You get everything at a discount, you have a better idea of what's good and what was just a flash in the pan, you often get patches and free DLC...
There's only one problem...
The only new games I've bought since I got my 360 are Batman Arkham Asylum and Fable 3.
Kirk: Spock, you want to know something? Everybody’s human.
Spock: I find that remark…insulting.
Spock: I find that remark…insulting.
Waiting a while to buy games has a serious benefit.
- 10/06/2011 05:26:32 PM
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Ya, I did the same thing with Mass Effect 2. It was down to $15 or $20 *NM*
- 10/06/2011 07:11:01 PM
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If you can stand the wait, that really is an excellent way to do it
- 10/06/2011 08:53:16 PM
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Incidentally, I really DID play half-life 2 for the first time a couple weeks ago. 
*NM*
- 11/06/2011 04:28:17 PM
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*NM*
- 11/06/2011 04:28:17 PM
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How'd you like it? *NM*
- 11/06/2011 04:45:26 PM
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It was. . ok. And yes, I know that's probably a blasphemous assessment.
- 12/06/2011 03:26:21 AM
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I would say that this is one of the detriments to waiting so long.
- 14/06/2011 07:26:15 PM
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That's debatable.
- 14/06/2011 08:42:03 PM
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Games as a developing platform, I'd say technological innovations that help gameplay are important.
- 14/06/2011 10:52:06 PM
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there's a LOT of really good old games I haven't gone near, Half-Life included
- 12/06/2011 04:55:47 AM
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What do you mean you've had a rough time finding those? This is the internet!
- 12/06/2011 07:15:43 AM
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- 12/06/2011 07:15:43 AM
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Most games don't need you to play the first in a series to appreciate the later ones.
- 13/06/2011 01:58:33 PM
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I'm that guy.
- 13/06/2011 11:00:04 PM
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Very true. A good practice. I very rarely buy games when they first come out
- 12/06/2011 09:23:51 AM
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