Well, I am a collector since I've got my PS3. The fact is that before I've got this one, I didn't work so I didn't have money to buy games. I only had 2-3 of them on Christmas and my birthday. I actually finished those games and re-played them a lot, as I only had a few. How many times did I play the first levels of those too-difficult NES games when it was the only console we had... Now I just buy more games than I can actually play. I realized it was crazy, but I'm still buying WAY too much games. I'm just too scared I won't be able to find them afterwards (most RPGS are only translated in English for the NA loclization, and I live in Quebec where a law prohibits sellers from marketing games that aren't bilingual, at least the case, so usually, if I don't pre-order it, I won't ever see it again.) These times I'm bidding for good prices on rare items on eBay (got Lunar 2 PSX for 30$ last month) so I can "complete" my collection of games that I dreamed of when I was younger but couldn't afford and couldnt't rent. But one thing that I started doing was trading games that I don't like. I didn't like Glory of Heracles, for example, so I traded it for a good price even though it is a DS RPG, my favorites. What's the point in keeping a game that I don't even like? Same thing for Last Rebellion, which will probably become "collectible" some day even though it's one of the worst RPGs I ever played. I also started trading "big" games like Assassin's Creed and Red Dead Redemption. Even though I liked and finished them, they aren't the kind of games that fit a "collection", unlike RPGs that are usually rarer. Oh and I also wonder if I should buy Hyperdimension Neptunia and Ar Tonelico even though they received a bad review. The collector in me wants them madly, but the player just knows I won't like them and probably never play them either.

It's true that RPGs tend to gain value over time (take Earthbound, for example), altough their prices take a serious hit when they're re-released on Virtual console/PSOne Classics (PSX FFs used to have a great value, but not anymore).

My advice would be to pre-order them in the future... I personnaly pre-order every interesting handheld RPGs that come out as I know they usually become rare less than a month after their release. What's great is that you can cancel it if the reviews are bad, and you're sure to get it if it's a great game.

What about Rambo for the NES? I think it's the first time that I actually had a moral choice to do at the beginning of the game... And well, it turned out to be one of the worst games I ever played!