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

I recently bought Dynasty Warriors 4 Hyper for PC. Still got much to do on it like beat the Wei campaign, get the other remaining officers, (Perhaps beef them all up as well) get all their Level 10 weapons and unlock all the stages.

Still chugs like crap with all settings on full with my now outdated geForce 4 Ti 4200 graphics card. Has anyone gotten it to run on full settings?

@Ekon - At least you have a good place to get SNES games... I've been dying to get Super Mario RPG for a long ass time now...

Anyway... I've gotten...

Disgaea: Hour of Darkness - I love how the balance in this game was completely annihilated and how strong your people can get. I've only gotten two of the endings, but it's still a great game to boot. This will defenitely get me in to tactics games again.

Dark Cloud 2 - Managed to snag a new copy. I haven't gotten very far in it, but i'm loving what i'm playing right now. It's so much fun.

Age of Empires DS - It's a fun game. The music, and most of the sound effects are ported from the 2nd Age of Empires, for the PC. Overall, it's like playing Advance Wars.

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Mostly because I got going in a discussion with someone about it on a message board, and she cracked me up by saying that for her, The Two Thrones might as well have been called "Assassin of Calimport: Artie Slits Some Throats". (Kudos to anyone who gets the reference.) So I had to start playing the series, heh.

Galactic Civilizations II. It's like all the things I liked about PC gaming in the past rolled into one: flexible turn-based gameplay, randomly generated boards, no ridiculous compromises for a console port and writing that isn't afraid to sneak in a little humor. Writing with personality, in other words.

Add to this a whole lot of customization options, great graphics, online distribution and no annoying copy protection crap to detract from the experience. All they need to do is resolve some balance and interface bugs and it'll be close to perfect.

I also bought Fable: The Lost Chapters for PC, as well as Tales of Legendia.

I'm a huge fan of the Tales series, and just had to have Legendia [though I really wish Namco would go ahead and release Tales of the Abyss. :P]... As for Fable, I needed a good PC game to play on my new system. Heh.

Silent Hill 2 for PS2. This probably marks the third time I've purchased this now after having bought the Xbox version twice and ultimately selling both copies with 2 machines.

I've never actually completed the game before since I lost the drive to do so when an idiot former admin at another forum I visit spoiled the ending in a forum description heading. With the movie on the horizon though my interest in the SH titles, 2 in particular, is at a high so I figured I'd drop $8 for a copy and finally finish it.

@T1249NTSCJ

It looks like your post disappeared from this thread for reasons unknown, but I did play Sims 2 Open for Business for longer yesterday and today, so now I am able to form a better opinion of the expansion.

I think it's pretty cool. Starting your own business has a kinda tough learning curve, but once you get into the swing of things, it's great. If your neighbourhood has lots of kids, I'd highly recommend this, as you can now make lots of new toys with the crafting workshop. The base game had a pathetic amount of stuff for kids to do, and it irked me somewhat. Now they can play with pet bricks, sell lemonade, have more interactions with adults, fly kites, play with clown-in-boxes, and more.

Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence Limited Edition - Had a hell of a time getting this one. I set out to visit three of my local EBGames/Gamestop's. The first one in the mall, I asked the guy, and he looked at me as if he had never heard of the game before, so when I ask about Metal Gear Saga, he obviously knows shit.
I promptly leave that hole, and head to the EBGames down the street, I confront the guy, and after an explaination as to what Subsistence even is, the clerk punches it out on the computer, and proceeds to lecture me on how they are so rare, and it will become impossible to pre-order the damn thing - Hmmm, so let me get this straight, I come in and have to explain what Subsistence even is, and you come back telling me that it's a rare game that I'm not going to be able to order? Right.
I lastly arrive to a GameStop with a terrible parking lot that could maybe fit 10 cars maximum for the whole three stores in the "shopping centre". I come in, and after asking to preorder Subsistence, he gives me a little puzzled look, and then again punches it in on the computer. He responds with AMAZING newfound knowledge that they had, "Recieved a call not to let any more pre-orders for the game." Hmm. Now, all of these stores also had no idea what Metal Gear Saga was, so I, being ridiculously frustrated, head home, open up my browser, and a pre-order for Subsistence is glowing clear as day on the home page of both EbGames.com and Gamestop.com...
I'm done with retail stores - FOREVER.

