This looks like the end...

**Jeremy** · 08 Sep 2004, 09:41 PM

Diff, haven't you only played a handful of the hundred+ releases in this past year?

**Stone** · 08 Sep 2004, 09:42 PM

Originally Posted by Roufuss

Because very good / overlooked games drop cheap, and don't stay around very often, so I might as well pick it up while I have the money and just get to it later.

Plus often times sale prices will go back up, and some sales are too good to refuse if you're eventually planning on buying the game anyways.

Yeah, but it seems obvious that most of the people who follow this buying pattern end up buying a ton of games, only completing a few, and then whining about how they have a 'pile of shame' or something. Spodaddy is the only person I know who can almost every game that comes out for a video game system, play and beat them all, and still seem to have a life.

**johnk_** · 08 Sep 2004, 10:13 PM

Originally Posted by Yoshi

Fuck no. Daytona and Panzer Dragoon > DC launch.

i'd assume you were joking if you didn't sound so serious just then..

i'll give you Panzer Dragoon, but the original Daytona on Saturn was just not very good at all.

regardless, those two hardly stack up to the DC's launch..

and that's without considering that the Saturn launched at about twice the price of the DC.

**Jeremy** · 08 Sep 2004, 10:15 PM

BUT it had VF, which, along with Daytona, made it a must-buy at launch for me. The DC had Sonic and near-launch, VF 3tb, making it a must-buy at launch. Plus, Shenmue looked amazing in screens, and I wanted that game the second it came out.

**NeoZeedeater** · 08 Sep 2004, 10:18 PM

Originally Posted by johnk_

i'd assume you were joking if you didn't sound so serious just then..

i'll give you Panzer Dragoon, but the original Daytona on Saturn was just not very good at all.

regardless, those two hardly stack up to the DC's launch..

and that's without considering that the Saturn launched at about twice the price of the DC.

Daytona was a graphical mess with all its pop up but the gameplay was done right.

**TobalRox** · 08 Sep 2004, 11:08 PM

Originally Posted by Jeremy

What I'll probably do with this next generation of stuff is to get the games I want ahead of time, before buying the hardware, and then have a nice armory of titles awaiting my purchase of a cheaper system.

Why not just wait until you get the system so they will be cheaper by the time you get it?

**gamevet** · 08 Sep 2004, 11:09 PM

Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater

Daytona was a graphical mess with all its pop up but the gameplay was done right.

I thought that as well. The engines sounded better too. None of the other Daytona games, did the powerslides as well as the first Saturn Daytona.

**Jeremy** · 08 Sep 2004, 11:28 PM

TobalRox, simple, because some of the stuff might not be easy to find later on.

**James** · 08 Sep 2004, 11:37 PM

With the start of the holiday season I made some decisions on my buying habits for the fall. There's just too much stuff out now to buy it all, so screw it. I'll buy what I can play, as I can play it. I might snag some of the budget-priced stuff early just because it's cheap, but otherwise it can sit on a shelf at the store and wait for me to get to it, if I manage to get to it.

Translate that two years to the future when the new consoles hit and you've got my method of dealing with it. If there's something that makes me bounce up and down with excitement I'll jump, if not it's not like there's going to be a horrible shortage when I finally get around to buying it. I'm not looking forward to the next gen but I'm not dreading it either.

I don't get tired of gaming because playing them is such a small part of my day. Three hours is generally the most I get, and that's a good day. The days of an 8-hour gaming session are long gone, and honestly I don't think I'd find it fun any more.

James