Author Topic: Pick-ups thread (Read 16367 times)

kick51 · « **on:** February 05, 2015, 08:40:21 AM »

post some games you bought and discuss game shopping

last night I went to a used media place and got:
-King's Field: The Ancient City PS2 (complete, $25)
-Drakan: The Ancient Gate PS2 (complete, $7)
-Sin and Punishment 2 wii (complete, $15)
-Gunblade + LA Machine Guns wii (complete, $8)

kind of a rip for Sin and Punishment, could've paid a few more for a new one from amazon, oh well. I'm excited to try out gunblade/la machine guns. looks like quality Sega cheesy goodness.

Rufus · « **Reply #1 on:** February 05, 2015, 02:42:28 PM »

King's Field: The Ancient City is great, though the turn speed takes some getting used to.
Drakan: The Ancient Gate is OK, but kinda poopy compared to the first, even though it's expanded in many ways. Combat is a complete chore.

demi · « **Reply #2 on:** February 05, 2015, 02:45:59 PM »

I'm jonesing for a used game run myself.

toku · « **Reply #3 on:** February 05, 2015, 03:17:11 PM »

You should post pictures otherwise this thread sucks

kick51 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 05, 2015, 03:26:41 PM »

Quote from: toku on February 05, 2015, 03:17:11 PM

You should post pictures otherwise this thread sucks

ok maybe later or next time i go on a game run

tiesto · « **Reply #5 on:** February 05, 2015, 09:17:04 PM »

Sealed copy of Cosmic Fantasy 2:

tiesto · « **Reply #6 on:** February 05, 2015, 10:05:05 PM »

Some more pickups. Whomp Em is a weird game - they took a game blatantly based off of Journey to the West and replaced Sun Wukong with some racist Native American stereotype. The music still sounds very Chinese in feel and there are bamboo forests so they didn't even bother to change much aside from adding a feather to the lead character and changing his pole to a spear. Game seems to be pretty decent.

Positive Touch · « **Reply #7 on:** February 05, 2015, 11:05:54 PM »

some nice genny games there

Beezy · « **Reply #8 on:** February 05, 2015, 11:39:59 PM »

I have that Genesis game on the top left. Never beat it, but its a good game.

bork · « **Reply #9 on:** February 06, 2015, 02:04:55 PM »

This is the only photo I have of a 'recent' game-related purchase-- an ASUS MX279H 27" IPS monitor. Got this in December.

I've been using it for my currently hooked up consoles (PS3, PS4, and Wii U) and keep thinking I should hook my PC up to it, too, but the 23" ASUS I have it hooked up to works great. (The laptop on the right is hooked up to the TV and is used for watching videos)

We're in the market to buy a place, so I'm going to be changing stuff around soon enough anyway. I'm going to have my own game room again when that happens and plan on using the three PC monitors I have, small HDTV, and old Samsung GXTV in there to hook everything I have up. The larger HDTV would stay in the living room, which would be a video game-free zone apart from playing emulators and stuff on a PC that gets hooked up to it. Going house-hunting tomorrow!

Recent purchases for me have been mostly digital. I got Resident Evil HD and Saint's Row Gat Outta Hell several weeks ago. Have barely touched either one. Got Duke Nukem on PS3/Vita. Got a physical copy of Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 2 on Vita last week but I'm not going to play it until I finish the original, which I'm about halfway through.

Waiting on Sengoku Musou 4-II next week and then DOA5 Last Round the week after. I think Dragon Quest Heroes is the week after that...crazy Koei-related releases starting once again.

Quote from: tiesto on February 05, 2015, 10:05:05 PM

Whomp Em is a weird game - they took a game blatantly based off of Journey to the West and replaced Sun Wukong with some racist Native American stereotype. The music still sounds very Chinese in feel and there are bamboo forests so they didn't even bother to change much aside from adding a feather to the lead character and changing his pole to a spear. Game seems to be pretty decent.

That is bizarre.

Why even change the character then?

kick51 · « **Reply #10 on:** February 06, 2015, 02:17:45 PM »

sorry for the shitty pic. not even taken with a potato, but a One M8. i'm just the worst digital photo taker ever.

