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If you don't buy it day 1, why even buy it? Unless the libeary doesn't have it, I don't see why you would buy at all, unless you somehow really want to own but don't want to pay 60 bucks.

There's a certain friction between the price of a game and my eagerness to play it. Depending on if I feel like the time is now, the Zeitgeist of a game is now, or not - that's how I decide what games to pick up and play Day 1 or not.

For other games, I make time once the price is right. Honestly though, with how many sales there have been lately, I have a lot less time than games, and I have all the time in the world. The new age conundrum. Go figure.

That's funny since you just bought Warfighter and Crysis 3 - the pinnacles of EA's bland shittiness. Maybe you'd like RE6 to round it off.

Anyway, that was just kidding, and completely beside my point.

My point is, if you wait 1-2 months, your libeary is guaranteed to have it, so if you feel like wasting the time, why even pay for the turd? And you can get sort of the same zeitgeist from being the first in line and waiting for it to pop up.

I don't quite get your meaning though, what library are you talking of? Games don't just show up for free in my library two months down the line? What?

Ain't you ever heard of a public libeary? C'mon man you must've been there at some point. But you're right, the time varies. Rayman, The Last of US and Battlefield 4 took around 2 months, while something like Diablo 3 took something like 4-5 months. But what the hell do I care, I am barely going to play that shit anyway, but hey, I might just like one of them. Turns out Last of Us was pretty good. So do you get my meaning, my dawg? Since the price is zero bucks, I might as well try them all and only pay 60 for the real big bangers.

Never heard of public libraries carrying videogames. Are you sure you aren't talking of Pirate Bay or something?

Whoa! The jaundiced eye sees all things yellow, I guess.

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@seppli said:

@grissefar said:
@seppli said:

@grissefar said:

If you don't buy it day 1, why even buy it? Unless the libeary doesn't have it, I don't see why you would buy at all, unless you somehow really want to own but don't want to pay 60 bucks.

There's a certain friction between the price of a game and my eagerness to play it. Depending on if I feel like the time is now, the Zeitgeist of a game is now, or not - that's how I decide what games to pick up and play Day 1 or not.

For other games, I make time once the price is right. Honestly though, with how many sales there have been lately, I have a lot less time than games, and I have all the time in the world. The new age conundrum. Go figure.

That's funny since you just bought Warfighter and Crysis 3 - the pinnacles of EA's bland shittiness. Maybe you'd like RE6 to round it off.

Anyway, that was just kidding, and completely beside my point.

My point is, if you wait 1-2 months, your libeary is guaranteed to have it, so if you feel like wasting the time, why even pay for the turd? And you can get sort of the same zeitgeist from being the first in line and waiting for it to pop up.

I don't quite get your meaning though, what library are you talking of? Games don't just show up for free in my library two months down the line? What?

Ain't you ever heard of a public libeary? C'mon man you must've been there at some point. But you're right, the time varies. Rayman, The Last of US and Battlefield 4 took around 2 months, while something like Diablo 3 took something like 4-5 months. But what the hell do I care, I am barely going to play that shit anyway, but hey, I might just like one of them. Turns out Last of Us was pretty good. So do you get my meaning, my dawg? Since the price is zero bucks, I might as well try them all and only pay 60 for the real big bangers.

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#3  Edited By Grissefar
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@grissefar said:

If you don't buy it day 1, why even buy it? Unless the libeary doesn't have it, I don't see why you would buy at all, unless you somehow really want to own but don't want to pay 60 bucks.

There's a certain friction between the price of a game and my eagerness to play it. Depending on if I feel like the time is now, the Zeitgeist of a game is now, or not - that's how I decide what games to pick up and play Day 1 or not.

For other games, I make time once the price is right. Honestly though, with how many sales there have been lately, I have a lot less time than games, and I have all the time in the world. The new age conundrum. Go figure.

That's funny since you just bought Warfighter and Crysis 3 - the pinnacles of EA's bland shittiness. Maybe you'd like RE6 to round it off.

