Juli 8th:
Visited the nearby GameStop again, probably for the last time, but who knows, they have open for 10 more days until Juli 18th before they close down forever, so it's not impossible I go there again within that time.
All games were pre-owned/used and the collectibles/other stuff was all new.
DS:
Disney's Brave (cartridge only)
Sonic Colours (cartridge only)
Splinter Cell Chaos Theory (cartridge only)
PSP:
a white 2GB SONY Memorystick Pro Duo
PlayStation 3:
Get Fit With Mel B
We Dare
PlayStation 4:
Deception IV The Nightmare Princess
Xbox 360:
Far Cry 3 (disc only)
Le Tour de France
Metal Gear Solid V Ground Zeroes (disc only)
PC:
a Piranha Rush Medium Mousepad (27x22cm)
Collectibles/Other:
two more StarLink Pilot Packs - Razor Lemay
four @play component+composite cable combo packs (compatible with PlayStation, PS2, PS3, Wii, WiiU and Xbox 360)
and two @play USB-charger cables for 3DS
also from other places I got some other random stuff
two battery powered red LED string lights
green 3,5mm in-ear earphones
two Zebra/Flying Tiger brand Build-Your-Own Dinosaur polybags (a red dilophosaurus and an orange velociraptor)
and a lot of candy (skittles both regular and wild berry, ahlgrens bilar grillbilar and limousiner, mentos fruit etc.)
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Juli 9th:
Ordered some more games, should arrive some time next week. All new, nothing second-hand/used/pre-owned this time.
UPDATE: package arrived and I went to pick it up on the 13th
Wii U:
Darksiders Warmastered Edition
Injustice Gods Among Us
Mass Effect 3 Special Edition
Skylanders Imaginators Starter Pack
PSP:
Syphon Filter Logan's Shadow (PSP Essentials)
Xbox 360:
Blades of Time
Other:
My Arcade Micro Player Retro Arcade BurgerTime!
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Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Tuesday, June 2, 2020
Gaming Purchases - Juni 2020
Juni 2nd:
Visited my mom again today. She had another good day and we walked a full lap around the entire hospital, great weather yesterday too, and on the way home I visited GameStop again.
The Wii U console and all games were pre-owned/used (unless otherwise specified), and the collectibles were all new.
DS:
WinX Club Rockstars
Wii:
Kororinpa
Monster High Ghoul Spirit
Wii U hardware:
a black Wii U Elite 32GB console (with tablet controller, Wii sensor bar, power cable, HDMI cable, charger cable for the tablet, charging bay for the tablet, a regular stand for the tablet and two small clip-on vertical stands for the console)
PlayStation 3:
Call of Duty Black Ops II (disc only)
Crysis 2 (disc only)
Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate (disc only)
Saints Row IV (made sure to pick up the correct game this time!)
PlayStation 4:
RIGS Mechanized Combat League (new)
Xbox 360:
Colin McRae DiRT (disc only)
Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 (disc only)
Skyrim (disc only)
Race Driver GRID (disc only)
Rise of the Tomb Raider (disc only)
WarTech Senko no Ronde (this was the PAL version, I originally got the NTSC version back in the day and it's nice to finally have the proper PAL release as well)
Yaiba Ninja Gaiden Z Special Edition (sadly missing the Special Edition comic book, but the soundtrack CD was included)
Collectibles/Other:
a StarLink Pilot Pack - Razor Lemay
two more Crash Bandicoot keyring figure blindbags (containing Aku Aku and yet another Crash)
and two more Lara Croft Temple of Osiris Totaku figures
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Juni 11th:
Went ahead and ordered some games, mainly for my recently purchased Wii U since I didn't have anything to play on it other than regular Wii games.
I placed orders from two separate places a few of days ago (Juni 8th) and the first package arrived today. The games that arrived today were all new and sealed copies.
PlayStation 3:
Ultimate Action Triple Pack (Just Cause 2, Sleeping Dogs and the Tomb Raider 2013 Reboot)
Wii U:
Art Academy Atellier
Call of Duty Black Ops II
Legend of Kay Anniversary
LEGO Batman 3 Beyond Gotham
LEGO Star Wars The Force Awakens
The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild
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Juni 12th:
Second order of games arrived today. All of these were used copies.
UPDATE: Two of the four games didn't work! Zelda Wind Waker HD was damaged on the data side of the disc so it didn't work at all, the Wii U didn't even recognize it as a Wii U game, and ZombiU was the american release, which doesn't work on my european Wii U system. It should've been labelled as an import but they hadn't noticed and sold it as a regular game by mistake.
LEGO Batman 2 and Super Mario 3D World both worked, but there was extensive water damage to the Super Mario 3D World cover so the paper was all gross and nasty, and the LEGO Batman 2 disc has some rather worrying looking scratches on it.
The scratches on LEGO Batman 2 were on the outer part of the disc and the game starts up without any issues. Hopefully they're shallow enough that it will remain fully playable without any noticeable issues, but until I've played through the entire game 100%, I can't say for certain.
I contacted the store about this and because these were all Wii U games, they didn't have any more copies to replace them with.
I am to return the two games that didn't work and then I would get a 10% discount on the order for the remaining two games as "goodwill", as they phrased it in their reply.
Wii U:
LEGO Batman 2 DC Super Heroes (some scratches on the disc, only playing through it and 100%-ing the game will tell if it will have problems later on or not)
Super Mario 3D World (game was fine but the cover had severe water damage and looked gross, grimy and nasty as a result)
The Legend of Zelda The Wind Waker HD (didn't work at all, there was damage on the data side of the disc and the Wii U didn't even recognize the disc)
ZombiU (american release, unplayable on my european Wii U)
Visited my mom again today. She had another good day and we walked a full lap around the entire hospital, great weather yesterday too, and on the way home I visited GameStop again.
The Wii U console and all games were pre-owned/used (unless otherwise specified), and the collectibles were all new.
DS:
WinX Club Rockstars
Wii:
Kororinpa
Monster High Ghoul Spirit
Wii U hardware:
a black Wii U Elite 32GB console (with tablet controller, Wii sensor bar, power cable, HDMI cable, charger cable for the tablet, charging bay for the tablet, a regular stand for the tablet and two small clip-on vertical stands for the console)
PlayStation 3:
Call of Duty Black Ops II (disc only)
Crysis 2 (disc only)
Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate (disc only)
Saints Row IV (made sure to pick up the correct game this time!)
PlayStation 4:
RIGS Mechanized Combat League (new)
Xbox 360:
Colin McRae DiRT (disc only)
Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 (disc only)
Skyrim (disc only)
Race Driver GRID (disc only)
Rise of the Tomb Raider (disc only)
WarTech Senko no Ronde (this was the PAL version, I originally got the NTSC version back in the day and it's nice to finally have the proper PAL release as well)
Yaiba Ninja Gaiden Z Special Edition (sadly missing the Special Edition comic book, but the soundtrack CD was included)
Collectibles/Other:
a StarLink Pilot Pack - Razor Lemay
two more Crash Bandicoot keyring figure blindbags (containing Aku Aku and yet another Crash)
and two more Lara Croft Temple of Osiris Totaku figures
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Juni 11th:
Went ahead and ordered some games, mainly for my recently purchased Wii U since I didn't have anything to play on it other than regular Wii games.
I placed orders from two separate places a few of days ago (Juni 8th) and the first package arrived today. The games that arrived today were all new and sealed copies.
PlayStation 3:
Ultimate Action Triple Pack (Just Cause 2, Sleeping Dogs and the Tomb Raider 2013 Reboot)
Wii U:
Art Academy Atellier
Call of Duty Black Ops II
Legend of Kay Anniversary
LEGO Batman 3 Beyond Gotham
LEGO Star Wars The Force Awakens
The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild
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Juni 12th:
Second order of games arrived today. All of these were used copies.
