That’s a good idea you have about getting rid of new games then buying them back much cheaper. Although I got stung twice by some games becoming rare for a while and I had to buy them back about the same price (Ico / Sly Cooper 1). Modern Warfare and Mario Galaxy being other swines that barely get a price cut.

but Rage was a longer game? I did everything in 16 hours, where as Batman : AC took me about 35 hours to do everything that you think is a shorter game

some good point there though, particularly about not playing certain genres, for example I dont play :

Racing games (used to but for past few years)
Fighting games (ditto)
RTS’s (never have, take up too much time)
MMOs’s (ditto)
Sports games (used to play the odd football game , not anymore)
Platfomers (used to, but not anymore)

Also I sell my SP/campaign games straight after I complete them getting full value for them and if I want to play the games again (like I will with UC3 or batman AC) 6 months, a year or 2 years down the line then you will get it for dirt cheap. I have done this for the past 2 years now and makes gaming much cheaper. I only really play SP games with the odd MP game in there (which I dont sell for a while)

And great points on being an achievement and trophy whore, I was once an achievement whore and was systematically going all my Xbox 360 games getting 1000/1000. I mean what was I thinking!???

Not just a waste of your gaming time, but a waste of time full stop. Just becasue the developers put it there? Dont give in to your OCD compluses and play it how you want to play it. To confirm this I havent even looked at my Trophy list once, not once”

and I have turned off notifications on my Xbox and PS3. its just a waste of time. I am a bit completionist (not 100% but a good portion) but not because developers dangle a carrot infront of me