I can't be the only one who shops in the "this might have been quite good two years ago and the disk hardly has a scratch on it" section at Gamestation, can I?
Anyway, instead of buying a shiny new game with my shiny new pay cheque today I bought:
Assassin's Creed II (360) - £14.99 --- thought twice about this one as it would probably have been better to get the newer complete edition with the extra bits, etc. but this was £12 cheaper so...
Bayonetta (360) - £7.98 --- no-brainer imo, I was thinking of buying this at full price
Blue Dragon (360) - £4.98 --- this is supposed to get really good once you slog through the first 20 hours or so :) - 3 disk RPG with dragons for under a fiver can't ever be a bad buy, can it?
Motorstorm (PS3) - £4.98 --- I've been looking for an off-road racer since completing Pure and I thought I'd take a punt on this s it was cheap. Not sure about the "Mosh at the Motorstorm Festival featuring Kings of Leon" thing though...
So, four games for cheaper than a new release. Bargain or disaster?
― shakiraghmac (onimo), Friday, 30 July 2010 15:51 (fifteen years ago)
bargains as long as they don't skip, i only ever buy PES games and FM new tbh.
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Friday, 30 July 2010 15:53 (fifteen years ago)
i'd say virtually any game is good for a fiver because even if you didn't liek it at least you tried it.
my msot recent bargain buy in that sense (not counting steam sales of course) was an insane little title called DAI SENRYAKU VII: MODERN MILITARY TACTICS. foudn at a pawn shop sidewalk sale last summer, i think. it's a bizarre japanese hex-based war game for consoles. is it good? i don't know. i haven't touched it much. will eventually. but the fact that it is this random-ass game that i have never heard of, and is strategy (my <3), and cost about $5 CAD (which at the time was about $5.05 USD)... magical.
― the depressed-saggy-japanese-salaryman of ilx posters (Will M.), Friday, 30 July 2010 16:27 (fifteen years ago)
nothing makes me fit my display name more than talknig about my five dollar japanese strategy bargain buys fyi
― the depressed-saggy-japanese-salaryman of ilx posters (Will M.), Friday, 30 July 2010 16:28 (fifteen years ago)
lol
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Friday, 30 July 2010 16:30 (fifteen years ago)
Motorstorm (PS3) - £4.98
This is fun for a bit then gets really samey really fast - it's like they were making a bigger better game then decided not to bother.
Assassin's Creed II (360) - £14.99
Not far into this yet but the freerunning bits feel nice and smooth and Florence looks lovely.
― shakiraghmac (onimo), Saturday, 31 July 2010 11:35 (fifteen years ago)
I bought Kane & lynch for £5 played it for a few days, got to the jungle level.... realised all the cool Heat bits were over and traded it for £3.
I had £2 of fun from it....
moral of the story, £5 games can never be a bad idea, especially if you can trade them afterwards.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Saturday, 31 July 2010 13:39 (fifteen years ago)
Just got Midnight Club: Los Angeles, pre-owned.
Am returning it this evening. SUCKS.
― Official Cheese-Filled Snack of NASCAR since 2002 (B.L.A.M.), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 23:16 (fifteen years ago)
Blue Dragon's great fun so far and well worth £5. I'm almost liking RPGs again despite my brain railing against turn based combat. Only complaints so far
- they've thrown swearing in, seemingly just for the sake of doing it, and made what should have been a cute friendly 7+ game into a 12+ (meaning I'm not so sure I should be letting my 8-year-old son play it)- same music plays at *every* battle- "search poo" - I mean really :(
― shakiraghmac (onimo), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 12:54 (fifteen years ago)
Im thinking about getting red faction: guerilla cuz its pretty cheap. any thoughts?
― mayor jingleberries, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 18:24 (fifteen years ago)
It's awesome.
― no gut busting joke can change history (polyphonic), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 18:26 (fifteen years ago)
Absolutely do it. It's great fun.
― a black white asian pine ghost who is fake (Telephone thing), Thursday, 5 August 2010 02:50 (fifteen years ago)
Yeah I didn't really bother to make much progress on the storyline but man oh man did I blow a bunch of shit up and it was tons of stupid fun
― SAUSAGE LIVES ON IN MY HEART (and much of my gi tract prob) (jjjusten), Thursday, 5 August 2010 03:57 (fifteen years ago)