UPDATE: Two of the four games didn't work! Zelda Wind Waker HD was damaged on the data side of the disc so it didn't work at all, the Wii U didn't even recognize it as a Wii U game, and ZombiU was the american release, which doesn't work on my european Wii U system. It should've been labelled as an import but they hadn't noticed and sold it as a regular game by mistake.
LEGO Batman 2 and Super Mario 3D World both worked, but there was extensive water damage to the Super Mario 3D World cover so the paper was all gross and nasty, and the LEGO Batman 2 disc has some rather worrying looking scratches on it.
The scratches on LEGO Batman 2 were on the outer part of the disc and the game starts up without any issues. Hopefully they're shallow enough that it will remain fully playable without any noticeable issues, but until I've played through the entire game 100%, I can't say for certain.
I contacted the store about this and because these were all Wii U games, they didn't have any more copies to replace them with.
I am to return the two games that didn't work and then I would get a 10% discount on the order for the remaining two games as "goodwill", as they phrased it in their reply.
Wii U:
LEGO Batman 2 DC Super Heroes (some scratches on the disc, only playing through it and 100%-ing the game will tell if it will have problems later on or not)
Super Mario 3D World (game was fine but the cover had severe water damage and looked gross, grimy and nasty as a result)
ZombiU (american release, unplayable on my european Wii U)
Sunday, May 31, 2020
Gaming Purchases - May 2020
May 31st:
Today was Mothers Day in Sweden and I went to visit my mom who's been in the hospital recovering from surgery for pancreatic cancer for about a month.
We were allowed to see each other outside only due to the corona virus. She's well enough now that she could walk outside with a stroller holding her drip thing, and today the weather was very warm and sunny so it worked well.
On the way home I took a little detour to the only GameStop store still open in Sweden (they're open until 18th July), and I found some stuff!
All games were second-hand/pre-owned/used. Other stuff was new.
DS:
Elements of Destruction
MechAssault Phantom War
MTV FanAttack (already got a copy of this recently, but it was the cheapest DS game they had so I picked it up for the case)
Wii:
Baroque
PlayStation Portable:
Beaterator
Championship Manager
Football Manager Handheld 2010
Gunpey
NBA Live 07
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08
PlayStation 3:
Atelier Rorona Plus The Alhcemist of Arland
Cabela's Dangerous Adventures
Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm 3
Saints Row The Third (I already have this, when I meant to pick up Saints Row IV, I accidentally picked up the wrong damn game! D'oh!)
PlayStation Vita:
Aegis of Earth Protonovus Assault
FIFA 13
FIFA 14
Xbox 360:
Need for Speed ProStreet (Classics)
Collectibles/Other:
three Crash Bandicoot keyring figure blindbags (two were Crash, the other was Coco)
two Coco Bandicoot Totaku figures
a Lara Croft Temple of Osiris Totaku figure
two more packs of PlayStation themed decals (same type as I purchased recently)
Today was Mothers Day in Sweden and I went to visit my mom who's been in the hospital recovering from surgery for pancreatic cancer for about a month.
We were allowed to see each other outside only due to the corona virus. She's well enough now that she could walk outside with a stroller holding her drip thing, and today the weather was very warm and sunny so it worked well.
On the way home I took a little detour to the only GameStop store still open in Sweden (they're open until 18th July), and I found some stuff!
All games were second-hand/pre-owned/used. Other stuff was new.
DS:
Elements of Destruction
MechAssault Phantom War
MTV FanAttack (already got a copy of this recently, but it was the cheapest DS game they had so I picked it up for the case)
Wii:
Baroque
PlayStation Portable:
Beaterator
Championship Manager
Football Manager Handheld 2010
Gunpey
NBA Live 07
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08
PlayStation 3:
Atelier Rorona Plus The Alhcemist of Arland
Cabela's Dangerous Adventures
Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm 3
Saints Row The Third (I already have this, when I meant to pick up Saints Row IV, I accidentally picked up the wrong damn game! D'oh!)
PlayStation Vita:
Aegis of Earth Protonovus Assault
FIFA 13
FIFA 14
Xbox 360:
Need for Speed ProStreet (Classics)
Collectibles/Other:
three Crash Bandicoot keyring figure blindbags (two were Crash, the other was Coco)
two Coco Bandicoot Totaku figures
a Lara Croft Temple of Osiris Totaku figure
two more packs of PlayStation themed decals (same type as I purchased recently)
Thursday, October 31, 2019
Gaming Purchases - Oktober 2019
Oktober 30th:
Ordered some stuff online. All new, nothing secondhand this time.
UDPATE: arrived the next day
DS:
Secret Saturdays Beasts of the 5th Sun
Xbox 360:
Far Cry 2 + Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
PlayStation 3 accessories:
2x e-ZEE Chat (Dual Shock 3 mic + speaker attachment)
Vita:
2x LEGO Batman 2 DC Super Heroes
PC:
Dark Void
Ka Kuro Classic (Medallion)
DVD:
Modesty Blaise (1966)
Ratchet & Clank (2016)
Ordered some stuff online. All new, nothing secondhand this time.
UDPATE: arrived the next day
DS:
Secret Saturdays Beasts of the 5th Sun
Xbox 360:
Far Cry 2 + Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
PlayStation 3 accessories:
2x e-ZEE Chat (Dual Shock 3 mic + speaker attachment)
Vita:
2x LEGO Batman 2 DC Super Heroes
PC:
Dark Void
Ka Kuro Classic (Medallion)
DVD:
Modesty Blaise (1966)
Ratchet & Clank (2016)
Sunday, May 5, 2019
Gaming Purchases - Maj 2019
May 5th:
Went to a Retro Game Convention in Gothenburg with some friends and bought some neat stuff. I bought one cartridge of Space Battle for Intellivision, but then later found a cheaper one with the overlays and manual laying in a big box of random stuff, so I bought that copy too! There were no refunds, so yeah, simple as that. (all items are pre-owned unless otherwise noted)
IntelliVision:
Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Treasure of Tarmin (cartridge only)
Tron Deadly Discs (cartridge only)
Space Battle (cartridge only)
Space Battle (cartridge, two controller overlays and manual)
Star Strike (cartridge only)
Mega Drive:
Abrams Battle Tank (cartridge only)
MIG-29 Fighter Pilot (cartridge only)
32X:
Cosmic Carnage (cartridge only)
DS:
Asphalt Urban GT (no instruction manual)
Collectibles:
Princess Daisy - Super Mario Super Size Figure Collection (version with keyring hanger, new and sealed)
Princess Daisy - Super Mario Super Size Figure Collection (version without keyring hanger, new and sealed)
Steel Battalion - Lycoming Defense Systems Vitzh 1st-Generation - Capcom Figure Collection (new and sealed)
Steel Battalion - Lycoming Defense Systems Quasar 3rd-Generation - Capcom Figure Collection (new and sealed)
Other:
Virtua Racing (Mega Drive) rental case
Tomb Raider (Saturn) instruction manual
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May 12th:
One of my friends who was with me to the Retro Game Convention a week ago had bought a game he didn't like, so he gave it to me.
