Game Purchases For 2008

February 21st, 2008

I’ve found that over the years I’ve collected quite a few games. I haven’t counted recently but the numbers are mind boggling. What I’ve also found that is out of all the games I buy the majority of them just sit on the shelf. I only play a handful of games at a time and when I’m done with them, which sometimes could be years, I put another game in my rotation.

So this year I’ve taken a completely different approach to my game purchases although there have been a few slip ups. I’ve focused mainly on quality titles and I’ve only purchased games on 3 platforms so far this year out of a possible 6. I’m making this list to remind myself of what games I truly want to play this year and that I’ll only be buying those games. There is some wiggle room, I’ll allow for a total of 6 game purchases outside of the list. So far I’ve already spent 3 of those.

The Buy List

Playstation 3
• LittleBigPlanet
• Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds (bought)
• Metal Gear Solid 4 ¹
• Grand Theft Auto IV (bought) ¹
• LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures
• SingStar
• Civilization Revolution
• SOCOM: Confrontation
• Fallout 3 ¹

Playstation Portable (PSP)
• Downstream Panic (bought)
• Patapon (bought)
• God of War: Chains of Olympus
• Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (bought) ¹
• NCAA Football 09 ¹
• Secret Agent Clank
• N+ ¹

Nintendo Wii
• Mario Kart Wii (bought)
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl (bought)
• Animal Crossing Wii

Nintendo DS
• Civilization Revolution

Xbox 360
• Banjo-Kazooie 3
• Gears of War 2

PC/Mac
• Mass Effect (PC) ¹
• Starcraft 2 (Mac) ²
• Spore (PC/Mac) ³

The challenge will be to see if I can hold myself to buying only games on the list. This is the first time I’ve tried to really limit what games I buy. We’ll see how it goes. So far I’ve bought a few impulse games. The only one I really wanted was a good basketball game. At least I bought it while it was on sale.

The Impulse Buy List (5 of 6)

Playstation 3
• The Bigs
• NBA 2k8
• MLB ‘08: The Show
• Karaoke Revolution

Xbox 360
• LOST
• Naruto

PC/Mac
• Sins of a Solar Empire (PC)

1. These games aren’t 100% for sure purchases. There is a slight chance I won’t buy them due to not enough time to play them, poor reviews, or lack of interest once they’re released. I won’t swap these games for other titles so it’s either the game on the list or nothing.
2. Can’t believe I forgot this one on the original list. Who knows, it may not ship this year anyway.
3. Forgot this one as well. Sort of up in the air on this one but it looks very interesting.

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