This summer I picked up a PS2 along with (and for) God of War (SOTC wasn't available at the time). After that I played MGS2, after that ICO, after that Shadow of The Colossus and to finish it off RE4. All in the space of 2-3 weeks. Greatest gaming summer ever. I consider them all among my favorite games ever (especially ICO, SOTC, God of War and RE4). Has anyone else played this much fantastic games in such a short period of time? It made me love gaming even more.
Because of all these great games I've grown to love I won't be able to do that again with PS3 though
It's the only way I game these days. I used to do the latest and greatest thing, but I realized the enormous amount of money I save by having a little patience.
This summer I picked up a PS2 along with (and for) God of War (SOTC wasn't available at the time). After that I played MGS2, after that ICO, after that Shadow of The Colossus and to finish it off RE4. All in the space of 2-3 weeks. Greatest gaming summer ever. I consider them all among my favorite games ever (especially ICO, SOTC, God of War and RE4). Has anyone else played this much fantastic games in such a short period of time? It made love gaming even more.
Nope, I played all apart from SOTC when they first came out.
However, I did get a Cube a couple of years after it came out and played Super Mario Sunshine, Zelda Windwaker, and Eternal Darkness all in a row, which was great!
the only trouble of purchasing a late console is trying to find some of the rare early gems like Ico and Rez... those games turn out to be more expensive now on ebay then retail price on release
the only trouble of purchasing a late console is trying to find some of the rare early gems like Ico and Rez... those games turn out to be more expensive now on ebay then retail price on release
I was able to rent ICO and SOTC. I'm still planning on buying those two games. However I expect (and hope) Sony will make them downloadable for the ps3...ICO and SOTC can't be that big...
Borys said:
God of Mother****ing War is mother****ing awesome.
Great games you bought there. Kratos is pleased
Remember: God of Mother****ing War 2 hits stores in February!
Most of them I picked up based on GAF hype, especially ICO and RE4. Didn't thought RE4 would be my kind of game (don't like 'horror' that much). Didn't knew about ICO so I just went in blind pretty much, but that was such a significant experience for me..
I was so glad when I finished God of War there was a sequal and it was only a couple of months away instead of the usual 2-3 years.
BojTrek said:
But if you are a graphics whore like me, it is sometimes a let down.
It was kind of a hurdle for me, but I expected the graphics not to be that great. But they all were very playable. God of War was an incredible powerful experience with my sound system. So much agression come through with the sound (and with the animation), sometimes I had to put it down because I couldn't take it anymore.
Even an early game like ICO had such charming animation. The image quality may not have been that great, but the art in all the games was really good.
human5892 said:
It's the only way I game these days. I used to do the latest and greatest thing, but I realized the enormous amount of money I save by having a little patience.
What it made me realize is the money I 'wasted' on supbar games I 'had' to buy because I was limiting myself to one console (xbox) and didn't have much to play between good games. I'm maybe gonna buy less games, spend a bit more money to go multi-console but have a much better game experience. (or if I manage to import games because ps3 is region free I'll probably spend less in the end).
What it made me realize is the money I 'wasted' on supbar games I 'had' to buy because I was limiting myself to one console (xbox) and didn't have much to play between good games. I'm maybe gonna buy less games, spend a bit more money to go multi-console but have a much better game experience. (or if I manage to import games because ps3 is region free I'll probably spend less in the end).
i picked up a PS1 about a year before PS2 was launched. I was in rpg gaming heaven lol. Games were cheap, plenty to choose from too. I'm still amazed I found CV:SOTN still.
....... Has anyone else played this much fantastic games in such a short period of time? It made me love gaming even more.
Because of all these great games I've grown to love I won't be able to do that again with PS3 though
I did the same last summer, with almost the same games: SotC, Ico and MGS2 (not RE4, I own a GC). Then I got God of War, Subsistence, Maximo, Maximo 2, We love Katamari, Dragon Quest VIII and DMC 3 SE.
In my case, I'm pretty confident I'll be able to do the same with the PS3.
