What’s worse, feeding the addiction with Gamefly. Though I’d say cheaper in the long run.

And there are some ridiculously good games coming out in November: Dragon Age: Origins, Assassin’s Creed 2, COD4-2, and if you’re my wife, she would also say Lego Indy 2 will be great.

Sigh.

Modern Warfare 2 and probably the Beatles RB are going to be ones I get soon after launch. Both of those I forsee having long shelf lives but they are both games/genres I’m in to so a $50 game here or there is not big deal. I just don’t know how folks can drop that weekly.

Shy of games like CoD and Battlefield, I’m a solo gamer for the most part. I’m happy with single player games (especially the arcade games). Shooters are just meant for multiplayer, no question there.

I think you’re right though, video games are definitely pretty bad at that. I mean, sometimes movies are pretty bad, they come out and if you haven’t seen them that first weekend well you might as well forget about it because everyone’s seen it and is done talking about it. But that’s only for a few movies. Video games are like, oh you’re not playing this game? Lame. Plus there are quite a few snooty ass gamers who are like “oh yeah, that game was fun… in 2007 back when people were into it.”

Either way, I’m still intrigued by Arkham Asylum and I have no idea why.

I’ve had games that it’s taken me over a year to finish because I kept buying or renting new games. Sometimes it can be beneficial to take a break from a 60-hour game by playing a 10-12 hour game.

The only downside to waiting is that it’s hard to find multiplayer action after the first few weeks of a game’s release. Exceptions to that are games like CoD4 and Halo 3. For single player games, there shouldn’t be any rush.