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

Ultimate Spider-Man (ps2) - Wasn't so sure about it when it was full price, but picked it up at Best Buy for cheap. I love it. While the swinging mechanics arn't quite as good as Spider-Man 2, it's still tons of fun to just bomb around the city on some web.

Venom is great fun, and his leap (instead of swing) is so much fun it's scary.

I bought The Chronicles of Riddick on Xbog the other day, ex-rental, really banged up and stuff (I think there's snot or something on the photo copy manual to give it some colour). But hey four bucks is a pretty damn good price. The graphics are really impressive considering the frame rate is mostly rock solid. Dunno if I'm really enjoying it any more though, the first few hours were top notch. Now I'm running around with a metal bat as my only weapon to try and kill all these mech suit guys that kill me in a single hit.

But I punched someone to death and his head got jammed in the toilet somehow!

wel I just got my copy of tales of symphonia, it's weird because the game is player's choice but when I called ebgames they said hat this game is "out of print" . Anyway I found it on amazon for 20$ so yeah it,s players choice XD

I did already play and finish the game and really realy did enjoy it (like any other tales of XD) but it was on my friend copy and now I'm on a rampage to play old game and after finishing tales of eternia on psp last week I want to play this one now.

oh I guess I should add tales of Eternia for psp to the list too. Love and love this game, my favorite tales of! and in my top rpg if not top game XD

oh and waiting for valkyrie profile: lenneth next week ^^

(btw anyone excited for all the realese in fall? god so much good game are coming XD)

Tales of Symphonia is a fine game. Perhaps not the best of the best, but it's entertaining enough to replay a few times. I like the presentation of the story in that game - as in, the way the various parts unfold (rather than the actual substance of the story).

Anyway.

Xenosaga, Ep.II (something in German...like Jenseits von Gut und Bose?) was my last purchase. It's a really nice game - the plot is perhaps a little weird, but it's interesting. The characters seem well designed also. The villains are awesome too.
Some parts seem a little cliché, but whatever.
The battle system is rather original, although sometimes frustrating. I had to get used to pressing Circle instead of 'X' though. XD

Unfortunately, XS, Ep.I never came out here, and it (probably) never will. Which means I'm missing out on a game ten times better than the one I just played (according to virtually everyone).

I dislike the universe.

I bought Ace Combat 5 a few days ago because I've been meaning to but never had the chance.

I love it, a good change from the three RPGs I was playing this summer (along with FIFA World Cup lol) - though my brother plays it a lot more than I do which is saddening since we both can't play simultaneously, so he's a bit farther than I am.

Picked my copy of Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth and Astonishia Story for the PSP today. Wasn't too sure on Astonishia until I played, and I can pretty much entirely disagree with every review I've seen of Astonishia Stories thus far -- I'm really enjoying it.

I picked up Dawn of Sorrow, Partners in Time and Ace Combat Zero last week after I finished KH2 completely. Aside from BSing, or jonesing for some frenetic combat, I doubt I'll be revisiting the game.

The two I've touched so far are Castlevania and ACZ, with ye olde demons edging out

Spoiler:

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Ace Combat Zero. I'm at level 60 now just before the Paranoia boss battle simply because I've been trying to upgrade all of my weapons, which has been a blast.

Zero's awesome too, so much so that the circumstances surrounding the player character are strangely similar to that of AC2. The whole mercenary fighter squadron and all. BTW, SouthJag when is Rogue Galaxy due out? I haven't been keeping an eye on it, and your banner got me thinking about it.

Unfortunately, it's somewhat unknown. According to our release date list at EB Games, it's still set for, I believe, mid-Sept. However, in the RG thread, Hindman mentioned that he spoke with Sony people who said it wouldn't be out until the first quarter next year, or something to that effect.

As of yet though, nothing has been confirmed as far as an official statement from Sony.

Wow, that's odd, given that the last time I heard about the Japanese sales figures for RG it had broken the 400k mark. Surely they won't let a game that sold that much slip through the cracks, let alone a Level 5 title.

