[General Discussion] Recent Game Purchases, or what I bought instead of fourteen new dildos this weekend

Originally Posted by Kostaki

Mario & Luigi : Superstar Saga - GBA/$5

Five bucks? Wow, was that just for the cart, or did you get everything?

I only really buy games one at a time, and before I got my DS I hadn't bought one for months. The latest I did buy, however, was New Super Mario Bros, and I love it.

I have a list of games I want to get in the (near) future though. And I'm also waiting for FFXII.

Lately I've been buying some rare games.

Xenogears - 25 bucks
Sonic 3d Blast (saturn) - 8 bucks
Castlevania Symphony of the Night (Saturn) - 60 bucks

and a few others i wanted to get like ps1 version of Valkyrie Profile . It costed about 80 bucks for its rare find. heh... was too late anyway.

My recent purchase was VP2: Silmeria and a psp/ds game.

Picked up Half-Life 2 GOTY the other day, cause I didn't have it. I only played once at a friend's place, and loved it. I know I'm a little behind the times. :P

Before that, Mario & Luigi DS, Xenosaga III... And paid for FFXII today, but of course, have to wait another month to actually get it. :/

Originally Posted by Celes

Five bucks? Wow, was that just for the cart, or did you get everything?

I only really buy games one at a time, and before I got my DS I hadn't bought one for months. The latest I did buy, however, was New Super Mario Bros, and I love it.

I have a list of games I want to get in the (near) future though. And I'm also waiting for FFXII.

Bought it from a friend who didn't want it anymore. Pretty much complete, box still looked new, had all the inserts, and everything.

I've been playing Mario & Luigi : Partners in Time and it's been a blast, so that's another good one to add to your library as well.

I got Dark Angel today for the XBOX for $5. I played through the first level and so far I like it. The game got a lot of bad reviews. I hope the rest of the game is as entertaining as the first level. Last Friday I got Alias for the XBOX for $6. It's entertaining, but it can be a little slow at times. I'm on the fourth level right now.

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I've bought a whole bunch of games between yesterday and today.

Yesterday, I bought Devil May Cry 2 () and Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis at Circuit City, and the first Mario vs. Donkey Kong at Gamestop. I know everybody says DMC2 sucks, but it was only $15, so I figured that was cheap enough to see how much it sucked for myself. As for the MvsDK games, I played a rom of the first one and enjoyed it, so I decided to finally get it (I had to get it used at Gamestop for $20, since no one seems to have it new), since the second one was on sale for $24 at Circuit City.

And today, I was at Wal-Mart, and they had a whole bunch of games on clearance, so I picked up quite a few of them:

Pokemon Ruby and Leaf Green: I never played any of the GBA Pokemon games, so while I had planned to get Pokemon Emerald, I couldn't pass up getting both these games for a lower price ($20 for Ruby and $10 for LG), since I heard you need both to get most of the Pokemon.

Mario Kart Super Circuit: Aside from Double Dash, this was the only other Mario Kart game I never played, so for $10 I figured it was worth it.

Super Mario World - Super Mario Advance 2: I played some of this with a rom, but I've never fully played it. People keep saying this is one of the best Mario games (though I didn't really see that with the rom), and it was only $10, so I figured I would give it another shot ths way.

Final Fantasy IV Advance: Never played this game at all, and it was only $15. People seem to really like this FF game, so that seemed like it was worth it.

Champions - Return to Arms: I loved Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, and since this was made by the same people I figured it would be good. I did play a demo of the first one, which I'll probably try to find now so I'll know what's going on in this one. Also, it was only $8.

Mad Maestro: Bought this for my sister, who loved the demo years ago. It was only $6, and it would make me look nice in the process!

Originally Posted by I just needed to get DMC2

Yesterday, I bought Devil May Cry 2

Son, I hope you don't end up posting in this thread.

I also heard that the loading times for FFIV advance was pretty bad, but not as bad as the horrid PSX ports of the same game, along with V and VI.

