Topic: When do you treat yourself to buying a game?

Again, I know what you mean. That's why I put a lot of effort into keeping up with gaming news on smaller sites like this one so I can find out about those obscure games. Going with your gut doesn't always mean being uninformed. But in the endm you gota do what works for you. If reviews work for you, then that's good for you. If going with my gut works for me, good for me. So long as we both end up with games we enjoy, it all ends well.

That's most likely the opposite, then - your gut was wrong. What about when you first saw it, if you can still remember that far back?

@MickyMac: I remember wanting to get it because it was a new puzzle game by a second-party.

Ah. Well that's just plain disappointing. Well, now you know you shouldn't get puzzle games from Intelligent Systems, then. So it all works out in the end, especially since it was really just $7 instead of a lot more.

@Mickeymac: Right. Learn from my mistakes.

i like this topic, the term "treat yourself"
i usually plan ahead, take care of uncle sam and pay my dang car note, in between all that crap i treat myself to whatever game i want because i made a pact to myself that im not on earth just to pay bills and make everyone else rich you know? i work hard so i play hard, so i definitely treat myself because i deserve it. all of us do. you only live once, die happy.

wow thats deep

Well usually whenever I want I tend to always have money so I'm never left wanting a game.

I treat myself to a game under two very weird conditions:

1) The game has to be $20 or less new or $10 or less used

2) It has to be a game I find interest in after watching at about 3 YouTube gameplay videos about the game.

Extra condition: I have to have at least 50 bucks left after buying said game. Needless to say, I do a whole lot of waiting for price drops .

Whenever a game I want comes out,or if I see a cheap game,that I always wanted to try.

I like to treat myself a lot.

Glad to see I'm not the only one, Pullblox is one of the most overrated download games ever!

I normally get 1 or 2 games a month. I often get games long after they come out but if I sometimes I get a game on or near its launch. If I decide that I'd like to get a certain game in a certain month, I will go to all 3 game stores in town and HMV and if I don't find it in any of them, I'll go to the internet to find and if its an expensive rare game, I'll keep searching until I find it for a decent price. If its a GBA or GC game, there's only one store that I can check before going online.

I rarely have impulse buys but sometimes I'll just decide on a day (or I'll plan to get a game closer to the day that I'll get it than I normally do) that I'd like to get a game but I'll know what it is. Sometimes I'll go to town and decide on getting a game for a particular console without knowing what the game is but I'll always have a selection of games in mind and when I see a game/some games from that selection in a shop, I'll get it. This lead to a tough decision between Resident evil and Little King's story once and I went for LKS but I was regretting it as I went home thinking about how the remake of the first Resident evil is regarded as one of the best on the series but when I played LKS, I realised that I had made the right decision. That wonderful game is the best third party game on the Wii IMO. I also got it for a very low price which was £4.98.

Whenever I can scrounge up enough change to pay for one.

At the moment I'm buying a lot of games - I want to finish getting the DS and Wii games I'm interested in before they become hard to find and expensive. I'm almost there though!

After that I'll go back to concentrating on PC gaming, but I can't see myself buying a lot of games in the future - I don't really like where the PC gaming business is going with restrictive DRM and the like. My current PCs can play everything I own, so I'll likely start trying to finish my backlog.

My backloggery of 196 Unfinished games says it all... IMMA PICK UP MASS ATTACK NEXT!!!!
Also I decide to look at Famitsus review and the sales in Japan combined with my tastes kinda help me decide what to pick up and when