Your current Game Buying Habits

[Thespis721]

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]

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]

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.