I bring this up as it is relevant to my current gaming situation. I've rented Burnout: Paradise, and though with confusing thoughts at first it is a neat game, I wonder if it is better renting. See, I'm confused, 2008 has severe promise for being a fantastic year in titles. Already we have No More Heroes, Turok, Devil May Cry 4 and well Burnout: Paradise. With the advent of downloading the demos straight to your console (not applicable to Wii... sadly) for free, why rent?
Renting a game at Rogers is around 7 bucks in the end (with our wonderful Canadian taxes). A brand new game is around 65 dollars in the end, and you get it longer than five days. The demos give you a nice savory taste of a piece of the delicious game play of a game, making you crave the full features and if so the story.
All that being said, the Devil May Cry 4 demo left me slightly confused, probably due to the lack of substance. The Turok demo has also left me confused, thinking the game is stupid yet fun. I'm glad I've rented Burnout, as I wouldn't buy it. For one reason that just makes my decision is that if your playing a racing game, its nice to have real cars. I mean obviously you like cars, so actually virtually driving a Ferrari 559 would be sweet. Really sweet... Burnout has fake cars, and it makes it hard to really enjoy the models. Good game play aside from a confusing map.
Anyways, I suppose there is the fact that with a console game you can always return it once bought. Although once renting, that 7 dollars is down the drain, and after renting Tony Hawk's Proving Ground when it came out, I really felt as though I had wasted 7 dollars. Its not much but boy when a game sucks, you really feel bad.
Do you guys now prefer demos and buying, or renting then buying, or just demos or renting?
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Also does Rogers still have late fees for games?Cause I'll start renting there if they don't, only because Blockbuster is a whopping $9 - $10 (forget the price) to rent.But they don't have late fees.
In short, it's better to buy. That's how you support game creators and in turn they make more good games.
Having said that, nothing beats having a stash of great games that you can play at your leisure.
Blockbuster is mega expensive! I rented 2 games and it was $19.xx, I just about had a heart attack. Rogers is like $5 per game/movie. I have not gone back to BB since they upped thier prices. Why should I pay for dicks that keep games/movies for months on end?
With all the reviews and demos and videos you can get off the internet these days, you can still get a pretty good idea about a game without renting it.
And some guys here use Gamefly and it sounds nice, plus I think you can just buy the games when rented if you really like them. If you wanted, you could essentially use Goozex in the same way as well, getting enough points to have a new game traded to you, then trading that game back off when you are done with it.