Do you usually rent or buy a video game?

 When a new game comes out, I usually go out and buy it. But about two or so months after release, I start regretting that I purchased instead of just renting it. Once I am done with a game, it just usually sits on the shelf. 

It depends on the type of game, renting games is almost dead, but I wish I could rent some games but I really love being able to replay, replay,

Buy.  I haven't rented a game in years.

I buy, I only get ones that I really want and that get reviewed with at least 4 stars though. This list still tends to be rather large of course.

For the most part, I buy games. Those games usually have to be either RPGs or have multiplayer though.

" Buy.  I haven't rented a game in years. "

Used to rent a lot of games, but my rental place closed down last year. Now i buy everything i play. I miss the option of being able to rent a game though, seeing as there's no rental places around here at all now and gamefly isn't in Canada. I end up making a lot more purchases that i've come to regret compared to when i had the option of renting something.

I rent a lot through game-fly. I'd say about 1/2 - 3/4 of the games I play are rentals from gamefly.

I've bought nearly every game I've played. If a game seems really short and not worth the full price tag, I'll just wait until it's cheap. Now that I'm a PC gamer too, many steam sales make really solid games cheaper to buy than they would be to rent for a few days. (Just picked up Red Faction Guerilla for $5.)

I occasionally rent. Usually it's on a whim, when I'm bored and don't want to spend a ton of money. 
I primary buy the games I really want to play.

 
Buy. I haven't rented a game since the N64.

I rarely ever rent anything at all. I tend to buy the games I play, but sometimes very long after launch. I don't like to spend $60 on a game I might like, but in the case of things I know I will love, I will throw out over a hundred bones. Rock Band 3 and Starcraft being my recent splurges. 
 
I wouldn't have bought Halo Reach if it wasn't $40.Generally the $40 line is what I can comfortably afford for a game I know I will enjoy. 
 
All that crap said, I totally buy way too many games, but most of mine are purchased for the sub-thirty dollar pricepoint.

Depends on the game really. If it is a game that i've read up on or played its predecessors, I usually buy it. If its a new game, or one that I have heard very little of I will usually borrow or rent the game.

"Why rent when you can own?" - Jeff Gerstman

I buy my games. Game rentals are really not that big of a thing in Finland, and I really like to have a big collection of games.

Buy. Rather play a game at my own pace then have a return date dictate how long I spend with it.

I play PC games so you can't rent games.

I usually purchase all my games. If there's a game I'm not interested enough to outright BUY, chances are I'm not going to have the time to play it either.

Now that Blockbuster online has added game rentals to its service free of charge, I'll be renting the linear, single playthrough games like God of War & Assassin's Creed, and buying the large, open-world RPGs like Fallout & Oblivion, along with whatever my chosen online shooter is at the time.

Both.  I have a subscription to Gamefly and I play all the games not really worth a full (or even bargain) purchase.  Games I will only play once in my life and games that will take just a couple of days to get through.  Games I plan to replay over and over I buy.  Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is something I play over and over.  That's a buy.  Halo ODST took 2-1/2 nights to breeze through the single player.  That's a rental.

Buy; mainly becuase I want to further build my collection, but also because I usually end up really liking the game of which I watch trailers of or have played the demo.

I always buy my games. For me, time is the limiting factor, not money, and I already have a huge backlog of games I have to get through. Even if there was someplace I could rent games from (there's not, to my knowledge), I probably would've preferred to buy them anyway. Besides, it's nice to have them available in the shelf if I ever feel nostalgic (say, if I want to check out how Red Dead Redemption's holding up five years down the road).

I have usually bought them (which is why I have played not as many games as I would have liked to over the years), but in Januart I finally started GameFly and have rented a lot more games so far this year than bought.  The only new game I plan to buy is Call of Duty: Black Ops.  The rest of the games I will rest beginning December when my semester ends.

If I can finish a game over a weekend I will rent it(Enslaved). I dont care about achievements/trophies so once I finish a game I am done with it.
I only buy big RPG`s (Fallout, Dragon AGE etc,) good open world games(AC2, RDR) and 1 or 2 FPS every year for the multiplayer.

I ahve never rented a game, but I don't tend to play games that you wouldn't want to play after you complete it.

My friend runs a few indie games shops in the South so he sends me new releases for everything but the Wii.  Which is nice.

I usually buy. At this point in my life I have enough disposable income to buy what I have time to play.  Also renting games where I live is a waste of time. Blockbuster is the closest and best stocked store, but they never have what I what when I want it.  If I relied on them I would be waiting months to play games as they are always out of anything new.

Completely depends on the game, my interest in said game, and my financial situation at the time.

Buy. Though most of my collection consists of used games that I bought for about $15 a piece.

I havm't rented a game since the Megadrive. I'm not against it but I just like having a huge shelf of games, even if they aren't all amazing.

Rent. I only have 7 games, yet I've played like 30-40. 

Haven't rented a game since I was 7.