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think-man said:
Not since i was a child. Now its toooo risky lol

During the NES days, even though I read video game magazines, I almost always bought my games blindly and I was almost always disappointed! Either the games were short as heck (not even a couple of hours long) or they were just total shovelware with good box art. Luckily, I was able to trade for whatever I wanted thanks to unsuspecting friends!



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2Quick said:

Have you ever bought a game blind?  or blindly recieved a game as a gift?  

 

Reading about people's reactions to devil's third in a different thread made me wonder whether if it is always better to make an informed buying choice, or is it always better to buy a game you know you are going to like?

For example, If I only bought the games that I really wanted, I would have never discovered Yoshi's Island DS, Legend of Zelda, or Zack & Wiki. 

 

by blind I mean purchase a title with very little information about it, reviews or otherwise

I did that with Pikmin. I barely knew anything about the franchise, and it was quite a few months since the Wii U had gotten any title at all, so I was ''I'll try it.'' The purchase was definitely worth it.



Rarely anymore. Although, I bought "999" blind and ended up loving it, but that was years ago.

Kind of funny that when I was a kid, that's all I did was buy games blindly. I didn't read video game magazines and there was no internet, so if you picked a shitty game, you were stuck with it. But when you found an amazing game, it was pure, unadulterated joy.

Nowadays, I have to do research on EVERYTHING before I buy it, especially video games. It makes me more informed, but also makes the experience a bit bland or unspontaneous. As if I can't enjoy the game unless someone else tells me it's good first. It's like that with everything in my life now - movies, tv shows, video games, etc. I miss the simpler days. lol

Good thread, TC!



It'll be awhile before I figure out how to do one of these. :P 

I think the closet I've ever gotten to doing that was Dillon's Rolling Western and Sakura Samurai and Johnny Kung Fu. All great short games. I only ever watched one to to vids on them before deciding to purchase, but they played exactly as presented.

I do however, decide to buy games early on and tend to not let information affect my purchase unless its some practice by a dev I've personally found foul



d21lewis said:
think-man said:
Not since i was a child. Now its toooo risky lol

During the NES days, even though I read video game magazines, I almost always bought my games blindly and I was almost always disappointed! Either the games were short as heck (not even a couple of hours long) or they were just total shovelware with good box art. Luckily, I was able to trade for whatever I wanted thanks to unsuspecting friends!

You tricked your friends lol i would usually rent games to save the risk of being disappointed every time. 



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Never, games are way too fucking expensive. Especially in my country.



Why yes I have! As a matter of fact, when I bought my PS3 back in 2013, I got the 250GB superslim The Last of Us bundle. I had no idea what the game was - I just wanted to play Black Ops and this was one of the only SKUs they had at Future Shop. But I'll be damned if it didn't become my favourite game of all time, get platinumed, and get replayed once every 5 months or so!



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