I keep my games nowadays, after I found out that shops pay you only half of what they're worth on reselling. I would only sell the games I didn't like anyway.

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I can't recall a DS game I actually finished, so I guess the jury is out... but for most games like RPGs, I typically just put it away and go to the next one. Then a year or two later I replay it to remember what happened in the story.

For certain RPGs with multiple character choices (like Knights of the Old Republic, NWN or NWN2, or Mass Effect) I restart it with a different character class and try it again for the new playstyle, though usually not to completion. And for others such as Fire Emblem, I play with different party members to get their conversations and so forth.

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I must have gone through 25-30 DS games, but my collection always stays at a steady 10-15 games.

If it isn't something spectacular - TWEWY, Sonic Rush - then I usually end up selling the game or lending them to someone else. Though, the overriding temptation is always to sell. Seeing as I import my games from the US, a weak dollar means I always seem to make a 50% profit. But sometimes I regret it - I really need buy another Canvas Curse.

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I'll lend it to a friend for a while and come back to it another day. That is, assuming there is re-playable content. I keep my Phoenix Wright's to lend out for now. I'll probably trade them in at some point.

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Any game worth playing is worth keeping. Especially RPGs. After all I have my son coming up into videogame age in 6 or 7 years. I need to make sure he gets an education in the classics ya know.

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I sold Polarium back to EB because I was young and needed the money (yeah, I was in bad shape). Mostly, I keep my games. I traded Castlevania: DoS to my friend for New Super Mario Bros. but that's about it.

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I keep them. Even if I don't like the game, I don't sell it simply for the reason that you don't even get half the price back. Plus, it's nice to see those boxes stacked on top of each other.

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Between me and my siblings (we're 4 in total) one of us always has a DS game the other doesn't.

I'm the one with the biggest collection, and the only one who actually buys DS games on a consistent basis. So when I finish one game, I pass that on to one of my 3 sibs. Then when they finish it, they pass it on to another one.

This cycle lasts quite a while actually -- we're slow players. ^_^

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Only in the past two years or so have I become a person who permanently keeps whatever games I purchase. I'm just now out of my cash-strapped teenage years, in which I had to get rid of most of my N64, PS1, Gamecube, and GBA games on separate occasions. At great expense I'm now trying to buy them all back, but apparently most of the things I once owned have retained their value and it's making attaining complete copies pretty frustrating. It's not so much that I have a lot more money now that I'm in college, but I'm very lightly into game collecting and have realized that many games hold part of their retail value for years, and since I'm so close to completing my education and having a steady occupation anyway there's no longer any need for me to worry about squeezing every cent I can out of my own games. Although my collection is nowhere near as impressive as the one pictured, it still gives me a lot of pride to see all my DS games lined up on my shelf.

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My friends and I keep all of our games then every once a while, we trade them amongst each other to play games that we don't have.

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Memorizers like Touch Detective and Picross get sold. Games I'm no longer interested in playing get sold. Even if I only get $1, that $1 does more for me than a game that only gathers dust on my shelf—and who knows, finding La Pucelle Tactics in the used games bin might make some fangirl's day.

Jury's still out on series like Etrian Odyssey and Trauma Center. In the long run, I imagine I only NEED one of each. The question is whether one game from each series will prove itself superior enough for me to sell the other, or whether both games will distinguish themselves enough to be worth keeping.

(I'm betting that TC2 and EO1 will get the axe, though.)

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I rarely, rarely, rarely trade in. As such I have a huge library of old PSX, PS2, Gameboy, Gameboy Color, and Gameboy Advance games on top of the games I have for my current gen consoles (PS3, PSP, DS).

The problem now is finding where they're all stored. Well, I know where most are. But, for example, I was trying to find my Pokemon Ruby for linking to my Pokemon Pearl and I can't seem to find it anywhere.

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I try to only buy games I like, so if I like a game I'll probably want to play it again at some point. :P

Also, getting rid of a game is a sure way to make myself want to play it. xP

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I ususally trade those bad boys in. I know you only get a fraction of the original cost, but it's better then nothing. I'd rather get $10 off a new game than let an unplayed game sit there and collect dust...

However, good games like Advance Wars get kept in the vault!

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I'm really bad at letting go of games, regardless of system. I don't know why I can't give up games, for trade, cash, whatever. Although, I don't buy a lot of games so the ones I do get are ones I usually play again and again, even if there is an "end."

I think one thing that always stopped me from giving up games is that I always felt scammed when I tried to resell them. Maybe I wait too long to get a fair resell price, but when I take a stack of games in and only get $5 store credit, it's just not worth it.

I know some people that get a new game every week, but I just can't keep up with that. Maybe I could have back in school, but now a game that requires only 20+ hours of play will last me months.

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