A funny thing happened with my most recent Gamestop online order, whose contents include: EA Sports Active for the Wii and Raiden Fighters Aces for the 360. If you want Raiden Fighters Aces, you’re going to have to order it online – it’s got such a small print run that no brick & mortar store seems to carry it, so you either have to grab it from Amazon.com or Gamestop.com. For $20, I wanted to get in on this hardcore shooter collection. Whether I end up playing it or not is a different story, but for some reason it just makes me happy to buy hardcore games at good prices.
I was also showing EA Sports Active to my wife earlier since I discovered that this game is consistently the top selling game on Amazon.com for the last couple of weeks (but it recently got dethroned by The Sims 3). I wondered why everyone kept buying it so I started reading glowing reviews about what a great workout you can get, etc. and asked my wife if she was interested since she loves working out. She pretty much scoffed at it since she goes to the gym already, and after all the hype I got from reading it and sharing it with her, even after she didn’t care for it I ended up buying it for myself.
I told my wife afterwards that I bought it, and she replied, “I figured”. What?! You think you know me huh? I’m really a hardcore gamer! How can you figure me for buying an exercise game?! Maybe I am becoming a casual gamer after all or my wife knows how easy it is for me to pull the trigger on any game I get interested in -_-
