Topic: Are you worried you will get shovel ware, or other crappy games for Holidays ?

[AV]

     

I might get a crappy game for Wii for the Holidays. I hope I get Gift Cards or Wii points card instead of a game because my family is very bad in judging what games I want. I am somewhat picky in what games I like.

I don't know what I will do if I get WiiFit. The balance board is sort of cool, but I seriously doubt I will play that for more than a week. I will instantly return any obvious shovel ware.

Okami, is the only game for the Wii that I want but I doubt I will get that. I mentioned it to my brother in a email when Gamestop had it on sale for $25.

[King of Twitch]

You can be thankful you're not getting malnutrition, AIDS, malaria, or orphaned for 'the holidays' like some children

[Kairon]

I hope you can return whatever you get if that happens MAV. Though... imagine returning Wii Fit...

EIGHTY DOLLARS!! Man! Return Wii Fit and that's enough for a Wii game AND a DS game!

[KDR_11k]

Naah, my relatives know better than to try buying a game on their own. Especially since games are so fucking expensive.

[NWR_pap64]

You can be thankful you're not getting malnutrition, AIDS, malaria, or orphaned for 'the holidays' like some children

Oh ho ho ho ho HO! Major burnage...

Seriously, dude. I HAVE to make into a sig once the holidays are over.

I hope you can return whatever you get if that happens MAV. Though... imagine returning Wii Fit...

EIGHTY DOLLARS!! Man! Return Wii Fit and that's enough for a Wii game AND a DS game!

If he doesn't want it I'll GLADLY take it off his hands. Really, I will.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

You'll GLADLY take off his hands?  How harsh!  But justified.

[King of Twitch]

You can be thankful you're not getting malnutrition, AIDS, malaria, or orphaned for 'the holidays' like some children

Or Wii Music, for that matter

[NWR_pap64]

You'll GLADLY take off his hands?  How harsh!  But justified.

Hey, its not like he'll need them for the Wii. It sucks. Hell, I'll take the feet too since he doesn't want Wii Fit.

[Kairon]

You can be thankful you're not getting malnutrition, AIDS, malaria, or orphaned for 'the holidays' like some children

Or Wii Music, for that matter

Man I'd be sooo happy to get Wii Music as a Christmas present... *sigh*

[nickmitch]

Of course you would.

[NWR_pap64]

Hey, I got Wii Music as a gift and I am happy!

HAPPY!!! HAAAAAHAAHHAAAPYYY! AHAHAHAHAHA! HAAAAAAAPYYYYYY!

[Ian Sane]

If I got Wii Fit I'd at least give it a try.  I'd probably keep it since it's a Nintendo game and all.  I doubt I would keep Wii Music though or DK Barrel Blast (ugh).

I can trust my family not to do this to me.  The general rule is that if a videogame is not on my Christmas list, don't buy it for me.  Ditto with CDs.  DVDs are a little more open since I don't specifically collect them and thus am not so picky about.  My parents know me well enough to not do this to me.

My immediate family is pretty much the only people I get gifts from anyway.  My friends and I never bought each other gifts, I'm currently single, most of my grandparents have died, when I was a kid my aunts complained that buying for all the cousins was too expensive so I don't get gifts from that part of the extended family, and we don't do a Secret Santa at work anymore.

The only thing I have to worry about is birthdays as my friends and I do buy birthday gifts.  A friend who should know better bought another friend an unrequested videogame for his birthday and I was concerned he would do the same to me.  He didn't, thankfully, as he doesn't really read reviews anymore and with the Wii you really don't want to buy games based on the cover art.  "Hey Sonic was great on the Genesis, I'l buy Ian this!"

It's like a different take on the "clueless parents buys shoddy game based on popular licence."  Clueless friend buys shoddy game based on videogame franchise that used to be good.

[ShyGuy]

I've got bigger things to worry about. Like 30 inches of snow and single digit temperatures.

[GoldenPhoenix]

I've got bigger things to worry about. Like 30 inches of snow and single digit temperatures.

Which is why Eastern Washington is lame.

[DAaaMan64]

I'd take the snow over the blue any day of the week.

[GoldenPhoenix]

I'd take the snow over the blue any day of the week.

We have snow too though! Just not super high (like 1FT around where I work).

[DAaaMan64]

Thats not bad.  I couldn't see my car it was so buried in.

[EasyCure]

i'm afraid of buying crappy downloadable games if i have too much of the tequila i got for xmas....

i think i have a problem?

[Flames_of_chaos]

Just because of this thread I hope the OP gets Ninja Bread Man, Furu Furu Park, a set of plastic Wii sport attachments and last but not least the activision holiday shovelware.

[Tanookisuit]

I got Rockband 2 from my girlfriend, and I'm going to get Mario Kart and Animal Crossing from my mom.  Not too bad.

[KDR_11k]

I got Britney's Dance Beat (or what it was called, saw it for 3€ or so) as a joke for a friend once. Yes, I did have a real gift at hand, I just thought it'd be funny to hand him that one first.

[Tanatoes]

Heh.  Everybody knows not to buy me games.  They'd just get me something I have already anyhow.

[redgiemental]

I know my girlfriend has got me a few games for Christmas. 

It's a toss up she plays some games these but mostly only multiplayer. She has been playing Super Mario Galaxy on and off for like a year and is currently on 40 something stars. (Due to lack of playing not skill I might add).

She has a better chance than others of picking good games but I did have to talk out of buying DK Barrel Blast the other day because she loved the SNES Donkey Kong games. Much like Ian's example I guess.

In fairness when I simply told her the mechanics of the game she thought it was lame right away.

I have wanted to pick up Fable 2 for weeks but I think she might have bought it for me already. Hopefully she did otherwise I've been waiting for no good reason.

On the flipside I bought her Wii Music for Christmas before reading any reviews. I thought id sounded rubbish but I knew she liked the idea of the game and well I still think Wii Fit is rubbish too so I went against my own instinct and bought it

So perhaps it is I who have bought the shoddy game this year.

[Kairon]

Man you guys... this topic makes me realize what great friends and families we all have.

[Spinnzilla]

My girlfriend has gotten me both Wario Ware, Okami and Wiipoints.

Parents: GHWT, Mushroom Men, Twilight Princess. 

I'm pretty set.