Breaking Benjamins

Sorry for being so late with the new posts, people. I've been seriously seriously busy dealing with work, school and life in general, as well as a lack of material to write about due to the lack of new releases. Happily, the gaming industry is just now revving up for the Q1 blitz, so at least now I've got a whole crapload of material to write about. :-) Eight new posts today, I've been saving 'em up!

Moving on, I've built up a much more stable PS3 financial plan for this Q1 2010 to prevent the horredous financial ruin Q4 2009 brought on me. This is what wanting too many games and having too little money to buy them all has driven me to do.

Now observe my masterful cash-saving skillz!

Bayonetta is absolutely delicious!
And her game's great, too!

* I'm just borrowing Bayonetta and White Knight Chronicles from friends (rox_ira and eiziah, respectively) in order to cut down on my cash outlay. (I got gun-shy from actually BUYING WKC when the metric ton of mediocre-to-bad reviews rolled in, but I still want to play it pretty badly.)

OK, so graphically, it looks like ass.
I still want to play it.
Play it for FREE, that is.

Cost: Zero.

He's not a God of War.
HE IS WAR!

* I got Darksiders for free in a trade with another pal (it arrived this week). DARKSIDAHS, at last! (Impressions to follow, I'm in like the first non-tutorial area and it's been very solid so far.)

Cost: Zero. Woohoo!

That demo was absolutely fantastic!
I'm on the hype train for this one, fortunately I can just BORROW it.
Money saved!

* I'm also working out a "hiraman" arrangement with another friend for Heavy Rain (that demo was SO KILLER) in which I buy Star Ocean TLH International and lend it to him, and he lends me HR after the fact. It doesn't really matter to me if I don't get to play SO4 immediately, as Platinuming that game takes longer than reading The Bible and War and Peace combined, so I don't mind lending it out for the meantime.

"I'ma hit this guy with a huge nova, 'kay?"

Update: I'm also playing through Star Ocean concurrently along with Darksiders. Impressions to follow as well, game started off a little iffy but quickly grew on me. Adik! Consider though: I have played that game for 12 hours and I have two trophies.

TWO. FREAKING. TROPHIES. What the FUUUUUUCK, ang haba.

Cost: I paid 2,700.00 for a copy of Star Ocean: The Last Hope International (R1).










* Yet another friend is getting Bioshock 2 as a Valentine's Day gift (HI, RAFFY!) so that's another game crossed off the list. Back to Rapture, baby!

It's been way too long.

Cost: Zero.


* Lastly, I have no choice but to spend on brand new copies of Yakuza 3 and Final Fantasy XIII in March (especially Yakuza 3, as supplies of that game will likely be very limited) but I also have a side deal in place to lend out Yakuza 3 for God of War III when I'm done with it.

Damn, ang lapit na! Check out this video right here (link) if you need some help getting hyped.


Cost: Approximately 5.5K for copies of FFXIII and Yakuza 3. Huhuhuhu. :-(










So all in all, for a total of Php 8,000.00 I get to Trophy my way through Star Ocean 4 plus all but two of the games on my DO WANT list (link) , with the notable exceptions being Gran Turismo 5 (which got delayed to Q2) and Dante's Inferno. Hmmm, anyone want to make a hiraman arrangement for Dante's Inferno: Dead Edition?

Isaac Clarke returns!

I want me some Dead Edition!

CMON! Help a (semi)broke brotha out! :-D