After listening to the latest Bombcast where Patrick was discussing the game, I'm considering picking it up. The Quick Look was pretty entertaining, but Brad and Patrick's rants about the game's over-the-topness is what's really selling me on it. I can't justify paying $60 for it because if I bought every game I wanted for that price I'd be sleeping in the alley in a makeshift fort made of game cases. Some releases are just more important to me and although I'm not one to always consider price vs. quantity of content, when it comes to sixty dollar games I'm a bit more analytical of that.

This isn't the first time Giant Bomb has sold me on a game I couldn't care less for at it's release (I shudder at the thought of never having experienced Saints Row The Third) and wonder if anyone here on the forums picked up Asura's Wrath because of them. What would you be willing to pay for it? When it gets down to $20-$30 I'll pick it up. I guess I could rent it if I found it, but Red Box doesn't carry it and I'm not joining GameFly.

I'm intending to, but I'm also waiting till it hits $30.

I find more often than not any game I buy based on the hype usually lets me down though, Saints Row: The Third and Bayonetta didn't catch me the way I would have expected based on the bombcast ravings at the time.

I'm not speaking for the entirety of Giant Bomb, but it seems like a lot of people are done with Capcom because of how they treat DLC and honestly, I don't blame them.

For me, I think I'll wait till they do some Ultimate Edition that has every DLC included in the game.

I am contemplating it.

It doesnt look like a great game. It just looks COMPLETELY mad, and i can put money behind madness.

Nope. I'm actually not buying it because of the ending-as-DLC thing.

I received it from Lovefilm (the UK's version of Gamefly) last week. Was pretty hyped to play it after hearing the Bombers rave about it! It hasn't hit me with it's brilliance yet. Although, after last week's podcast, I know that I should wait until at least the third act until I pass judgement.

At the least, the design of the game (characters/world etc) are fucking bananas and really fantastic. Did you play the demo?

@bonorbitz: i'll probably buy it when the price drops

Maybe if I don't forget it exists by the time it' $20 bucks but probably not because of the nefarious DLC thing.

@bibamatt said:

I received it from Lovefilm (the UK's version of Gamefly) last week. Was pretty hyped to play it after hearing the Bombers rave about it! It hasn't hit me with it's brilliance yet. Although, after last week's podcast, I know that I should wait until at least the third act until I pass judgement.

At the least, the design of the game (characters/world etc) are fucking bananas and really fantastic. Did you play the demo?

Nope, I haven't played the demo but I have it on my system. I'll definitely be checking it out tonight when I get home because I first heard Patrick and Brad's discussion during my drive into work this morning and it shot up my desire to play this immensely. I LOVE it when things are fucking bananas.

i was drawn to it's dragon-ball-z-times-1000 premise, and brad's review just made me more sure i'd enjoy it. won't spend $60 for it though.

@bonorbitz said:

The Quick Look was pretty entertaining, but Brad and Patrick's rants about the game's over-the-topness is what's really selling me on it.

Poseurs.

No, but I would certainly rent it if I could find it anywhere.

I may purchase this when it's cheaper.

It's damn 30$ bucks anymore.. why does everyone keep saying $60? I got mine for $45 like two months ago, no doubt it's lower.. Also, no, i did not get this because of Giantbomb. But I did get this because of Bon and Tiwi. HUG OF DEATH

I already bought it because of Giant Bomb. As a game, it's not great but as an experience, Asura's Wrath is top-notch.

Yeah, I'm gonna rent it from an online store and smash it out in the 14 days I get it for t for $15AUD.

If it comes for cheap in a GotY box so I can get the entire game for one fixed payment (down the line when it doesn't have that new shine and the 'day 1' price premium) then the coverage has put it on my radar.

I have bought it, just because theres nothing else i really want to play right now. And yes, Giantbomb helped in the descision making process.

i think i'll gamefly it.

