Your current Game Buying Habits

[Angrist]

Haha Thespis, you sound like me. Last generation I bought almost every Nintendo-made game for the Cube on launch day. Some I hardly played or liked. I think I own around 30 Cube games.

This generation is much slower for me. I just got to 12 Wii games, and 6 of them were very cheap. I'm still playing games of 2 years ago.

About New Super Mario Bros. Wii: We all know it's not getting cheaper. Not ever. So you might as well buy it now.

[Thespis721]

And I did. And I loved it. I'm three star coins away from completing the game!

[Blix]

Many people here have either the same problems as I do or similar ones. Lately, I have some stuff to attend in my life and it makes me feel guilty when I spend time playing a video game instead of doing some other stuff. The only thing I play are games that I can pickup again without having to remember exactly where I have been, what was the last time I did and what I have to do next. I left some Metroid Games incomplete thanks to this. I'll be very into a game, then suddenly some thing takes me away from it and I have to return to the game about a month later when I don't remember what I was supposed to do. The process of remembering little details is so frustrating that I end up just not getting back into the game. And it ALWAYS happens in the middle of a game. MMOs, on the other hand, I find easy to return to and continue my leveling and quests. But then again they're such time sinks...

And for some reason PC gaming is now my preferred gaming platform. Maybe it's the MMOs, maybe it's my love for steam (and it's weekend specials), or because I keep trying to push that expensive hardware to its limit.

[KillerGremlin]

I don't buy shit anymore. I'm currently playing Rollercoaster Tycoon/Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 on PC, and I resurrected some games on my Xbox. I've been playing the GTA: Trilogy and I play a lot of Peggle. I also play PokerStars and Counter-Strike. As for gaming purchases, I haven't lately....I bought the New Super Mario Bros. for my brother's Wii but I'm currently at college so it's just me, my PC and my trusty Xbox.

I find that my time is a lot more precious with a full class load so I spend my breaks doing a lot of casual gaming and my weekends sticking with classic games that I know are fun. I do a lot of emulation on the PC too....which is nice; my PC can smoothly do anything up to N64/PSX.

[Thespis721]

This is the greatest forum ever. It's full of a bunch of people who rarely play video games!

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Thespis721

This is the greatest forum ever. It's full of a bunch of people who rarely play video games!

And we wonder why we don't get much traffic anymore with a name like "Gametavern"...

[manasecret]

I play a game called "FE Review Manual". Every night I wrack my brain trying to remember what I learned six years ago. Fun.

[Bond]

Originally Posted by Professor S

And we wonder why we don't get much traffic anymore with a name like "Gametavern"...

So true. We're really more like a society of friends that occasionally discusses videogames than a videogame centric forum.

[ZebraRampage]

Originally Posted by manasecret

I play a game called "FE Review Manual". Every night I wrack my brain trying to remember what I learned six years ago. Fun.

It's unfortunate that you need to do that, because I took the FE Exam while I was still in school, and it wasn't too bad trying to remember everything. I hope it helps you though, because passing the FE Exam is such a relief. Good luck!

Originally Posted by Professor S

And we wonder why we don't get much traffic anymore with a name like "Gametavern"...

It really is that way. I guess we're all getting older too though, so it's only natural that we talk less about videogames.

[manasecret]

Originally Posted by ZebraRampage

It's unfortunate that you need to do that, because I took the FE Exam while I was still in school, and it wasn't too bad trying to remember everything. I hope it helps you though, because passing the FE Exam is such a relief. Good luck!

Thanks, I need it. I think I'm like 13 chapters in to a total of 56 or so. Right now I'm just finishing up Statics, with the current chapter focused on centroids. I don't ever remember doing anything with centroids.

I'm running out of time. Every chapter is supposed to take about an hour to read and do all the practice problems, but so far most of them have taken me much much longer, at least 3 hours each. That's about all the free time I have in one day. So after work I'm staying up 'til midnight every night trying to do as much as possible, but there's only so many days of doing that I can do before I need a break. And then, try as I might, I lack the discipline to work hard on the weekends.

The test is April 17. That means I have about 65 days to get through the next 43 chapters and take a practice exam or two. And optimally I'd like to have the week before the exam to just review questions and not try to stuff anymore information in my brain.

I could always cancel and take the exam in October, but I really want to be done with it and not drag it out.

[BreakABone]

Originally Posted by Thespis721

This is the greatest forum ever. It's full of a bunch of people who rarely play video games!

Its one thing you learn on the Internet, you don't actively need to own/watch/listen/play something for you to be a critic on it.

[Thespis721]

Originally Posted by BreakABone

Its one thing you learn on the Internet, you don't actively need to own/watch/listen/play something for you to be a critic on it.

The internet? Dude, that has been around since critics were critics.

Case in point... Huckleberry Finn.

[KillerGremlin]

I don't think growing up has changed my gaming habits, I think part of the issue is the current generation has soooooooo many games.

Look at BaB....he buys pretty much every new game that comes out (exaggeration, but still...). How many of those games does he actually beat?

This is a good article on the issue (and funny):
http://www.gamespy.com/articles/106/1067470p1.html


I'm poor....and when you throw in my wicked longing for nostalgia and my need to fulfill that nostalgia by playing old games....it's just an equation to buy less new games. I don't think growing up has anything to do with it at all as I plan to game for the rest of my life.

[BreakABone]

Originally Posted by KillerGremlin

I don't think growing up has changed my gaming habits, I think part of the issue is the current generation has soooooooo many games.

Look at BaB....he buys pretty much every new game that comes out (exaggeration, but still...). How many of those games does he actually beat?

This is a good article on the issue (and funny):
http://www.gamespy.com/articles/106/1067470p1.html


I'm poor....and when you throw in my wicked longing for nostalgia and my need to fulfill that nostalgia by playing old games....it's just an equation to buy less new games. I don't think growing up has anything to do with it at all as I plan to game for the rest of my life.

Well since you mentioned me by name, I thought it would be interesting to check as I haven't kept tabs myself.

Now according to my 360 profile, 73 "gameS" have been played. For some odd reason, they count Halo Waypoint, which isn't anything so gonna drop that down to 72.

Of those 72, I have questionable beaten 21 of them. I've seen the start and the finish.

That brings us down to 51 games or so. Now of those 51, I don't know how we count sports/wrestling/music/arcade games which don't really have a clear ending.

I own/have been played on my console 24 of those.
And you throw in the 5 games I've never played, but have been played on my console, it isn't a bad list of games haven't played.

Now on the Wii, I have 70 "channel" saves
9 of those are Wii channels/VC games

So we are down to 61,
Of those 61, I have beaten 18.

The second group, has....15 games.

And now for my PS3... I've beaten 3 games.

So I've beaten a grand total of 42 games this generation, which is still an impressive feat.

And played about 39 games that don't have real clear beginnings and endings.

[Terraeon]

Most of the time i buy something every other day i just got zombieland and The crystal bearers and a few days before that got an ipod touch also just got a $1000 Hd projector so i buy gizmos,Gagets and games quite often