I got a PS2 last year as well. However, I had to catch up on GCN games, play the PS2 game I was dying to play (Tales of the Abyss) and then the Wii came out. Then I got my 360. Now I have no time to finish the other PS2 games I want to play >_< I guess I'll get to it when both the 360 and Wii are having droughts and I've finished up the Xbox games I want to play. Thankfully, not much of the Xbox library interested me, I'm basically done with GCN (except Skies of Arcadia), and Wii is in a drought until probably Metroid Prime 3.
Yeah, this is a very good time to bat clean-up on the systems as stores try clear out inventory. I'm keeping my eyes peeled for a ton of stuff that I can grab for under $20 right now.
Especially Gamecube games, right now. Many outlets are slashing prices on Gamecube games since it's being discontinued. I was able to pick up Fire Emblem for 15 bucks at Sears the other day. Not too shabby.
I don't see the point of buying a system late in its lifecycle. Yes, you save far more money, but you miss all the good times you could have had enjoying your system for years. I bought my PS2 on launch day and I replaced it with a slim one. These last 6 years have been a blast. To me that's worth every penny.
I don't see the point of buying a system late in its lifecycle. Yes, you save far more money, but you miss all the good times you could have had enjoying your system for years. I bought my PS2 on launch day and I replaced it with a slim one. These last 6 years have been a blast. To me that's worth every penny.
You're not really missing any time if you are working through a backlog from the previous system. It's like TIVO, but for consoles. I'm a huge fan of buying into new generations late since I can pick up 2 to 3 times as many games for the same price as new.
I got a 360 recently and I've been playing more XBOX games than 360 games. I'm catching up on the games I missed, I've finished Ninja Gaiden, I'm playing Halo 1 +2, and I want to play Phantom Dust. Get on top of it MS!
I think MS has really dropped the ball on this fact. There is a large contingent of gamers that do this (just look at PS2 and to a lesser degree Gamecube sales). By them never dropping the price on their console and aborting production they have lost out on another million units sold (and potential future 360 customers) for the Xbox.
The only problem with waiting till the last couple of years in a generation is missing out on the great games that are limited prints. I mean, I'll probably pick up a PS2 eventually but I'll be shooting myself for not getting it earlier for ZOE2. But other than that, you can pretty much enjoy the console while waiting for the next machines to drop in price. Then you just repeat the process and buy it near the end of the generation
I don't see the point of buying a system late in its lifecycle. Yes, you save far more money, but you miss all the good times you could have had enjoying your system for years. I bought my PS2 on launch day and I replaced it with a slim one. These last 6 years have been a blast. To me that's worth every penny.
I think you should buy one primary console near launch, but it's foolish to buy more than one.
I purchased the Gamecube at the end of 2004. For less than 200 dollars I owned the console, a controller and 4 AAA games. You are pretty much insured a console that will never fail on you and you have a wealth of opinions/reviews on any future games you want to buy.
Buying a Gamecube in 2001-2002 probably sucked .. but buying it in 2004-05 is one of the best purchases you could make.
I think MS has really dropped the ball on this fact. There is a large contingent of gamers that do this (just look at PS2 and to a lesser degree Gamecube sales). By them never dropping the price on their console and aborting production they have lost out on another million units sold (and potential future 360 customers) for the Xbox.
Yeah, and the bigger tragedy is that the Xbox holds up the best of the three last gen consoles with the most HDTV support and generally better graphics.
The biggest tragedy is the state of Backwards compatibility on X360. Many Xbox1 games would still be worth playing today because of online features, not to mention many of the best on XBox still have graphics that hold up (Panzer Dragoon in particular).
Email backcomp@microsoft.com and request your favorite games (and Street Fighter Anniversary Collection).
yep. got my ps2 free in october 2004. going from ff10 -> gta:sa -> jak 1-3 to R&C 1-3 -> mgs 3 was awesome. I love the fact that my ps2 libary is twice the size of my xbox libary yet ive only spent half the money on ps2 thanks to greatist hits.
