{"id":1440,"date":"2014-08-15T15:08:38","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T15:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2015-01-19T12:56:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T12:56:32","slug":"5-games-that-its-probably-time-to-sell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/08\/15\/5-games-that-its-probably-time-to-sell\/","title":{"rendered":"5 games that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s probably time to sell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>August is gaming month on the musicMagpie blog! To celebrate, we&#8217;ve giving away an Xbox One when you trade in selected games (<a title=\"Trade any of these games in August and you could win an Xbox One!\" href=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/2014\/08\/05\/xbox-one-trade-competition\/\">a full list of which you can find in this post<\/a>).<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Gamers like collecting things &#8211; rings, coins, magic gems and so on.<\/p>\n<p>This commitment to collecting as many things as humanly possible extends to the real world too, specifically with games themselves. A shelf full of games is like a gamer\u2019s equivalent of war medals, a visual representation of the wars we\u2019ve fought, the races we\u2019ve won and the controllers we\u2019ve smashed (curse you, <i>FIFA 14<\/i>).<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, most \u201d\u02dcold\u2019 games sit on shelves like glorified ornaments. They don\u2019t get played, which effectively renders them useless.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, we\u2019ve picked out a few common dust collectors that may be sitting on your shelf right now. <a title=\"Sell them for cash with musicMagpie\" href=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/entertainment\/sell-cds\/\">Sell them for cash with musicMagpie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1xjCdN_rWCE\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Modern Warfare <\/i>was released in 2011 and since then, <i>Black Ops 2<\/i> and <i>Ghosts<\/i> have been released (with a new game, <i>Advanced Warfare<\/i>, just around the corner).<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re a <i>Call of Duty<\/i> fan, the chances are you picked this up both of those games, which basically makes poor old <i>MW3 <\/i>obsolete. Plus, let\u2019s be honest: all of the <i>Call of Duty<\/i> games are the same and you only really need one.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Grand Theft Auto IV<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FO25p4JdB1U\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Grand Theft Auto IV <\/i>is the black sheep of the <i>GTA <\/i>franchise, blotting Rockstar\u2019s otherwise perfect record by being not quite as good as the games that came before (and after) it.<\/p>\n<p>With the release of <i>GTA V<\/i>, there\u2019s no reason to own <i>GTA IV<\/i> anymore. It\u2019s sequel is bigger, better and a lot more fun.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Assassin\u2019s Creed II<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mVWhWsgHzKM\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If <i>Assassin\u2019s Creed II <\/i>was a person, it\u2019d hobble around on a stick, moan at kids and smell like Werther\u2019s Originals. It\u2019s <b>that<\/b> old.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a good game, no doubt. But when was the last time you played it?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Far Cry 3<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J6gnOVJsCsM\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Far Cry 3<\/i> is a great game, but it pales in comparison to <i>Blood Dragon<\/i>, it\u2019s 80-themed spin-off. Seriously, we can\u2019t remember the last time we played <i>Far Cry 3<\/i> because we love <i>Blood Dragon <\/i>so much.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Mass Effect (all of them)<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iUD0M0S6zjY\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Mass Effect<\/i> is the most infuriating franchise of all time. All those hours clocked up on all three games, only for EA to chuck <b>that<\/b> ending at us. We can barely even look at the boxes on the shelf, let alone pop any of the discs into our Xbox.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Heavy Rain<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JKPPdgBK3r8\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Heavy Rain<\/i> is a great game, but one playthrough was quite enough for us. It turns out creator David Cage agrees with us, stating that playing through the game more than once will \u201d\u02dckill the magic of it\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>And we wouldn\u2019t want that, would we?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Fallout: New Vegas<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l-x-1fm2cq8\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no denying that <i>New Vegas<\/i> is good, but we\u2019re itching to get our hands on <i>Fallout 4<\/i>. We reckon a co-ordinated sell-off of <i>New Vegas<\/i> would be enough to let Bethesda and\/or Obsidian know that we\u2019re done with the old games now and we\u2019d really, really like the new one soon please.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Skyrim<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QpvM9uwOcUc\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Skyrim<\/i> isn\u2019t a game people get bored of easily, because there\u2019s just so much to do. Therein lies the problem: a quick session on <i>Skyrim<\/i> can easily turn into 48 hours without food, water or sunlight. Getting rid of\u00a0<em>Skyrim<\/em> may just be the best thing you can do for your health.*<\/p>\n<p>*<em>it isn&#8217;t.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Whatever games you want to sell, you can get an instant value for them using musicMagpie. Get <a title=\"started by clicking here\" href=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/start-selling\/basket-media\/\">started by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August is gaming month on the musicMagpie blog! To celebrate, we&#8217;ve giving away an Xbox One when you trade in selected games (a full list of which you can find in this post). Gamers like collecting things &#8211; rings, coins, magic gems and so on. This commitment to collecting as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[593],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3366,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions\/3366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}