I’m not a sports fan but do have a number of franchises that I’ve played/owned multiple titles.
During the PlayStation 3 generation I was day one for any new Assassin’s Creed, but after the burn that was Unity on PlayStation 4 I have held off on all of them until a good six months after launch. Even I could see at that point that my love of the franchise was being somewhat taken advantage of.
I still like the series though and despite the grind elements to the latest one it is a great game. I’ve played all the mainline ones and Rogue (worst Irish voice-acting ever – to be sure). I’d like to get the Assassin’s Creed III remaster as it has the spin-off with the female assassin but haven’t so far. Circa 2012 I was all over the Creed even, buying an overpriced jacked from Musterbrand. I still own all the ones for PlayStation 4 but did sell the PlayStation 3 ones.
I’ve had all mainline Zeldas too. I was living abroad when The Wind Waker came out and got it delivered to Thailand. I bought a Wii for Twilight Princess, I skipped Skyward Sword as I’d sold my Wii by that point. I bought a second-hand Wii U for Breath Of The Wild and the remasters of the GC era games. I’ll most likely get a Switch for the sequel to that too. I have a few amiibo for the series and a ludicrously too tight T-shirt I got with a launch edition of Breath Of The Wild.
I think as I’ve gotten older (41) I’m a bit more chilled on not having a day one purchases of the above but I do still keep an active eye on them.
One franchise that I’d be very interested to see again is Bioshock. I thought that last one was great and am very interested to see where that goes next. I understand the team disbanded but still find it weird that the series launched and got two sequels in the PlayStation 3 era but save the remaster, they have basically skipped this entire generation. I’ve got a cool (well I think) Columbia bag from Infinite and bought a T-shirt too when the remaster came out.
I’m currently between jobs but once I’m back earning again I will no doubt continue to buy bits and bobs along side the games I love. There is so much quality merch nowadays, except those weird looking ones with the wide heads (can’t remember the name), they can all go to landfill I reckon.
Happy gaming all.
AWB-78 (PSN ID)
GC: That sounds like Funko Pop.