Originally Posted by Spatula

Son, I hope you don't end up posting in this thread.

I also heard that the loading times for FFIV advance was pretty bad, but not as bad as the horrid PSX ports of the same game, along with V and VI.

It's not the loading times (for the GBA version). It's the impossible to miss delay to your button and command inputs.

Originally Posted by RockgamerXIII

Super Mario World - Super Mario Advance 2: I played some of this with a rom, but I've never fully played it. People keep saying this is one of the best Mario games (though I didn't really see that with the rom), and it was only $10, so I figured I would give it another shot ths way.

I've been on the lookout for this in stores for a while. I played the ROM of it before, and even put it on my flash cart for a bit; but I do want the complete package. $10 new at Walmart? I'm trying to avoid paying ~$30 for it on eBay.

EDIT: Wow, nevermind. I just noticed it's becoming a "Player's Choice" game and more copies are coming out today next week. $20 though... whatever.

I picked up a copy of Company of Heroes (PC) today. I played the demo, and quite enjoyed it. Dawn Of War (PC) came free with it, so it was a deal I couldn't resist.

I bought Suikoden Tactics from Circuit City for $10 even though my Playstation 2 is 3 hours away.

I can't pass up $10 PS2 games that are suppose to be pretty good.

Got Metal Gear Solid 3 Subsistence yesterday. Online is excellent. Picked up Obscure, Syphon Filter Omega Strain and Beyond Good and Evil today in a 3 for £15 deal.

Originally Posted by Dr. Uzuki

It's not the loading times (for the GBA version). It's the impossible to miss delay to your button and command inputs.

In addition, the GBA version has some weird ass bugs like your characters getting turns instantly without having to wait, and that makes an already easy game ridiculously simple. This bug is so prevalent that even the hardest bosses attached to the bonus dungeon are extremely simple.

I got Megaman ZX and the WiFi USB Connector for the DS.



ZX rocks. Hard. It's one of the best action games on a handheld ever, and hopefully, it will be sharing that honor with Portrait of Ruin later this year. It's a challenging game, with great music and badass gameplay.

Awesome, I didn't know Megaman ZX had come out yet. Time to import!

In other news in the last month or so I have bought:

1080: Avalanche - I always meant to pick this up, but I didn't want to pay full price, but I found it at a cheap, cheap price and I couldn't hel;p myself.

Star Fox: Command - I really like this game, but then it's Star Fox so I am pretty much automatically going to love it.

Mario Smash Football - I pretty much bought this for my brother, I haven't played it much but it seems pretty ok.

Went wandering through the meager second hand shelves EE's had for years, and came across Killer 7 and Devil May Cry priced for 10 bucks each. I couldn't pass that up.

Devil May Cry is very reminiscent of many cheif games in my favourites list. I'm enjoying expirencing elements of Zelda, Prince of Persia, and RE all in the same game. It's something you can't get anywhere else.

Killer 7 is visually stunning, and stylistically beautiful. It's like a Tarantino film on my Gamecube. It's hard to understand thus far, and if it weren't for the amazing visual, and character designs i'd probably lose interest in this game quite quickly.

I'm loving both so far.

I bought Half Life 2: Episode One for the second time this weekend. A friend of mine wanted it and I couldnt find my copy so I just bought him his own.

Right, so on Friday I bought myself an Xbox.

A supermarket opened a new store over at Vuosaari and were selling Xboxes for €69, so I went by there this morning and bought one. They weren't kidding about size and mass, the thing weighed a ton with the box. I had to carry it around all day, from 11AM till 10PM when I finally got home from work.

I stopped by Savepoint to pick up the ICO OST they had gotten me, and bought myself Halo and Splinter Cell (for €5). Then at work, a work mate of mine mentioned they had a bunch of old Edge magazines (as we were discussing this one PC Engine article they had years back) and upon digging them out, we discovered a bunch of fancy guidebooks.

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