Are you actually able to keep up with all games coming out?

[Richter Belmount]

If so kudos to you and where do you get your free time?

[blissfulnoise]

Buying them or playing them?

Cause I buy em, and end up only playing Guitar Hero....

[Half Cab Leroy]

I wish that I was able to get all of the games I wanted. Too much money and time for me.

[RJ]

I stopped buying brand-new games years ago. $40-50 a pop is too much for me, & I dont have the time to play many games as it is.

I still have several games across my systems I havent even started, much less spent any time getting into them. I have a half-dozen PS2 games still sealed that I mean to start, but w/ Xmas coming & a half-dozen more games I asked for, they'll have to wait even longer.

[Ed Oscuro]

Don't have time or money to keep up with all the current stuff...

[Joker T]

I really only get the games I want. I buy a really small amount of $50 games. Most recently Call of Duty 2 in Late October.

[THATinkjar]

Buying them or playing them?

Cause I buy em, and end up only playing Guitar Hero....

Haha - too true, too true! Except I don't play Guitar Hero. But yeah. Buy 'em and carry on playing the game you're loving at the moment.

[Rogmeister]

Sure, I keep up...I look and say, "Oh look, new games..." and then move on. There's no law that says you have to have every game in creation that comes out. I learned that a long time ago and I'm much happier. I haven't bought a new full-priced game in months. I'm not sure when I will again, either. Maybe when the baseball games come out...

[njiska]

Buy but not play. Thankfully it's slow for the next couple of weeks. Trust me i know the upcoming releases and there's not much.

[cyberfluxor]

It's actually pretty funny because I can look at any used game shelf and find something new. Today I found Battletech (Gen), which I had never heard of so I picked it up for a dollar. If I don't like it, or if I don't like it's collection value I'll just resell it for higher.

[devilman]

I try to keep up - I've been picking up games like Mario Kart DS, Animal Crossing etc but it's just finding the times to play them all properly that's the problem. Wish I had the time to get stuck into RPGs again too.

[Ulticron]

I can't even keep up w/the games I want to get that are coming out, so there's no way I'm able to keep up with everything.

[johno590]

No way do I keep up with everything that comes out. The latest game I bought was Halo 2, and I just bought that a few months ago. I hardly have any new games because I don't have the money nor the time to be buying and playing them.

Maybe that will change when I get my GBA.

[Austin]

Buying them or playing them?

Cause I buy em, and end up only playing Guitar Hero....

Amen, brother. My backlog has been getting bigger and bigger since I picked this one up. Shadow of the Colossus has just been sitting on the shelf, staring at me. I want to dig into it, but I can't bring myself to unplug the guitar.

As far as buying games go, I never really keep too up-to-date. Very few games I buy on release date unless I have to have them. There are quite a few recent titles, though, that I wanted to grab but can't yet budget. Ah, well. Once the holidays are through.

[kedawa]

The gamie industry is getting way too big to keep up with everything.
There just isn't enough time to play everything worth playing.
I play the 5-10 must-haves for each system, and whatever good games I'm interested in and can find for $20 or less.

[scooterb23]

I prefer to not keep up with the game industry anymore. While it means being out of the loop for what new games are supposed to be good; I find I enjoy going to the game store now more because I can still be excited by something on the shelf...although that hasn't happened for a while now :\

[Lothars]

Well I can't keep up buying them or playing them

man it's crazy

though I still haven't played God of War which is a shame imo

[Biff_McFresh]

"You're kidding right?"

I have a hard enough time somewhat keeping up on my backlog of games as it is. I basically keep most of my newer purchases to deals I can find (like the TRU deal right now, sa sa shweeet) and the occasional 'buy at launch date price' game.

[zektor]

It was so much easier to keep up with games years ago, but now, it is quite difficult. I have tried many times, but now I just play what I like, do research on the games that sound appealing, and make my purchases on that merit.

I still tend to do more research on Nintendo games more than the other systems however. Not because I'm a "fanboy", but because I have followed the good games Nintendo had to offer for so many years. After playing quite a few new titles on various systems, this still seems to hold some truth even today...at least for me. Nintendo games just seem to have that "fun value" I require when making a purchase I guess.