Yeah, I realize now that in retrospect, my thoughts did bounce all over the place in my cblog about Tom Clancy games. Bounced all over like bullets in a Rainbow Six Vegas firefight. What can I say, my brain was being invaded by terrorists at the time. My apologies to anyone I confused.

I just posted a long ass comment on Jimbo's blog about this, but I'll give you just the gist of my very humble opinion on this.

I only buy games that I am very interested in, and know will finish to the end ASAP after purchase. By doing this for almost four years, I elminated the exsistence of a backlog. Before then, mine was huge. This really depressed me.

But I realised that it simply irresponsible to keep doing this, and decided to change my spending habits. I buy one or two games a month, and that gives me ample time to finish them. I rarely play RPG's anymore, but that honestly does not bother me, I kinda get bored of them now. However, I only brought Fallout 3 in the month it was released on, and played that game for hours on end, it's great.

I don't buy every new game simply because I don't need to, I stick to what I like and love about videogames, and play the games that appeal to my tastes, which are very broad. Sure, I might miss out on games that other people might rave on about, but if those games don't appeal to me, what's the point in buying them?? I don't bother woth retro games, seeing as I never did have, or will have, a desire to play them.

Try to decide what games you know that you will see through to the end, then base your purchases on that. Screw the industry, they just want to make you poor. :)

Great Job on the recaps, as always, good sir. :)

Or maybe we're all evolving into "collector's." That's the road I feel I went. I still game a lot, but only select few ones, and I still feel obligated to get the new releases or the "big" games, mainly because it just doesn't feel right not having them . . .