POTW: The Christmas game glut

360 Feature | How many games will bankrupt you this holiday season?

It seems that every year, the videogame industry follows the maxim of saving the best 'til last. Publishers seem to stack the year's releases with a heavy emphasis on the Christmas season, and this year is no exception. Despite a handful of blockbusters landing earlier in the year (such as Grand Theft Auto IV and Metal Gear Solid 4), it still seems like we'll soon be inundated with a plethora of high-profile videogame releases. A brief glance at our release list confirms the worst: between now and December 25, we'll be looking at Gears of War 2, Resistance 2, Fallout 3, Fable II, Guitar Hero World Tour, the usual smattering of yearly sports games, and many, many more.

So, with the months-early sales of Christmas decorations already occurring in a store near you, we thought it time to take stock and prepare for the onslaught ahead. How many games do you plan to purchase this Christmas season?

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ittekimasu

3 years ago

I like to Curl up into a Fetus position and sleep to save electricity, gas and money for food so that one day i'll be able to purchase all the games I want this year.

AllSchoolGamer

3 years ago

wow looking at the results and the lists here there is probably going to be a glut of games unfinished hehe

admeister

3 years ago

PALGN wrote

we'll be looking at Gears of War 2, Resistance 2, Fallout 3, Fable II, Guitar Hero World Tour

The sad thing here is that every one of them is a sequel.

The number of sequels seems to increase with every passing year, and I don't think it's a good thing. We need some more new IPs people!

Spanca

3 years ago

^ Unlike movies however, games usually improve with each iteration so it's not all bad to enjoy sequels. It's all well and good to cry out for entirely new IP, but they rarely, if ever, have the completeness and polish that a 2nd or 3rd sequel will.

Jim Dash

3 years ago

^ Couldn't have put it better myself.

Although, Gears 2, for example, will probably be more of what we already know. For me, thats spectacular. For others, stale.

I'm on the 360 boat again. Gears 2, Fable 2, Fallout 3, and yet to buy Force Unleashed.

Then I also had to make the decision yesterday of how many Little Big Planets to get in on release.

xGKx Link

3 years ago

I have been gaming for about 21 years now. I must say this is going be one of the best holidays seasons in gaming ive eva seen. Almost as exciting as the xmas i got Donkey Kong Country on SNES

Having every console on the market including hand helds does not help the bank account at all. But gaming is my passion so its money well spent in my case.
Heres my list:
Wii:
Wario Land: Shake It
Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World
Xbox360:
Mirrors Edge
Prince of Persia
Call of duty 5
Banjo Kazooie
Tomb raider Underworld
Dead space
Fable II
Fallout 3
Gears of war 2
Guitar Hero: world tour
Left for dead
Last Remnant
Pure
Shaun white snowboarding
Sonic Unleashed
Tom clancy's End War
PS3:
Brothers in arms: Hells Highway
LittleBigPlanet
Motor Storm: Pacific Rift
Valkyria Chronicles
Wipeout HD
PC:
Far Cry 2
Red Alert 3
World of Warcraft: Wrath of Lich king (there goes all the other games lol)
DS:
Sonic Chronicles: The dark brotherhood
Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
Metal Slug 7
Chrono Trigger DS
Prince of Persia: The Fallen King

Ok well maybe i wont buy them all, but i will play every single one of them.

Gizmocreative

3 years ago

i think all thats on my list will be skate 2, maybe fallout 3 eventually. my head is so deep in my current collection of games that I havent been following all the new titles which is probably a good thing.

Dropbear

3 years ago

...geez, and I'm still in the PS2 generation.

I'll probably get the items for a new PC and a couple of games for it. That'll be OK for me.

Seriously, a lot of those game's I know I will not like, so i'll just find 2 odd games and be done with it for Christmas. Dropbear: Waiting for FF13 since 2006.

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