Killer 7 PS2 - complete, $10. Not sure why I bought this, I have the gamecube one on the way.
Trauma Team Wii - complete, $12. Disc is a bit scratchy and it needs an original wii case, but $12 is somewhat under average for the game compared to online prices.
Baroque Wii (not pictured) - disc only, $3 at gamestop. The clerk at gamestop could not stop gushing about how bad this game is. She bought it because she thought it would be like Persona

The next 4 - see OP

on the bottom, a brand new PS2 from Amazon themselves, not a third party. Randomly looked up PS2s and they had one for sale for $100, which is good these days (most guys have them at $150ish shipped.) I thought it might be a fucked up package that looked like it had been through war, but it's a perfect, sealed 90001 box. It'll fit in my closet nicely.

kick51 · « **Reply #11 on:** February 06, 2015, 02:41:16 PM »

and holy fuck, so this just happened:

edit: WHAT THE FUCK I SHOULD BUY A LOTTERY TICKET

demi · « **Reply #12 on:** February 06, 2015, 03:34:54 PM »

I guess those are good deals, I wouldnt jump out at them myself though

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #13 on:** February 06, 2015, 03:45:34 PM »

Physical media

Fucking luddites in here

kick51 · « **Reply #14 on:** February 06, 2015, 03:57:40 PM »

Quote from: demi on February 06, 2015, 03:34:54 PM

I guess those are good deals, I wouldnt jump out at them myself though

yeah, that's about a 1/4 of the going price for fire emblem. about 1/2 for Xenosaga 3. I'll play Xenosaga for sure. would be sick if I got the lenticular cover Xenosaga 3.

Amazon warehouse usually has stupid high prices these days on collectible games.

Positive Touch · « **Reply #15 on:** February 06, 2015, 04:06:38 PM »

I sold my fire emblem years ago for like $20

and holy shit xenosaga goes for that much? I bought them all when they were like 5 bucks each and then didn't play them because they sucked.time to make a profit!

demi · « **Reply #16 on:** February 06, 2015, 04:09:36 PM »

Only 3 goes for much for some reason, probably a low print run

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #17 on:** February 06, 2015, 04:32:11 PM »

I hope you've got the time to play all these old games, man.

kick51 · « **Reply #18 on:** February 06, 2015, 04:52:39 PM »

Quote from: Mr. Gundam on February 06, 2015, 04:32:11 PM

I hope you've got the time to play all these old games, man.

definitely not, this is mostly compulsion. I will play them over time, but there'll always be new shit and i've got a bunch of other hobbies that are time consuming :'(

edit: worth mentioning i've played a lot of these before already, now i'm just collecting and thinking about replaying some

bork · « **Reply #19 on:** February 06, 2015, 06:19:57 PM »

Catching up. Here's all the physical games I purchased over the last few months.

Just noticed that everything is Japanese, with the exception of Diablo. Will likely be getting rid of Diablo and Akiba's Trip, since I don't really care about Diablo and the Vita Akiba is enough. Was disappointed that the PS4 version doesn't have everything unlocked from the start, like they claimed.

Other stuff. The ASUS Transformer T200 was a birthday present for my wife. Tried one of the New 3DS faceplates (Smash Bros. version) and also got the latest Kotobukiya Bishoujo Tekken figure for some more uguu~.

kick51 · « **Reply #20 on:** February 06, 2015, 06:27:31 PM »

Is that a Oneechanbara PS4 game? Didn't know there was one. I came close to buying the wii version the past few times i've been out because it looks like trashy fun for only a few bucks a copy.

bork · « **Reply #21 on:** February 06, 2015, 06:36:23 PM »

The quality of the plastic on the cover plates feels better than the stock cover plates do. Also didn't know that this was glossy versus the stock being matte. Looks nice!

bork · « **Reply #22 on:** February 06, 2015, 06:47:01 PM »

Quote from: kick51 on February 06, 2015, 06:27:31 PM

Is that a Oneechanbara PS4 game? Didn't know there was one. I came close to buying the wii version the past few times i've been out because it looks like trashy fun for only a few bucks a copy.

Yeah, that's Oneechanbara Kagura Z2, the 'sequel' to the PS3 Oneechanbara Kagura Z2 With NoNoNo, although from what I played, it seems more like "Oneechanbara Z2 Champion Edition Turbo Without NoNoNo." Assets are reused and some of the same levels are in there, just at 1080P and 60 FPS now. You get up to four characters that you can switch between and get huge combos with. The game play is better than previous games, but it still feels like a cheap, overpriced budget title. I also don't get why NoNoNo was removed. She's one of the characters from those stupid Dream Club idol games and is more of a joke character. One of her attacks makes the zombies dance, thriller-style. Anyway, Senran Kagura is a much better take on this genre.

If you did want to try one of these games, get NoNoNo on PS3 or the PS4 version (note- physical only...if you try to buy the game off PSN, you will be required to have a Japanese credit card for age verification!), but Senran Kagura Estival Versus is out next month on Vita/PS4 and it's going to blow this game away in pretty much every area.

