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

Originally Posted by SuperSonic

Just bought a couple of XBox360 games through Best Buy.com, each on sale for $19.99. First off, Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing which I've been wanting to go down to $20 for quite some time. The other one I had no intention of getting originally, but the deal was just too good to pass up: Bayonetta.

I came super close to biting on the Bayonetta deal, just couldn't quite do it. I just got Blue Dragon ($10) and have Ninja Gaiden II ($13), Dark Sector ($7), Fight Night Round 4 ($10), Super SF IV ($33), Soul Calibur IV ($18), and Virtua Fighter V ($12) on the way, plus enough MS points left over after SF2THDR to pick up at least 2 more XBLA games, probably going to be Shadow Complex and Harmony of Despair, but kind of torn with Limbo and Deathspank out there among so many others. Plus Madden '11 came with the 360 so I can try and make Buffalo the respectable team they aren't in real life.

Figure Bayonetta will probably hit $20 again if not soon on amazon by the time Black Friday rolls around.

Incidentally if anyone wants to help knock the rust off my SF skills, gamer tag is Tormut Rose... HDR is taking some adjusting...

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Recent for me:

Upgraded Castlevania: Lords of Shadow to Collector's edition

Bought Fire Pro Wrestling Returns for PS2 and picked up Batman: Arkham Asylum GotY edition.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I picked up Alan Wake recently and am really enjoying it. I'm four episodes in. Game succeeded in breaking me out of my gaming funk I'd been in for a couple of months.

Of course, Metroid: Other M comes out in a few days and that will become my main priority so I'm trying to finish Alan Wake before then.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I don't remember whether I mentioned this or not but I bought Zoids Assault from Game Stop for ten dollars. The game is used of course. I also am borrowing Last Remnant from my friend back home. He'll be getting that back in two weeks so I should actually start playing that.

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Originally Posted by slessman

. I also am borrowing Last Remnant from my friend back home. He'll be getting that back in two weeks so I should actually start playing that.

Play this on the PC instead. Less headaches this way.

As for me, just that Castlevania HD, until I get both Shank and Scott Pilgrim for XBLive later this day.

How ya doing, buddy?

The PC version of Last Remnant is a lot more user-friendly and less glitchy but it's also far easier by all accounts which I reckon would take away a lot of the fun of the game.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I thought it only seemed easier because they removed the cap on how many leaders you can have in battle. By the end of the console version, it's stupidly annoying how ineffective your generic units are (when compared to your beastly unit leaders).

If your computer can run it, it's better to get the Last Remnant on PC.

FELIPE NO

Do...do you guys even own it on PC?

Yeah, the leader cap removal is a boon. The ability to disable commands to influence attack orders is great. Stat cap removal is huge.

But they ramped up the game's difficulty to compensate, the stats and attacks of almost all enemies have been buffed. They also changed the leveling mechanics (chaining is now more beneficial, high comparative BR fights are no longer AS beneficial, etc).

It's actually HARDER overall, especially to people new to the thing. If you come off the 360 version and understand the changes to the PC one you might be able to abuse the new mechanics but even then the early to mid game will be far rougher on you than the circlebox edition. If you just go through it without reading up on it the PC version will be significantly more difficult.

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Picked up Metroid: Other M. Now I'm probably not as hard pressed to find fault with the game as some of you (Probably due to the Metroid-fan filter), but I must admit it could have been a lot better. I'm still enjoying the game, mostly. I can see where the core of the complaints DO come from, and I think Team Ninja really dropped the ball here (I blame the lack of Itagaki to reign them in). Ultimately though, I hope the next metroid game is more like Super, or Shadow Complex. Now this is just me: Other M isn't a bad game by itself, but it could have been a lot more.

Now that the mediocre is out of the way, onto the good: I got Crackdown 2 today, finally. Its like the first game, but better. I'm really enjoying blowing shit up so far. Only complaint is that picking out a regular civillian from the freaks and Cell can be hard in the midst of battle. Convinced my bro in Japan to pick it up, so gonna get on that multiplayer later. If anyone else wants to get it on some action, let me know!

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Not intending to double post but got a couple more games: Halo: Reach, and Civilization V. I played a bit of Civ V today and its already great. Reach is fine too, although I never have been quite as addicted to the multiplayer aspects as some others on here. Doesn't mean I won't check out what it has to offer though. I mainly got Reach to play with my brother in Asia, and got CiV for myself

Okay now someone else post before I make a third post when I pick up Etrian Odyssey III -_-

Acquired EO3!

Most amazing jew boots

Recently bought Alien vs Predator for PS3 and Bioshock 2 for PS3 as well. Got both kinda cheap as AvP was $17 free shipping from newegg and Bioshock 2 was $5 on clearance from some furniture store in Nebraska's website.

Finished paying off on Cataclysm and Castlevania as well.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Revive!

Newest gaming purchases.

Civilization 5 - Steam deal. Enjoy it. My first "Civilization game", jesus fuck matches seem to last forever. Even on the fastest speed. Previously the longest match game I had played was "Sins of the Solar Empire".