The one thing good about buying a console late in the cycle is you don't get stuck in the rut I've been in a few times. Run out buy the thing at launch (or even import and mod it) play that one maybe 2 really good launch games then it sits there for who knows how long.
Which is why i'm iffy about running out and buying a wii. Once Zelda and Rayman are done then what....it's nintendo we may not see Mario till 2009? $300+ well spent? Then again you can have my luck with system failures (except nintendo systems I still have a very well working launch SNES and Japanese launched GC). I've owned 7 -8 PS1's all died one me in one way or annother. My SECOND Ps2 is dying and my X-box I didn't touch while I was in my 2 year WoW gaming coma got jealous and I'm lucky if a CD works in it.
anyway enough babbling on one hand you do get a lot of good games all at once (haven't played a consloe game since WoW launched and well I've got a lot of great games to play now starting with FF12) but you do miss out on the fun of playing it for the first time and sharing in the joy on say GAF (or NeoGAF it's been a looong time since I've been here)
It actually is. While not late in its lifecycle, I just picked up a 360 and I have a year of backlog to catch on to. It is kinda cool but overhwelming and expensive.
Well Oblivion will tie me up for months to come and I have yet to finish FFXII
The only problem with waiting till the last couple of years in a generation is missing out on the great games that are limited prints. I mean, I'll probably pick up a PS2 eventually but I'll be shooting myself for not getting it earlier for ZOE2. But other than that, you can pretty much enjoy the console while waiting for the next machines to drop in price. Then you just repeat the process and buy it near the end of the generation
How often to games go up in value? Very few do, so the money saved by buying later in the generation more then makes up for the few classics that do go up. Plus there's nothing to stop you from buying games before owning the console either apart from the expected (play me play me) nagging that comes with them.
Or you can just buy the system at launch or slightly later and rent all your games with gamefly. Best of both worlds.
When you buy game systems late in the lifecycle, you miss out on all the online action. If you play an online game after launch, everybody has moved on by then.
This summer I picked up a PS2 along with (and for) God of War (SOTC wasn't available at the time). After that I played MGS2, after that ICO, after that Shadow of The Colossus and to finish it off RE4. All in the space of 2-3 weeks. Greatest gaming summer ever. I consider them all among my favorite games ever (especially ICO, SOTC, God of War and RE4). Has anyone else played this much fantastic games in such a short period of time? It made me love gaming even more.
Actually yeah, other than RE4 (which I already owned on cube), I played all those games last year and come on. Ico, SotC and MGS2 sucked out loud. I respect what Team Ico can do for a cinematic experience focusing on audio and visuals, but they can't do gameplay. Their philosophy in presentation should be adopted by more games, but stay away from their game design, please. God of War was enjoyable if not mindless. And I also played Okami, DQVIII and Burnout 3 which were good. Got tired of DQVIII but I'll probably pick it up again sometime.
I've been seriously thinking about picking those games up, but from the looks of it..it sounds a bit overwhelming for me, difficulty wise. I can handle Ninja Gaiden and almost completely beat that game but gave up at the garden with the flying skeleton fishes. I'm more into a God of War type experience, I had way more fun with that.
There's another game I'm seriously thinking of picking up and that's Okami. Haven't played a game like that and sounds like a very unique experience. Probably going to pick that up next summer.
Next summer I'm going to Italy for two weeks and Austria for another two weeks and going to bring the ps2 with me when I have nothing else to do. Also haven't played a Final Fantasy game ever and might buy and bring that FF12 along with me. I'm still not sure if the gameplay will be my kind of thing. I'm still yet pretty new to RPGs (KOTOR was my first and loved that, loved Oblivion too) but I really like the genre.
It's kind of funny, cause at first I was convinced PS2 didn't have my kind of games...I probably didn't want to see it either, God of War in combo with SOTC was just too impressive.
Dragmire said:
Actually yeah, other than RE4 (which I already owned on cube), I played all those games last year and come on. Ico, SotC and MGS2 sucked out loud. I respect what Team Ico can do for a cinematic experience focusing on audio and visuals, but they can't do gameplay. Their philosophy in presentation should be adopted by more games, but stay away from their game design, please. God of War was enjoyable if not mindless. And I also played Okami, DQVIII and Burnout 3 which were good. Got tired of DQVIII but I'll probably pick it up again sometime.
