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Gamer Grunt: Pre-Loved Games

Ever go to the game store and sometimes look for the killer game that's on the shelves or to get the game which has dropped in price and it is about time to play it?

I'm not too sure if anyone's really noticed a trend with the kind of titles which are on the pre-loved shelves for many consoles, but there's a really really noticeable trend if anyone ever tried to go through them.

About 95% of the games there are just made up of really really crappy and over-rated games which doesn't actually earn the Collector's badge... that part, I don't find it hard to believe because of one thing...those games were crappy to begin with...

I know that I'll be using figures here, but hell, this pre-loved thing in Australia isn't as big as people may think... about 5% actually bother to trade in their games for something better (I wish I have more updated figures, this came from a paper in 2007, I know this because it was my professor's paper)... and that's just take a location in Australia now... Sydney is the obvious choice... about 6mil play games and 5% of that... that's 300,000 people bother to trade in games... roughly and take the CBD now... we'll be dealing with roughly that same number of preloved games on the shelves...

That's one large number of unloved games... I wonder what stores do with the games which have over flooded the shelves and can not be sold... anyways... there are just too many crappy titles in that pile and I can honestly say.... swinging in a pool of crap is equivalent to the find, though there are some real gems provided you can find them... but that's a very messy swim.

So, if you are looking to play that really crappy game that you've been looking for? Well wait about 3-5 months and it'll avalanche in price and quite badly too! Makes owning a car more over-rated than owning a crappy game.

This has given me an idea here... Making a prediction list of crappy games and classic ones! Now that Monday is exclusive for blogs like this and Friday is for game reviews... I should make a place of my own just to update a list of good and crappy games every Wednesday... if anyone can help out, please send a line through to gamergrunt@gmail.com

This list is to help out those who loves their games and aren't wiling to pay full price because it "might" be crap, well if you are considering looking at MetaCritic... I'm sorry, but chances are, game would be over-rated such as Devil May Cry 4 and Burnout Paradise.

If something is good, wait til next week