Cheapo game shootout!
Thursday / 08.28.08 / 11:03PM / Joe / all entries in Cheapo Game Shootout 07-08 / comments: 1
Since I do a fair amount of bargain hustling in my gaming, I thought I'd do a tournament-style shootout between all the cheap, discounted game purchases over the past year. My criteria for inclusion was that each game had to be on sale, preferably at a substantial discount from the original price. I widened the net to allow import games and downloadable games, resulting in a Olympic-level competition of fourteen games. This will likely take a week of weblog posts to soldier through. Or more. I'm tired tonight.
I randomized the matchups and here how the initial seven bouts shook out:
Critical favorite Zack & Wiki versus virtual unknown Nodame Cantabile! What a way to kick off the fight card!
The game you love to hate, Lair! And one of those damn casual Wii games, Big Brain Academy!
A match for the ages: M-rated No More Heroes against E-rated Ben 10! Who will stand as the Wii's dominant force?
The heir to a beloved PS2 game, Cookie & Cream... matched up with a self-aware cartoon mockjob, Harvey Birdman!
Single-minded indie shoot-em-up or diverse mainstream PC port? It's Everyday Shooter versus The Orange Box!
East meets slightly less East! The Nintendo first-party faceoff! Slide Adventure: Mag Kid and Link's Crossbow Training!
The most violent match of all! Everything will explode! You will not have a seat left to sit in! Blast Works in one corner, Pain in the other!
How well do you know my take on these bargain basement buys? Can you predict which game will reign supreme? What impossible-to-predict twists and turns will forge the victor? Stay tuned, America! | 
My predictions on how YOU will score these matches, based on my knowledge of your gaming preferences are as follows:
1. Nodame Cantabile b/c people (including frequent commenters here) bugged you about playing Z & W.
2. Tough one...will you go w/ the game you've sworn off of, or the anybody can play the party-game quizzer? I think you'll go w/ Lair, because you seem to feel more strongly about it.
3. Ben 10, b/c Clark can play with you, and that beats the fun swearing and pooping game, even if it was great fun.
4. Harvey'll take the cake, cuz C & C didn't get that thing you sent 'em.
5. Orange Box. Cuz Portal.
6. I'm guessing Mag Kid here, just because you played it during lunch a lot.
7. Pain... b/c I seem to remember you not liking Blast Works very much.