Burnout Revenge

Awesome game. Admittedly I don't buy games as often as I did this time last year, so this was really my first purchase in quite a long time.

So yeah, the game kicks ass. It's way faster than Burnout 3, which in my opinion, didn't really seem possible, and is EXTREMELY addictive.

Also bought at a very cheap price. £19.99 from GAME. Bargain!

Originally Posted by Ekon

I was feeling a bit nostalgic so I went down to this old mom & pop style gaming shop and bought myself a few snes games

• Final Fantasy 2(U.S.)
• Chrono Trigger
• Super Mario RPG
• Super Mario World
• Mario Kart
• Illusion of Gaia

Never beat CT or Gaia, not sure if I'll get around to beating them this time but I like having the original carts again =)

Also went out and bought Kingdom Hearts since I needed another rpg to play on ps2 and since KH2 is coming out soon as well

CT? That cart is supposed to be expensive. Does the battery backup still work? It's funny how small time stores don't know the value of the classics.

Resident Evil 4 for my PS2. I had to save my money since most of my cash goes into my fighting career. So once I had enough money saved up, I went out and bought it. I'm pretty happy with the game, I mostly play the mercenaries mini game more than the actual game itself. But the game is pretty good, now if I could only have more time to play it instead of going to the gym to train.

Yesterday when i was in town i bought BLACK and The Sims 2 Open For Business

Both quite good and only got them for £5.20! I part exchanged 7 games for BLACK so i got £30 off that and i had two HMV vouchers so i used them for The Sims 2 so i got that completely free.

I got Radiata Stories a couple months ago. With a fair amount of gaming news coverage and seemingly encouraging reviews, I bit the bullet and got it on sale. I tried playing through it and invested a couple of hours but I really could not stand the damn peppiness of the entire game. Why is it so happy?! My brain cannot compute. The battle system is relatively fun and the graphics are nice but is it just me or is the bumbling foolish hero genre totally played out. Because 1 mission into the game, I wanted to fucking drop kick Jack like the dog he was named after. I'll probably sell it, or play it drunk because the bright colors are pretty enticing.

I picked up Super Princess Peach and Drill Dozer the other day...Super Princess Peach, though easy, is a lot of fun to play, and Drill Dozer is insanely cute and addicting...

I got the 'Aeon Flux' game today for the XBOX. I paid $25 for it. I'm about half way through the second level. The game is quite good. One of the better movie based video games. I haven't seen the movie, so I can't compare the two. Charlize Theron does the voice for the Aeon Flux character. She does a good enough job, but it sounds like she is really board with everything.

xman25

I was contemplating whether to buy the Dreamcast version of Radirgy or the upcoming Gamecube version; I like the DC controllers better but I just went with the GCN version and pre-ordered that from Play-Asia. I really I haven't truly purchased it yet but I almost, never buy games anymore so yeah, it was something.

I got some neat stuff at a flea market this morning. FLEAS LOLHAHANO.

Pilotwings, F-Zero and Final Fight. Super Famicom versions. =o All I need now is an Action Replay of some sort.



F-Zero even has the same comic included in the US/PAL versions, still in English. Final Fight came with this bit of Capcom junk, with really nice art of 'upcoming games' such as Street Fighter 2 Turbo, Breath of Fire 2, Alladin and various Rockman games.

I also got Ghost House and Lemmings on Master System. Master System Lemmings still being the best home console version around. Ghost House was bought.. because.. it was a dollar. It's not a very good game, you walk around and punch bats all day. But the instruction manual is LOADED with Engrish, which was well worth the massive asking price.

Haha, that's an awesome little pickup. Throw in Super Mario World and you have the full collection of SNES launch titles. And with all the original packaging, that must have cost a fortune.