Thanks a lot, Prick.

[Blitzkrieg8]

Do a working out montage and start kicking ass

 

[Guitar Gamer]

If you want to know a solution.....................
depends on how violent your brother is.
I play my smarts angle and lock the System from him when I want to play.

If he tends to hit you for that then your screwed.
Sorry.
I don't want to be rude but............

 

[Aesir23]

Maybe pay fully for the game instead of only part?

OT: Sort of. I went out and bought Mass Effect and went into my sister's room to play it on the 360 Elite(we'd switched the 360 and PS2 around temporarily since my brother wanted to play PS2 games).

Just as I got to the start screen, my sister and her friend come in to kick me off and play L4D for the rest of the day. This wouldn't piss me off so much normally, except for the fact that I paid the majority of the price for the 360 (mother paid the rest). I realize that makes me sound like a brat but since it wasn't the first time, it ticks me off a bit.

 

[SpireOfFire]

buy your own game.

no income? get a job.
no job? unemployment.

 

[secretshadow90]

Yeah, I say definitely get the parents involved. My "older" cousin (his birthday is 2 month before mine) basically would go into my room and use my game systems for hours and wouldn't get off even if I asked. These were games that he didn't even pay for, but neither did I as most of these were gifts. Also, I recommend from this point on avoiding joint ventures and ask your parents for an allowance/get a part-time job if possible (I know it's not always possible as my allowance came and went and I couldn't get a job til my first year in college). Also as a person who finds it impossible to get near her younger brother PS2 (what? He has Kingdom Hearts dammit) or Gamecube (which I gave him after I got the Wii and was trying to finish my achievement in SSBM) I find the money argument invalid. Being denied fun time because someone's being a prick is not a fun position.

 

[x0ny]

You're the same age as my brother >.> and I'm 5 years older than my brother. I remember when we were much younger, we would hotseat/ hand each other the controller after a death on single player games. Back then there were very few co-op games, multiplayer would be stuff like mario kart. Nowadays we each have our own steam accounts, we each have our debit cards and jobs, so if we wanna play a game, we buy it, but we're more than happy to let each other try out games.

 

[Invaderbrim]

Just don't go into the basement.
Never go into the basement.

You and that dang basement.

OT: I would probably tell my parents that he has been obssesive about the game and in their state of panic they would hire him a therapist which he would have to spend a lot of time at, thus giving me plenty of time to play the game.

 

[Mikkaddo]

So Battlefield: Bad company two was released today. I was pretty stoked to get to play it. I even payed 30$ out of 69$.( Which is a lot since It was my own choice and I have no income)
Finally, after what seems like years: my brother comes through the door, holding the game and... he goes into his room and has played since 9:00 AM.
And before everyone suggests I kick ass or something along those lines, he has a good 150 pounds (muscle) on me.

So I ask you escapists, has this sort of thing ever happened to you? Where you are denied what you earned (A bit) and were forced to complain about it on the internet?

NOTE: This was not the first time my brother did this. Every new game I/He/we get, he plays for days without letting me go within five feet of the disk.

EDIT: Asking has never worked, and it didn't work this time.

2 words . . . "fire poker"

incase that fails baseball bats work as well. Muscle nothing, hit him in a joint and he'll go down . . . believe it . . .

on a more serious note, you need to make him understand it's not right to do that, if it doesn't work to talk to him . . . well . . . then find another way to deal with it

 

[ender214]

NEVER enter in joint payments. You always either end up getting nothing or getting your business partner pissed off at you. You want a game, buy it alone. You say this has happened multiple times, so I'm guessing you could manage to scrounge together $70 to pay for a game if you saved. You own some games, your brother owns some games. You can share. Or not share. But at least you have control over something concrete.

And you entered a deal with your older brother. You expected a fair deal?

 

[Low Key]

He did pay for more then half of it.

9 dollars isnt enough grounds to hog a game.

39.99 plus the tax is, 51% or more is majority. Especially given that since the OP doesn't have income and can't discuss things civilly with his brother I'm assuming he's a minor, thus OP wouldn't be able to get the game on his own anyway. On top of that I'm willing to bet that the second OP gets his greasy little mitts on the game he won't give it up until he gets bored of it. The OP is a whiny brat.

Oh come off it. The older brother does own a greater share of the game, but it is hardly an overwhelming proportion. That he couldn't afford to get it all by himself is entirely beside the point. What you're willing ot bet is irrelevant and calling him a whiny brat just makes you look like an insecure prick. The OP's complaint is that he entered a joint enterprise with someone who is supposed to be friendly with him, who once he got money out of him has completely ignored his right to his property. Perhaps taking it in turns using lives would be a more equitable way to go? OP, there's always telling your parents and/or refusing to buy games with your brother anymore. If he's got the money to buy them anyway, just let him buy them all and then borrow/steal them later when he's finished them/bored with them.

You make a good case except that the OP has indicated this has happened several times before. He should have known going into this "joint enterprise" that such a thing had a very good chance of happening once again. Making a thread about, to me, is him vying for attention and condolence.

 

[electric discordian]

Hers an idea find if BF2 can be played split screen multiplayer, or use this to emotionally blackmail your parents for a second machine in your room to play games on!

 

[Deviltongue]

Well, your brother does indeed sound like a prick, but the sad truth is that by paying the most for the game, he has earned that right. My suggestion? Get a job. Make some money. Hire someone to kill your brother in a creative and hilarious way, possibly but not necessarily involving a toilet, an inflatable Will Smith sex doll, a complex system of ropes and pulleys, and a box of grenades.

The box of grenades seems like cheating. Replace that with a toilet plunger.

 

[Dr Poochenstein]

Well, your brother does indeed sound like a prick, but the sad truth is that by paying the most for the game, he has earned that right. My suggestion? Get a job. Make some money. Hire someone to kill your brother in a creative and hilarious way, possibly but not necessarily involving a toilet, an inflatable Will Smith sex doll, a complex system of ropes and pulleys, and a box of grenades.

I like how you think.

 

[Cinnonym]

Ah, the days of waking up at 8 A.M. on a Saturday morning to find my mother perched at the edge of my bed, playing FFIX on mute.Nowadays, though, I share a house with three other gaming girls just like me. There are many consoles.There is only one television.I can't even begin to list all the games I've started but never finished, and all the handheld games I've played a million billion times over.

 

[Mechanix]

Um question......

Why is the game $100? Or is it $70? I can't tell, you worded it very strange.

 

[Hirushia]

Dangle something valuable and fragile out the window as a hostage and negotiate it from there. Just because he's a wall of muscle doesn't mean you can't work out some way that puts you in power here.

ANYHOOOO... I've never had much problems with people hogging videogames really. My dad and I like the same kind of them, but we never really get into games enough to want to play them as much as, let's say, your crap brother.

And for the people saying he can do that considering he bought more than half of it... If you and your buddy split the cost of a car $2500 and $3000, (your friend being the one paying more) you should still be able to drive it. Sure you can be a nazi about it and set timeshares or something, but you still paid a significant amount of money, so you're entitled to get something out of it.