Author Topic: The Recent Gaming Purchases Thread (Read 15581 times)

MysterD · « **on:** Monday, September 11, 2006, 06:42:19 PM »

So, what have y'all purchased lately for games???

My latest purchase was today. I got Dungeon Siege 2: Broken World expansion for $17.99 using CC's flyer, price-matching it at BB.

scottws · « **Reply #1 on:** Monday, September 11, 2006, 06:45:10 PM »

As mentioned in the "Currently Playing" thread, I recently got God of War and Shadow of the Colossus. I have yet to play either due to the state of my PS2.

MysterD · « **Reply #2 on:** Monday, September 11, 2006, 06:49:16 PM »

Quote from: scottws on Monday, September 11, 2006, 06:45:10 PM

As mentioned in the "Currently Playing" thread, I recently got God of War and Shadow of the Colossus. I have yet to play either due to the state of my PS2.

Yuh, I saw you said your PS2 is broke; sucky.

Bleh!

I usually have a separate thread for "Currently Playing" and "Recent Purchases" normally b/c I often buy games (on sale or cheap, normally...) and just put them aside....
...while I'm already in the midst of working on playing a game...or two...or three...or so....

idolminds · « **Reply #3 on:** Monday, September 11, 2006, 07:00:26 PM »

Tonight I found several games on clearence at kmart. Picked up Hot Shots Gold FORE! (PS2), The Getaway: Black Monday (PS2), and a Tom Clancey 3 pack for Xbox that has Splinter Cell, R63, and Ghost Recon. Got all that for a grand total of $11.

MysterD · « **Reply #4 on:** Monday, September 11, 2006, 07:02:50 PM »

Quote from: idolminds on Monday, September 11, 2006, 07:00:26 PM

Tonight I found several games on clearence at kmart. Picked up Hot Shots Gold FORE! (PS2), The Getaway: Black Monday (PS2), and a Tom Clancey 3 pack for Xbox that has Splinter Cell, R63, and Ghost Recon. Got all that for a grand total of $11.

SCORE!!!

Quemaqua · « **Reply #5 on:** Monday, September 11, 2006, 07:37:51 PM »

Isn't this kind of redundant with the currently playing thread?

MysterD · « **Reply #6 on:** Monday, September 11, 2006, 07:45:04 PM »

Quote from: Quemaqua on Monday, September 11, 2006, 07:37:51 PM

Isn't this kind of redundant with the currently playing thread?

I dunno' 'bout the rest of y'all, but I am often in the process of playing a game...or two...or three....
...And then I'll just go out and buy something else b/c it's on sale and just put it aside 'til I'm done w/ what I'm in the midst of working on.

I dunno', but if y'all think it's redundant, we could actually merge the topics -- of course, y'all would have to specify what you just bought and/or what you are currently playing.

TheOtherBelmont · « **Reply #7 on:** Monday, September 11, 2006, 08:13:50 PM »

The last game I bought was Xenosaga Episode III which I beat last week. I'm thinking about getting Guitar Hero or Disgaea 2 sometime soon.

Xessive · « **Reply #8 on:** Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 09:21:08 AM »

I haven't bought a game in a while.. I think my next purchase will most probably be Dark Messiah.

MysterD · « **Reply #9 on:** Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 01:35:14 PM »

Quote from: Xessive on Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 09:21:08 AM

I haven't bought a game in a while.. I think my next purchase will most probably be Dark Messiah.

I don't think it'll be my next purchase, but I will eventually get it....
I'm definitely looking forward to that one.

Pugnate · « **Reply #10 on:** Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 08:44:34 PM »

Purchased the following for the Gamecube. The ones with the XXX are the ones I have bought, and the rest I am trying to find for reasonable prices.