Actually I believe the gameplay (in ICO) had a very instrumental part in giving me the unique emotional experience I had. The simple and stripped design makes it all very organic and real, yet very mysterious.
MGS2 was a very weird experience for me, it kind of pushed me in the long cinemas, but in the end it felt kind of like a unique experiment and felt like a mix between a movie and game and in the end I grew to like it. Especially because of the great music (LOVE the 'Fortune' theme).
The fact that almost the entire game took place on one location made it feel less artificial.
Picking up a console a few years after launch IS great for prices--but there must be something wrong with me. If I buy a game at full price I feel like I'm getting my money's worth, that the game is as much as I paid for it. I bought Killer 7 for $10 and felt like it was a $10 game... I'm not afraid to pay a low price for a game, but getting FFXII for $20 will take away from what I might have experienced by paying full price at launch. My problem is that the price of a game is always in the back of my mind when I play it. If I got it that cheap then it feels that cheap. This isn't always the case but 95% of the time it is. When I get games as gifts though, I don't think about the price too much, I just think about the game itself.
Meh. Maybe it's just me. THis is why even thouh the PSP was PSX cracked and I could play an entire generation of great games--it will mean nothing to me because the games will be dirt cheap to free and I won't feel like I'm getting an experience that would amount to their original value. Probably why even though I used to have gigabytes of emulated games on my PC I was never interested in playing a damn single one.
Perhaps it's just the idea of getting 5-10 games at once where I may have gotten one and given all of my attention to it. Help?
my friend bought an Xbox1 last year and he is now bummed out at the ever shrinking space in retail stores and is witnessing the loss of support from a late opter.
early opting may be more expensive, but you pay for the extra mileage of more years of play in continuity. the last 6 years, I have opted my consoles early from their first 8 months of release
my friend bought an Xbox1 last year and he is now bummed out at the ever shrinking space in retail stores and is witnessing the loss of support from a late opter.
early opting may be more expensive, but you pay for the extra mileage of more years of play in continuity. the last 6 years, I have opted my consoles early from their first 8 months of release
It's all about finding the sweet spot where prices bottom out before they dissappear altogether. As others mentioned, you can get burned on some hard to find games, but being perceptive will find you almost everything on the cheap.
I've been tempted to get a Gamecube for this reason for a while now, but the price of component cables is keeping me from doing it. It makes me think I should just get a Wii, but then I look at the price of a Wii + GC controller + GC memory card (you need one of these for GC games right?) + Wii component cables, and it's a chunk of change. So it's back to the $60 GC component cables and the trouble of finding a Cube that supports them...back and forth...
I have been in gaming haven since I picked up both a DS Lite and PS2 this summer.
I bought Guitar Hero with my PS2 and went completely animal with that game. Then I played through SOTC which was pretty cool, if a little overhyped by GAF. Katamari Damacy was the definition of fun. Holy crap. God of War blew my face off. It was the definition of short and sweet. And now Guitar Hero II has been taking up a lot of time since I picked it up. I now have GTA:SA, the DMC box set, and We Love Katamari to play through...and then after that even more stuff. I also just picked up Burnout Revenge today which will no doubt rock hard. Too many games!!
I've been seriously thinking about picking those games up, but from the looks of it..it sounds a bit overwhelming for me, difficulty wise. I can handle Ninja Gaiden and almost completely beat that game but gave up at the garden with the flying skeleton fishes.
It's all about finding the sweet spot where prices bottom out before they dissappear altogether. As others mentioned, you can get burned on some hard to find games, but being perceptive will find you almost everything on the cheap.
I was holding out on the nextgen consoles after not playing my gba for years, ended up buying a DS mario kart bundle though and resident evil, thats all i've brought so far.
Originaly I wanted to hold out untill like 10 must have games (imo) were out, but broke down due to my gba dev work at the time and resident evil, since i'm a fan of the series.