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #23 on:** February 06, 2015, 10:30:49 PM »

I also have Dedede, Toon Link, and Sonic amiibos coming in this weekend

Positive Touch · « **Reply #24 on:** February 06, 2015, 11:11:20 PM »

FUCK SUPER R-TYPE

kick51 · « **Reply #25 on:** February 07, 2015, 09:22:49 AM »

Air Fortress and Legacy of the Wizard...you must have a taste for ridiculous NES mazes with no guidance

tiesto · « **Reply #26 on:** February 07, 2015, 09:39:14 AM »

Faxanadu! I finished that game pretty recently, it's pretty good aside from some frustrating enemy placement at parts.

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #27 on:** February 07, 2015, 10:12:26 AM »

Quote from: kick51 on February 07, 2015, 09:22:49 AM

Air Fortress and Legacy of the Wizard...you must have a taste for ridiculous NES mazes with no guidance

Incidentally, those two are the ones bought by my friend. They seem pretty good though.

kick51 · « **Reply #28 on:** February 07, 2015, 11:05:05 AM »

Quote from: AdmiralViscen on February 07, 2015, 10:12:26 AM

Quote from: kick51 on February 07, 2015, 09:22:49 AM
Air Fortress and Legacy of the Wizard...you must have a taste for ridiculous NES mazes with no guidance

Incidentally, those two are the ones bought by my friend. They seem pretty good though.

Air Fortress is cool- part shmup, part metroid. slowly gets more difficult until it gets wtf mazelike. Legacy of the Wizard is like Milon's Secret Castle levels of hitting a random block in a random place to do a thing that you never would have guessed, except worse because the map is gigantic and there are a bunch of characters to use. Good game, but infamously convoluted.

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #29 on:** February 07, 2015, 12:56:50 PM »

Kirby and Pilotwings 64 don't seem to work :'(

I haven't cleaned them yet though. I bought them in NC and I'm back in NY so hopefully I can get them going.

Fifstar · « **Reply #30 on:** February 07, 2015, 03:47:20 PM »

Somebody should kickstart a pilotwings spiritual remake.

kick51 · « **Reply #31 on:** February 08, 2015, 02:52:15 PM »

got here today:

jesus i really need to get better with my phone camera

both complete and with few surface marks on the discs!

haven't done a whole lot of used game hunting since the first half of the 00s, but Fire Emblem is among my better scores since then.

kick51 · « **Reply #32 on:** February 09, 2015, 12:14:25 PM »

my least favorite things to see when shopping for used games online:

"may or may not have case or instructions"

"may or may not have scratches on disc or wear on case/manual"

how about you just take two seconds to look at the game motherfucker and maybe your shit won't sit there for months unsold

tiesto · « **Reply #33 on:** February 09, 2015, 12:51:16 PM »

Viscen, have you been to the Massapequa basement yet?

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #34 on:** February 09, 2015, 06:23:27 PM »

I cleaned the carts and they worked.

What is the Massapequa basement?

tiesto · « **Reply #35 on:** February 09, 2015, 06:51:29 PM »

Some guy sells a shit-ton of retro games from the basement of a tobacco shop, he has some interesting stuff and prices based on pricecharting.com.

https://www.facebook.com/videogametradingpost

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #36 on:** February 09, 2015, 07:42:32 PM »

I'm gonna have to check that out. Thanks!

Cheddahz · « **Reply #37 on:** February 24, 2015, 09:04:57 PM »

Only ended up having to pay $20 for it (had some credit at Gamestop) and it's been two years since I've last played the game, so I figured why not

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #38 on:** March 05, 2015, 10:02:46 PM »

I cashed out some reward points and used a little tax return money. I picked up Puyo Puyo Tetris about a month ago but the rest were recent buys.

tiesto · « **Reply #39 on:** March 05, 2015, 11:36:41 PM »

Ooh, I want Puyo Puyo Tetris!

I got some GB cib pickups from some game store in downtown Newark. 4 white kids walking through Newark isn't something you'd see every day, but hey, when there's retro games to be had... I picked up Quarth, Kwirk: The Chiller Tomato (Atlus game published in the US by Acclaim), and Revenge of the Gator, and also a copy of Golden Axe 2.

kick51 · « **Reply #40 on:** March 06, 2015, 08:55:18 AM »

about to go balls deep on a copy of Rule Of Rose

the fuck is my problem

Positive Touch · « **Reply #41 on:** March 06, 2015, 09:00:37 AM »

o god you poor dumb sob. for a while back in the day I used to convince myself that reviewers just didn't understand horror games bc of the low scores they always got. Rule of Rose was the game that finally made me stop and say "nope; some of these games are just really bad." game is total shit with zero redeeming qualities. I usually finish every game I start but I couldn't make it anywhere near the end in that turd.

