How many of you used to buy games based on how cool the box art looked

[Winter Nights]

You choose your games based on reviews and not your interests ?

No.. But, games cost money. If a game looked interesting, I'd either rent it or look at reviews before making a purchase. And even with reviews, I'd usually still rent it.

[Necronopticous]

That's the reason I bought Iron Sword when I was a kid.

[Miriel]

All the games I had as a kid, I was given by my older brother and my cousins. They still pass along their games to me after they've played them. I think I've only bought 2, maybe 3 games my entire life. So yeah, I relied almost entirely on the choices of my brother and my cousins but I'm sure that on occassion they did buy games based on how cool the box art looked.

[Pheesh]

I find word of mouth was much more effective, but the back of ea sports games is unsurpassed as far as luring you in, the 'new features' part of the box is always so tempting.

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[krissy]

[Zell>Everything]

Zomg! Is that THE Megaman, kupo!?! :o

[Hayate]

(LOL) I used to do this. It was hilarious. If the box looked real good then I bought it. Sometimes though the game sucked ass. That was the bad part about it.

[Nasarian Altimeros]

I rarely buy my own games I just play Andys ones

[Azure]

Luckily there is a large range of magazines in England. Very early on I used to read reviews in the "Sonic comic" by fleetway (that being the offical Sega publication at the time and me being a big Sega fanboy). So that stuff was available to me from a very early age.

SONIC COMIC XD THAT pwned...

And yes, I did. For Shadow Hearts, the first game. Becuase I thought Alice looked pretty, and Yuri looked hawt.

[Destai]

eh heh

Im a sucker for the box sets.

[Xander]

haha. that sounds silly. back then I just played whatever my brothers had. =)