Time for my weekly yearly update!

I’ve been trying to remember the last time I got really excited about a game coming out.  I don’t tend to buy single player games on release because it’s so much more satisfying to buy them cheaper a year later.   Skyrim was an exception, because I wanted to play it alongside my son (him on Xbox360, me on PC).  If it’s a good game, it will still be good a year later, won’t it?  To be honest, I regret pre-ordering two copies of Skyrim.   We could happily have played Oblivion for another year or so, then bought Skyrim with the DLC at a fraction of the price.

MMOs are different though, because if I want to play and level alongside my guild, I have to buy the game on release.  (For “alongside”, read “several levels behind”).   This means forking out the maximum cash at the beginning.   And while I’m committing so much money already, it would be foolishness not to pay a few quid extra for the Imperial edition.

What worries me about getting so excited, though, is that I know my excitement levels are going to fall at some point and I hope it’s not too soon.    Morrowind and Oblivion were games that I bought cheaply, after release, and spent many happy hours with.   Skyrim, I enjoyed, but I have an awful feeling that I enjoyed the anticipation more.  After all, my son was really excited, and we used to talk about Skyrim together.  A sort of folie a deux, if you will (he became bored with Skyrim much more quickly than with Oblivion).   With the Elder Scrolls Online, my guild are talking about it, which just encourages me!   But when is my excitement going to wear off?  I hope it’s a year, or even six months down the line, and not, well, at launch!