With todays Star Trek releases my wishlist is 54 games long now. I have not been buying many games the last 6 months, since I don't exactly have a lot of spare cash, but I do have quite the backlog. So I took a look at that wishlist of mine, and how it has grown, wondering if I'll ever actually get all those games. And honestly, while many of them I definately will get sooner or later, there are some I don't really think I'll ever get to.

For example there is Inquisitor. I like old-school RPGs, but reviews are mixed, and it looks like something I might well love, but might get bored with halfway through as well. At 15$ it's not very expensive, but then again there are about 50 other games I'm more likely to need that 15$ for.

Another is This War of Mine. Reviews are good, and it looks interesting, but it was the same for Don't Starve, and it just turned out to not be my cup of tea at all, and since then I'm wary of buying games that don't really look like the kind of thing I know I like based on other peoples praise alone. Also, at 20$ it's the same problem as Inquisitor, only amplified by another 5$ ;)

I'm curious, do others here also have games like this on their wishlists, or are you more selective about it and only wishlist games you'll definately buy in the foreseeable future?

Uh-oh, that thread is a landmine. I'm so not posting my wishlist (not even a part of it). :P

To answer your question in a more vague manner, I'm only wishlisting games I know I will buy, and it mostly consists of old games.

Easy, Witcher 3.

Isn't wishlist posting always a good idea? :P

Why a landmine? Is there some problem I'm not aware of? I never meant for it to be about anything more than one or two games. It was never supposed to be "share your whole wishlist with me".

my wish list is 11 items long
im pretty sure i could buy them all

Sacrifice.

I have a habit of wishlisting (is that a word?) games that look interesting to me in the moment. Sir You Are Being Hunted is one that I thought looked interesting but honestly I probably will never buy. Same thing with Lifeless Planet.

Goat Simulator I added to my wishlist after getting swept into watching YouTube video's about it but after buying Surgeon Simulator for similar reasons I've been rethinking purchasing YouTube bait.

Ziggurat looked interesting to me after watching Total Biscuit's WTF Is on it but I think I'll always end up putting other games before it and therefore never actually buying it...

Just a joke, as serial gifters are wandering among us. :P

Basically everything on my wishlist seeing as I'm broke hanging on the precipice above financial ruin.

I only buy games that receive steep discounts, and I'm starting to wonder if Shovel Knight will ever be discounted *at all* on GOG. I think the Steam release got a 33% discount once, but that is not enough to trigger my wallet normally. Very odd pricing decisions if you ask me. Oh well...

You make something so generous sound so nefarious.

The horror ;) Still, I don't think the thread about the games from our wishlits we want least is going to be that much of a treat for them :D I'm pretty sure they get all their info from the Mystery game giveaway thread anyway.

I highly recommend Inquisitor. I too was on the fence about getting it for a long long time. Caught it in a sale sometime last year and even then was on the fence about spending the $ for it. But I went ahead and it is now one of my favorite RPGs up there with the greats like Torment, Arcanum, and Fallout 1+2. Some bad bugs (don't tab out of the game too much!) and a lot of potion-quaffing in combat (combat is difficult and takes a lot of whacking, I recommend playing on easy, don't worry, it won't be easy), but all of the rest of the game is quite great and makes it soooo worth it - the downsides are barely worth mentioning. The writing is superb. The atmosphere and music are superb (one of my favorite atmospheres in a game, the tone is set so well.) The story and side-quests are superb. It's long and deep. The dialogue options and role-play-ability are superb. At times (early on before it becomes clear) you might think you're getting the same information and asking the same questions to multiple people and the old gamer in you might start to go "ohhman! repeating texts!" - but they each tell all of their responses in their own ways and how the details and information start to add up to a bigger picture is really incredible. I've never played a game where I looked forward to asking the same questions to as many people as I could find to get the scoop on what really happened - the excellent writing makes this possible. The investigative aspect is unmatched from any other game I've played and that includes detective mystery type games. You really feel like an inquisitor. Add that on top of an ability to role-play into your investigating, and the dynamics+variations of what happens really shine. You can choose to be fair or biased, forgiving or an ass, follow the law or follow the church's laws or combinations of both or be your own moral compass entirely or sometimes go one way and sometimes go another depending on the situation and how you feel. I fully intend to play it 3 times in total, at least because of how they allow you to be. 1:) as an evil faithful priest of the church 2:) as a completely morally good thief who despises the church and 3:) a paladin on a true quest for the truth, regardless of the sides it may put him on.

As for games from the WL I may never buy or buying them is so far away they apply to this post:

Litil Divil - looks cool and fun buuuut, I'll probably never get to it, not really my cup of tea either
Gobliiins Pack - same ^
Labyrinth of Time - looks interesting but the tediousness of the maze puts me off from ever getting it

Kingdoms of Amular. I've been wanting to pick up Kingdoms of Amular but I never end up picking it up, even when its on sale. I keep saying "next sale" and then the next sale comes and goes and is replaced by another and another and...well you get the idea.

Watch Dogs. I'm an absolute sucker for open world games, by far my favorite gaming genre, so of course I'm interested in Watch Dogs. The story sounds vaguely interesting, graphically it looks great (even after the "downgrade" and it presents some cool gameplay ideas, however it uses Uplay and I'm not wanting to touch that with a ten foot pole.

The Sims 4. It seemingly has quite a few gameplay improvements over The Sims 3 but also removed a lot of things that were present in the base game of The Sims 3 (just as The Sims 3 did The Sims 2). At this point of time I'm wondering if it wouldn't be better just to get all the expansion packs for The Sims 3 and call it quits with the series until a later game flips the series on its head (in a good way). Plus there is the whole "exclusive to Origin" thing.

Alice: Madness Returns. It looks like a game that I would love but alas, it's an Origin exclusive more or less. Maybe one day I'll break down and reinstall Origin (already have an account from years ago) but I doubt it.

WWE 2k15. It's the first WWE game to grace PC in quite a while but unfortunately it features a roster that I mostly don't care about and one of the series' main calling cards (the Create A Wrestler feature) has been neutered as far as I can tell. I may pick it up on sale one day but I'll stick with MDickie's wrestling games for the foreseeable future.