgrades/additions to original game) I'm certain owning a different colour badging wouldn't be a problem. I own several GH selling games but no GH print-runs of said games. I have a couple GH prints for PlayStation though (Tekken 2 and Loaded) and I don't mind. Being GH meant I was able to get a game like Tekken 2 brand new (so scratch free) and cheap many years after it came out - I'd say there's no better way to go.

[Gurn13]

I think they are ugly, so I will not get them unless there are significant additions to the gameplay. Xbox games are the same way, for instance I have both versions of Fable - the Original and the PH Lost chapters.

[iDub]

I only have one and i bought it on purpose since it only comes in the greatest hits packaging, silent hill 2: directors cut.

[maxlords]

I still don't own ANY greatest hits games. Not one....for any console.

[old_skoolin_jim]

I only have one and i bought it on purpose since it only comes in the greatest hits packaging, silent hill 2: directors cut.

Oh man! That box takes the ugly cake.
My Shadow of the Colossus was a red-striper because it was on clearance for $13 when I got it from Target in '07, otherwise I'm one of those compulsive "avoide conflicting packaging if possible" types, having successfully nabbed non-GH versions of Kingdom Hearts, RE:CVX and Okami several years after their releases.

[ScourDX]

I don't mind them as long as they have extra features not found in the original release.

[heybtbm]

I've gone moderate lengths to avoid them, but I've lightened up over the past few years. In reality they end up blending in on the shelf. I don't even notice my PS one games with the big day-glo green stripe or Dreamcast orange spines anymore.

[kupomogli]

Like others have said, I dislike them, but if they have enough extra content on them then it's fine with me.

[SpaceHarrier]

Doesn't matter much to me, though given a choice I'd take the black label -- unless that cost me an extra $20-30.

[QuickSciFi]

I've traded-in all my PS2 Greatest Hits for black-labeled spines. The only ones I'm missing now are Grand Turismo 3 and Onimusha. I did buy the Mortal Kombat three discs set, but I found it awesome enough to keep, since they were still black labels. Those red labels sure look ominous.

I wonder how I'll feel about it once I hit the PS1 hard. So far, I have Symphony of the Night Greatest Hits. That green is about as ominous as the red on the PS2.

Platinum hits on the Xbox also do that to me, but somehow, the yellow labels on GC don't. I still try to get everything original, though.

As for the DC, I'm planning to own all of them, so I want everything.

[The 1 2 P]

I've gone moderate lengths to avoid them, but I've lightened up over the past few years.

This is how I now feel about them. I'd still much rather have the original versions and have been doing this since the PS1 days. But if the GH version is only $10 new then I will gladly pick it up. Hell, half of my PS3 games are already GH versions(GOW Collection, Infamous and Killzone 2) but thats because they were all only $10 new during black friday deals. And I'll definitely pick up a GH version if it has extra content, like the already mentioned VF4.

[retroguy]

Hey guys, there's an easy solution. If you really hate the red label, but it's the cheapest one you can find, get it and print off the regular cover from somewhere. I use cdcovers.cc to find them, but I'm sure there's other sites.