Yeah, I'll probably pick it up when it goes down to about £10 (also when I don't have a million other games to play). I'm usually into anything that has an OTT storyline, so I'm sure I'd enjoy it.

I might rent it or get it once it hits the ten bucks price area 9months from now

Rented it. Played it. It was pretty fun!

Returned the rental. Boom.

I'm going to pick it up because of the demo. The Giant Bomb talks about it only cement my decision.

I'm really chomping at the bit of getting this game because of the love. If there's one thing game-coverage is all about, it would be to get introduced to, or pointed towards, games we'd never ever even consider playing, so this one I feel like I have to play. I hope it gets available digitally on either PSN or Live at some point down the line as it gets cheaper. Also, it doesn't hurt that it has that huge-scale scope, much like the God Of War games, to which I respond.

I almost wanted to give it a try until Patrick said: "At one point in that game I was fist pumping!"

If i find it on some crazy deal a year or 3 later for £10 properly. I wanna play it but im not too bovered about it either way.

Maybe when it the price is about 200 SEK.

The price of this game will drop like a rock, I would advise waiting.

I'll wait for a version with the real ending on the disk.

I just like the sound of button mashing QTE's! I am also torn wether to pay full price! i really really want to!

I'll definitely pick it up... When it's cheaper...

I bought Saints Row: The Third because of Jeff raging on and on about it. Boy, was that a mistake. I have not even finished it.

In other words: No.

GO BUY AND SUPPORT IT YA FILTHY POVS! IT'S THE BEE'S KNEES!

*straightens monocle*

Nope. I played the demo and didn't enjoy at all.

I rented it solely on the Bombsquad's remarks and, while I completely see where there coming from, I'm really glad I only did that. Not that it's bad, but more that I just didn't get it quite how they did.

Brad sold me a copy of this game. I'm going to wait until it's cheaper though.

I am getting it as soon as the price drops. Not only bombcast, but also Weekend Confirmed, 8-4 play, Totally Rad Show, Eurogamer, etc, have been talking positively about it.

No.

... because I was sold on it the instant I saw the trailer of a buddah figure poking a planet :D

... which I think it the first trailer to sell me on a game since the TGS 2008 Bayonetta trailer :)

Yeah, but not until it's about $15-20. 
 
 
 
Also WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE THAT DIDN'T LIKE SAINTS ROW

When I buy it, it will be because of Giant Bomb

I would buy it right now at 50€ but my wife just gave me a big stack of games for my birthday. I can't justify a full-priced game without having played through at least half of them.

No. I'm not spending $60 for quick time events. What amounts to the video game version of some over the top anime.

There are far too many great games floating around worthy of my money. And most of them from publishers who won't try to sell me the real ending later.

After hearing more about it I'll definitely get it through gamefly & feel much better playing it than buying it when it came out with it being so short. By then the DLC should all be out & can figure out what to do about that when it arrives.

Fuck yeah!

When it's twenty bucks

Went out and bought it after the podcast. Still not convinced its a game, but my god is it a fantastic experience.

Not until I can pick it up for around $30 AUD, locally stores are all asking for $80-100 for it, and it seems the best I can do on import is about $50. I just don't really feel that comfortable paying that much for it when I didn't really enjoy the demo that much (not because of the QTEs so much as the gameplay between them).

It's $43.50 for PS3 on Amazon right now. I think it just might be time for me to snag it.

EDIT: But on topic, I was already planning on buying this game after a price-drop, but GB's coverage made me want to get the game sooner rather than later. Although now that I think about it I may just wait for all the DLC to be out first then try to find the best deal.

I keep trying to snipe a cheap copy of it from eBay or Half.com. I want to try and go sub-$30 on it, but if I have to, I'll grab a copy for $40 on Half.com.

Also, if you fuckers go buy those and then I can't get it, I will quit life.

I'll either buy it when its cheap now, or something. I do want to play it now, which is more than I could say before I heard the discussion.