TheMightyEthan

Usually (past 2 generations, before that I was at the mercy of my parents) I buy one console, and then will get other consoles after a few years when they've dropped in price. We'll see how that pattern holds up now that I'm no longer a student and have way more disposable income, I could see myself caving and just buying both the PS4 and 720 at launch. WiiU I'll wait until either the first Zelda or maybe a Mario game if people act like it's the best thing ever.

Or 281,474,976,710,656.

Yeah, I'd go with Gamestop for that same reason, but they don't offer release date delivery at all, or free delivery either. I'm not paying $5 to get it 4 days later than Amazon would get it to me for $1.

I was watching that going there's no fucking way this is real, it's got to be a joke... It's fucking real.

cen·sor·ship/ˈsensərˌSHip/ Noun: The practice of officially examining books, movies, etc., and suppressing unacceptable parts. It is censorship. Whether that censorship is bad is an entirely different question...

Yeah with collector's editions you're taking a gamble, cause sometimes they'll drop in price really fast but other times they're impossible to find. As far as The Darkness 2, it came out like 2 months ago, give it some time. Re: game numbers, I don't usually sell games, but I have sold a few. PS3's the weakest because I will almost always get a game on 360 or PC instead if I can. PC's the preferred system, and God only knows how many retail games I have for it, but I don't think that's fair since that counts games from like the 90's.

But my point is that I would buy more Nintendo games if they would actually drop in price eventually. It's not an issue of not having enough money to spread around on various games, it's an issue of whether this game is worth this price. As far as PS360 retail games go, I've got 14 PS3 games and 41 360 games atm, and that's with me having bought 6 PS3 games in the last 2 months and only 2 360 games in the last 6 months.

@TCP: It's meaningless to use new game prices because as we all know they're pegged at certain amounts regardless of value. Though personally I do buy games at different prices based on my perception of their value, and as I understand it most others do to (waiting for the price to drop, buying used, etc). I did oversimplify when I said content should determine price, but at least for me content and gameplay are the biggest factors in determining how much I'll pay for a game. Anyway, while doing a game in 3D will have higher dev costs than doing the same game in 2D sprites, that's not the only determiner of the cost of development, the rest of the content contributes as well. It's not even necessarily the largest cost, though in some games it certainly is. I doubt Zelda games are among those where the 3D graphics/models are the highest cost. Ultimately though the price isn't determined by cost to develop, it's determined by the value consumers perceive it to have. Braid, Limbo, Bastion, etc weren't low price because they were cheap to develop, they were low price because they didn't think they could get away with charging more for it. Granted if you know you're not going to be able to charge much for your game you're going to try harder to keep production costs down so you can still make a profit at that lower price, but I guarantee they would have sold any of those games for $60 if they thought people would buy them at that price.

Every game I own on Wii is a Nintendo game.

You're 198 in on one playthrough? Jesus. I only got 75 out of mine. Granted I will do more playthroughs at some point.

Art style should not determine price-point, content of the game should. If there's enough game there to justify the price it shouldn't matter whether it's 2D sprites or 3D models.

Haha, you don't need to make another Joker picture for me. If you decided to make another Joker picture just cause you wanted to though, I would not be opposed to you sending it to me. You can just e-mail the file to me on the e-mail on my profile. Thanks.

MS would own more if they didn't keep closing them.

I never understood what people had against this one. I loved it, particularly the multiplayer. The only consistent complaint I've heard about it was how much the execution moves left you vulnerable. The solution to which is to not use the execution moves too often. I'm not much of a multiplayer guy unless I'm playing with people I actually know, and the campaign just felt all kinds of shoddy. From what I did play of the multiplayer it was fun, but nothing to write home about.

Borderlands was okay. A big part of the problem for me was that by the time I played it everyone else was done with it so I played alone.

Oh jeez, I'd heard of Gearbox but didn't really have them associated in my mind with any specific games. Just looked them up and that's not the best pedigree...

Nintendo prices never come down.

Sony was quoted as saying, "Take that, our customers!"

I got all excited for the recent AvP game, and that burned me, so I haven't been able to get myself interested in this.

I like it, actually. How as everybody been pronouncing it? I've been reading it as "oh ex ten see".

Yeah, they'd just get into this endless cycle of trying to track down the Avatar, kill him, he's reborn elsewhere, lather, rinse, repeat. They figure it'll be easier if they just capture him and hold him prisoner, that way they don't have to worry about him being reborn for a good 70 years or so.

Because if they kill him the next Avatar will be born in the Water tribe and they'll have to start the search all over again. *Edit* - And "bender" doesn't mean the same thing over here, so that thought never occurred to me.

Also, the fact that they didn't make the package is completely beside the point. They're still selling it, with it displayed in a package that they KNOW says it includes content that it doesn't, that's misleading to consumers. Even if it were a brand-new game that had false statements about the content they wouldn't be allowed to simply keep selling it like that, they'd have to either pull the game or put some kind of warning on it.

They're putting a sticker on them. That's what they could do.