Mega Drive:
688 Attack Sub (cartridge only)
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May 14th:
A trip to the local GameStop resulted in some nice finds today. (all items are pre-owned unless otherwise noted)
Hardware:
AtGames SEGA Mega Drive Plug N Play with 81 built-in games, cartridge slot, power adapter, stereo composite AV-cables and two 6-button controllers (new and complete in box)
PlayStation 3:
Battleship
BlazBlue Continuum Shift Extend
Dead Rising 2
EyeCreate
Far Cry 3
God of War Ascension
Valkyria Chronicles
PlayStation Vita:
Dynasty Warriors Next (no instruction manual)
Xbox 360:
BlazBlue Continuum Shift - Limited Edition (no instruction manual)
Dead Island Riptide - Special Edition
F.E.A.R. 2 Project Origin
Grand Theft Auto V Five (no instruction manual)
Mass Effect
Mass Effect 2
Prey
Smackdown Vs. Raw 2008
Star Wars The Clone Wars Republic Heroes
Collectibles:
Disney Infinity 3.0 - Cars 2 - Holley Shiftwell (figure only)
Disney Infinity 3.0 - Star Wars - Ahsoka Tano (figure only)
Skylanders Imaginators - Golden Queen (figure only)
Skylanders Superchargers - Hot Streak (vehicle only)
Skylanders Superchargers - Jet Stream (vehicle only)
Skylanders Swap Force - Ninja Stealth Elf (figure only)
Totaku WipEout Feisar FX350 (new and sealed)
Totaku WipEout AG-SYS (new and sealed)
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May 17th:
Took a long walk today and bought some stuff along the way.
Collectibles:
3x Marvel Avengers Black Widow Hasbro action figure (2016, new and sealed)
DVD:
Dumb and Dumber Unrated (1994, new and sealed)
Bluray:
Monster High Clawesome Double Feature (2014, Monster High Fright On! (2011), Monster High Escape from Skull Shores (2012), new and sealed)
Penguins of Madagascar (2014, new and sealed)
Robocop (2013, new and sealed)
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May 22nd:
Ordered some games online during a 20th anniversary sale that Discshop.se was having. Got every game for only 20kr each, all new and sealed.
UPDATE: the order arrived and I went and picked it up the next day, May 23rd
PlayStation 3:
Battlefield 4
Borderlands 2 - The Premiere Club Edition
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3
Duke Nukem Forever - Duke's Kick Ass Edition
Medal of Honor Warfighter - Limited Edition
Prototype 2 - Limited! Radnet Edition
Rage - Anarchy Edition
XCOM Enemy Unknown - Elite Soldier Pack Edition
Xbox 360:
Battlefield 4
Duke Nukem Forever - Duke's Kick Ass Edition
Medal of Honor Warfighter - Limited Edition
Prototype 2 - Limited! Radnet Edition
XCOM Enemy Unknown - Elite Soldier Pack Edition
Went to a Retro Game Convention in Gothenburg with some friends and bought some neat stuff. I bought one cartridge of Space Battle for Intellivision, but then later found a cheaper one with the overlays and manual laying in a big box of random stuff, so I bought that copy too! There were no refunds, so yeah, simple as that. (all items are pre-owned unless otherwise noted)
IntelliVision:
Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Treasure of Tarmin (cartridge only)
Tron Deadly Discs (cartridge only)
Space Battle (cartridge only)
Space Battle (cartridge, two controller overlays and manual)
Star Strike (cartridge only)
Mega Drive:
Abrams Battle Tank (cartridge only)
MIG-29 Fighter Pilot (cartridge only)
32X:
Cosmic Carnage (cartridge only)
DS:
Asphalt Urban GT (no instruction manual)
Collectibles:
Princess Daisy - Super Mario Super Size Figure Collection (version with keyring hanger, new and sealed)
Princess Daisy - Super Mario Super Size Figure Collection (version without keyring hanger, new and sealed)
Steel Battalion - Lycoming Defense Systems Vitzh 1st-Generation - Capcom Figure Collection (new and sealed)
Steel Battalion - Lycoming Defense Systems Quasar 3rd-Generation - Capcom Figure Collection (new and sealed)
Other:
Virtua Racing (Mega Drive) rental case
Tomb Raider (Saturn) instruction manual
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May 12th:
One of my friends who was with me to the Retro Game Convention a week ago had bought a game he didn't like, so he gave it to me.
Mega Drive:
688 Attack Sub (cartridge only)
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May 14th:
A trip to the local GameStop resulted in some nice finds today. (all items are pre-owned unless otherwise noted)
Hardware:
AtGames SEGA Mega Drive Plug N Play with 81 built-in games, cartridge slot, power adapter, stereo composite AV-cables and two 6-button controllers (new and complete in box)
PlayStation 3:
Battleship
BlazBlue Continuum Shift Extend
Dead Rising 2
EyeCreate
Far Cry 3
God of War Ascension
Valkyria Chronicles
PlayStation Vita:
Dynasty Warriors Next (no instruction manual)
Xbox 360:
BlazBlue Continuum Shift - Limited Edition (no instruction manual)
Dead Island Riptide - Special Edition
F.E.A.R. 2 Project Origin
Grand Theft Auto V Five (no instruction manual)
Mass Effect
Mass Effect 2
Prey
Smackdown Vs. Raw 2008
Star Wars The Clone Wars Republic Heroes
Collectibles:
Disney Infinity 3.0 - Cars 2 - Holley Shiftwell (figure only)
Disney Infinity 3.0 - Star Wars - Ahsoka Tano (figure only)
Skylanders Imaginators - Golden Queen (figure only)
Skylanders Superchargers - Hot Streak (vehicle only)
Skylanders Superchargers - Jet Stream (vehicle only)
Skylanders Swap Force - Ninja Stealth Elf (figure only)
Totaku WipEout Feisar FX350 (new and sealed)
Totaku WipEout AG-SYS (new and sealed)
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May 17th:
Took a long walk today and bought some stuff along the way.
Collectibles:
3x Marvel Avengers Black Widow Hasbro action figure (2016, new and sealed)
DVD:
Dumb and Dumber Unrated (1994, new and sealed)
Bluray:
Monster High Clawesome Double Feature (2014, Monster High Fright On! (2011), Monster High Escape from Skull Shores (2012), new and sealed)
Penguins of Madagascar (2014, new and sealed)
Robocop (2013, new and sealed)
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May 22nd:
Ordered some games online during a 20th anniversary sale that Discshop.se was having. Got every game for only 20kr each, all new and sealed.
UPDATE: the order arrived and I went and picked it up the next day, May 23rd
PlayStation 3:
Battlefield 4
Borderlands 2 - The Premiere Club Edition
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3
Duke Nukem Forever - Duke's Kick Ass Edition
Medal of Honor Warfighter - Limited Edition
Prototype 2 - Limited! Radnet Edition
Rage - Anarchy Edition
XCOM Enemy Unknown - Elite Soldier Pack Edition
Xbox 360:
Battlefield 4
Duke Nukem Forever - Duke's Kick Ass Edition
Medal of Honor Warfighter - Limited Edition
Prototype 2 - Limited! Radnet Edition
XCOM Enemy Unknown - Elite Soldier Pack Edition
Thursday, November 1, 2018
Gaming Purchases - November 2018
November 1st:
Went secondhand shopping today, found some stuff.
PlayStation 2:
MotoGP (Namco)
Xbox:
Star Wars Battlefront (no manual)
Xbox 360:
composite A/V cable with a separate RCA and S-Video to SCART adapter
composite+component combo-A/V cable
Hitman Blood Money
Ringarnas Herre Slaget om Midgård II (Lord of the Rings Battle of Middle-Earth II)
Other:
male USB to male Mini USB cable
male RCA to male 3,5mm cable
Comics:
Fix & Foxi
Korak
Disney's Princess Yule Album
Disney's The Jungle Book 2 (two different versions)
Disney's Jasmine Friends for Life
DVD:
Disney's Brave
Disney's Cinderella 2
Disney's Dumbo
Pelle Svanslös i Amerikatt (Peter No-Tail in Americat)
Toys:
Atco City Series 3023 Airport Set + instructions (two parts missing, the glass for the helicopter canopy and the plug to hold one of the smaller propellers in place)
Atco Space Adventure 8025 Space Ship + instructions
and a new movie from a movie store
DVD:
The Star (2017)
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November 8th:
Some second hand finds today.
