For Those Too Busy/Can't Afford To Play Everything...

[matt8204]

There seem to be so many great games coming out there days, but it can be difficult to find the time or money to play all of them. Working full-time and going to graduate school (not to mention everything else life throws at you) can eat into your gaming/recreation time. So how do you guys decide which games to spend your money on? Do you stick with games in your favorite genre, or do you look at reviews and decide to buy only the best-rated games? Is there another strategy that you use? Gamefly perhaps? Let's hear it...

[ASB37]

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My strategy is that I wait till the price of a game drops before I buy it. With sports games this is harder for me to do because the season/what sport is on tv plays a big factor in what sport game I play, but for other games I usually wait till I can get a good deal on a game.

If I can get a game or two on the cheap I don't feel as bad if I leave it on the side for awhile or don't play it as much. Oh to be young again and have countless hours of free time.

[Skyboxer]

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Know what you mean man.. it's hard to buy games back to back to back....

I actually put them all down in order of release. Then I rank them as far as interest level. I try and make sure I don't have game after game as there's no way I can spend that kind on $ back to back as more important things come first (mortgage,car - basically "life" things.)
So I buy the ones that interest me the most and when I'm ready to move on ,the other ones i wanted are usually used by then.

[Pete1210]

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My strategy is that I wait till the price of a game drops before I buy it.

Same here. Except for a few sports games and top shelf live games. This fall its just NHL 10, NBA 2K10 and CODMW2. Maybe Operation Flashpoint, depending on reviews.
Even on new games, sales can be found. NHL and MW2 I ordered on the recent Bestbuy sale. NBA is paid for with trade ins.

[gopadres]

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As you can see in my sig, I've got plenty to keep me busy. I'll most definitely buy MW2 and rent the others.

[bvb24]

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gamefly. I love it.

[Chef Matt]

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Same here. Except for a few sports games and top shelf live games. This fall its just NHL 10, NBA 2K10 and CODMW2. Maybe Operation Flashpoint, depending on reviews.
Even on new games, sales can be found. NHL and MW2 I ordered on the recent Bestbuy sale. NBA is paid for with trade ins.

I am a "wait till the price drops" guy too with the exception of COD games. I'll have MW2 day one but I planned for this and set the cash away. Also I only buy the triple A/ best reviewed games for the most part. KZ2, uncharted, COD, dead space, etc.. but I wait till they hit the bargain bin before I dig into them.

Though I did get Command and Conquer when it first eleased because I had been wanting some next gen RTS badly.

[LionsFanNJ]

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I usually pick games that i want, then i order them by how much playtime i'll get out of it. example my DO WANT list currently includes:

COD MW2
Wet
DiRT 2
Assassin's Creed 2
Uncharted 2
NBA 2k10 (or live 10 i haven't decided)
Ninja Gaiden 2 sigma or whatever the ps3 version is called

of those i know i'll play MW 2 most so thats what i'm waiting on. The rest i'll probably used bin them.

[ChaseB]

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I'm honestly not a huge fan of Gamefly because it makes me feel weird not buying something like a game (I don't rent movies etc. for the most part), but I have kind of accepted the fact that I can't buy everything. So sometimes I will buy games through Gamefly (they are cheaper that route), and I also have a 3-game-at-a-time membership through Gamefly. Generally I will rent the games I don't think I would buy, or am relatively on the fence about (right now I have Wet, Marvel and Batman out), otherwise I just buy everything.

[jmood88]

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I'm honestly not a huge fan of Gamefly because it makes me feel weird not buying something like a game (I don't rent movies etc. for the most part), but I have kind of accepted the fact that I can't buy everything. So sometimes I will buy games through Gamefly (they are cheaper that route), and I also have a 3-game-at-a-time membership through Gamefly. Generally I will rent the games I don't think I would buy, or am relatively on the fence about (right now I have Wet, Marvel and Batman out), otherwise I just buy everything.

Yeah I buy all my movies and if I'm interested in a game I'll buy it. It's a good thing I don't get interested in every game that's released. I rented a game for the first time in months yesterday only because I couldn't find a copy to buy.

[goh]

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I just go ahead and buy them anyway wich has resulted in a bunch of unfinished games. Though sometimes if I hear a game is short I'll rent instead and feel motivated to play through it because there's a time limit. Backfired on Velvet Assassin though since I ended up not finishing it.

[jfsolo]

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I use to rent a ton of games, but now I only buy games, and only the ones I really, really want. There are a lot of good to great games that I simply end up never playing. Sports and RPG's take precedent for me, along with certain developers like Bioware and Obsidian.

I haven't played either Gears of War games, any Call of Duty games, or a boat load of other top games. I miss out on a lot of great games, but when I do buy a game, 99 times out of 100 I end up really loving the game.

[mkharsh33]

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i deny my wife and children grocery money... hasn't been a problem since