With any console purchase in my life comes the strong desire to buy a shit-ton of games so I can have some variety on my new toy.  So far, I have been able to hold off on just going nuts with game purchases for the PS3.  This is largely because I don’t feel that many of the games are absolute home run titles.

Uncharted, my first purchase, has proven to be a great game.  Very enjoyable.  But there are other titles that call to me, like Heavenly Sword, Burnout Paradise, Resistance: Fall of Man, and Lair.  All of them are very mixed in their reviews and none seems a sure bet.  Heavenly Sword is “too short”.  Burnout Paradise is “too open”.  Resistance is “too much of the same”.  Lair is “too hard to control”.  So what’s a gamer to do?

Today, I finally did it - I subscribed to GameFly.  I had held off all this time because I’m a bit of an ownership junkie, but I now have five current gen consoles/handhelds.  There’s no way I can keep up with game purchases for all of them.  Even when I’m being picky.  For the price of purchasing roughly six games, I’ll now have access to Netflix style rentals for an entire year.

Sure, I could have just rented from Blockbuster, but at $8 a game for less than a week?  No thanks.  Plus, their selection and availability are often lacking.  And, they’re Blockbuster (note: my disdain is hypocritical - I have a Blockbuster membership).

Huh, this whole entry sounds like an advertisement.  Linking to GF using my referral link probably doesn’t help the shill factor any.

Chances are good that once the weather improves, I’ll be trading off my current bumper crop of gaming time for time out on the bike with Gare, but until then, I’ll be in my basement should anyone need me.