Electronics:
composite and S-Video <-> SCART converter
DVD:
LEGO Friends (2013, with original protective paper sleeve still around it, episodes 1-3)
Monty Python and the Holy Graal (2-disc Special Edition)
Bluray:
Cleopatra (2-disc 50th Anniversary Edition)
Books/Magazines/Comics:
Bobo - Svarta feens trolldom! (1984)
Disney's Classics - Sleeping Beauty
Katitzi vol. 1 - Barnhemsflickan
Katitzi vol. 2 - Zigenarflickan
Katitzi vol. 3 - Hjältinnan
LEGO Ninjago - Find the Samuraidroid (Where's Wally?-style look-and-find book with the LEGO Samuraidroid set to build)
Lilla Fruntimret - från livstycke till fuskpäls
Lilla Fruntimret rymmer hemifrån
Nya Fruntimmers Boken
Modern Dansk Humor
Toys:
a bag of toy cars (mostly made in china cheap ones, one Hot Wheels and one Majorette)
another Rubik's Cube (3x3x3, official Rubik's Cube brand)
a Secret Life of Pets McDonald's Rubik's Cube (1x2x3 size)
Other:
a 40-pack of flat green glass blobs
UNO (the card game from Mattel, 2015 edition with new "trade all" and "make your own rule" cards)
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November 12th:
Some new stuff, no secondhand stuff today.
DVD:
Justice League (2017)
Toy Cars:
a red Audi R8 (Majorette)
a gold Lamborghini Gallardo (Majorette)
a silver Lamborghini Reventon (Majorette)
a wine red Renault Alpine A110-50 (Majorette)
Other:
My Little Pony Friendship is Magic chocolate advent calendar (60g)
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November 15th:
More secondhand stuff.
DVD:
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
Iron Sky (2012)
Books/Magazines/Comics:
Barbie (#2 1993, #4 1993)
Dennis (#3 1988)
LEGO:
a small bag of blue and grey Technic pieces from an unknown set
Other:
a factory sealed, new and unused deck of playing cards (Black Jaguar label)
six factory sealed, new and unused VHS-C compact videocassettes
a bag of 103 smaller flat green glass blobs
a motorcycle painting in light-shifting colors (Yamaha Genesis)
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November 19th:
Other:
another My Little Pony Friendship is Magic chocolate advent calendar, different design than the other one (75g)
Went secondhand shopping today, found some stuff.
PlayStation 2:
MotoGP (Namco)
Xbox:
Star Wars Battlefront (no manual)
Xbox 360:
composite A/V cable with a separate RCA and S-Video to SCART adapter
composite+component combo-A/V cable
Hitman Blood Money
Ringarnas Herre Slaget om Midgård II (Lord of the Rings Battle of Middle-Earth II)
Other:
male USB to male Mini USB cable
male RCA to male 3,5mm cable
Comics:
Fix & Foxi
Korak
Disney's Princess Yule Album
Disney's The Jungle Book 2 (two different versions)
Disney's Jasmine Friends for Life
DVD:
Disney's Brave
Disney's Cinderella 2
Disney's Dumbo
Pelle Svanslös i Amerikatt (Peter No-Tail in Americat)
Toys:
Atco City Series 3023 Airport Set + instructions (two parts missing, the glass for the helicopter canopy and the plug to hold one of the smaller propellers in place)
Atco Space Adventure 8025 Space Ship + instructions
and a new movie from a movie store
DVD:
The Star (2017)
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November 8th:
Some second hand finds today.
Electronics:
composite and S-Video <-> SCART converter
DVD:
LEGO Friends (2013, with original protective paper sleeve still around it, episodes 1-3)
Monty Python and the Holy Graal (2-disc Special Edition)
Bluray:
Cleopatra (2-disc 50th Anniversary Edition)
Books/Magazines/Comics:
Bobo - Svarta feens trolldom! (1984)
Disney's Classics - Sleeping Beauty
Katitzi vol. 1 - Barnhemsflickan
Katitzi vol. 2 - Zigenarflickan
Katitzi vol. 3 - Hjältinnan
LEGO Ninjago - Find the Samuraidroid (Where's Wally?-style look-and-find book with the LEGO Samuraidroid set to build)
Lilla Fruntimret - från livstycke till fuskpäls
Lilla Fruntimret rymmer hemifrån
Nya Fruntimmers Boken
Modern Dansk Humor
Toys:
a bag of toy cars (mostly made in china cheap ones, one Hot Wheels and one Majorette)
another Rubik's Cube (3x3x3, official Rubik's Cube brand)
a Secret Life of Pets McDonald's Rubik's Cube (1x2x3 size)
Other:
a 40-pack of flat green glass blobs
UNO (the card game from Mattel, 2015 edition with new "trade all" and "make your own rule" cards)
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November 12th:
Some new stuff, no secondhand stuff today.
DVD:
Justice League (2017)
Toy Cars:
a red Audi R8 (Majorette)
a gold Lamborghini Gallardo (Majorette)
a silver Lamborghini Reventon (Majorette)
a wine red Renault Alpine A110-50 (Majorette)
Other:
My Little Pony Friendship is Magic chocolate advent calendar (60g)
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November 15th:
More secondhand stuff.
DVD:
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
Iron Sky (2012)
Books/Magazines/Comics:
Barbie (#2 1993, #4 1993)
Dennis (#3 1988)
LEGO:
a small bag of blue and grey Technic pieces from an unknown set
Other:
a factory sealed, new and unused deck of playing cards (Black Jaguar label)
six factory sealed, new and unused VHS-C compact videocassettes
a bag of 103 smaller flat green glass blobs
a motorcycle painting in light-shifting colors (Yamaha Genesis)
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November 19th:
Other:
another My Little Pony Friendship is Magic chocolate advent calendar, different design than the other one (75g)
Monday, July 2, 2018
Game Purchases - Juli 2018
Juli 2th:
Starting this month with another movie purchase.
Bluray:
The Emoji Movie (2017)
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Juli 5th:
Got a tip from a friend that a secondhand shop downtown had a bunch of games from the game store that closed down last year, so I took a trip downtown and did some browsing, most were new and most were still factory sealed.
Game Boy Advance accessories:
Logic 3 GBA Fun Pack (3x thumb pads that you put on top of the d-pad, rubber grips for the back, screen protector overlay and a wrist strap)
GameCube Wii:
Destroy All Humans! Big Willy Unleashed
Funfair Party
Minion Everyday Hero
Sprint Cars
PlayStation 2:
Alpine Skiing 2005
Army Men Sarge's Heroes 2
Artlist Collection The Dog Island
Breath of Fire Dragon Quarter
Destroy All Humans! 2
Dynasty Warriors 5 Empires
Everybody's Tennis
EyeToy Kinetic Combat
Mercenaries 2 World in Flames
Mercury Meltdown Remix
Naruto Ultimate Ninja
Naruto Uzumaki Chronicles
Pipe Mania
Pool Shark 2
Project Eden
SpongeBob SquarePants featuring Nicktoons Globs of Doom
Tak and the Guardians of Gross
The Sims 2 Castaway
Transworld Surf
Volleyball Challenge
Xbox 360:
Syndicate
I also went to the other second hand shop I go to regularly and picked up a ton of comics and also another game.