Anyway, that was just kidding, and completely beside my point.

My point is, if you wait 1-2 months, your libeary is guaranteed to have it, so if you feel like wasting the time, why even pay for the turd? And you can get sort of the same zeitgeist from being the first in line and waiting for it to pop up.

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#4  Edited By Grissefar

If you don't buy it day 1, why even buy it?

Unless the libeary doesn't have it, I don't see why you would buy at all, unless you somehow really want to own but don't want to pay 60 bucks, like your Suda game or Tales game.

But your question is really easy to answer: GTA and MGS are no brainers and CoD is too, if you like that. Funny enough, thost also don't drop very much in price the first year. Outside of that, it doesn't make sense to drop 60 bucks for anything really. Especially since most games including those from 2K, EA and Ubisoft drop insanely fast.

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@grissefar: except the difference is that when I stated my opinion it wasn't as patronizing as your "nah man, you should like, watch more things man... Like totally."

Oh yeah? Well for all I know, you could still have a messed up opinion. For all I know, your favorite movie this year could be Thor 2 or Man of Steel. Heck for all I know, you love the story in the Assassin's Creed games. You get my point, so that's why I pissed in your ass earlier and sorry about that.

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Keep them puppies coming. I can't believe how cute those are.

Also, microtransactions and coop aside, DS3 is generic in the most EA-ass way possible.

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@grissefar: You're talking to a movie fanatic, who also happened to take quite a few cinema based courses in university, as well as film theory etc... I have a fairly expanded horizon as it is. Don't really need your patronizing.

But I clearly need yours, oh big cinema god.

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Listening to the day two game of the year podcasts, I couldn't help but cringe a little whenever someone mentioned that the best video game stories basically amount to the dumbest movie stories. That I think, is a ridiculous sentiment. Jeff's idea of cutting out all gameplay and stitching together the cutscenes is also ridiculous. Video games are a completely different medium then movies, and they take advantage of the fact that they even HAVE game play elements to to tell stories in a completely different way. The idea of stripping out game play and stitching together the cutscenes is like saying you go to a movie and remove all the music and see if that movie still has the same emotional impact, or removing the special effects and watching people running around in front of green screens in their dumb mo cap suits.

You can't just strip out a major element of a medium and use it to compare to another medium. The thing that makes games unique is that they are not just two hours long, but rather multiple hours long, with a level of interactivity not seen in other mediums. A lot of the times, the best games reveal their stories during game play sequences, not just during cutscenes. In fact, that was one of the reasons that Uncharted was so fantastic; it took all those scenes that would normally have just been cutscenes in other games, and made them interactive. To remove the interactive element of a game in a medium where much of the actual story is conveyed during game play is... just a weird notion.

I believe that video games have the potential to make better stories. In fact, I personally would go as far as saying that some of the most emotionally resonant stories that I have experienced have been in video games. Sure there is a lot of garbage out there in video games, but there is a ton of garbage out there when it comes to movies and books as well. Bad story telling doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the medium it's presented in.

Nah. You should try to step out of the video game box for a bit man and look at it from the. See how terrible and ridiculous it all is. You know, expand your horizon a bit.

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@grissefar: Didn't play it. Its not the game I wanted it to be. I was really disappointed with what it turned out to be. I just cant like Platinum games as much as I want to.

What kind of person are you to not like Platinum games? It's the same what makes GT6 good - a rock solid core of gameplay. Only difference is, Revengeance doesn't feel like it was made in a hospital in 1998 and then rushed to market.

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@truthtellah: Wow, I'm not sure I have much of a list.

@xyzygy: The hashtag was a joke. I am a huge forza fan too. But GT means more to me just cause its been around longer is all. If GT6 werent out I would be crying nightly since I don't have an Xbox one and cant play F5.

The list in no order:

GT6

Saints Row IV

Spacebase DF-9(Early Access)

Beyond: Two Souls

Gone Home

Rogue Legacy

Mark of the Ninja

Arma 3

The Stanley Parable

GTA V

What the fuck man. Where is Revengeance?