@theblue: I didn't even think about waiting until E3. Think I might do that. I do follow your line of reasoning that if I sold my PS4 now, I likely could pick one up later for the same price or cheaper. That's one of the main reasons selling it doesn't scare me that much. The poo-side is that I just renewed PS Plus about a month ago for a 1-year term.
@monetarydread: Don't get me wrong: the NES, SNES, and Genesis are all securely attached to my CRT and aren't going anywhere. Those are not the consoles in question. What do you see coming to PS4 that a nearly-console-friendless person would really want? My PSN friends list is very sad right now, thanks to a lack of birth control. Regarding the 360, I've been downloading cheap PC versions of games I once played on 360, and it's sort of like playing them for the first time again (Skyrim, Vegas 2, X-Com etc.) It's that PS4, more specifically, though. Something tells to wait and see, part of me thinks I should take the money and run. I mean, I'm about $2000 in the hole right now ;-)
So I recently went back into the world of PC gaming whole hog. For the last 10 years, I had played mostly on 360, Wii and now PS4 and Wii U. Over the last few years, the amount of friends who played console online (first on 360, then PS4) dropped off considerably. The one person I played with consistently now plays on PC as well. My plan, as of now, is to scrap the 360 and the PS4 and keep the Wii U, as there's far less overlap there with the PC. I don't know whether I'm in a PC fervor right now, but I am having a hard time justifying keeping those two consoles, which I am attached to, but really wonder if the $400 (I could finish paying off my GTX970, keyboard, keypad, and mouse) is worth more to me than those consoles. I guess also, in the back of head, I think: maybe some game will come along that will get all my friends playing on console again, like Halo 2 or Bad Company 2. Far-fetched? Lastly, I am still not entirely convinced there's going to be enough good games coming out to justify holding onto the Wii U, but again, it seems the most complimentary to a PC. I know this is a weird one to get others' input on, since it's my personal situation, but just sort of wondering if anyone else has been in the same situation -- what did/would you do?
Hey guys. So I have been absent from the world of PC gaming for about a decade. Now, being happily divorced, I have taken the next plunge and have spent a little over $2000 throwing together a new PC. I'll have the Witcher 3 (free with the video card I bought) to keep me busy for a little while, but the truth of the matter is that I'll be broke for a few months, with maybe $150 allotted to game purchases in those months. I'd like to make that go as far as possible.
So my question is: Can you guys throw suggestions my way for getting the biggest bang for my buck price/content wise with limited funds in the immediate future? Are there any inexpensive steam purchases you guys and gals have made from which you feel you have got more than your money's worth?
My tastes are all over the place so any and all suggestions are appreciated.
A Samsung 51" plasma and a Toshiba 27" CRT (for NES, SNES, Genesis, PS2 etc.). I will have a CRT until the day I die, which, if that's soon, is not that impressive.
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