PlayStation 2:
Sniper Assault
DVD:
Jurassic Shark
Manga:
D-N-Angel (paperback, volumes 1-11)
Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne (paperback, volumes 2-7)
Time Stranger Kyoko (paperback, volumes 2-3)
Vampire Game (paperback, volume 1)
Comics:
Asterix Caesar's Gift (vol 21, 1977)
Asterix in Belgium (vol 24, 1979)
Asterix in India (vol 28, 1987)
Captain W.E. Johns' Biggles Den Hemliga Eskadern (vol 7, 1984)
Comics 6 Den Stora Serieboken (vol 6, 1974)
Fenomenala 4:ans Äventyr (Les 4 As et l'Aéroglisseur, vol 2, 1964)
Johan och Pellevins Äventyr 1 Vilden i Klippiga Skogen (Le Lutin du Bois aux Roches, vol 1, 1973)
Superman 25th Anniversary Special (1974)
Superman Revenge from the Phantom Zone (1980, printed 1981)
W.I.T.C.H. (volumes 2-3 and 6-11 2002, 7-10 and Halloween Special 2003, 4-9 2004, 5-6 2005)
Yoko Tsuno The Curious Trio (vol 1, 1972, printed 1981)
Toys:
Matchbox Specials Chevrolet Camaro (1:40, 1983)
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Juli 5th:
and some more movies
DVD:
A Ghost Story (2017)
An Inconvenient Sequel (2017)
Jurassic World (2014)
Unknown Soldier (2017)
WarCraft The Beginning (2015)
Bluray:
Jurassic World (2014)
WarCraft The Beginning (2015)
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Juli 11th:
Was out shopping a little today and picked up some stuff.
PC hardware:
Trust GXT 155 Gaming Mouse
Trust regular mouse without "cool" name with numbers and stuff
Other:
a pack of various electrical parts
What really made today special was the fact that I got stopped and asked to show my bag before I was allowed to leave the store in two different stores, it's never happened before ever and now twice in one day, I dunno maybe I looked unusually criminal today? I don'ät know, all I know is I won't be going to Jula och Net on Net anymore, they think so lowly of me that they treat me like a common criminal then they have lost me as a customer, I've been going to both those places since the 90s and this has never happened before, they know me, I've never shoplifted or stole anything in my life, I was honestly shocked and offended and even more so that it happened twice like this, I'm still in shock over it.
If this is how they choose to treat their longtime customers then fuck em, I'm out, no more, I will take my business elsewhere, I won't force them to take my money ever again!
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Juli 16th:
The first of two online orders I placed last Friday arrived today. All items are new and sealed.
DS:
Transformers Dark of the Moon Autobots (toy car bundle)
Transformers Dark of the Moon Decepticons (toy car bundle)
PlayStation Vita:
LEGO Batman 2 DC Super Heroes
LEGO Batman 3 Beyond Gotham
PC:
AquaNox Collection (AquaNox and AquaNox 2 Revelation, Nordic Games)
Big Mutha Truckers 2 Truck Me Harder (Medallion)
Guilty Gear X2 #Reload (Medallion)
Monster Madness Battle for Suburbia (Games for Windows)
DVD:
Independence Day Resurgence
Bluray:
Independence Day Resurgence
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Juli 17th:
The second order arrived. All items are new and sealed.
PlayStation Vita:
LEGO Jurassic World
Xbox 360:
LEGO Jurassic World
Amiibo:
Samus Aran (Metroid Samus Returns)
Bluray:
Independence Day 20th Anniversary Attacker Edition
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Juli 26th:
Long day today, went out for a long walk early in the morning, then walked downtown and checked two secondhand stores and found a whole bunch of games among other things, and lastly I met up with a friend I hadn't seen in ages and talked to him for 2½ hours.
at the first place I got:
DS:
Ellen Whitaker's Horse Life
Wii:
Cruis'n
RTL Winter Sports 2009
Top Spin 4
Wheelspin
PlayStation 2:
Smash Court Tennis Pro Tournament 2
WALL-E
PlayStation 3:
Bodycount
Stranglehold
Xbox 360:
Dragon Age II
PC:
LEGO Star Wars II The Original Trilogy
and at the second place I got:
Xbox:
Over The Hedge
Xbox 360:
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3
Forza Motorsport 2 (in a bundle with Viva Piñata)
Forza Motorsport 3
Iron Man
Juiced Hot Import Nights 2
Jumper Griffin's Story
Kinect Adventures! (disc only, hidden in the Juiced 2 box under the Juiced 2 disc, found it the day after)
N3 Ninety-Nine Nights
Prince of Persia The Forgotten Sands (Special Collector's Edition)
Sonic The Hedgehog
Spider-man Friend or Foe
Viva Piñata (in a bundle with Forza Motorsport 2)
DVD:
Barbie in The Nutcracker
Barbie of Swan Lake
Biker Mice from Mars (vol. 3)
Bratz Pampered Petz
How To Train Your Dragon 2
My Little Pony & Friends (The Glass Princess, Sweet Stuff and the treasure hunt)
My Little Pony Tales (vol. 3, )
The Black Cauldron (Special Edition)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Noble Entertainment)
Bluray:
TMNT (2007)
Comics/Magazines:
24x Disney Princess with cardboard folder to store them in
W.I.T.C.H. sticker album with some additional posters
Bizarro (Vol. 5, 2004)
Other:
Disney's Cinderella wooden wall plate
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Juli 30th:
Some more secondhand finds today.
Game Boy Advance:
MadCatz MagLens SP (screen magnifier for Game Boy Advance SP)
DS:
Cooking Guide - Can't decide what to eat? (new and sealed)
Rubik's Puzzle World (Bakugan Battle Brawlers box, no manual, just a standard Nintendo health and safety precautions booklet)
Wii:
Pocoyo Racing (RTL Winter Sports 2008 box and manual, no manual for Pocoyo Racing)
PlayStation 2:
Jetix Puzzle Buzzle (new and sealed)
Books:
Fräcka Fredag!
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Juli 31st:
Went on another secondhand binge today, 25 more games where of a whopping 22 were dupes of games I already had, several even being multiple dupes of the same game. I've definitely never bought this many copies of the same games at the same time before.
PlayStation 2:
Artlist Collection The Dog Island (new and sealed)
3x Bakugan Battle Brawlers (new and sealed)
Ben 10 Alien Force (new and sealed)
6x Bratz The Movie (new and sealed)
2x Crescent Suzuki Racing
2x Everybody's Tennis (new and sealed)
2x Jetix Puzzle Buzzle (new and sealed)
Madagascar Escape 2 Africa (Platinum, new and sealed)
Mercury Meltdown Remix (new and sealed)
Rayman Raving Rabbids (new and sealed)
Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow
SSX
Stuntman
Thunderhawk Operation Phoenix
Xbox 360:
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (infamous german version, altered for censorship and with no language options, german speech and text only)
Starting this month with another movie purchase.
Bluray:
The Emoji Movie (2017)
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Juli 5th:
Got a tip from a friend that a secondhand shop downtown had a bunch of games from the game store that closed down last year, so I took a trip downtown and did some browsing, most were new and most were still factory sealed.
Game Boy Advance accessories:
Logic 3 GBA Fun Pack (3x thumb pads that you put on top of the d-pad, rubber grips for the back, screen protector overlay and a wrist strap)
GameCube Wii:
Destroy All Humans! Big Willy Unleashed
Funfair Party
Minion Everyday Hero
Sprint Cars
PlayStation 2:
Alpine Skiing 2005
Army Men Sarge's Heroes 2
Artlist Collection The Dog Island
Breath of Fire Dragon Quarter
Destroy All Humans! 2
Dynasty Warriors 5 Empires
Everybody's Tennis
EyeToy Kinetic Combat
Mercenaries 2 World in Flames
Mercury Meltdown Remix
Naruto Ultimate Ninja
Naruto Uzumaki Chronicles
Pipe Mania
Pool Shark 2
Project Eden
SpongeBob SquarePants featuring Nicktoons Globs of Doom
Tak and the Guardians of Gross
The Sims 2 Castaway
Transworld Surf
Volleyball Challenge
Xbox 360:
Syndicate
I also went to the other second hand shop I go to regularly and picked up a ton of comics and also another game.