I just completed Sonic Rush during my commute today. Metroid Prime: Hunters is the only DS game I have that's not completed, but I like options... so I stopped by EB Games and Best Buy (as well as Nordstrom and AE Outfitters). I got Big Brain Academy and Magentica from EB games, 2 games which I've been itching for the last few months. I also got 2 DS sleeves from there, red (which I thought was orange) and blue. From Best Buy, I got Sonic Mega Collection for GC, since I'm on a Sonic high right now and would be incomplete without him. Plus, it almost makes up for my Sonic Spinball being stolen from me a couple years ago. Fun times ahead.

picked up Geist for the GC last weekend on a clearance sale with my pocket change. Haven't played it yet cause of work, and i think i'll do a 24 hour run with my friend on it. I figured i might as well, i might not find a deal like that again.

I just bought a brand new sealed copy of Shadow Hearts from ebay. Payed about 50 bucks including shipping. Not a bad deal. I bought it because i already have Covenant and FTNW and i would like to own them all 3. I am also planning on buying Koudelka. That way my collection will be complete.

I read somewhere that Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth had a limited number of copies distributed, so I picked it up the moment I saw it when I was doing shopping in my local drug store. That was on Tuesday Aug 1. Normally I wait a year or two before I buy games for a lower price (unless they have extras for pre-orders). However that article I read made me a bit paranoid of the supply of VP.

I love you, creepy little pawn shop! $3 each is crazy. I've only ever played the original Phantasy Star on Master System, so this should be pretty neat. As long as the battery still works. ;_; Story of Thor was one of those games me and my mates used to get together to co-op years ago even though it's a single player thing. Kinda like Zelda on SNES, we'd yell loudly at eachother suggestions on where to go next.

I've never even heard of the Ka-Kar-Keys-Ki game before, but it has Sage's Creations logo on the cover and they made Devilish, so I guess it'll be pretty rad!

Originally Posted by Infernal Monkey

I love you, creepy little pawn shop! $3 each is crazy. I've only ever played the original Phantasy Star on Master System, so this should be pretty neat. As long as the battery still works. ;_; Story of Thor was one of those games me and my mates used to get together to co-op years ago even though it's a single player thing. Kinda like Zelda on SNES, we'd yell loudly at eachother suggestions on where to go next.

I've never even heard of the Ka-Kar-Keys-Ki game before, but it has Sage's Creations logo on the cover and they made Devilish, so I guess it'll be pretty rad!

Ahaha, gotta love those awful covers. Story of Thor had such a vibrant visual style and the cover is all MYSTERIOUS PRINCE OF PERSIA SILHOUETTE FOR NO GOOD REASON.
Phantasy Star III, though Almost as great as old Mega Man covers. Generations of Doom. MULTIPLE GENERATIONS OF DOOM. And stairs with robots!

But to balance out, Mega Drive's Disney games had the coolest covers. Even if Donald was standing/walking/holding this particular gun very strangely, it was still a cool cover and I wanted to play it so much when I was a kid.



As for my purchases, we recently visited a further away city on vacation and I stopped by a local gameshop there. I found a PAL copy of Bangai-O, something I didn't even know existed.



Nabbed that sucker right up. They also had a JPN Ikaruga there, but it seemed in bad condition and was pretty overpriced so I didn't buy it. Never had seen a DC Ikaruga that up close before, though.

I didn't know it got a PAL release either! The publisher must be thrilled with all twenty people that bought it. ;___;

Originally Posted by Qwarky

But to balance out, Mega Drive's Disney games had the coolest covers. Even if Donald was standing/walking/holding this particular gun very strangely, it was still a cool cover and I wanted to play it so much when I was a kid.

He has very strange eyes, too! ='D


Maybe he's keeping one on any incoming deadly stair robots!

I was at a thrift store the other day, and I saw near perfect copies of You Don't Know Jack Vol. 2 and Vol. 3 going for a $1 each. I quickly picked them up,as this seemed like a pretty good deal. I had just finished downloading a bunch of YDKJ games too, so I don't even need them as I have the real versions of some of them.

Ordered a few more games.

Motherfucking Ni