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

Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories for PSP (2.6 firmware...connect the dots)
and
Vandal Hearts 2 for the PS!

Hopefully VH2 turns out to be insane fun like the first one, and hopefully I actually continue to begin liking GTA for the arbitrary "car-runs-over-everything" part.

I'll be picking up Suikoden V, God of War and Kingdom Hearts II tomorrow. I can't wait to try God of War. Suikoden V is going to be the first thing that I do after my finals are finished in 5 weeks - well, after I go to get drunk with friends.

Got Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana from Atlus' store for $19.99 before they ran out, they even managed to send me a Steambot Chronicles demo and another SMT: Nocturne soundtrack.

Probably the last game I'll purchase for quite some time sadly, as we're about to move.

I bought Metroid Prime: Hunters and Kingdom Hearts II hier. I'm still waiting for Tetris DS from the fucker I bought it from on eBay. Slow morose mother fucker.

Kingdom Hearts II

I picked this one up on Thursday, and the Gamestop I went to managed to have a lot of copies remaining for those who didn't reserve the game ahead of time. When I paid for it, the cashier mentioned how they had a "party" on Wednesday when the game was released.

I didn't pick up a guide since I'm already familiar with the game from the Japanese version, but it's nice to finally understand what's going on in the story.

Oh.
Yes.

Rawk.

I blame this video, by the way.
I saw it and became hypnotized by its awesomeness.

The last game I bought was Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence. I reserved the regular edition at GameStop about a week and a half before the release date. And when I went to go pick it up, they had a whole stack of Limited Edition copies there. Being the curious one that I am, I asked the hot sales girl if I could upgrade to the Limited Edition for an extra $10. Just then her manager butted in and said "nah, those have already been reserved" Man I felt like a fool for not reserving the Limited Edition weeks before online...

I just got Metroid Prime: Hunters today. This will probably be the first Metroid game that I actually finish (well, I did finish MP: Pinball, if that counts). I'm still hoping to be able to go online sooner or later, because what little I have played of the game seems totally badass!

I just found RE 0 and 2 at a local Blockbuster, since the price was alright and their availability right now is somewhat low, I naturally snatched them.



And on a side note, RE2 is probably Capcom's best boxart ever.

Well, Oblivion was my most recent purchase but it hates my comp and is therefore going back to the store. Sad.
So instead I'll say that Psychonauts is creative genius.

A bunch of older Windows 95 games that are still lots of fun to try. The majority came in twin set since they're produced by Interplay:

Bust A Move 4 + Earthworm Jim 3D: I paid $15 CDN entirely for the Bust A Move 4 and don't regret it. Unless someone can tell me of another Bust A Move game that features the chain reaction system and the nauseatingly cute character designs, I'm satisified with my purchase. Earthworm Jim 3D's just all right, but it almost tries a bit too hard to make no rational sense: eg. grab the penguin's briefs while running through a farmhouse with rolling grenades, etc.

Sacrifice + Messiah: For such an old game, Sacrifice is very fun. Normally I hate those kinds of games where you have bases and send troops out, but since this involves spells and gods and such; I was instantly attracted. I recently just finished the tutorials, but I'm garbage at real in-game play. Messiah, on the other hand, malfunctions after the opening logos. I read lots of bad reviews, but I still wanted to give it a chance. $5 CDN for the both of them is a pretty awesome bargain though.

Gearheads: I'm going to take it out of the box after I finish typing this. You have to just send the most toys over to your opponent's side, but each toy does something erratically different. Combine that with the tradeoff of wind-up time and speed, we have a rather strategic battle of decisions. I'm looking for to this. $5 for this one.

Basically this game is essential to any person's collection. It includes elements from Dynamite Headdy and Gunstar Heroes, and you can tell it's a Treasure title. The controls are a bit stiff, and the difficulty level isn't anything to be ignored. It's a really good title.

I'm not sure if it has much replay value, but you need to complete the story twice over thanks to time travel anyway and I'm still going. This is the best $27 I've ever spent.

Forgot to mention these when I got them last Friday, but when EB was having the Buy 2 Get One free pre-played sale, I picked up a few things on my hold shelf.

Dragon Warrior 7: PSone Awesome. Someone traded it in in perfect shape -- case, CDs, and instruction manual included. Awesome.

Brave Fencer Musashi: PSone Awesome again. I played this briefly years ago, and after I played Samurai Legend Musashi, I wanted to play the original. My wish was granted when it was recently traded in the same condition DW7 is in.

Star Ocean: Second Story: PSone I rented this from Blockbuster several years ago and never really got into it. Of course, like BFM, it took the sequel to get my interest back up, and fortune smiled upon me once again by delivering a perfect copy.

I also snagged some minor PSP accessories.

Well, not really a purchase but still a new game in my collection. I got Far Cry Instincts: Predator for free since I was on the Dev Team. I only worked on it for 2 months, on the new EVOLUTION part of it but I can't wait to 'play it' at home and start cranking up some custom maps.

Last game I bought was Civilization 4. Amazing game and highly addictive. I hated it initially because my computer was too old to run the advanced graphics efficiently, resulting in massive slowdown and random desktop crashes. The 1.52 patch fixed that and I've since been playing the game at the expense of my schoolwork. The addictiveness is really quite bad, a single game can last 10 hours+. Fortunately, there's an ingame alarm clock for such purposes.

I want to buy Oblivion... BAAAAD. But I'm right at the minimum required specs, grrrr.

Dragon Quest VIII

I had to pick this up after playing on a demo i had. I didn't even realise it was out until i saw it in one of my favourite games stores whilst in town yesterday. I completely fell in love with it after playing the demo

Saw GT4 at Costco for $15 so I picked it up. Played it for about 10 minutes, realized it was still the cold, heartless, boring, pointless "simulation" racing that it always has been and traded it in for some store credit 2 days later. I do want a racing fix though; perhaps I'll check out TOCA 2.

Tekken 5

A welcome return to form for the series in my opinion. Tekken 4 was a bit of a shambles, but I find this one to be a hell of a lot more fun to play. Definitley more challenging too, which is cool as it adds to the replayability.

Only cost £14.99 too. Quite a bargain to be honest.

I bought some DVD-Rs so that I could burn: Burnout 3, Black and Guilty Gear XX Slash. All three games are really fun. Burnout 3 is possibly my favorite racer EVER.