I hadn't actually bought a game since, well, probably Soul Calibur 3; mainly because I couldn't afford to due to various stuff in my life. Now I can't afford to buy a ton, but I can actually afford more than I used to. A couple weeks ago I bought Call of Duty 2, then rented CoD 3, then bought it the next day (yay for Gamefly's "keep it" thing). Then Halo 3 figures came out at the comic shop I work at, so I bought Master Chief and realized I had to have Halo 3 (I have and beat the first two).

My plan was to rent it from Gamefly, then "keep it" since it would be $20 cheaper than buying a new copy. For some reason though, I looked on Best Buy's website and found out they had the Limited Edition for $40 as well; so I bought that. I found out later that many of them were damaged and the disks inside were scratched, but I got lucky it seems. My tin was dented in the middle on both sides, and while the disks were off the pegs, they were held pretty much in place by the tin itself; so the scratches were superficial and so far, the disks work fine with absolutely no problems. I'm loving the game, though I can tell I'm breezing through it pretty quickly.

Since I kept CoD 3, I was sent the next available game I had on my queue, which was Devil May Cry 4. While it's fun initially, there really isn't much new since the first one, so I know I won't keep it for long, much less buy it. It also has way too many pointless cutscenes. Yes, Dante and Nero can do cool stuff, move on to the playing, please!

And now Tuesday is the release of Soul Calibur 4, which I will do the rare thing of buying it on the release day, and even be (likely) getting the Limited Edition for that as well. Best Buy has it for just $10 more than the regular version, so why not? :P My editor on Grrlgamer is reviewing it (which, Didi, is so not fair. You did 3! :P ;) ) The one review I found makes it sound so much better than the third one, and similar to what I really liked about the second.

SC4 will probably be the last game I buy for awhile; at least new game. There are some I want that are coming out in the fall, but most of them I'll either wait for a review copy or just rent it first.

For now, though, I have quite a bit to play.