I made a change in my life with the new year 2009 (stopped drinking soda), and that has been a huge success. I've had one soda all year, and that was part of a root beer float at a dairy factory, so it could hardly have been avoided. I've been trying to think of another change for the new year 2010, and I thought about cutting back on junk food or resolving to write more or exercise more, but now I'm thinking why not also/instead cut back spending on games? I've made a real effort to spend less all year, but even so I was at over $600 at last count, and I'm probably closer to $1000, now (and that's not counting this expensive PC). I'll try to figure it up at the end of December.
What I'm thinking of doing is instituting a strict one completion, one purchase policy going forward. I could set it in stone, but then I'd have to bank completions in case there was an awesome bargain on Steam or something else came up. I might allow for exceptions here and there, just in case. Maybe for now I'll try to stick as closely to the letter of the resolution as possible, and we'll see how it goes. I'm going to go ahead and start this now ahead of the new year and see what happens.
I currently really want/plan to buy Dragon Age, Assassin's Creed 2, and Mass Effect 2, among several other lower priority games. ME2 is the only one I have to have day one, though. That means I need to complete and/or wring all I care to out of 1-3 games in the next couple of months. Can I do it? I'm in the middle of Yakuza 2 and Starcraft, and in various states of completion of Far Cry 2, Torchlight, Borderlands, Twilight Princess, Final Fantasy II, Dawn of War II, Oblivion, Fallout, Morrowind, and Titan Quest, and that's just to name a few recent ones! I've also just begun Demon's Souls. Can it be done? We'll see...
Update: Ok, it's obvious that there needs to be some provision here for games under $5 or $10. I just bought KOTOR on Steam for $2.49. There was no way I could pass that up.
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I could not resist the Black Friday temptations at Best Buy..... I picked up Left 4 Dead 2 and Dragon Age Origins for Xbox 360 for 34.99 each.
Nice pick-ups! I'm pretty excited to play Dragon Age at some point (probably after Mass Effect 2). You'll have to let me know how you like the 360 version.
Do you have/play Killzone 2 multiplayer? I'm about to hop on there.
Should have a new episode of the podcast up in the next day or so!
I don't have Killzone 2 yet. I'm waiting for that one to drop in price since I didn't find the demo terribly exciting.
Looking forward to the next podcast!
Have you ever seen this game web site? WTF?
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1096-Dragon-Age-Origins
lol, yeah Zero Punctuation. That guy rips into pretty much everything, even the games he likes. Some of it's pretty funny.
I am out of control with my game spending!! Found Uncharted 2 reduced to $40 on Amazon with free shipping. On top of that, I applied a $10 promo credit they gave to me for purchasing a game a few weeks ago. So, I got it for $30 total.
Listening to the podcast now! Nice find on KOTOR. I have that and the sequel for the original xbox. Of course, I have yet to play them....
I played around half of KOTOR emulated on the 360, and it got to be too buggy and messed up to continue. I'm hoping it will run well on vista whenever I get around to it.
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