Another year and another attempt to guess how much money your going to spend on gaming !

Any hardware your looking at picking up ?

Are there big games you are going to grab on day 1 - or will you wait for the magic £20 mark ?

Post your estimate here and try and keep track of just how much money you are throwing away when instead you could be outside !

2011 thread : http://www.beexcellenttoeachother.com/f ... f=3&t=6653
2012 thread : http://www.beexcellenttoeachother.com/f ... f=3&t=8199
2013 thread : http://www.beexcellenttoeachother.com/f ... f=3&t=9209
2014 thread : http://www.beexcellenttoeachother.com/f ... f=3&t=9879
2015 thread : http://www.beexcellenttoeachother.com/f ... =3&t=10294
2016 thread : http://www.beexcellenttoeachother.com/f ... =3&t=10653
2017 thread - http://www.beexcellenttoeachother.com/f ... =3&t=10922
2018 thread - viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11139
2019 thread - viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11295
2020 thread - viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11444
2021 thread - viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11630
2022 thread - viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11703
2023 thread - viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11749

Post your prices inside <> symbols and Grim...'s magic tracker will total everything up for you : http://www.beexcellenttoeachother.com/counter/cash.php (*)

You can also put negative values in if you've sold items back

(*) This looks like its working straight away this year so maybe last years coding update was good ;-)

Should this be 2024

I was out by almost a factor of 100% last year, so I've adjusted my expectations accordingly this year.

It should... I've changed it.

Train sim 4 <22> ps5

It is very exciting

Train sim stuff <28>

Is this just DLC , or have you bought a cap / whistle / small ticket vending machine for your trains ?

St Austell to Penzance route, a steam train to use on it, and a freight locomotive.

I can walk past the cafe I used to work in at Truro Station.

This is a thing, though

<49.99> Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1 (Steam)

Bought this for a second time, after refunding it last year when it became clear that it didn't work at all on the Steam Deck. They've just fixed it... took them long enough.

I dont know if you only buy from Steam themselves or have steam credit , but plenty of other stores have at least some type of discount on this

even avoiding the grey market sellers , Fanatical / Game2 / Green man gaming all have deals on

Link below in case anyone else wants to pick it up now its 'fixed'

https://gg.deals/pack/metal-gear-solid- ... ion-vol-1/

<25.99> 12 months Nintendo Switch Expansion pass

Also... The totals link isn't working. Was that broken when the forum broke the other day?

It was working before the crash so likely related @grim... can you have a look please ?

So far this year.

I'm expecting a fairly cheap year, I don't anticipate any significant hardware purchases and my PS Plus sub seems to cover console gaming pretty well, plus there are loads of games I want to replay.

<31.48> Warcraft Rumble stuff (Play Store) <<<< I've stopped spending money on this now
<10.00> TLOU 2 Remastered for PS5
<17.59> Easy Come, Easy Golf for Switch (from the Everybody's Golf people!)

<200> A 1440p monitor for my PC.

<2.99> LUMINES Remastered (Steam)
<6.24> Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 (Steam)

<15.07> Thunder Helix (Steam, Early Access)
<12.49> Sociable Soccer 24 (Steam)

I've tried to love sociable soccer but it's not clicking yet. Hope you fare better

<37.00> Spiderman 2 (PS5)

<69.99> Final Fantasy VII Rebirth for PS5 from the PS Store.

John Madden 24 <13>

Pacific Drive <20>
PS5 controller <60>

Turns out I didn't buy this <-13>

Helldiver 2 <35>
Dragon age <5>

<33.29> Advance Wars 1+2 Reboot for Switch
<24.74> Robocop Rogue City for PC
<100.69> More fucking Warcraft Rumble stuff despite previous declaration I'd stopped spending money on it. LOL. Lord knows how many tens upon tens of hours I've spent playing it, so in terms of value for money it's probably not too bad.

Grim Fandango Remastered - Switch <2.87>

Train sim map <5>

<20.08> Ready Or Not (Steam)

<9.09> Fallout 4: GOTY Edition (GOG)
<3.87> Syndicate Wars (GOG)

Fallout 4 purchased so I can install Fallout: London

Ooh I've never heard of fallout London. Just done a quick Google image search and it doesn't look terribly London. There are some red phone boxes. Does it get more london than that?

It's very London, but obviously it's London after a nuclear apocalypse, and also presumably in that weird kind of alternative universe that the standard Fallout games are set in, where the transistor wasn't invented etc. so all the technology is a little weird.

<69.00> outlaws (PS5)

<1.99> Zool: Redimensioned (Steam)

Warhammer 40k rogue trader @<23>

Was this on sale?

I think so, yeah. It's not all that great, tbh with you.

Zool wasn't great to start with, if we're honest

Agree

Fair, fair.

<29.99> F1 '24 (Steam)

Yes, agree, and on top of that it's probably aged really badly too.

<15.07> Rise of the Golden Idol (Steam)

Amazing! Rise of the....

Oh.

Never mind.

I've nabbed this on netflix for my phone

Took me far too long to figure out what you were going for here.

<7.65> Mind Over Magnet (Steam)