Legend of Zelda XXX
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker XXX
Metroid Prime XXX
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes XXX
WWE Day of Reckoning 2 XXX
Resident Evil 4

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem

Super Mario Sunshine XXX
Metal Gear Solid Twin Snakes

F-Zero GX XXX
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door XXX
James Bond: Everything or Nothing XXX
Mario Tennis

Ikugara

Skies of Arcadia

X-Men Legends II

Tales of Symphonia

Viewtiful Joe 1 XXX
Viewtiful Joe XXX

gpw11 · « **Reply #11 on:** Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 09:50:44 PM »

Broken Sword: sleeping dragon for like $12. Good game or no?

Quemaqua · « **Reply #12 on:** Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 10:09:20 PM »

I remember that one getting pretty good reviews.

Pugnate · « **Reply #13 on:** Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 10:19:51 PM »

Quote from: gpw11 on Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 09:50:44 PM

Broken Sword: sleeping dragon for like $12. Good game or no?

I haven't played it myself, but have head good things, and my little bro. loves it.

Xessive · « **Reply #14 on:** Wednesday, September 13, 2006, 07:20:41 AM »

Quote from: gpw11 on Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 09:50:44 PM

Broken Sword: sleeping dragon for like $12. Good game or no?

Played it, loved it, and for $12 totally worth it. The game works fine with the keyboard, but I think it's best with a joypad (the button and command layouts match the Xbox and PS2 joypad layouts).

After playing 'Broken Sword - The Angel of Death' I can say they've changed the controls drastically. They made it point and click, but they maintained some activities that are typical of directional controls, i.e. if you wanna go up a ladder you don't click on it, you have to guide the character to the ladder the with mouse cursor, and you have to keep holding the mouse cursor in the direction you wanna go (up). I tried playing with the keyboard, but you can't go up a ladder with it for some reason, and there's no 'action' key, so you always have to revert to the mouse making the keyboard completely useless. Another minor inconvenience is when I hit ESC to pause, it brings up the menu, but if I hit ESC again to go back to the game it tries to quit to the main menu; I have to actually click on RESUME in order to go back to the game.

So it's pretty annoying, and I kinda miss the BS3 controls. Now I've got second thoughts about BS4. Controls are one of the most important factors in a game for me. More than graphics! Controls are a big variable in deciding whther or not I'll get a game.

MysterD · « **Reply #15 on:** Wednesday, September 13, 2006, 02:08:37 PM »

Quote from: Pugnate on Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 10:19:51 PM

I haven't played it myself, but have head good things, and my little bro. loves it.

Have it on my old PC, since my new one wouldn't run it, oddly enough....

What I played of it, which wasn't much, I liked it. Basically, I tested it to see if it worked -- I was basically trying tio get off the plane.

Yuh, the very opening, pretty much -- hehe.

angrykeebler · « **Reply #16 on:** Wednesday, September 13, 2006, 02:13:27 PM »

Purchased Company of Heroes and Call of Cthullu because it was $10

MysterD · « **Reply #17 on:** Wednesday, September 13, 2006, 02:16:40 PM »

Quote from: angrykeebler on Wednesday, September 13, 2006, 02:13:27 PM

Purchased Company of Heroes and Call of Cthullu because it was $10

Hey, if you've began it yet, how is Call?

MysterD · « **Reply #18 on:** Sunday, September 24, 2006, 03:01:56 PM »

I purchased @ CompUSA today Marc Ecko's Getting Up for $8.

Oh yeah, and I bought a Seagate SATA 160 GB HD -- it's installed and everything and all. Easy as pie.

TheOtherBelmont · « **Reply #19 on:** Monday, September 25, 2006, 02:42:51 PM »

I bought Guitar Hero last week and I am enjoying it very much. I've completed it on easy and medium, and I'm about done with a quarter of the songs on hard.

Quemaqua · « **Reply #20 on:** Monday, September 25, 2006, 06:47:33 PM »

I want to try GH so much, but I just can't justify the money or the fact that if I was to put in that much time, I should just be learning the songs on the actual guitar that I play and record music with. It's an absolutely maddening conundrum.

idolminds · « **Reply #21 on:** Sunday, October 01, 2006, 04:28:40 PM »

X3: Reunion

$5 at Target.

