How many games did you buy in the last 12 months??

[Lazy sweeper]

Aye they are. Its high time we had a sequel to XCOM 2.
I run it with the Star Trek DS9 and Voyager mods that give you those characters with voices lol.
Plus a few other good mods.

Voices... now that I think about it I have probably bought BLADE RUNNER on GOG, for PC-98, CD version with voices...
Unfortunately it's a complete messy bug and it crashes always in the first ten minutes...
I also re-bought Civ III on GOG but I think it was more than one year ago...
I wanted to check if the second "DLC" (with TEThurkhan scenario) was working... (short answer: no..)
I have yet to try to install it on my Win 7 PC with old-school (DX9-11) Nvidia GT460, 1Gb Vram...
I tried to run it on Bazzite and Win 10 with a Virtual Win-98 system but none has worked...

I should change the vote from zero to 1 then..
I completely forgot that...
But I love old-school visual adventures... not a fan of the remakes, but it's nice to boot them up in a modern environment
when possible.

 

[Smegger213]

Voices... now that I think about it I have probably bought BLADE RUNNER on GOG, for PC-98, CD version with voices...
Unfortunately it's a complete messy bug and it crashes always in the first ten minutes...
I have yet to try to install it on my Win 7 PC with old-school (DX9-11) Nvidia GT460, 1Gb Vram...
I tried to run it on Bazzite and Win 10 with a Virtual Win-98 system but none has worked...

I should change the vote from zero to 1 then..
I completely forgot that...

I was on about the XCOM 2 mods where you can have your squad soldiers as the characters from Star Trek TNG, Star Trek DS9 and Voyager character pools. They come with sampled voices from the TV shows.

 

[Lazy sweeper]

I was on about the XCOM 2 mods where you can have your squad soldiers as the characters from Star Trek TNG, Star Trek DS9 and Voyager character pools. They come with sampled voices from the TV shows.

I never played XCOM 2... just hearing about voices unlocked a hidden compartment in my brain...

 

[Smegger213]

I never played XCOM 2... just hearing about voices unlocked a hidden compartment in my brain...

LOL OK. You should pick up XCOM 2 its only £6.21 for the complete game including the DLC's. Its a cracking game.

 

[stealth_nsk]

Aye they are. Its high time we had a sequel to XCOM 2.
I run it with the Star Trek DS9 and Voyager mods that give you those characters with voices lol.
Plus a few other good mods.

The problem is that Firaxis was unable to reproduce the addictiveness of their XCOM games. Second was generally the same as the first, but with some quality of life improvements. Once they tried to explore different options for tactical games, both Chimera Squad and Midnight Suns failed.

 

[Lazy sweeper]

LOL OK. You should pick up XCOM 2 its only £6.21 for the complete game including the DLC's. Its a cracking game.

I don't know... there's EL2 watching me already... like... I'm here buddy... half price... arghhh!

PS: (Unless it's Lara or some Space shooter, I tend to avoid any if not 99% of games with guns... swords, arrows... yes... guns... mmmeh... not too much...)

 

[Smegger213]

The problem is that Firaxis was unable to reproduce the addictiveness of their XCOM games. Second was generally the same as the first, but with some quality of life improvements. Once they tried to explore different options for tactical games, both Chimera Squad and Midnight Suns failed.

I have both XCOM 1 and 2. XCOM 2 is miles better than the first one. Mind you, last time I tried the first XCOM, I couldn't get it to run right. You are right about Chimera Squad. That one wasn't that great.

 

[Siptah]

If I was 20 years old, I would have bought probably also Super Mario Kart World, and other 20 games... it's not a gimmick to say I had more money (and time) to spend on games back then...
The Last game I bought, other than Civ VI, was the Last Tomb Raider... I'm probably gonna buy the new one 100% day one if it's not like 80$...
I have bought all Mario Karts since the SuperNes up to 7 for the 3DS, which I yet have to finish 100%... Is it good the new one???
I refused to buy the Switch... too ugly to me... I couldn't swallow the Smartphone-like form-factor... and Open World Zelda... Idk... I still have Ocarina for the N64 and I loved it, but I thought it was huge already... If they released at least an old school Zelda... needless to say I prefer smaller, pixel-Art games to the new 1080p...
And the Original GB came with SuperMario for like 99$ new... Zelda for GB was like 29$... I had more than 100 GB games before I sold them to get the GameGear..
I was young... today those games would be worth a fortune... but my parents when I did bad at school usually took everything from me and gifted to the poors...
They didn't care AT ALL... today youngsters don't know how lucky they are to have everything digital in some ways...
Even if I hate them, and would love paparback Manuals, stickers, hardbox etc, what I endured was North Korean punishment style...
Amiga saved me bc disks could be copied... and I could always swap to a Word program and show them I was studying....
One more turn in Civ 1 for Amiga to me was a legit war to try and save before my main would be switched off after 9PM...

Mario Kart World is… fun. But not endless fun like Mario Kart 8. can easily be improved though.

The two last main line Zelda games were simply superb. Two of the best games I’ve ever played. I prefer them to ocarina and majora‘s mask. There is a new „old school“ Zelda on switch as well: Echoes of Wisdom. It‘s unorthodox though, as you play as Zelda.

I wouldn‘t want to miss buying physical games and getting manuals etc. as a teenager and young adult. But for me now, I prefer to have less stuff around. My apartment is already filled with too many books and pictures.

