Juggling the budget

Being that I'm in the process of moving to a new job (my old boss pirated me over to her new employer, long story) and my pay is currently being held, I've decided to limit my game spending for October (which is normally very, very fucking high) to four games max. Since I have 10 games on my DO WANT list, I have to make some tough decisions regarding what I want right now and what I can get later on.


I can count on my loving girlfriend to get me one free game for my birthday (which conveniently enough, comes in October), so naturally being the practical, caring person I am, I'll get her to buy me the most expensive one.

Knowing Datablitz and Mr. Dynamic's predatory, unkind business practices as well as I do, I fully expect that that most expensive game will be Uncharted 2 (those fuckers will charge us as much as they want, and we're all going to pay them anyway, so...)

OK, scratch one. Three to go! Total money spent: Php 3,200... oh wait. Zero!

Next: I played the Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 demo, and was kind of underwhelmed. It was fun enough, but the camera was just as bad as I remember from the X360 version (although the graphics really improved a lot, I must say.) I still want to get it, but I don't need it right now. (The Mr. Dynamic lady texted me a while ago that they had copies of the R3, but they were selling it for 2,950. Taga, grabe.)

So I'll be getting Brutal Legend instead, on Rocktober 13th.


It will cost me probably 2,195 or so, since it's an EA Singapore game, and will probably net me a free T-Shirt. It will also most probably be better than NGS2, and therefore earns the BUY NOW slot NGS2 previously occupied.

Since I'm not really liking how Brutal Legend's multiplayer looks though (mukhang RTS lite siya, which I'm not good at, at ALL) I need something to feed my multiplayer cravings when the Uncharted 2 servers inevitably jam up.


And for that I will buy Borderlands.

This is easily my most anticipated game of this year, as I'm an absolute sucker for games that let you grind for loot. Combined with Gearbox Software's expertise at creating FPS content in general, I'm fully expecting this to absolutely blow me away. Even if titles published by 2K Games tend to sell for full price over here (probably 2,950) I'm more than willing to get wallet-raped in order to play this.


And lastly, I'll get NBA 2K10 (of course), which is another wallet-molester, but since I'm splitting the bill with my brother again I only expect to pay half of its tag price, which I fully expect to be around 3 kyaw.

Total spent: 2,950 (Borderlands) + 1,500 (NBA 2K10) + 2,195 (Brutal Legend) + Free (Uncharted 2) = Php 6,645.00 total cash out.

That's not so bad! Maybe I can still buy Ratchet and Cla.... OK, John, just shut up, now.