MysterD · « **Reply #22 on:** Sunday, October 01, 2006, 06:53:10 PM »

Quote from: idolminds on Sunday, October 01, 2006, 04:28:40 PM

X3: Reunion

$5 at Target.

That's what I paid for it at CompUSA -- $5. A good bargain, to say the least. That game is AWESOME.

And, they are planning to REMOVE the damn StarForce Copyright protection, w/ an upcoming patch that will also be adding new features and all.

Idol, have you installed the X3 yet??? If you have trouble w/ the CD's reading the damn music files, go here on how to bypass them, since you'll have to skip them on the install and then DL and install them manually:
http://forum2.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=125566&start=0

idolminds · « **Reply #23 on:** Sunday, October 01, 2006, 07:11:36 PM »

I probably wont install it for a while...got enough on my plate at the moment. Just saw it for cheap and figured I might give it a go in the future.

MysterD · « **Reply #24 on:** Sunday, October 01, 2006, 07:13:08 PM »

Quote from: idolminds on Sunday, October 01, 2006, 07:11:36 PM

I probably wont install it for a while...got enough on my plate at the moment. Just saw it for cheap and figured I might give it a go in the future.

If you liked Freelancer, this one is fun stuff. The graphics and action are awesome.
It's very open-ended and freedom-filled, too.

Though, it does come StarForce equipped. But, at least they plan to remove the SF protection, w/ a patch in the future; Q4, to be exact.

idolminds · « **Reply #25 on:** Sunday, October 01, 2006, 07:25:59 PM »

Starforce doesnt bother me so much. It got installed with all my Trackmania games and never gave me any trouble.

MysterD · « **Reply #26 on:** Sunday, October 01, 2006, 08:51:41 PM »

Quote from: idolminds on Sunday, October 01, 2006, 07:25:59 PM

Starforce doesnt bother me so much. It got installed with all my Trackmania games and never gave me any trouble.

I have also been very lucky w/ Starforce.

Just warning you it's SF-equipped....and since most SF-based games, it has been reported, won't even run on the current Beta of Win Vista, so who knows if it'll even run on the first retail edition of Vista.....

Quemaqua · « **Reply #27 on:** Sunday, October 01, 2006, 08:53:38 PM »

I don't think it's so much luck. Starforce doesn't affect the large majority of its users, it's just a lousy form of copy protection that's way overkill and *has* affected some people. It never affected me in any way, but ideologically I can't stand it. It's just one of those things that even without having given me problems, it's just like... I don't know. Like using a machinegun to shoot down a bug. It's just more than is necessary and causes residual issues because of that.

Xessive · « **Reply #28 on:** Monday, October 02, 2006, 12:25:35 AM »

Normally SF doesn't cause any serious issues, but I noticed a couple of problems that arise on my system when I have SF installed.

They're mostly just absolutely irritating inconveniences:
My DVD drive will only work once with each system boot; if I use a disc, I'll have to restart before the drive wiill recognize any other disc after that. It's f&$^ing annoying. The second thing is sometimes it just becomes a CD drive, and doesn't recognize DVD's at all, until I reboot. Uninstall SF, and the drive works normally.

Conclusion:
Starforce can pre-suck my genital situation.

I'm not too concerned with Vista issue, because 1) I don't plan on using Vista, and 2) since it is a pretty big issue for Vista it only means that SF will be obliterated. That's about the only issues I've had with SF, other than that I agree with Que, I have ideological issues with its methods.

idolminds · « **Reply #29 on:** Monday, October 02, 2006, 08:11:42 AM »

Nice Carlin reference there.

I'd prefer games to not have SF, and I like that devs are patching it out of games that have it. I personally have seen no problems with it so I wont let it stop me from playing a particular game, thats all.

