How often do you buy video games in a year?

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Late last year I bought Indiana Jones which despite having no optimizations for AMD runs great on my 7900xtx. I did buy helldivers 2 which runs decent but they could optimize it I’m sure. I also bought assassins creed mirage on sale but I haven’t played that yet.
 
Late last year I bought Indiana Jones which despite having no optimizations for AMD runs great on my 7900xtx. I did buy helldivers 2 which runs decent but they could optimize it I’m sure. I also bought assassins creed mirage on sale but I haven’t played that yet.
I've got a 7900xtx too and "The Last of Us" looks awesome
 
Late last year I bought Indiana Jones which despite having no optimizations for AMD runs great on my 7900xtx. I did buy helldivers 2 which runs decent but they could optimize it I’m sure. I also bought assassins creed mirage on sale but I haven’t played that yet.
Oh, Assassins creed mirage is a great game, the fighting style they used in that iteration is a lot different than the other AC games, but once you get the hang of it, mission, quests, and exploration, investigations are top notch, I really would go and play that If I where you having just bought said game.
 
Oh, Assassins creed mirage is a great game, the fighting style they used in that iteration is a lot different than the other AC games, but once you get the hang of it, mission, quests, and exploration, investigations are top notch,...
I'm having a hard time getting used to the combat in Mirage, but same was true of Valhalla, and I eventually got the hang of it.
 
I'm having a hard time getting used to the combat in Mirage, but same was true of Valhalla, and I eventually got the hang of it.
True, I never got used to the combat in Valhalla, had to resort to a trainer just to finish that game.
But don't worry, I'm sure you'll get it. Like I said great game. (and it might not look like it at first but getting a hang on the combat is required to complete the later parts of the game such as is the stealth play)

One mission that was really tricky for me in Mirage, but I did not get there stuck for too long played out in some sort of prison...I think the game actually had some updates since last I played, they might have fixed those issues in that mission, but it seemed really easy to get stuck there if you're not playing super careful, can't recall but you'll know it when you get there. (count yourself lucky if you make it)
 
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I haven't bought new games yet in 2025, actually had some spare change after I rebuilt my pc and did a GPU upgrade, but since I wanted to redownload everything I already own first after having totally formatted my entire pc after having bitlocked or something the whole thing, I thought I'd rather be safe and start from scratch, thus I paid some of my spare change for faster connection to redownload as much as I could, and while I couldn't play because it was too hot most days I figured why not spend some of that spare change on my favorite casino games, anyway I'm sure some great games will appeal that are going to be released soon.

PSU, check, GPU, check, CPU, check, free HDD space check, heck I recon new games can come and be released, my PC seems ready to play!

Edit: then if it turns out that my pc is full of installed stuff, nothing a uninstall can't fix to make some space again for new titles.
 
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Its only February so its not hard not to have bought anything yet. I had to look but the last game I bought was in August.

Only one game I know I want this year and its still showing as coming soon, Guess it makes it cheaper.
Do you recall what the last game was that you purchased?

One game you want, what would that be?

I know I'm very much looking forward to a new gta or rdr release...
I'd also love to see a new splinter cell, hitman or mass effect, NFS, AC? (or wait a sec I know, a new Cyberpunk), yes that's got to be it right?

If think carefully now, I recon I remember what my last games were that I bought, well as a matter of speaking, it was DLC, the shattered space dlc for Starfield and secrets of the spires dlc for Avatar: frontiers of pandora, then that; I haven't even played that yet... gets me thinking.

Anyway I just reached 95% in Carmageddon: Max Damage, then I accidently clicked create new save, ( why in heavens name is the create save game list being presented each launch of the game) and I wanted to delete the new save, and low and behold the action caused the 95% save to be deleted instead of the 0% save, whoa damn, anyway so I Guese my quest for 100%ing Carmageddon: Max Damage was halted right there, that gets me back to being free to play whatever I would.
 
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Do you recall what the last game was that you purchased?

One game you want, what would that be?


Easy for me to tell what last game is, I just look on Steam. But if you buy them from all over the place it would be difficult. I have an Xbox Game pass but I haven't even played any of the games, yet alone thought about buying one.

I generally only play indie games these days.

Carmageddon: Sounds like you needed a backup of your save games.
 
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