Anyone else get that feeling? So many great games in a 3-4 month span. I don't think all have time to play half of them and I'll probably have to put 200-300 dollars aside just for the holidays. Don't you just wish they would spread these games out all year? How do you plan on playing these games? Spread it out until 2012 or just remove yourself from all contact of the outside world and play them all.
What games are you going to play/buy no matter what? For me Skyrim, Gears 3, Battlefield 3, Rage, Far Cry 3, Uncharted, and AC. Damn..... Blood and Semen will have to do.
EDIT: I forgot MW3...am I forgetting anything else?
How the hell am I suppose to afford all of these games?
@Grumbel said:@SSValis said:That's probably what most of us will have to do.How do you plan on playing these games?Wait a year and buy them cheap as used/Platinum/SteamSale. Gaming is incredible cheap if you have a little patience.
It's actually very easy to just pick your top 1-3 games, or at least the ones you think you'll play the most, and actually play them. Go for a Platinum maybe, put in some hours. Before you know it 2months have gone by and the other games will begin to drop.
Yeah, there is a bit of that must-buy-now thing that can actually dent your pocketbook more than it needs to. You won't PLAY all those games at once, and they won't just disappear, so you might want to plan (and even budget) things out so you get the things you absolutely can't stand to wait for and chill out on the rest until prices drop or your interests change.
I've sort of limited myself (partly by accident) to getting new releases only with stuff that I need to play before anyone even knows what they're like. Grand Theft Auto was that way for me, and I get an itchy credit card trigger finger when I think of Skyrim, but unless I was concerned about missing cresting multiplayer availability a lot of the other games can sort of hang back and fight it out in my brain's back room for the right to stay in my long-term memory.
Differentiate between which games you would like to own and which ones you would like to play through that are worth a rental. $6>$60
I use Gamefly, but I'm canceling soon since I'm leaving for a year. I'm just going to be really picky with the games I buy.
Set your gaming priorities. So many games I'm after from this year (and still a few from 2010 I wanna catch up on) but there's only a handful I'll be getting. What I'm hoping I'll be afford for the next few months is:
June - Shadows of The Damned (and through July/August that gives me time to save)
September - Resistance 3
October - Dark Souls, Twisted Metal
November - Uncharted 3, Saints Row 3
December - Profit...IN FUN!
They're all naturally sequels, because they're always more of a safe bet for me should I of really enjoyed the games prior in the franchise. With that said, though, it's been a pretty disappointing previous few months of this year with Dead Space 2 and Dragon Age 2 not living up to my expectations, nor even the originals imo.
Usually when ever a bunch of games I want are coming out around the same time I will just pre order them and every time I get paid go in and throw 5 or 10 more bucks down. Around the time the games come out they are already paid off.
Rob a bank whilst selling your kidneys and other body parts on the black market and take up prostitution while housing and smuggling illegal immigrants and pimp then out to people and sell drugs on the side.
The above is working pretty well for me.
I will buy the handful I really really want, then just wait for the other ones to drop to bargain bin price or wait for Steam to put them on Sale.
As for what ones I want, well:
Crusader8463's Mighty List Of Games He Wants To Play
Amazon usually has a $10-15 off sale for one day a week or two after a game is out. If you keep an eye out you can catch those for the titles that have them. The thing I've tried to start doing it just shift my playlist out about 3-6 months behind the release date and stuff drops off a lot in price.
Amazon.com
Most (if not all) new releases include some form of credit to use for anther purchase. Plus they have frequent sales of games a few weeks after it comes out
I just pretend that I'm a year in the past. Occasionally I'll drop 60 bucks to get a magical piece of software from the future!
It's not as hard as it sounds.
Rent, rent rent. I feel for you there's a lot of choice. I typically buy massive rpg's or multiplayer games I can't live without...
Yea, that's like all of these games.
Step 1 - Get a Job Step 2 - Get Paid Step 3 - Spend Money Step 4 - EnjoyThis.
Or, you know, you could go ahead and NOT buy these games the first day they come out and wait a couple months until they hit $30-40 new. Out of all those games, I'm sure you can probably wait a few months to play Far Cry or Rage. Even if you decide to skip MW3 for right now, there'll still be a huge amount of people playing the game months (even years) after the fact.
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