Personally? I already have dark souls in hand.
I "own" Arkham city as much as anyone can Own Arkham city via steam.
So as for purchases.... Hrm. All I have left for this year is the PC release of Rocksmith, ToR on Dec 20fukfuroepluioer and if I really REALLY feel like splurging I might pick up a few little things via the steam sale cause I do have my eye extensively on Bastion, I just keep neglecting to get it.
Sad really.. I actually dont have a lot left to buy this year, but the two I have left out are 70 and 80 USD respectively. 150$ to pick up a whopping 2 games. Why back in my day we used to be able to go to the corner store and buy 4 wooden beer cases full of video games for a nickle... But Noo you kids today with your fancy Tessellation and your Three Dees TVs used with a motion controller that looks more like your playing to ejaculate than win. Why back in my day... We had to deal with a quarter inch brownish/greenish looking blob that looks like it was made out of legos, begging you to help it cross the street, and the masochistic fool demanded you did it by using this rigid joystick used out of the same grade of plastics that they made artifical prosthetic legs and foodball shoulder pads out of.. And dont you even think about complaining about a hand cramp, because when you only had 3 colors to choose from the games had to make sure you were paying attention by Flashing like its begging you to go into an epileptic seizure and the only thing keeping you from going into one is all the blood in your eyes from your retinas suffering from second degree burns due to the flashing horror that was ET. And you know it was impossible to look at that sado masochistic retinal tattoo device for more than 10 minutes without becoming so blind that Henry Kissenger would travel from 3 towns over for no other reason than to come and find you so he can point and laugh at you as HE calls you four eyes.I DONT WANT TO HERE IT! YOU INGRATEFUL KIDS.. YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW GOOD YOU GOT IT, Because your piddly little trinket games cant compare and you know it. Stupid kids, spending all day long playing the halos and Calling Duty. Why back in my day you know what we did when we wanted to scratch that "Twitch Shooter" Itch? We enlisted for a 4 year tour. And while you want to ***** and moan about how some 10 year old Sniped you , Or you just got evicerated by some random german with the equivilent of a bowie knife I cant help but to know a little peice of me is dying inside because you think thats anything compared to having a 10 year old vietmanese girl hammering bamboo shoots under your toenails and popping em off like they were Esther Merrimans favorite skiddoos. Yeah you wanna cry because someone is screwing up your K/D ratio? How about you STFU you little panty waist, and come back when you put some bass in your voice and are actually able to discharge one of the many firearms that you claim to have a university level working understanding of the guns theoretical principles. Why back in my day.... yeah... im bored of this already. anyway..
tl;DR - I only have 2 - 3 must buys and really they arent what most people are considering "must buys" at this point in the year.