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My little brother is hell-bent on buying Animal Crossing: New Horizons himself & my parents offered to get me one game, what should I choose?

Which game should I get instead since my little brother insisted on buying Animal Crossing?

  • Final Fantasy VII Remake

    Votes: 241 49.3%

  • Resident Evil 3 Remake

    Votes: 102 20.9%

  • Marvel's Avengers

    Votes: 6 1.2%

  • The Wonderful 101 Remastered (already played it on Wii U)

    Votes: 8 1.6%

  • Other (please specify)

    Votes: 22 4.5%

  • Persona 5 Royal

    Votes: 32 6.5%

  • DOOM Eternal

    Votes: 78 16.0%
  • Total voters
    489
Neoxon

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My original plan back in Christmas was to have my folks get Animal Crossing: New Horizons as a late Christmas gift. But as I came to find out, my little brother is now dead-set on getting the game himself, despite me trying to explain to him that my parents were more than willing to get the game themselves. Since he can't be convinced to save his money, I'm trying to think of another game to fulfill my parents' offer so I don't waste it. What should I go with? The options are in the poll, but nothing above $60.
 
Airhead

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my advice would be never pre-order and wait until reviews at least before making a decision. Square games go down in price usually pretty fast especially after the first year. maybe keep that in mind.
 
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Neoxon

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Airhead said:
my advice would be never pre-order and wait until reviews at least before making a decision. Square games go down in price usually pretty fast especially after the first year. maybe keep that in mind.
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Fair point, anything to lighten the load on their wallets would be a good thing.
 
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Neoxon said:
My original plan back in Christmas was to have my folks get Animal Crossing: New Horizons as a late Christmas gift. But as I came to find out, my little brother is now dead-set on getting the game himself, despite me trying to explain to him that my parents were more than willing to get the game themselves. Since he can't be convinced to save his money, I'm trying to think of another game to fulfill my parents' offer so I don't waste it. What should I go with? The options are in the poll, but nothing above $60.
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Persona 5 or Final Fantasy VII are my obvious recommendations.
 

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Just give him the $60 they would have spent and you've accomplished the same thing.
 
Van Bur3n

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Uh, best game Nioh 2? Hello? Is this thing on? Like doy. Everyone loves Nioh 2. Even mom and pop.
 
Master Chuuster

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Have you played the base Persona 5? If not, then Royal would be a great purchase, especially if you're looking for bang for your buck. It's a 100 hour game.
 

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This thread reminded me that over the next month we're getting a new Animal Crossing, Doom, Resident Evil, and Final Fantasy game, and all of them look great.

What a warm feeling...

And OP, I'd recommend waiting and seeing. I voted RE3 because that would be my personal choice, but it really depends on your own feelings.

If in doubt...but them all.
 
GemmolSwitchPS4

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Neoxon said:
My original plan back in Christmas was to have my folks get Animal Crossing: New Horizons as a late Christmas gift. But as I came to find out, my little brother is now dead-set on getting the game himself, despite me trying to explain to him that my parents were more than willing to get the game themselves. Since he can't be convinced to save his money, I'm trying to think of another game to fulfill my parents' offer so I don't waste it. What should I go with? The options are in the poll, but nothing above $60.
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wait for game of the year edition final fantasy 7 remake this way you do not have to wait every year for the continuation and instead get all the versions together
 

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Any reason you can't save up to get Avengers in 6 months time? Probably best to get FF VII, Persona 5 or RE3
 
Ocean

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Gonna go with RE3. FF7 is probably worth sitting on for a while until some patches come out. Not that I've heard anything concerning, but knowing SE, they'll SE it up (remember XV?)
 
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GemmolSwitchPS4 said:
wait for game of the year edition final fantasy 7 remake this way you do not have to wait every year for the continuation and instead get all the versions together
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I can't speak for Neoxon but I'm not waiting some 5 years for a hypothetical complete "edition."(A Collection would probably be a more accurate term given all the pars will be there own games.)
 
