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Daniel Golding
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| POTW: The Christmas game glut by Daniel |  | | PALGN Feature: How many games will bankrupt you this holiday season? | | [View Article] |
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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How many games does Guitar Hero 4 count as? 
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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| tbenton wrote: | | How many games does Guitar Hero 4 count as? |
HIOH!
There is a heap of games coming, And even more work will be following close behind.
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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only the ones on special that I want in the Boxing and New Year sales XD
I've never really ever get games for Christmas as most of my family/friends are all computer/game illiterate and would likely do something like buy me an XBOX game for my PS3 or something like that  or are too poor to even bother thinking about a game... plus I'm very picky about what games I like so yeah, not too many unless they're on sale 
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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Too many i am afraid: A tentative list
From october:
Saints row 2
Fable2
Skate 2
Fallout 3
Gears of war 2
Guitar hero 4
Brothers in Arms
Call of Duty 5
scary stuff 
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The top games I am definitely getting on launch
Resistance 2
COD5
Prince of Persia
MK vs DC
GOW2
Midnight Club
PES2009
Dead Space
Far Cry 2
Bioshock (just bought my 360 so rather get the PS3 version)
Getting all those games is one thing, finding the time to accomodate them is another. And I really fear for my internet bandwidth with so much gaming time I will be spending online
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i think fallout3 should keep me going for quite some time
everything else is just an unnecessary distraction!
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It hardly makes sense to buy so many games on launch. Why not finish one then move to
the next on your list? This way they come down in price and you'll lose waaay less moneys!
Meh.
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Top tier for me is Skate 2 and Prince of Persia.
2nd tier that I will almost certainly get unless something unexpectedly terrible happens:
Mirror's Edge, Fable 2, Left For Dead, Guitar Hero: World Tour, Tales of Vesperia, Saints Row 2, Fallout 3, Rock Band 2 (if it ever actually comes out), Shaun White Snowboarding, Bionic Commando, Brutal Legend
And THIRD tier that I'm keeping an eye on:
Dungeon Hero, Destroy All Humans, Spiderman: Web of Shadows, Midnight Club: LA, Rise of the Argonauts, Dead Space, Silent Hill: Homecoming, Velvet Assassin, Call of Duty: World at War, Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising, The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon
Bloody hell.
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All of these for PS3:
Silent hill Homecoming US Version (Preordered from Playasia as I'm not waiting till late november dammit))
Eternal Sonata (Preorderd from Playasia)
Little Big Planet
Bioshock
Motorstorm 2
Fallout 3
Resistance 2
Valkyrie Chronicles
Tomb Raider Underworld
Mirror's Edge
+Soccer Game...(Usually PES but this year I'm not sure yet...)
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There should have been more options to differentiate above 5 or more 
LittleBigPlanet
Resistance 2
Mirror's Edge
MotorStorm: Pacific Rift
Gears of War 2
Call of Duty: World at War
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway
Guitar Hero: World Tour
SOCOM: Confrontation
Wipeout HD
Saints Row 2
Far Cry 2
Left 4 Dead
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| BoomBoom wrote: | It hardly makes sense to buy so many games on launch. Why not finish one then move to
the next on your list? This way they come down in price and you'll lose waaay less moneys!
Meh. |
I think it makes alot of sense to buy on Launch.....you can get some great Collectors Editions, you get a game you've been waiting and are excited for striaght away and its often cheaper.
On Launch pretty much every game is on sale for $15-$20 cheaper.......then it goes up to normal retail price, so often you don't save money waiting. For instance. I got Call of Duty World at War for $45 threw the EB sale. It was the deal at GAME for trade 3 get it free. I highly doubt this title will be $45 for a long time. So I saved money.
But I also see where you're coming from.....You get several games at once and have back log. But I can't resist getting games on launch...There's something about getting a highly anticipated game on day 1.
As for games I'm getting, here is a list:
De Blob
Warioland
Midnight Club LA
Fable 2
Far Cry 2
Call of Duty World at War
Guitar Hero World Tour
Dead Space
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| zeldamario wrote: |
On Launch pretty much every game is on sale for $15-$20 cheaper.......then it goes up to normal retail price, so often you don't save money waiting. For instance. I got Call of Duty World at War for $45 threw the EB sale. It was the deal at GAME for trade 3 get it free. I highly doubt this title will be $45 for a long time. So I saved money. |
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but I bought 2 360 games at EB for $45 all up and used it with a game I already had to get
Call of Duty World at War at GAME.
So $45 for Call of Duty World at War
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well from the looks of your post here, you didnt really get it for $45, you got it for $45 + a game you already had, to which you most likely payed $50 or over, even so even if you did pay $25- 30 odd, thats not saving you much more than if you went to JB and got it for $79 or bought it a few days later on the forums for like $60.
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Definately five or more.. definately:
Dead Space
BioShock
LittleBigPlanet
Fallout 3
MotorStorm 2: Pacific Rift
Resistance 2
Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe
Tomb Raider: Underworld
Fable 2
Left 4 Dead
Gears of War 2
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I said, and plan for, two (I don't have a high PC or Xbox/PS3 so that wipes out a lot that I would like to purchase), but I will no doubt find some 'bargins' and end up spending way too much even though I'm trying to save money...
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I have to buy all my games on launch. I have a funny habit of finishing games within a day or so, so Christmas actually keeps me going for a long time
Thank god for games like Spore and Guitar Hero which can keep me gaming whilst I wait for the new stuff.
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GTA4 PC + a new video card to make it pretty...
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I voted two (Gears 2 and GH:WT) but that would be three if I had a PS3 becasue of Little big Planet. GH:WT is going to last me months and months and is a steal for $290 (apparently JB is selling it for this price). Sure it's the price of three games, but I'll play it for longer and get more fun than I would out of playing three games. Also Gears is my second or third favourite game this gen, so of course I will be buying its sequil. Recap, my answer is two.
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5 or more for me... sheesh, always an expensive time of year!
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Mirror's Edge
Fallout 3
Prince of Persia
Spider-Man: Web of Shadows
Lego Batman
Tomb Raider Underworld
And that's being quite judicious. If I extended that list to all the games I might buy I'd be in serious peril.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:44 am Post subject: |
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Probably just Guitar Hero World Tour. Maybe Silent Hill if it reviews well.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 11:05 am Post subject: |
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30+, probably closer to 50 actually, 5 is just not enough
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 11:35 am Post subject: |
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Zero, rarely do I buy anything on launch or through sale periods since no one matches anything so you're stuck with store prices period.
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I'll only be allowed to buy two
even though the want list is longer than my arm span (2m) 
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