So Many Games.... How Are Deciding What To Buy Now?

I just got Fallout 4 but I cant buy any more games until I beat Batman and all of its DLC. How are you deciding what to buy? Are you just buying everygame or waiting?

I buy the stuff I am interested in?

These days I mainly just buy the games I REALLY want while they are full priced, and wait for the ones that I just want to play eventually to either go on sale or other great deals. For example... I find it much more important to buy games that heavily lean on online play or MP features day one or near the beginning as to not fall behind the learning curve. That said, most action/RPG games I can wait for since it is a new game to the person who buys it REGARDLESS of how old the game really is ;) That is why I have collected so many games over the years. A lot of kids these days will never play a lot of the classics, hidden gems, or under rated games because they think they are "old"... well my way of thinking is that no matter how "old" something is it is still "new" to someone who has never experienced it.

Happy hunting :)

I just buy everything I want while not having enough free time to play any of it. It works for me.

I buy what interests me. I'm not afraid to spend a large some of money on a hobby that I enjoy.

@lundy86_4: Money isnt the problem its trying to find time to play all these game. Not to mention the DLC that later comes out for the game you beat.

@Heroldp813: I get that people have families, and other obligations that keep time to a minimum. I'm lucky, in that i'm a young professional who works full-time, but has minimal time constraints beyond that. I can usually play a couple hours in a night if I want to. Sometimes i'll go a few days without even touching a game. Kinda depends.

I only buy very few games Day 1. But I do often have a backlog of older games that i pick up. This black friday was the first time I added to my PS4 backlog - buying 6 or 7 games (just a couple of newer releases). That will probably tide me over until at least Uncharted 4 comes out if not beyond.

Rarely buy games Day 1 anymore. Kids, GF, and work take up a lot of time. So I only pick up what I know I am going to play as soon as I get.

Easy.... Fallout won't be finished till january/February and by that time I'll buy some games that are coming out now, only at a reduced price.

Nowhere in gaming does it say anyone deserves a day 1 purchase... If I'm loaded with content to play then I get more stingy/patient with my next purchase.

Also... I've been on a kick of making sure my purchases are diverse... When I look at how I spent gaming in 2014 I want to puke... I bought like 6 games simply because they were hyped, non of which living up to it.

I'm super selective of what I buy. That doesn't mean I don't have a backlog, because I do, but I pass on most of the games people hype up because I find most of them to have shallow gameplay and little to none lasting appeal.

I shop deals and make sacrifices for games that I want but aren't worth the full price purchase. I still have too big of a backlog, though.

I decided to not buy anymore games until i played/cleaned up my backlog which is about 20games. Unless it is a VERY exciting game like the new WiiU Zelda game.

The worse thing about backlogs is when you have games in there that turn out to be dissapointing to you and some is games that can take over 100hrs to complete. Hate to force myself to play games just because i spent money at it

Yup.

Also no point in buying everything new all at once.

From now until UC4 and Gears 4 are released I have no interest in purchasing anything at all, that means I won´t buy anything in at least 5-6 months.

@aroxx_ab: The worst thing is trying to remember what the story was or what you were doing in the game after coming back months later.

I am not selective on what I buy. In the last month or two I have bought the following:

PS4 BO3 bundle, X1 Halo 5 bundle, Battlefront, Until Dawn, Rainbow Six Siege and Rise of the Tomb Raider. Not to mention squeezing in Destiny for both systems.

"BEST OF BOTH WORLDS"!! Where does all the time go?

hahaha. I totally agree. I have those issues. Did I really leave off here? What exactly was my mission? What happened before this? hahahahah. WOW!

I'm catching up on my survival horror on PS4. Evil Within and Alien Isolation were on sale on black friday so I picked them up. New games are too expensive.

I always find myself relearning the control scheme.

Hell Yeah!

Alien: Isolation is a game of the year TOP candidate IMO! Awesome Game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've had last 6 weeks off work recovering from major surgery so I've had a lot of free time lately.

I'm that time I completed fallout 4, shadow of mordor and out a lot of time into elite dangerous.

ya, and i even forget how the control is for those games, lol

That is great to hear. I'm excited to finally play it. The alien game we always dreamed we would get.

this

This entirely.

At the moment I'm pretty content. I'm playing Fallout 4, Star Craft LoV and I'm now in the Star Citizen Alpha 2.0 (baby PU) so I have plenty to keep me entertained.

I usually buy games that I have been interested in and following the development of. If they fit a genre I enjoy I usually pick it up, sometimes I pick games up on a whim because of hearing great things even though I may have never played that genre.

buy stuff I was interested in when the consoles first launched which should be good and cheap and playing catch up, while mixing in a new release here and there

Most new games are crap, so it's not that hard..

same here

That was easy.

'Batman's DLC'. If you mean Arkham Knights DLC, they're really short, shouldn't take long.

I'm bad with money, so I buy whatever, plus stuff I'm interested in.

I typically wait about a year for the GotY edition to land, and then I buy the game. I don't like paying $80-$120 to get the full experience when I can be patient and enjoy it for $40 for the base game and all the dlc.

Way I figure it, my backlog is large enough to where I am content until a game reaches the price I'm willing to pay.

I only buy games that interest me, and usually they never do. I end up wasting a lot of time checking a game out and concluding that it's not for me, but that's partly because i have almost no free time so i'm obsessively selective with what i decide on.. I love games with a unique twist to them, something memorable to experience that will leave its mark in my mind, whether by game mechanics or plot, or both.

Sometimes i get fixated on a particular franchise (or a genre) that just rubs me in all the right places, and right now i've got some nice choices to keep me going for a wile.