PlayStation 2:
Sniper Assault
DVD:
Jurassic Shark
Manga:
D-N-Angel (paperback, volumes 1-11)
Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne (paperback, volumes 2-7)
Time Stranger Kyoko (paperback, volumes 2-3)
Vampire Game (paperback, volume 1)
Comics:
Asterix Caesar's Gift (vol 21, 1977)
Asterix in Belgium (vol 24, 1979)
Asterix in India (vol 28, 1987)
Captain W.E. Johns' Biggles Den Hemliga Eskadern (vol 7, 1984)
Comics 6 Den Stora Serieboken (vol 6, 1974)
Fenomenala 4:ans Äventyr (Les 4 As et l'Aéroglisseur, vol 2, 1964)
Johan och Pellevins Äventyr 1 Vilden i Klippiga Skogen (Le Lutin du Bois aux Roches, vol 1, 1973)
Superman 25th Anniversary Special (1974)
Superman Revenge from the Phantom Zone (1980, printed 1981)
W.I.T.C.H. (volumes 2-3 and 6-11 2002, 7-10 and Halloween Special 2003, 4-9 2004, 5-6 2005)
Yoko Tsuno The Curious Trio (vol 1, 1972, printed 1981)
Toys:
Matchbox Specials Chevrolet Camaro (1:40, 1983)
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Juli 5th:
and some more movies
DVD:
A Ghost Story (2017)
An Inconvenient Sequel (2017)
Jurassic World (2014)
Unknown Soldier (2017)
WarCraft The Beginning (2015)
Bluray:
Jurassic World (2014)
WarCraft The Beginning (2015)
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Juli 11th:
Was out shopping a little today and picked up some stuff.
PC hardware:
Trust GXT 155 Gaming Mouse
Trust regular mouse without "cool" name with numbers and stuff
Other:
a pack of various electrical parts
What really made today special was the fact that I got stopped and asked to show my bag before I was allowed to leave the store in two different stores, it's never happened before ever and now twice in one day, I dunno maybe I looked unusually criminal today? I don'ät know, all I know is I won't be going to Jula och Net on Net anymore, they think so lowly of me that they treat me like a common criminal then they have lost me as a customer, I've been going to both those places since the 90s and this has never happened before, they know me, I've never shoplifted or stole anything in my life, I was honestly shocked and offended and even more so that it happened twice like this, I'm still in shock over it.
If this is how they choose to treat their longtime customers then fuck em, I'm out, no more, I will take my business elsewhere, I won't force them to take my money ever again!
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Juli 16th:
The first of two online orders I placed last Friday arrived today. All items are new and sealed.
DS:
Transformers Dark of the Moon Autobots (toy car bundle)
Transformers Dark of the Moon Decepticons (toy car bundle)
PlayStation Vita:
LEGO Batman 2 DC Super Heroes
LEGO Batman 3 Beyond Gotham
PC:
AquaNox Collection (AquaNox and AquaNox 2 Revelation, Nordic Games)
Big Mutha Truckers 2 Truck Me Harder (Medallion)
Guilty Gear X2 #Reload (Medallion)
Monster Madness Battle for Suburbia (Games for Windows)
DVD:
Independence Day Resurgence
Bluray:
Independence Day Resurgence
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Juli 17th:
The second order arrived. All items are new and sealed.
PlayStation Vita:
LEGO Jurassic World
Xbox 360:
LEGO Jurassic World
Amiibo:
Samus Aran (Metroid Samus Returns)
Bluray:
Independence Day 20th Anniversary Attacker Edition
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Juli 26th:
Long day today, went out for a long walk early in the morning, then walked downtown and checked two secondhand stores and found a whole bunch of games among other things, and lastly I met up with a friend I hadn't seen in ages and talked to him for 2½ hours.
at the first place I got:
DS:
Ellen Whitaker's Horse Life
Wii:
Cruis'n
RTL Winter Sports 2009
Top Spin 4
Wheelspin
PlayStation 2:
Smash Court Tennis Pro Tournament 2
WALL-E
PlayStation 3:
Bodycount
Stranglehold
Xbox 360:
Dragon Age II
PC:
LEGO Star Wars II The Original Trilogy
and at the second place I got:
Xbox:
Over The Hedge
Xbox 360:
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3
Forza Motorsport 2 (in a bundle with Viva Piñata)
Forza Motorsport 3
Iron Man
Juiced Hot Import Nights 2
Jumper Griffin's Story
Kinect Adventures! (disc only, hidden in the Juiced 2 box under the Juiced 2 disc, found it the day after)
N3 Ninety-Nine Nights
Prince of Persia The Forgotten Sands (Special Collector's Edition)
Sonic The Hedgehog
Spider-man Friend or Foe
Viva Piñata (in a bundle with Forza Motorsport 2)
DVD:
Barbie in The Nutcracker
Barbie of Swan Lake
Biker Mice from Mars (vol. 3)
Bratz Pampered Petz
How To Train Your Dragon 2
My Little Pony & Friends (The Glass Princess, Sweet Stuff and the treasure hunt)
My Little Pony Tales (vol. 3, )
The Black Cauldron (Special Edition)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Noble Entertainment)
Bluray:
TMNT (2007)
Comics/Magazines:
24x Disney Princess with cardboard folder to store them in
W.I.T.C.H. sticker album with some additional posters
Bizarro (Vol. 5, 2004)
Other:
Disney's Cinderella wooden wall plate
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Juli 30th:
Some more secondhand finds today.
Game Boy Advance:
MadCatz MagLens SP (screen magnifier for Game Boy Advance SP)
DS:
Cooking Guide - Can't decide what to eat? (new and sealed)
Rubik's Puzzle World (Bakugan Battle Brawlers box, no manual, just a standard Nintendo health and safety precautions booklet)
Wii:
Pocoyo Racing (RTL Winter Sports 2008 box and manual, no manual for Pocoyo Racing)
PlayStation 2:
Jetix Puzzle Buzzle (new and sealed)
Books:
Fräcka Fredag!
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Juli 31st:
Went on another secondhand binge today, 25 more games where of a whopping 22 were dupes of games I already had, several even being multiple dupes of the same game. I've definitely never bought this many copies of the same games at the same time before.
PlayStation 2:
Artlist Collection The Dog Island (new and sealed)
3x Bakugan Battle Brawlers (new and sealed)
Ben 10 Alien Force (new and sealed)
6x Bratz The Movie (new and sealed)
2x Crescent Suzuki Racing
2x Everybody's Tennis (new and sealed)
2x Jetix Puzzle Buzzle (new and sealed)
Madagascar Escape 2 Africa (Platinum, new and sealed)
Mercury Meltdown Remix (new and sealed)
Rayman Raving Rabbids (new and sealed)
Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow
SSX
Stuntman
Thunderhawk Operation Phoenix
Xbox 360:
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (infamous german version, altered for censorship and with no language options, german speech and text only)
Sunday, April 1, 2018
Now Playing - April 2018
Lego Batman 3 Beyond Gotham (Xbox 360)
This game is really getting on my nerves, problems with glitches, poor design and low quality are rearing their ugly heads too much, I may not car enough to get through this one 100% like I did multiple times in a row like I did with the two previous games. A clear step down in quality to say the least, I even enjoyed the downscaled 3DS version better as it was downscaled in good ways, it skips a lot of the problem and keeps the best stuff.
UPDATE 7 April: I beat the story mode at least, doing most of the side stuff as well but I'm not aiming for 100% of this, some side quests are just far too annoying.
UPDATE 15 April: After having unlocked a bunch of more stuff and completed most of the side quests that aren't flying or checkpoint racing I ran into one hell of a glitch where the hub worlds loaded combined, the one I was at and travelled from merged with the one I travelled to creating a whole new dimension, especially when I combined the lantern worlds with the batcave or the watchtower becuase they were not compatible with their gravity and coordinate alignment so I was running in the air and up and down walls etc, it was pure pandemonium, it actually took quite a long time before it froze from all this madness but sadly I haven't been able to recreate it again after that, it happened after I unlocked Giganta and tried to warp and switch characters, her size difference powers are most likely the catalyst but some other ingredient seems to be missing for it to happen again, I've tried with different characters, even both being Giganta, large and small combinations, but nothing has triggered it to happen again so far.
