So… in the last post, I said I’d probably end up with COD4, Super Mario Galaxy, COD3 (as a result of buying COD4 with a special deal at Circuit City), and Rock Band. I’d forgotten about Assassin’s Creed. I hadn’t forgotten about Mass Effect. While I’m excited about it, no question, it can wait. Assassin’s Creed *can’t* wait. In part because it’s relevant to work, but in part because I’m ridiculously excited about the game.

So, it’s a tossup:

• Must-gets: Rock Band, Assassin’s Creed
• Will get for sure, eventually: Super Mario Galaxy, Call of Duty 4, Mass Effect

Thing is, Super Mario Galaxy has a deal this week – buy it and get a $25 gift card to TRU. COD4 has a “Buy COD4, get COD3 free” deal at Circuit City. Mario Galaxy, honestly, can wait, except for the fact that it’s effectively half price. COD4’s a bit more… timely, ’cause it’s a very focused Live game, and getting in on the ground floor is useful. A lot of people from work will be getting it as well.

Gah! On top of that, COD4 and AC both have collector’s editions, which have cool things packaged in with them. AC’s CE is a lock for me, but COD4 is a bit of a toss-up. I’ll probably pass, just to save the $10.

Thing is, there’s also a *ridiculous* number of second-tier games that go along with these:

• Scene It (good party game)
• Blacksite: Area 51 (a game from one of the Deus Ex folks, heavily politically relevant, apparently)
• Kane and Lynch: Dead Men (one of the first in the next wave of cooperative games, and by the guys who did Hitman, which is pretty crazy)
• Need for Speed: ProStreet (the demo’s actually a LOT better than the last couple NFS games)

Yeah, it’s not a *ridiculous* number of games, except YES IT TOTALLY IS. Good grief. All those, $60/pop + Rock Band ($170) + $70 (AC:CE) + $50 (Mario) = $580. For ONE MONTH.

What I’m likely to get is: Rock Band, AC:CE, COD4 for November, with a good chance of Mario. So… $350? That’s over my budget for the month for EVERYTHING I need, but fortunately, Ei-Nyung’s way looking forward to Rock Band, so hopefully that’ll fall out of my budget. We’ll see. 😀

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