My willpower is rubbish

Yup, it really is. In my blog entry “Too Many Games” I realised I had a game collection that had 29 Xbox 360 games in it, which was simply too many as I could never play them all. I decided to get rid of Civ Revolution, Condemned 2, Lego Star Wars, Lost Odyssey, PES 2008, Smackdown 2008, Star Wars: Force Unleased, Top Spin 3, and Euro 2008. That brought my collection back down to a more managable 20 game collection. I bought, completed and then sold Lego Batman (very enjoyable by the way), again keeping the collection the same size.

Then I started looking at the games I wanted. Due to getting rid of the above, I could afford to pre-order Fable 2 and Fallout 3. A 22 game collection then, not so bad. Then I realised all the other stuff I had that I could sell. My PSP and games were never used so might as well be sold. I had 3 DS games I didn’t play, so they could go. I had some old PC games which could also go, along with some PC hardware that was lying around. It all added up to enough to also pre-order Dead Space and Gears of War 2. The collection was growing again.

I then found 10 old PS2 games I had no use for at all. I knew I wouldn’t get much for them if I sold them, but in trade perhaps I’d get enough for a cheap game. They actually turned out to be worth more than I thought, as Computer Exchange gave me £37 in trade for them. Sat on the shelf was Mercenaries 2 for £38, so with a shiny pound coin, I returned home with another game.

Then something very lucky happened. A few months ago I traded in quite a lot of stuff into Computer Exchange, and ended up with over £100 worth of vouchers. After buying some stuff, I had £38 left, but I lost the vouchers while we were on holiday in August. We looked everywhere, in every bag, in every bit of clothing, but they were gone. I’d resigned myself to not having a game (I was after Beijing 2008 at the time), and stopped looking. Then yesterday morning, Lynnie was emptying one of her bags, and out fell the vouchers! We’d both been through that bag at least once, so we’ve no idea how we missed them before, but I wasn’t complaining.

So, off to town I went, looking to get Halo 3 and GTA 4 (they came to £38 2nd hand). I walked straight into the shop, picked up both games, and paid with my vouchers. As I left the store, I noticed PES 2009 was on the shelf for £40. Now, Computer Exchange is a 2nd hand store only so I was a little surprised to see that in there only 3 days after it was released. Still, I’m a Fifa man now (more on that in another update) so I put it back down and carried on walking. That was until something else caught my eye. Saints Row 2. For £40. 3 days after it was released. I picked up the one and only copy they had (disappointing someone in the process I think), and went back to the till to ask if there was any chance I could get that instead. The staff, who are always exceptionally helpful there, were more than happy to sort that out, and out I walked with Saints Row 2 costing me £2.

So, after trying so hard to cut my game collection down to a reasonable size, with pre-orders and cheap games it’s gone back up to 26 games. That doesn’t even include games like Guitar Hero World Tour, Scene It Box Office Smash, Rock Band 2, and Sacred 2, all of which I’ll be wanting to get with either birthday or Christmas money. Looking through my collection, I still can’t really see anything I’d be happy getting rid of (I tried and failed twice with Bioshock and Mass Effect, I just love them too much for that). So, I guess I’m stuck with a rather large games collection again. Oh well, at least I’ll never be short of games to play

Edit: I also forgot I’ve got Dynasty Warriors 6, and Fifa 09, so that makes 28 games! Even more than I first thought.