What was the last game you pre-ordered?

[Johnny Impact]

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xcom is looking pretty damn good Both the single and multi player.

I heard about the FPS "remake" and I had one thing to say: "KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!"

Blatant cash grabs facilitated by the attachment of venerated, iconic brand names to sub-par, astonishingly uninspired productions having, in fact, nothing whatsoever to do with the original game are a serious insult to the very people they're trying to sell the game to. Imagine if there was "a new Half-Life game" that wasn't made by Valve and turned out to be electronic checkers. Someone would die for that. There would by lynchings. Unfortunately many gamers are young enough never to have experienced the original XCOM. Poor kids won't know the difference.

Then I heard some other company was making a new version that would stay true to the overhead, turn-based squad system, and keep the global management sim intact, and I felt better.

Then I heard that "some other company" was Firaxis, and I knew everything would turn out all right.

 

[crazyrabbits]

Honest to God, I've never preordered a game. I haven't walked into a game store in over 5 years. The last game I bought was a Collector's Edition pack of the original Ghost Recon that I picked up from EB Games.

The current industry as a whole has put me off entirely. I'll stick with the classics, thank you very much.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Dungeon Lords and boy was that a mistake. I will never pre-order a game again nor will I ever buy anything developed by Dreamcatcher again.

 

[FamoFunk]

MW3

I feel so ashamed. Can I pretend I never, because the answer would then be Portal 2.

 

[N_of_the_dead]

Last game for me is the Last Story...is it even out yet in NA I remember they said August was the most recent push back? If it is I have a gripe with gamestop since it's been paid off since March.

 

[Phasmal]

Guild Wars 2!
And I blame everyone who answered my questions about it and got me super excited about it here on the forums. Much love.
Played in the stress-tests and had so much fun.

Sadly I have to play on boyfriend's computer because my laptop is made of scrap metal and hope, but we're saving up to get me a new machine and then we will probably never be seen again by the outside world.

 

[Dragoon]

MW3

I feel so ashamed. Can I pretend I never, because the answer would then be Portal 2.

No, you must forever live with the shame of pre-ordering that awful game

 

[Chester Rabbit]

Mortal Kombat 2011, and I only did it for the art book. The book which I was 90% sure would feature concept art that could be found in the krypt but I just couldn't take that chance. It turns out I was 100% right and the book was as big as a game manual (Okay a bit bigger) and didn't really have that much commentary in it.

And before that the last game I preordered was way back in September 2007, a couple hours before the game came out lol.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I pre-ordered The Last Story which Amazon hasn't delivered or shipped yet because I'm cheap. The next pre-order I'm likely to do will be for a Wii-U and 2 - 4 launch titles (Mario U, Rayman Legends and, Zombi-U for sure)

Edit - YAY! 7,000 posts!!!

 

[Diddy_Mao]

WoW:Mists of Panderia.

Mainly just because pre-ordering it's pretty much the only way I can get the Collectors Edition.

 

[unindexedsearchengine]

Assassins Creed 3 Freedom Edition. Most of my $ went on that so i'm holding back for now.

 

[Mikeyfell]

For me it was Mass Effect 3, and don't get me started on Mass Effect 3 again...
Anyway I decided back around the time Dragon Age 2 came out (The second to last game I preordered) that ME 3 would be my last preorder, because I have an ancient evil curse that makes everything I pay full price for suck donkey shit, that's why for everyone's sake I'm going to wait for the price drop on Sleeping Dogs.

 

[evenest]

I've only ever pre-ordered four games.

Little Big Planet
Lego Batman
Little Big Planet 2
Rage

The first three instances were only so that I didn't feel the pain of laying down $60 in one go. Rage was an "impulse" pre-order in that I was excited by the E3 clips and hopeful about similarities to the openness of Fallout 3.

Given how my playing is predicated on whim--just now got around to playing the Assassin Creed games and even stopped that playthrough to finish Oblivion--pre-orders just aren't necessary. Besides, I wasn't all that impressed with Rage--haven't moved past the sniper mission. I was hoping the game would be more like Fallout than Borderlands.

Preorders are too risky. I had actually put $5 down for the new Lara Croft but got cold feet and closed the order. I like to wait on reviews and guilt is forcing me to finish the pile of games I already own.

 

[Whateveralot]

The first, last and only game I ever preordered was Skyrim. I don't regret doing that; however, I still take enormous amounts of heed before preordering. I want to be very sure I won't be disappointed.

 

[FamoFunk]

MW3

I feel so ashamed. Can I pretend I never, because the answer would then be Portal 2.

No, you must forever live with the shame of pre-ordering that awful game

Want to know what makes it even more shameful?




[small]It was Hardened Edition...[/small]

 

[Xannidel]

Hmm Sleeping Dogs last night and before that, Ni No Kuni Wizards Edition.

 

[Dragoon]

MW3

I feel so ashamed. Can I pretend I never, because the answer would then be Portal 2.

No, you must forever live with the shame of pre-ordering that awful game

Want to know what makes it even more shameful?




[small]It was Hardened Edition...[/small]

All hope for you is now lost, let us all say goodbye to our lost friend.

 

[SecondPrize]

I pre-ordered Modern Warfare 2 for the PC and then paid absolutely no attention to it until release, missing all of the no mods, no private servers, game not balanced for lean, literally designed for console and ported to pc announcements.
I haven't purchased a game since that I didn't rent beforehand or get for a song on steam.