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Added by Brad on Oct. 1, 2008 143 comments
Time has a way of flying by, doesn't it? I woke up this morning and all of a sudden, it got all October on us! Man, where did that come from? It's my solemn duty to inform you that in the month of October there are some video games coming out. Not like this is anything new; if you've been keeping up with this industry for any number of years, you know October is the first full month when all those games you've been fawning over in the Sears catalog will finally be out there and available to play. (Did anyone else look at games in the big thick newsprint Sears holiday catalog as a kid? Was that just a regional thing? One screenshot and a short, misinformed blurb was all it took to sell me on the latest pile of NES garbage, let me tell you. That was pre-Nintendo Power, I think.)

Anyway, I'm getting a little worried about this month. Here are just the games I have any degree of personal interest in, to say nothing of all the other releases coming down the pipeline.

This one makes the must-play list.
Oct. 7

Fracture (maybe)

Oct. 14

Dead Space
SOCOM: Confrontation
Saints Row 2

Oct. 21

Fable II
Far Cry 2
LittleBigPlanet (!!!)
C'mon, can't pass this one up either.
BioShock PS3 (yeah, again)
Midnight Club: Los Angeles
Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia

Oct. 26 - 28

Guitar Hero World Tour
C&C: Red Alert 3
MotorStorm: Pacific Rift
Fallout 3

It's sort of nuts when you see 'em all laid out like that. Who has time for all this? That triple whammy of Far Cry, Fable, and LittleBigPlanet all on the 21st seems especially cruel. And Fallout 3 seems like a game I could be happy playing in exclusivity for the whole month. I guess at some point, if you choose to carry your gaming hobby into your adult life, you have to abandon any completionist tendencies you may have been harboring, get choosy, and accept that you'll never get to play every game you're interested in, unless you never do anything else but play games, ever. Hell, we barely ever do anything else but play games around here, and even we don't get our hands on every game that we think matters (to us or you). I guess we should all be thankful there are this many potentially excellent games coming out. They could all be crappy ones.

You know, I don't even want to see what November looks like.
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144 Comments

Anglia
on Oct. 1, 2008
Man, I can't decide what to get...but my pick will probably be Deadspace or LBP.

Player1
on Oct. 1, 2008
Wow...so many games, so little time. I can't decide wether to buy Fallout, Fable, and LBP. Or to save one of them for later, so I have time to beat 2 before Gears comes out. Oh the decisions. 

Thrawn
on Oct. 1, 2008
november=gears 2

albedos_shadow
on Oct. 1, 2008
Well, I'm screwed. There goes the car payment... and the Sears catalog was the shit.

Milkman
on Oct. 1, 2008
Jesus christ, this is gonna suck. I'm only about 10 hours into Tales of Vesperia and I still got Pure, Brothers in Arms, Wipeout HD and Samuri Shodown II waiting for me. I'm not ready yet, goddamnit!

BananaKid
on Oct. 1, 2008
October 14. Blitz: The League 2. A must-play.

Jawshua
on Oct. 1, 2008
What the hell?! I'm never gonna be able to play all these games!

Crono
on Oct. 1, 2008
I will be playing the two games with 3 in them.

TDot
on Oct. 1, 2008
I'm all up on Fable 2, Little Big Planet, and Fallout 3.
C&C Red Alert and Saints Row 2 are on my maybe list.

Dimsey
on Oct. 1, 2008
I've already got Fable 2, Fallout 3 and Saints Row 2 preordered but against my better judgement I'm considering throwing more money at Far Cry 2. To begin with I wasn't interested in it at all but the more I see and hear of it the better it sounds.

JonDavis
on Oct. 1, 2008
I'm glad I'm buying a PS3.

PlasmaBeam44
on Oct. 1, 2008
There are too many frickin' games!

Tarsier
on Oct. 1, 2008
OMG I want to get them on the first day they come out but there is no way I will have that much money! :(

Dragonseer
on Oct. 1, 2008
Just pre ordered Dead Space, and I've gone this long without playing Bioshock so that is next on the list.  Oh, and Fallout 3 is my most anticipated game this year, so this is a big month alright.  I'm just waiting on an announcement for Fallout 3 and trophies, because for that game you want them to be working from the very start.

MrMiyagi
on Oct. 1, 2008
Yeah I know. It's crazy.
I'll be picking up Dead Space, Fable 2, LittleBigPlanet  and Fallout 3.

PercyChuggs
on Oct. 1, 2008
I'll be renting Far Cry 2, Saints Row 2, Dead Space, Fallout 3, and LittleBigPlanet for sure.

majnuker
on Oct. 1, 2008
WOW I realize this is gonna be an insane month too, Brad. I mean, consider the ramifications of my Senior year, when what could be the top 3 games for the PC in several years are coming out AT THE SAME TIME.

BTW November = Icing on the cake

My top picks:
Far Cry 2
Fallout 3
Deadspace (When on PC)

Maybe:
Red Alert 3(if they make the campy-ness believable)
Mirror's Edge in November

College Admissions be damned!

RollingZeppelin
on Oct. 1, 2008
Wow Brad, that thing you mentioned about the Sears catalog brought back a flood of childhood memories of when christmas was still awesome. At the time I was looking for lego sets and RC cars but still essentially the same experience. 

Sincere thanks for the good memories long forgotten. :)

Milkman
on Oct. 1, 2008
@BananaKid

For real?! FUUUCCCKKKKK!

Bartiemus
on Oct. 1, 2008
And to top it all off rock band 1 is being realised October 31 in NZ and Australia. Im getinng rock band, Fable II ,Fallout 3 and maybe Saints Row 2 if it gets good reviews a week to each game lol.



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