Psychotomy

So, I’ve been thinking lately …

I just finished Lego Batman last night, almost done with Mirror’s Edge. That means I’m up to Tomb Raider and Rock Band as my available games. So I’m looking at getting Prince of Persia or Fallout 3.

And, with playing for him evenings and weekends, and after he goes to bed … I’m going through games every month or so for the most part. And trading them in generally isn’t coming up with that much money. Even with waiting until I have three to trade in at once with some special or deal to get an extra 20%. Like Mass Effect traded for <5$, plus bonuses. Frankly, if I’d realized how low that was going to be I might have kept the damned thing :o

But since the tradein values aren’t that great, it kindof makes sense to just start renting my games and just buying the ones that I really like or such. Also, then I could try out games that don’t have demos without actually buying them first. Gears of War, for instance, would be something that would benefit from such a feature. Given that I bought it and turned out I couldn’t play it worth shit. Never did make it out of the tutorial. Couldn’t manage the final fight :o

So I’m looking at Gamefly again. Last time I looked I was taking 6+ months to get through Lego Star Wars, and at that point 20$/mo comes out to more than the game would cost. But at 1-2 months, then it’s 40 vs 60, and I think that’s 2 at a time for that price (and I’d basically be finishing 2 games every 3, so 60$ for two games). Bonus with the previews etc that I toss back in a week. And extra feature of being able to play back-catalog games some. Like I’ve been thinking about the older Tomb Raider games on teh X360. Yeah, those I might be able to find for 20$ apiece somewhere, if I dug hard enough, but since I doubt I’d care to keep them long term, I’d still be out that 20$, and they’d be traded in for 5$ or less again :o

So, just thinking about it right now. Gonna check with some folks, see what they think of gamefly, or some alternative.

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