At the current rate video game prices are, I wonder...

Do you still purchase games worth $60, even though one day it will be $20?

And, have you ever had buyer's remorse acquiring a 50 or 60 dollar game only to see it 10-12 months later (depending on how good the sales were) worth $20?

Not really, but I have brought high price games that suck like hell. Final Fanatsy crystal chronicles being one of them.

I buy my games at a pawn shop. Basically I only pay 10 bucks a game. When a game comes out that I see on tv and looks good then i will actually go out and buy it at the 60 dollar price and not once have I regretted it.

Aside from a few Grand Theft Autos, and a few games I needed the first day they came out, I've never bought a game for more than $30. I remember I bought Shenmue for $20 at Target two months after it came out and just said "Score!" Nearly all the games I bought for the Dreamcast were in the 20 to 30 dollar range, the same goes for games for the PS2 and my Xbox. When I was younger, I remember that N64 games were fucking expensive and they never went on sale or at discounted price. SNES games the same. I guess it was a different perspective or something.

Usually, the games that are cheaper are more enjoyable.

Only the big must-have games to I ever buy right away... usually for me that's the Zelda or Metroid games. For all the rest, I wait. DS games are an exception, since they're usually cheap anyway.

Right now I'm getting a lot of Gamecube games I neglected, since they're all going super cheap right now.

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And, have you ever had buyer's remorse acquiring a 50 or 60 dollar game only to see it 10-12 months later (depending on how good the sales were) worth $20?

Definitely, When I first bought Kingdom Hearts for the PS2, I shelved out $48 + tax because I found it the day before it was supposed to be released. When I brought it home, I played it for probably three days, got tired of it... picked it up again, was tied up at the Agrabah level so I put it away for three years. I finally played it through the entire game when it had already gone down in price so I might as well have waited.

That's why I consciously waited for Kingdom Hearts II to go down in price before I bought it, but by that time, my original PS2 died on me and I had to buy a replacement one. : (

But it's okay, the minute I made my purchase for that game system, I felt more complete than I have in the last 2 years as I hugged it all the way back to my apartment.

I'm tired of overhyped crappy games sapping my cash. I wait a month regardless the game now. (with possible exceptions to Mass Effect, Bioshock, Metro---ok. maybe i lied.)

The greatest hits thing really helps, because it just makes it more of a comfort when i impulse buy. sixty bucks for a new title, especially if it's a game i know that i'm going to annihilate in a day or two's time, isn't worth it on any level.

Case and point of remorse is when I bought Chrome Hounds when it released for the 360. I played a demo, liked it a lot, played it for probably four hours before i realized i had the same problems with it as i did all of the Armored Core games. (more fun to build than play.) ---last week in Gamestop I saw it on sale for fifteen bucks new.

I get games used as often as I can, and don't really worry about getting a game when it comes out (unless it's Sly Cooper, of course.)

Then again, I still have a PS2, so there really aren't that many new games coming out.

A lot of the games I buy are quirky limited release titles which don't get greatest hits treatment several months down the line. If I don't get them when they first come out, I may never be able to. Wit regular titles, it's a bit of a mix. Sometmes I wait, sometimes I don't. I get bored of games quickly, so I tend to buy games frequently. It's expensive, but at the same time, I never get addicted to MMO's, so I don't bother with any subscription games and no game ever distracts me enough to keep me from doing school work.