Stronger Than Fiction.

If you think my previous post, in which I spent several thousand years bemoaning my inability to cheaply buy games I will never have time to play, was a cry for help, consider this: about five minutes after I hit publish, I bought a new copy of Front Mission 4 off Ebay for nine bucks. Actually, to be fully honest, it was a dutch auction so I bought two copies.

(Why two? I... don't... know? I had some idea that I could flip the other purportedly new copy, either on Amazon, Ebay or at some shop that it might cover the money I spent on both games. This seems really, really unlikely, I know, but nothing screws up my inner compass like success: I flipped my second copy of the limited edition of Metal Gear Solid: Subsistence for enough money that it covered both copies and gave me a $50 profit. Weirdly, for a guy who's been buying comic books for over thirty years, I can count the number of times I engaged in such speculation in that market on the fingers of a single hand, and have enough fingers left over to flash the peace sign. If only such sound judgment would guide me with video games!)

Then, three days later, I found a used copy of God Hand for $11.95 at Streetlight Records. Provided that the scuffs seem as minor as they appeared in the store, this is a good deal. Even if I don't take to the high difficulty level of the game (I've read it's awesome but hard), I could flip it for a small profit on Ebay now. I suspect I may be able to flip it for a larger one later...

So, yeah. That's how Video Game Player: The RPG is going. I defeated dutch auction and it monster dropped two copies of Front Mission 4, and I completed the record store sub-quest for a God Hand reward. I've gained a +2 to Avarice and opened up the Difficult Fighting Game skill tree.

Next: some actual fucking talk about playing actual fucking video games.