Ah yes! The legacy continues. Ever since I was young, I have been buying a Playstation is my primary console and Nintendo console as my secondary. Just last week I got my orgasm in a box. I think it's called Playstation 3. Now let me tell you, after buying the Wii as my first new gen. console, I am exhausted. I was at a breaking point because I couldn't find much to play on Wii; and on top of that, I was on the outside looking in. I was forced to watch all the hot new titles that the PS3 and 360. The library on the PS3 is great (lacks exclusives, I know) and I am so looking foward to blowing off my next couple salaries on PS3 games.

My checklist:

OWN:
Grand Theft Auto: IV
The Orange Box
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

WANT:
Assassin's Creed
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Devil May Cry 4
Burnout: Paradise
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
Ninja Gaiden Sigma
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit

Cheers to a 3 generation legacy 8)
Your truly, ManSheepCow

I've been starting to doubt my "hardcore gamer" status. The reason is because a lot of my games have scores of at least an 8.5. "Why is this a bad thing?" I may be saying to pretend like you're the one asking it. It all started when I was young. I very often bought crap games. I spent money on games that were horrible and because of so I slowly got tired of games. It was only until I bought God of War (PS2) that I got myself back into gaming. Now I had never played God of War but I had heard it being hyped.. a lot. So I checked it out at Gamespot.com and saw it's score (9.3). I decided to buy it and from then on I've been dependant on scores.

So, now I feel that I strictly buy games if they're acclaimed. This may be because I am scared to go back to experimenting with games that I know not much about. I don't know if it's a bad thing but I feel like my enjoyment of games varies depending on its score. I tend to (fakely) enjoy games a lot more when it scores something like a 9 and enjoy games less when I know in the back of my mind that it scored low. I even cought myself buying games that I was not very much interested in just because it's acclaimed by my gaming peers. I think it's just so I look like I have an amaing taste in games.

This may not be a bad thing though. I've gotten some amaing gaming experiences from it and truth be told, I have never regreted buying a game thus far. But I know feel to high and mighty to be playing 7/10 titles. I think I've sacraficed curiosity for games that I'm being told are good. Whether I do or don't enjoy it may be subcontious. Either way, I've played games that I'd normally never play and I (think) truly enjoy them.

So collector or true gamer? Maybe a little bit of both; or maybe a lot more of one.