Radiant Historia - Definitely loving this game so far. Very pretty visuals, great music, story is actually interesting to play and characters aren't either completely useless or stupid. Definitely recommend people pick this up.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Year old necro~~

Just bought Might and Magic 1-6 through GOG.com. All 6 for $4.99. Not per game, all together! It's worth it just for 2 and 6 (in my eyes anyway). Might and Magic® 6-pack: Limited Edition - GOG.com


Other recent purchases:

Silent Hill Downpour. (The game was pretty good. I got one of the 6 endings. Time to play through again at some point)

Silent Hill HD Collection.

Probably will finish paying off Lollipop Chainsaw soon too and pre-ordered Assassin's Creed 3 and the new Tomb Raider. Sad panda that Ni No Kuni delayed until 2013, but gives me more than enough time to pay that off!

I was speaking idiomatically.

Everyone's been saying that SH HD Collection has got a plethora of problems with it. What are your thoughts on it?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I snagged Vanquish. It's pretty good so far but I think I made a mistake starting it on Hard difficulty. Aside from that though it's just been Mass Effect 3 MP lately.

I've also heard bad problems - namely the removal of fog - in SH HD.

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by Why Am I Allowed to CABLE INSTINCTS

Everyone's been saying that SH HD Collection has got a plethora of problems with it. What are your thoughts on it?

Haven't played much of it, honestly. From what little I did, I noticed that *sometimes* the frame rate will drop and make it feel like the PS2 version. (oh no, so game breaking!) It feels the same to me. I'm not playing it with the new voices, maybe one of the subsequent playthroughs I will.

I like it, and $39.99 isn't too shabby for both of the games. I dunno what other kinds of problems people are saying about it other than framerate or it looks "old and ugly".

I'll try to get some more time with it today. There's a trophy to complete the game in 3 hours and one to complete it only saving twice. Shouldn't be an issue once I remember where everything's at.

A little side note (of humor to me anyway) for the Might and Magic VI download. They have an MP3 version of the soundtrack for download when you purchase the pack. Now unless it's an AMAZING coincidence that these are indeed the correct titles for the tracks, they're using the audio from when I ripped the music on the disc back in 2005 and shared it to someone's FTP here back in the day (I want to say it was TAPPY or someone else's FTP that was insanely popular in 2005). I can tell from the names of the track titles (and no, there was not a track listing that I was aware of way back when), I actually named these as I felt they were called from when they were played in the game. If it isn't the exact same audio encoding (I ripped in 192 VBR, and it looks like this is variable bit rate) then they're using the exact same tracklist. I just found that kind of cool as hell.

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Originally Posted by Why Am I Allowed to CABLE INSTINCTS

Everyone's been saying that SH HD Collection has got a plethora of problems with it. What are your thoughts on it?

Originally Posted by dagget

Haven't played much of it, honestly. From what little I did, I noticed that *sometimes* the frame rate will drop and make it feel like the PS2 version. (oh no, so game breaking!) It feels the same to me. I'm not playing it with the new voices, maybe one of the subsequent playthroughs I will.

The problem people have with the Silent Hill collection is, aside from bizarre framerate issues, they've messed with the aesthetics and sound for some reason.

Silent Hill HD Collection Video Game, Review HD | Video Clip | Game Trailers & Videos | GameTrailers.com

What was once red and rusty in Silent Hill 3 is now just grey and brown or just washed out and flat.

They removed a lot of the fog in both games, so Silent Hill 2 has scenes of ropes or other background objects floating in the air before they no longer "disappear" into the fog.



The new voice acting (for both games, with only SH2 allowing to also choose the original) has also split opinions.

How ya doing, buddy?

Ahhh, ok I see. Like I said, I'll try to play through some of it when I can. I haven't seen much of anything game breaking as far as gameplay, I figured that's what people were bitching about. My bad.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Well, in a series where even the tiny details matter, changing them is a big deal and doing shoddy work of it is as close to game breaking as any number of glitches. The problem is that now these are not the "definitive" editions of the games these HD upscales are supposed to be, and that's what people have issues with, telling others not to give money to such lazy work.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I recently got Batman Arkham City for 30% discount, the shop was having a closing sale and I've only been to that mall on that day and was walking around when I saw the shop.

And I also got FFXIII Ultimate Hits from another shop. I think Ultimate Hits is Squeenix' budget line so it's cheaper than the "regular" titles, and luckily I got the last copy!

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Anyone still on the fence about the Silent Hill HD collection (or convinced it's "just like the originals or better"):
Silent Hill HD Collection ported from unfinished code - Eurogamer

Quote:

Silent Hill HD Collection was ported from incomplete code, Konami has revealed.

Developer Hyjinx was forced to work with buggy code because Konami lost the final release version of the game, senior associate producer Tomm Hulett told 1up.

"We got all the source code that Konami had on file - which it turns out wasn't the final release version of the games!

"During debug we didn't just have to deal with the expected 'porting' bugs, but also had to squash some bugs that the original team obviously removed prior to release, but we'd never seen before."

He added: "I think at one point [Silent Hill 3 protagonist] Heather was blue."

Hulett blamed poor archiving for this impediment. "10 years ago, a lot of game companies assumed the games were 'done' once development finished, and that they wouldn't need to use that data ever again.

"Now it's clear that having all that data in an easy-to-manage format is important."
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I was speaking idiomatically.