Your current Game Buying Habits

Vampyr · 02-09-2010, 07:23 AM

I just buy games as they come out that I want. Renting doesn't make a lot of sense for me, as I play games slowly and need several weeks to beat them. Plus I just like having my collection.

Professor S · 02-09-2010, 07:34 AM

I only buy very highly regarded/reviewed games or trusted franchises new (Mass Effect, Bioshock, MW2, etc) that fit into my preferred genres (RPGs, RPG Action,FPS). The rest I wait until they are available used for $30 or less. I don't rent because most games I enjoy have high replayability. To give you an example, I'll be buying Bioshock 2 today, even though I doubt it will come close to living up to the original, simply because I love the franchise and the world they created and I want to know the next chapter in the story.

Recently I've found inexpensive Live Arcade games quite enjoyable, such as Pinball.

Thespis721 · 02-09-2010, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Vampyr

I just buy games as they come out that I want. Renting doesn't make a lot of sense for me, as I play games slowly and need several weeks to beat them. Plus I just like having my collection.

I'm in this boat. It takes me RIDICULOUSLY long to beat games that I actually buy them faster then I beat them, but unlike the typical compulsive buyer, I think I end up buying much less then 1 a month. I end up buying games when they are much cheaper. For example, I just beat Uncharted: Drakes' Fortune and started playing Bioshock with some Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare thrown in. These are the originals.

However I uncharacteristically sank $50 in buying Mass Effect, Ninja Gaiden 2, and Fallout 3 off the Amazon buy 2 get one free deal. I'll get to those games after I finish playing Metroid Prime 3, Okami, and Dead Space. ;-)

TheSlyMoogle · 02-09-2010, 08:57 PM

Well I used to just not buy games at all. Until June of last year I had 2 games for my 360. haha 2. I now have 10. I basically buy about a game a month. I generally buy games that catch my interest in some way, and then also end up with good reviews. This doesn't apply to fighting games, as I generally don't buy them unless I've played them at a tournament somewhere, and watch a lot of videos/read about the mechanics of the game and talk to people who play it.

Angrist · 02-10-2010, 11:23 AM

Haha Thespis, you sound like me. Last generation I bought almost every Nintendo-made game for the Cube on launch day. Some I hardly played or liked. I think I own around 30 Cube games.

This generation is much slower for me. I just got to 12 Wii games, and 6 of them were very cheap. I'm still playing games of 2 years ago.

About New Super Mario Bros. Wii: We all know it's not getting cheaper. Not ever. So you might as well buy it now.