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What Type of Gamer Are You?

Posted on July 3, 2009 at 10:26 AM.

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Every year, I tell myself that I'm going to be more focused. Instead of buying practically every title out there, I always go into the fall release season determined to buy only one or two of the best titles from a few of my favorite sports and really concentrate on those.

My reasoning is pretty simple: in addition to being easier on my wallet, buying only a couple games each year would allow me to really delve into the games and get the full experience from them. There's nothing more frustrating to me than buying a game and wanting to play it, but just never having the time because I have a dozen other games competing for my attention (not to mention real commitments like family and work).

And yet every year I seem to end up buying nearly every game under the sun, only to have many of them sit on my shelf almost untouched, save for a few precious hours when I first bought them.

Take this past year for example. Around July of 2008, I told myself I was only going to buy NHL 09 and FIFA 09 (assuming they turned out all right, of course) and really play the crap out of them. This was based on how much I'd enjoyed NHL 08 and Euro 2008. I was determined. That was it. As much as I enjoyed other sports games, those were the two that were going to carry me through the year.

Flash forward to today and somehow, in addition to those two aforementioned games, my shelf also holds copies of Madden 09, NBA 2K9, NBA Live 09, Tiger Woods 09, MLB 09: The Show, UFC 2009: Undisputed and probably one or two more I'm forgetting right now.

And while all those games have their strong points (a couple are arguably among the best sports games available), none of them really got the playtime they deserve. Meanwhile, they all took time away from NHL and FIFA, the two games I went into the year determined to play the most.

One way or another, I can't seem to resist picking up the top games in each sport each year, despite my best intentions. I'm already wondering whether I should bother making a similar pact with myself this fall.

So what kind of gamer are you? Do you take a shotgun-style approach like me, buying many games but mastering none? Or are you the type of gamer who can focus his/her attention on a few key titles each year?

Let me know in the comments below.

(Oh, and if you're the focused type, feel free to leave tips on how you pull that off!)

Comments

# 16 canes2008 @ Jul 6

I usually get NCAA Madden fifa and nba 2k every year but i'm not going to get NCAA at release

# 17 HiTEqMETHOD @ Jul 6

The amount of games I buy per year is very sporadic,some years I'll only buy one and others I buy between 2 and 5. As for the genre of games I buy,I've bought NCAA Football every year since 2002 and get the new GTA when those come out but I'm not tied down to a certain genre. I play pretty much everything. From Final Fantasy to NBA2k and Street Fighter, plus everything in between. I got GameFly a long time ago,back when they didn't even have commercials. I think I saw an ad in GameInformer or some other magazine. So that allows me to play basically whatever I please without committing to a title I'm uncertain of buying. Then if I like it I pay the $45 to keep it. NCAA Football and HUGE titles like Halo,COD,R6V,Street Fighter are really the only type of stuff I pre order and pick up at Gamestop.

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