It can be good to have some barriers to getting new games. You value the ones you have and obsess over them less. I can always pick up an under $10 game any day of the week at one of a dozen Gamestops in my area. It makes me a little crazy.
I totally remember doing this mad buying at the end of last gen too. As 360 and PS3 came out, I was scouring Gamestops for Xbox, PS2 and Gamecube titles on their buy2get1free sale every week, or sometimes every few days.
I got into this list thing because I got obsessed with Allgame.com's database. I would spend hours scanning through their lists and then make my own. It got overwelming, so many interesting titles from every era of gaming, so I started rating them ala Netflix to make sense of it all.
I know what you mean. I still have a humongous list of stuff, and I keep adding to it, but I've gotten the really important games. I feel I can go about buying stuff with less urgency now.
Sony might beat Microsoft this time. I casually looked around for PS4 preorders and they were all sold out at many retailers; Xbox One though? No problem. Of course Sony could be holding back on supply to make it seem that way, so who knows really.
I'm getting myself a seat to watch the crazy-go-nuts buying public this November. Who's going to win this battle of the consoles: Sony or Microsoft. Or will Nintendo come out of nowhere and sell out the Wii-U for Christmas for no apparent reason? I'm getting some carmel corn and a coffee and enjoy the show.
I play EOU in thirty minute chunks all the time. It's one dip into the labyrinth until my TP is spent and then back to the town. Sometimes I've played up to an hour straight but no more.
I just started rereading Foundation on audiobook this week! Hari Seldon is like a futuristic Nostradamus and his Encyclopedia Galactica sounds very much like Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Also, wasn't the Google founders talking about saving all human knowledge in some database too? Do they predict the fall of civilization like Hari Seldon?
I read those Philip Jose Farmer books back in High School. To Your Scattered Bodies Go sticks in my mind particularly.
I like those grippers on your PSVita. I gotta get one of those. I always feel like it's going to break being carried in my backpack.
Super open world games are really not my thing either. I always get lost in them, but Oblivion has a special place in my heart because its graphics turned me on to the 360. So with this guide I'm using, like training wheels on a tricycle I keep falling off of, I'm attempting to make the game as linear as possible and get a perfect achievement score to show off my enthusiasm on XBL. I think I've made it obvious that it's not easy for me.
Oh man! Zombie Yeti. That's serious trouble... but awesome!
I played a little bit of the very first one. Not sure why I stopped. Always been curious about this series.