MysterD · « **Reply #30 on:** Monday, October 02, 2006, 06:15:17 PM »

Quote from: idolminds on Monday, October 02, 2006, 08:11:42 AM

Nice Carlin reference there.

I'd prefer games to not have SF, and I like that devs are patching it out of games that have it. I personally have seen no problems with it so I wont let it stop me from playing a particular game, thats all.

I miss'd the Carlin reference....

What was it?

Xessive · « **Reply #31 on:** Monday, October 02, 2006, 07:43:48 PM »

Quote from: MysterD on Monday, October 02, 2006, 06:15:17 PM

I miss'd the Carlin reference....

What was it?

"pre-suck my genital situation." He was frustrated with the endless euphamisms and the excessive use of the prefix "pre"

I miss Carlin.. Haven't heard/seen anything by him in a long time.

MysterD · « **Reply #32 on:** Tuesday, October 03, 2006, 10:36:54 AM »

I picked up today for the PC:
--Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
--Splinter Cell
--Sacred

Around $13 for all of that, after tax. Mad sweet.

Xessive · « **Reply #33 on:** Tuesday, October 03, 2006, 02:23:14 PM »

That's an awesome deal, and they're all quality games

Enjoy them man!

MysterD · « **Reply #34 on:** Tuesday, October 03, 2006, 07:26:09 PM »

Quote from: Xessive on Tuesday, October 03, 2006, 02:23:14 PM

That's an awesome deal, and they're all quality games Enjoy them man!

Best Buy got their value software section going, where games are buy 2, get 1 free.
Some games are red dotted, and are $1.99.

How they rang up:
1. PoP: Sands was $9.99.
2. Sacred was labeled as $9.99 (and did not have a red dot sticker on it), but it actually rang up at the red dot price of $1.99!
3. Splinter Cell was $9.99, but that was the third one -- so, it rang up the free one!

Best of all, SC was already patched up in this 3-disc set by Ubi to version 1.2b.

MysterD · « **Reply #35 on:** Wednesday, October 04, 2006, 04:50:56 PM »

My copies of Myst: Uru: Complete Chronicles and Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow have shipped out -- so, Yay!!

Hopefully will arrive sometime next week.

Xessive · « **Reply #36 on:** Wednesday, October 04, 2006, 05:02:57 PM »

I wonder what Uru is like.. I never got into Myst.. I didn't like it at all. Then someone got me Riven as a birthday present and I tried it once, hated it, and quit. I don't why, but the game irritated me. Maybe it as was the frame-by-frame movement, the tedious puzzles, or the overall weirdness.

I haven't played Uru, Real Myst, or Myst V: End of Ages, so I can't judge them.. Though by looking at the screenshots Uru seems like the most appealing. Some of the environments remind me of some areas in Morrowind, so I might check it out.

idolminds · « **Reply #37 on:** Wednesday, October 04, 2006, 05:16:02 PM »

I should get Uru. I really liked realMyst.

X, there was a demo of Uru released ages ago. Looks so damn good, and give you an idea of how the game plays.

Xessive · « **Reply #38 on:** Wednesday, October 04, 2006, 06:02:43 PM »

Thanks idol, I'm looking it up right now.

MysterD · « **Reply #39 on:** Wednesday, October 04, 2006, 06:28:45 PM »

Yuh, I had a $10 off coupon from UbiSoft.com b/c my b-day's in October. So, I ordered SC: Pandora and Uru.

Both are $9.99 each on there, so w/ $10 off, I basically got them w/out paying for shipping, if you want to look at it that way -- since shipping wound up being like $8.49 or so. Wound up like $19 or so, total.

Which is fine, since most stores sell SC: Pandora for $20 and Uru: Complete is just almost impossible to find around here.

I ordered the other day w/ my $15 birthday coupon from EA's online store NFS: Most Wanted for like $11, after shipping and all. Beats spending $20 for it retail at the store and then tax.

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Author Topic: The Recent Gaming Purchases Thread (Read 15581 times)