To be honest, this is the best thing this game has offered so far, in the midst of all the mediocrity it's offered this stood out and one hell of an experience, so I'd love to be able to recreate it again and learn how to trigger it manually, that'd be awesome.
Oh and also I've finally gone all the hub worlds and it's specifically the green lantern world Oa where you finally get to use all the vehicles you unlock in the game, it almost exclusively has land and air racing challenges, so it's not exactly a huge open world like Gotham was in Lego Batman 2 DC Superheroes, but it's at least something as the rest of the game virtually have no vehicles at all other than the select few side scrolling shooter levels.
Lego Star Wars The Force Awakens (PlayStation Vita)
One mission at a time, slow and steady wins the race...? Nah I'm done for now, time for something else to make my Vita fun again, hopefully.
Justice League Task Force (Mega Drive)
The music alone is worth starting up this game for.
Still one of the most criminally underrated fighting games of the 16-bit generation and one of the most polarizingly opposite of it's Super Nintendo counterpart as on Super Nintendo this game is extremely poor and I can only recommend avoiding it entirely, yeah it's sadly that bad, handled by another developer and the result was a wildly different version that fails to be as good as the Mega Drive game in every way, shape and form.
On Mega Drive this is a must play for fighting game, DC and Mega Drive fans.
The Adventures of Bayou Billy (Entertainment System)
I really like this game, despite the design changes for this version over how the original Japanese version, Mad City, was.
It's a really cool game, reminds me of Robin Hood Prince of Thieves as it also has multiple genres of gameplay baked into it, sadly this game is overly tedious due to the increased difficulty, but the gameplay that's there is still really good, with good controls, good visuals, great music and some nice technical impressive things like digitized voice samples and screen warping effects, not bad at all for an old Entertainment System game.
Slalom (Entertainment System)
Rare sure like making potentially great games that get hindered with far too high difficulty.
Ride! Next Generation Equitation (PC)
I wanted to try one of the first horse games I got for PC, it's technically a very well made game, even if it's not my genre at all and I suck at it, at least it's better than most other horse games as this at least manages to be a professional level game for those interested in this type of thing, it's not just another low quality horse tamagotchi sim where you waste most of your time playing awful minigames like washing the horse, feeding it and literally picking up horse shit, this focuses on obstacle courses and such, the competition and actual sport, so kudos for that at least, it also look rather good with some very nicely detailed horses, environments, special effects and animations, for a 2008 PC game in this specific genre it looks very good indeed.
Night Stalker (PC)
Just running around shooting some bats, robots and the occasional spider in this very competent fan made PC port of the Intellivision classic.
Cat Pöke (PC)
Just having some fun poking cat butts.
Cat Planet (PC)
Just flying around looking for some talkative little kitties.
The Adventures of Captain Comic (PC)
I got farther than I've ever done before, that was cool, I almost feel like there's a chance I could beat the game now, I've had it since I was a kid, it was one of the first PC games I ever played, so it would've been cool to beat this one at least once.
Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed (PlayStation Vita)
Already knew it was gonna look bad seeing as it's a port of the 3DS version rather than a port of the HD console version, sadly, but it's still okay I guess, it could've been amazing had they just had some ACTUAL all-stars to play as, but alas it's the most generic and common ones like Sonic, Tails, Amy and Knuckles, and a bunch of characters you never wanted and for several of them you probably never even heard or or knew where there as you probably played the better characters in the games these ones come from, like the one guy from Crazy Taxi nobody plays as, some secondary character from Jet Grind Radio Future/Jet Set Radio, a couple of monkeys from Samba de Amigo (I think, and yes they get two characters featured from that game, as if one uninteresting monkey you didn't know or want to play as wasn't enough, they gave us two, you know instead of something you'd like to play as becuase that would've been too much fun according to Sega, and we can't have fun in videogames, nope, we have to be disappointed and wishing we were playing a good game instead, that's the modern Sega way for some reason!) and fucking Alex Kidd etc., but almost none of the ones you know and love and would've actually wanted to play as are there, so yeah, thanks Sega for making it obvious why we should never buy your games when they're new and you can still make a profit from a sale, we never will, we promise.
Need for Speed Road Challenge (PC)
Not fully compatible with Windows 7 it seems, so I have to run it in software mode, it looks kinda like a low-end PSX game with an unusually choppy framerate.
V-Rally (PlayStation)
Just joyriding while winning some races.
Sega Rally Championship PC (PC)
Just joyriding for the fun of joyriding.
This game is really getting on my nerves, problems with glitches, poor design and low quality are rearing their ugly heads too much, I may not car enough to get through this one 100% like I did multiple times in a row like I did with the two previous games. A clear step down in quality to say the least, I even enjoyed the downscaled 3DS version better as it was downscaled in good ways, it skips a lot of the problem and keeps the best stuff.
UPDATE 7 April: I beat the story mode at least, doing most of the side stuff as well but I'm not aiming for 100% of this, some side quests are just far too annoying.
UPDATE 15 April: After having unlocked a bunch of more stuff and completed most of the side quests that aren't flying or checkpoint racing I ran into one hell of a glitch where the hub worlds loaded combined, the one I was at and travelled from merged with the one I travelled to creating a whole new dimension, especially when I combined the lantern worlds with the batcave or the watchtower becuase they were not compatible with their gravity and coordinate alignment so I was running in the air and up and down walls etc, it was pure pandemonium, it actually took quite a long time before it froze from all this madness but sadly I haven't been able to recreate it again after that, it happened after I unlocked Giganta and tried to warp and switch characters, her size difference powers are most likely the catalyst but some other ingredient seems to be missing for it to happen again, I've tried with different characters, even both being Giganta, large and small combinations, but nothing has triggered it to happen again so far.
To be honest, this is the best thing this game has offered so far, in the midst of all the mediocrity it's offered this stood out and one hell of an experience, so I'd love to be able to recreate it again and learn how to trigger it manually, that'd be awesome.
Oh and also I've finally gone all the hub worlds and it's specifically the green lantern world Oa where you finally get to use all the vehicles you unlock in the game, it almost exclusively has land and air racing challenges, so it's not exactly a huge open world like Gotham was in Lego Batman 2 DC Superheroes, but it's at least something as the rest of the game virtually have no vehicles at all other than the select few side scrolling shooter levels.
Lego Star Wars The Force Awakens (PlayStation Vita)
One mission at a time, slow and steady wins the race...? Nah I'm done for now, time for something else to make my Vita fun again, hopefully.
Justice League Task Force (Mega Drive)
The music alone is worth starting up this game for.
Still one of the most criminally underrated fighting games of the 16-bit generation and one of the most polarizingly opposite of it's Super Nintendo counterpart as on Super Nintendo this game is extremely poor and I can only recommend avoiding it entirely, yeah it's sadly that bad, handled by another developer and the result was a wildly different version that fails to be as good as the Mega Drive game in every way, shape and form.
On Mega Drive this is a must play for fighting game, DC and Mega Drive fans.
The Adventures of Bayou Billy (Entertainment System)
I really like this game, despite the design changes for this version over how the original Japanese version, Mad City, was.
It's a really cool game, reminds me of Robin Hood Prince of Thieves as it also has multiple genres of gameplay baked into it, sadly this game is overly tedious due to the increased difficulty, but the gameplay that's there is still really good, with good controls, good visuals, great music and some nice technical impressive things like digitized voice samples and screen warping effects, not bad at all for an old Entertainment System game.
Slalom (Entertainment System)
Rare sure like making potentially great games that get hindered with far too high difficulty.