Rufus · « **Reply #42 on:** March 06, 2015, 09:14:38 AM »

Even watching Rule of Rose getting played was tedious. The combat looks absolutely wretched. It has that Japan polish though.

kick51 · « **Reply #43 on:** March 06, 2015, 09:18:03 AM »

Positive Touch · « **Reply #44 on:** March 06, 2015, 12:06:10 PM »

you fucked up son

kick51 · « **Reply #45 on:** March 06, 2015, 12:16:18 PM »

I ended up passing on the auction i was gonna bid on. I truly would just be buying it for "omg teh rarity" and I try not to do that too much.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #46 on:** March 06, 2015, 12:47:28 PM »

I've got Shining Resonance and Liberation Maiden SIN coming in the mail. Gotta love the tanking Yen right now.

Positive Touch · « **Reply #47 on:** March 06, 2015, 12:58:42 PM »

Quote from: kick51 on March 06, 2015, 12:16:18 PM

I ended up passing on the auction i was gonna bid on. I truly would just be buying it for "omg teh rarity" and I try not to do that too much.

yeah once that OMG RARE feeling wears off you realize you're left with a shitty game that you don't want to play and a big hole in your wallet. generally not worth it

demi · « **Reply #48 on:** March 06, 2015, 01:10:23 PM »

That only applies to shitty games like Rule of Rose, of course. Feel free to buy expensive super awesome games instead

kick51 · « **Reply #49 on:** March 06, 2015, 01:18:25 PM »

I can buy several good games i want to play for the same price. But i think ima chill on game buying for a while, back to actually playing.

Aside for a copy of silent hill 2 greatest hits version

chronovore · « **Reply #50 on:** March 06, 2015, 07:37:22 PM »

Quote from: Mr. Gundam on March 06, 2015, 12:47:28 PM

I've got Shining Resonance and Liberation Maiden SIN coming in the mail. Gotta love the tanking Yen right now.

Japanese yen tanking!

Japanese export-based economy recovering...!

Japanese game development return to greatness...

spoiler (click to show/hide)

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Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #51 on:** March 28, 2015, 11:03:13 PM »

I'm a complicit member of The Remake Generation

Mod edit: Adjusted picture size.

iconoclast · « **Reply #52 on:** March 29, 2015, 05:05:44 PM »

I couldn't resist after I saw that EDF4.1 was coming out next month.

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Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #53 on:** March 29, 2015, 05:57:17 PM »

The PS4 with Bloodborne + $20 Amazon giftcard (that I'd use towards FF Type 0 HD) for $399 deal is awfully tempting.

bork · « **Reply #54 on:** March 29, 2015, 09:30:34 PM »

Recent pick-ups from the past two months.

Kotobukiya Street Fighter Bishoujo Statue Juri
Senran Kagura Estival Versus (Vita)
Sengoku Musou 4-II (Vita)
Hyperdevotion Noire (Vita)
Dead Or Alive 5 Last Round (PS4)
Senran Kagura Estival Versus (PS4)
One Piece Kaizoku Musou 3 (PS4)
Dragon Quest Heroes (PS4)
Sengoku Musou 4-II (PS4)

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #55 on:** April 02, 2015, 12:49:01 AM »

bork · « **Reply #56 on:** April 02, 2015, 10:16:03 AM »

bork · « **Reply #57 on:** April 14, 2015, 04:18:28 PM »

Quote from: Borys on April 14, 2015, 04:02:00 PM

My PS3 collection is almost done.

My PS3 collection looks pretty small compared to my PS1 and PS2 collections. It's shrinking now that games are going multiplat and getting Vita/PS4 ports. Would like to build it up a bit but there's really nothing I want to get for it at this point.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #58 on:** April 14, 2015, 04:46:13 PM »

Quote from: Borys on April 14, 2015, 04:02:00 PM

Tales of Xillia is $9.99 on PSN. Worth it? Retail releases are almost all $29.99.

It has Idolm@ster DLC, so yes. It's also pretty good, fwiw.

iconoclast · « **Reply #59 on:** April 14, 2015, 07:31:09 PM »

GOTY Acquired:

And the reversible cover:

News:

Author Topic: Pick-ups thread (Read 16367 times)