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Posted: Jan 5th 2011 11:03PM Miami Prodigy said

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I thought mass effect 2 would be the most requested game

Posted: Jan 5th 2011 11:08PM trickybuz93 said

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@Miami Prodigy People buy it, not rent it ;)
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Posted: Jan 5th 2011 11:49PM jimmykup said

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@Miami Prodigy

Just because you're the best game of the year, doesn't mean everyone wants to play you. Most gamers would rather shoot each other in the face online then sit around and play with female characters and talk all the time.
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Posted: Jan 6th 2011 12:08AM Miami Prodigy said

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@jimmykup

Actually it does mean people want to play the game when its named by multiple sites as game of the year. I think most gamers would rather play something innovative and something special like mass effect 2 rather than playing a generic shooter.

im with trickybuz93... people dont rent mass effect 2, people buy it.
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Posted: Jan 6th 2011 12:55AM CrashTunoku said

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@Miami Prodigy Most of those people played it around launch, so not many people had it on their lists after that compared to the games that came out later in the year.
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Posted: Jan 6th 2011 9:41AM eescala7 said

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@trickybuz93

Then explain why it sold less than BlkOps and RRD, yet these two games sit on top!
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Posted: Jan 6th 2011 9:42AM eescala7 said

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@Miami Prodigy

Then explain why Mass Effect 2 sold less than each BlkOps and RRD, yet these two games sit on top!
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Posted: Jan 6th 2011 6:52PM keroro said

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@trickybuz93
I requested it from gamefly and then kept it for about $15 lol
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Posted: Jan 7th 2011 3:34PM Edward351 said

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@eescala7 Games without on-line multiplayer sell less because you can resell them when you finish the game and not miss much. That means that a single copy from the publisher is probably use a couple of times and still have the same effect. CODs, Halos, and MOHs sell more because you need the disc to play on-line. Add to that ME2 was essentially platform specific for the majority of the year and the numbers would be small compared to the huge multi-platform, multi-player blockbusters you're talking about.
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Posted: Jan 5th 2011 11:07PM Cavall said

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Man give it to sony, they are STILL paying attention to that ps2.

Posted: Jan 5th 2011 11:08PM Sly C said

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gamefly confirmed my belief that soul silver > heart gold.

Posted: Jan 5th 2011 11:36PM tenacioustoaster said

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@Sly C
Honestly, who rents a pokemon game? I usually invest hundreds of hours into them!
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Posted: Jan 6th 2011 12:15AM Sly C said

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@Sly C

true, pokemon is definitely NOT a game that's suited for rental. i think in the original silver version, between all my playthroughs, i did well over 400 hours, and that's a conservative estimate. god of war, i can understand. not pokemon.
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Posted: Jan 6th 2011 2:18AM RCizzle65 said

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@Sly C Or maybe people rent it because they need to catch the Pokemon they don't get in Heart Gold :P
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Posted: Jan 6th 2011 2:02PM Crashpro3 said

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@Sly C What if the people who rented SoulSilver owned Heart Gold (and vice-versa) and just wanted the exclusive Pokémon for a cheaper price? O.o
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Posted: Jan 5th 2011 11:18PM Enigma7ic said

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Ha, I rented all of those games except ME2 and GOW3.

Posted: Jan 5th 2011 11:34PM Spargo said

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I got all of 360 ones....... but - 5.Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is a big negativo!!!!

Posted: Jan 6th 2011 12:52AM Sam406 said

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@Spargo

You're really missing out. It's the kind of game where teamwork actually means something.

It's surprising how a well organized squad of four can take on an army of uncommunicated mutes.
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Posted: Jan 6th 2011 1:49AM JIAGPOS said

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@Sam406
Yeah, even though it did piss me off you should see what happens when you and 3 of your friends are communicating together. You can obliterate the other team.
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Posted: Jan 6th 2011 12:09AM Anticrawl said

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I wanna see the most quickly returned games of 2010. These lists are obvious.

Posted: Jan 6th 2011 2:12AM DWilson8504 said

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@Anticrawl

This.
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Posted: Jan 6th 2011 2:14AM Riley said

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@Anticrawl Final fantasy is probably on that list
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Posted: Jan 6th 2011 12:17AM Wizardsofwaverly said

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I didn't think black ops would make it because it sold over a billion dollars already

Posted: Jan 6th 2011 9:39AM eescala7 said

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@Wizardsofwaverly

WOW, BlkOps sells money now...what a rip off
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Posted: Jan 6th 2011 1:24AM fid said

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too bad gamefly only has one copy of each.

Posted: Jan 6th 2011 2:13AM DWilson8504 said

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@fid

LOL no.
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Posted: Jan 6th 2011 2:15AM Anticrawl said

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@fid

............... what? I always get the games I want on launch day from them.

You do understand how the Q works right? First come first serve? I set all my titles in my Q at the least a month or two in advance. I have my whole year planned out every year. Constant flow of every new release (that I am on the fence about purchasing).
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Posted: Jan 6th 2011 4:30AM Schlecht said

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As long as that crappy Black Ops isn't first in place of a real game like Red Dead, I'm set.
As for Pokemon, I never really saw it as a rentable game o_O, definitely an all or nothing affair to me
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Posted: Jan 6th 2011 11:45AM dadalee25 said

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mass effect 2 was a must buy for people so there was no renting going on there

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