I also lurked around here for a long time while I was getting my money together to buy my first game. During that time I was out playing every game I could to figure out what I wanted to commit to. My goal was a NIB Metallica pro but I ended up getting a metallica premium with 150 plays on it for almost the same price as the NIB pro. As a first time owner I knew I was better off going new or almost new so I had time to start learning about the maintenance end of having a pin at home.
Now I’m ready to start scraping cash together to get the next one but still down to buy NIB for the general ease of not dealing with a testy older game . I’m looking at Iron Maiden but my wife has her heart set on Houdini after playing it at this years MGC.