DecoReturns

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Neoxon said:
It would have been the Christmas gift last year, so I'd get it immediately. All I have to do is use my mom's credit card upon purchase.
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A few of those games will quickly drop in price so I would suggest something that's gotta stay full price or a bit and you also really want to play.

personally. I wouldn't recommend Marvels cause i feel that's game thats gonna be kinda okay at launch and get better later when the GAAS aspect is really noticeable.
 
Dekuman

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Option X - make this a teachable moment and ask for the cash equivalent instead and save the money
 
HardRojo

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Is the game for you? If not then have your brother only pay for half of it and your parents for the other half. He's young so Animal Crossing will be perfect for him as the game requires a lot of time and will be more than enough to keep him busy.
 
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Neoxon

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HardRojo said:
Is the game for you? If not then have your brother only pay for half of it and your parents for the other half. He's young so Animal Crossing will be perfect for him as the game requires a lot of time and will be more than enough to keep him busy.
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He insisted on paying for it in full & I can't get him to budge. I've tried just about everything. He'd be playing it, but would also let me play (as was the case with Pokémon Sword).

Also, he's 21, I'm 24.
 
Chaos2Frozen

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As far as I'm concerned it's down to RE3, FF7 and P5R.

OP, which game are you LEAST likely to be willing to spend money yourself lol ?
 
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Neoxon

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Chaos2Frozen said:
As far as I'm concerned it's down to RE3, FF7 and P5R.

OP, which game are you LEAST likely to be willing to spend money yourself lol ?
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Of the three, probably P5R since my little bro bought the original P5. I'd imagine my older sister will rent RE3 at some point (as she did for 7 & 2's remake), & I'd imagine that I'd get FFVIIR at a discount eventually (as mentioned earlier, I'm in PS5 money-saving mode right now).
 
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iboshow said:
I hope you get enough and then some
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I'm currently aiming for $550 ($500 plus tax) by the end of November. Then I also need enough for tickets to Black Widow, Eternals, & In the Heights on top of my Switch Online (family plan) & PS+ (I usually get it during the summer when it's $40) subscriptions. That would go into the "and then some" of your post.......not to mention food (high metabolism & whatnot).

I won a Smash prediction contest late last year, so I'm mostly good for Fighters Pass Vol. 2.
 
HardRojo

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Neoxon said:
He insisted on paying for it in full & I can't get him to budge. I've tried just about everything. He'd be playing it, but would also let me play (as was the case with Pokémon Sword).

Also, he's 21, I'm 24.
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Ah, I thought there was a bigger age gap between you and your younger brother man, well in that case disregard everything I said lol. FF might be the best option there.
 
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Neoxon said:
Of the three, probably P5R since my little bro bought the original P5. I'd imagine my older sister will rent RE3 at some point (as she did for 7 & 2's remake), & I'd imagine that I'd get FFVIIR at a discount eventually (as mentioned earlier, I'm in PS5 money-saving mode right now).
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I think you should choose FF7, if nothing else it would be a nightmare to avoid anything about the game for the next year.
 
Cactuar

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If you ask me I'm gonna say the obvious answer is Final Fantasy VII Remake. But then again, I'm a cactuar, and thus slightly biased.
 
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Neoxon

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Kaguya

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Can't go wrong with
- Final Fantasy VII Remake
- Resident Evil 3 Remake
- DOOM Eternal

Already available, should know what to expect
- P5R
- W101
 
Rosebud

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I already bought FF VII, so I'm biased lol

I would say this or Resident Evil 3.

You already played Persona so wait for a good sale. Avengers doesn't looks good. But you could go for Cyberpunk, TLOU or Tsushima.
 
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Neoxon

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Rosebud said:
I already bought FF VII, so I'm biased lol

I would say this or Resident Evil 3.

You already played Persona so wait for a good sale. Avengers doesn't looks good. But you could go for Cyberpunk, TLOU or Tsushima.
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I may just ask for TLoU Part II for this coming Christmas, though good idea on Cyberbunk & GoT.
 
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