Planet Sillicon

I should hire games…

By blog on Oct. 10, 2009.

… however I know I never will.

Basically, I won’t pay for a game that I don’t think I’m going to get a good amount of play time from or isn’t a very good game. I don’t like to have anything approaching chaff in my collection, and a game that’s overly short, overly easy – is actually aimed predominantly at children, but has same effect – and only got an 8.0 from IGN, unfortunately approaches chaff. I know it’s not a bad game, but to me, the comments lead me to believe it’s a so-so game.

Now, there’s nothing wrong with that, if you were going to hire it. But I won’t do that. Want to know why? In the past I’ve hired DVDs and games, and I’ve seen what they look like. The scratches, fingerprints, and general grime on these things is utterly revolting. I would rather stamp on my own foot that put one of those disgusting discs in my PS3, or any console or player in my home.

Because in the past, before I was like this, I would try it. I would hire games and DVDs and try them, only to find they didn’t work. That was infuriating, but then to go back and have them ask you stupid questions – “did you put the disc in with the shiny side down?” – and in any way attempt to blame you for their piece of crap disgusting disc not working is more than this irate gamer can take.

I’ve often found that it’s best to just avoid these sorts of situations, but it is frustrating, because it would be nice to be able to try a game that you wanted to play for a few hours, but didn’t want to all out buy, but ah well. I’d rather miss out on a little game than go through the ordeal that is the hiring process.