 

[Lazy sweeper]

Mario Kart World is… fun. But not endless fun like Mario Kart 8. can easily be improved though.

The two last main line Zelda games were simply superb. Two of the best games I’ve ever played. I prefer them to ocarina and majora‘s mask. There is a new „old school“ Zelda on switch as well: Echoes of Wisdom. It‘s unorthodox though, as you play as Zelda.

I wouldn‘t want to miss buying physical games and getting manuals etc. as a teenager and young adult. But for me now, I prefer to have less stuff around. My apartment is already filled with too many books and pictures.

OK... I could buy a second hand Switch now just for playing Echoes of Wisdom... I love the looks of it...

 

[stealth_nsk]

I have both XCOM 1 and 2. XCOM 2 is miles better than the first one. Mind you, last time I tried the first XCOM, I couldn't get it to run right. You are right about Chimera Squad. That one wasn't that great.

Yes, XCOM 2 is much better, the idea is that they improved it by polishing first game, not adding anything significantly new. Like moving Squadsight to become initial sniper ability, or adding map randomization - those are improvements of the scale of expansion, not full new game.

So generally, they just repeated the same formula.

 

[bbbt]

I think Civ 7 on Steam and Dune Imperium and Balatro on my phone are the only games I've bought this year.

I'm assuming we are counting games on the phone in this total.

 

[Quintillus]

Bought and played? I believe there are just two - Out of the Park Baseball 26 (which I played a lot), and The Sims Legacy (which I played a little, mainly revisiting old saves from 20 years ago).

There are others that I bought but have not yet played, most notably for this forum Ara: History Untold and Victoria 3. And some that I bought in years past and played for the first time, or second time after a shorter first attempt, this year, most notably Millennia, which I've enjoyed, more so than Humankind, although I'm not sure if it's going to become a long-term game for me or just a "play it two or three times" game.

For me the limiting factor is not money, but time, in part because I tend to get a lot of replay value from my favorite games. Although if I'm going to buy a game, I want to expect that I'll find it to be a good value when I pick it up off the virtual shelf. So for Civ VII, if the changes from VI had got me excited and thinking it was the second coming of Civ IV, I probably would have bought it on day 2 (after confirming the reviews didn't indicate a ton of bugs) at $70. But the changes were almost exactly the opposite of what I would have preferred, so I haven't bought it. I have, however, resumed playing Civ III, and will likely resume playing Civ VI at some point this winter.

With EU5, I will be buying it, and expect I would enjoy it today, but I don't anticipate playing it until I've played a few other games on my backlog, so I've held off, allowing patches to arrive and perhaps getting a slight discount by the time I'm ready to play it. But if it gets to March and I'm craving it, I'm pretty sure I'll get my value from it at its current $60 price point. It's easier to have that restraint about not buying a game I'm not going to play right away when it's full price; it's when it gets to a point where I think it's a good deal that there's a danger of it being acquired but staying in the backlog for a while. Memoriapolis is another one that I've been trying to resist buying until I'm going to play it, thus far successfully.

 

[Head_North]

@Smegger213
The XCOM games are awesome.

I love them! I dont think any game (for me) comes close when it comes to the time I spend contemplating a single move or a single shot. One really has to take into account every possible consequence of the move!

 

[MutilationWave]

I love them! I dont think any game (for me) comes close when it comes to the time I spend contemplating a single move or a single shot. One really has to take into account every possible consequence of the move!

I'd say I spend more time contemplating a single move sometimes in the first 20 turns of civ, but yeah XCOM would be right after that. And those single decisions tend to stay super impactful throughout the game instead of falling off in importance like the civ games do.

 

[NickTheGreek!]

Do DLCs count ? i bought several games/dlcs, cannot really remember exactly how many so i voted 6-10. The main Problem is always time, not enough of it to play everything i want as much as i would like.

 

[kaspergm]

Voted one. Technically I bought two, because I bought EL2 and Civ7, but I returned Civ7. I haven't played EL2 yet either, so I guess I'm covered for a while when I actually have the time and energy to play a new game.

 

[Nikolai II]

I voted 6-10. I am not sure. I bought Civ7, EU5, Mario Kart World, Donkey Kong Bananza at fullprice. Then several at discoint prices. Might be close to ten. Might be a little more. And of course you have GamePass. It makes it trickier to count.

 

[GeoGeo]

Did both Civ VII and Switch 2 at launch last year. ~7 full price games including Civ, plus various games that were on sale. I discovered my Costco had discounted cards for most of the digital storefronts (but not Steam, sadly), which helped/tempted me. It was a year of irresponsible entertainment purchases. 2026 will probably be a year with very little of that (aside from the new Fire Emblem). Hoping to be on 90% backlog duty for the remainder of the decade. Being reminded that I need to play XCOM at some point isn't helping!

 

[Naokaukodem]

I bought 3 the last year :

1. Civilization VII on PS5 (resold)
2. Titan Quest II on PC (Steam) (early access)
3. Horizon : Zero Dawn - Remastered (PS5)

But I'm currently playing at around 10 games on PC. (some of them got freely by a mean or... another) TQ1, TQ2, DOS1, DOS2, BG3, Civ5 Vanilla, Civ6 GS, Dungeon Siege , Starcraft Remastered, Rise of the Tomb Raider.

 

[Lord Lakely]

The two big ones for me were Two Point Museum and Ara History Untold. I cannot recall anything else.

Civ7 base was a birthday gift, but I did buy the first two DLCs. I feel like that's worth half a point.