Ride! Next Generation Equitation (PC)
I wanted to try one of the first horse games I got for PC, it's technically a very well made game, even if it's not my genre at all and I suck at it, at least it's better than most other horse games as this at least manages to be a professional level game for those interested in this type of thing, it's not just another low quality horse tamagotchi sim where you waste most of your time playing awful minigames like washing the horse, feeding it and literally picking up horse shit, this focuses on obstacle courses and such, the competition and actual sport, so kudos for that at least, it also look rather good with some very nicely detailed horses, environments, special effects and animations, for a 2008 PC game in this specific genre it looks very good indeed.
Night Stalker (PC)
Just running around shooting some bats, robots and the occasional spider in this very competent fan made PC port of the Intellivision classic.
Cat Pöke (PC)
Just having some fun poking cat butts.
Cat Planet (PC)
Just flying around looking for some talkative little kitties.
The Adventures of Captain Comic (PC)
I got farther than I've ever done before, that was cool, I almost feel like there's a chance I could beat the game now, I've had it since I was a kid, it was one of the first PC games I ever played, so it would've been cool to beat this one at least once.
Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed (PlayStation Vita)
Already knew it was gonna look bad seeing as it's a port of the 3DS version rather than a port of the HD console version, sadly, but it's still okay I guess, it could've been amazing had they just had some ACTUAL all-stars to play as, but alas it's the most generic and common ones like Sonic, Tails, Amy and Knuckles, and a bunch of characters you never wanted and for several of them you probably never even heard or or knew where there as you probably played the better characters in the games these ones come from, like the one guy from Crazy Taxi nobody plays as, some secondary character from Jet Grind Radio Future/Jet Set Radio, a couple of monkeys from Samba de Amigo (I think, and yes they get two characters featured from that game, as if one uninteresting monkey you didn't know or want to play as wasn't enough, they gave us two, you know instead of something you'd like to play as becuase that would've been too much fun according to Sega, and we can't have fun in videogames, nope, we have to be disappointed and wishing we were playing a good game instead, that's the modern Sega way for some reason!) and fucking Alex Kidd etc., but almost none of the ones you know and love and would've actually wanted to play as are there, so yeah, thanks Sega for making it obvious why we should never buy your games when they're new and you can still make a profit from a sale, we never will, we promise.
Need for Speed Road Challenge (PC)
Not fully compatible with Windows 7 it seems, so I have to run it in software mode, it looks kinda like a low-end PSX game with an unusually choppy framerate.
V-Rally (PlayStation)
Just joyriding while winning some races.
Sega Rally Championship PC (PC)
Just joyriding for the fun of joyriding.
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Gaming Purchases - Januari 2018
Januari 9th:
A shopping trip resulted in some nice finds today.
3DS:
Lego Star Wars The Force Awakens (new, sealed)
Yoshi's New Island (new, sealed)
Wii:
Star Wars The Clone Wars Lightsaber Duels
PlayStation Vita:
two Vita 2000 Slim model protection cases (new, sealed)
Xbox 360:
Lego Batman 2 DC Super Heroes
Lego Marvel Super Heroes
Hot Wheels:
Aston Martin 1963 DB5
Batman Live! Batmobile
Dragon Blaster
Flash Drive
Ford Shelby GR-1 Concept (orange with black stripe)
Howlin' Heat
Knight Draggin'
Lamborghini Countach (Tooned series)
Mad Manga
Ratmobile
Speedy Pérez
Steer Clear
Turbot
Transformers:
Dickie Toys - Transformers Robots in Disguise - Metal Series 1 - Sideswipe
Hot Wheels Star Wars:
Boba Fett's Slave I
Millennium Falcon
Rebel Snowspeeder
Tie Fighter
X-Wing Fighter - Red 5
Y-Wing Fighter - Gold Leader
tools and stuff:
several different sizes of extendable/retractable utility knives
a set of pocket sized precision screwdrivers
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Januari 16th:
some second-hand finds
PC:
American McGee's Alice (SoldOut!)
Lego:
Lego 3855 Star Wars Battle of Hoth (board game set)
Toys:
Wonder Woman figure (McDonalds 2016)
Super Mario Kart Mario figure
CD:
Basshunter - Now You're Gone (singel)
Reel 2 Real - I Like To Move It (singel)
DVD:
Barbie presenterar Tummelisa (Barbie presents THumbelina (2009))
Black Beauty (1971)
Disney's Talespin Vol. 1
Haja Läget 2 (The Reef 2)
Kungen och Jag (Anna and the King (1999))
Milo mot Mars (Mars needs moms)
Moses Nilens Prins (Prince of the Nile The Story of Moses (1998))
Sagan om My Little Pony (My Little Pony The Movie (1986))
Anime DVD:
Porco Rosso
Rurouni Kenshin Samurai X Vol. 1 Trust
Rurouni Kenshin Samurai X Vol. 2 Betrayal
Bluray:
Haj Fajv (Seefood)
Books:
Disney's Klassiker Törnrosa
Disney's Tjuren Ferdinand
Det Var En Gång Askungen
and some outlet movies from a movie rental store
DVD:
Monster High Electrified
Spark
Bluray:
Monster High Boo York, Boo York A Monsterrific Musical
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Januari 17th:
picked up some more outlet movies at the movie rental store today as they stocked up with some new ones
DVD:
Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice
Colossal
Ghost in the Shell (2017)
Hostel 3
Husdjurens Hemliga Liv (The Secret Life of Pets)
Kong Skull Island
Monster High Scaris Skräckens Stad (Monster High Scaris City of Frights)
Bluray:
Ghost in the Shell (2017)
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Januari 19th:
Ordered a bunch of games online, it's friday today so they should arrive some time next week if everything goes as planned.
from one place I ordered (these arrived the following monday, the 22nd)
Mega Drive:
Battle Frenzy (German, no manual)
Saturn:
Virtual On Cyber Troopers Operation Moongate (Japanese)
3DS:
Skylanders Giants Booster Pack (new)
GameCube:
V-Rally 3
PlayStation:
Aironauts
Cybersled
Firebugs (no manual)
Roswell Conspiracies
PlayStation 2:
Garfield Saving Arlene
Dreamcast:
Tomee High Definition VGA Cable with separate composite RCA plugs for stereo audio (new)
Amiibo:
Splatoon 2-pack - Callie & Marie (new)
and from another place I ordered (these arrived on the following thursday, the 25th)
DS:
Disney's Kim Possible Global Gemini
Lego Batman The Videogame
Lego Star Wars II Original Trilogy (no manual)
3DS:
Lego Star Wars III The Clone Wars
PlayStation:
Colin McRae Rally 2.0 (Platinum)
Syphon Filter 2 (Platinum)
PlayStation 2:
WinX Club
Lego Batman The Videogame
Offroad Extreme!
OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast
Rally Championship
Saint Seiya The Hades
Sonic Mega Collection Plus
Sonic Unleashed
WRC 4 (Platinum)
WRC Rally Evolved
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Januari 23rd:
No games today, just some other second-hand finds.
CD:
Darude - Sandstorm (single)
N.G.3 As Nasty As We Wanna Be
VCD:
Mickey Mouse (Chinese)
Tom & Jerry (Chinese)
DVD:
Disney's Princess Stories Vol. 2 Tales of Friendship
Hocus Pocus
Monster High 13 Wishes
Pixar Short Films Collection Vol. 1
The Fairytaler Vol. 12 H.C. Andersen's The Snow Queen
Bluray:
The Hobbit Smaugs Ödemark (The Desolation of Smaug)
Comics:
Bugs Bunny #1 1995
Carousel #1 2009
Carousel #3 2009
Asterix and the Vikings
Asterix Rose and Pedal
Berts Dagbok
Berts Dagbok
Lilla Fridolf
91an Karlsson
91an Karlsson
Min Häst
Tom & Jerry
Bamse
Books:
Bolt
Peter Pan
Lego:
a Lego bucket with assorted Lego Friends content
Other:
a miniature crystal stone guardian lion figurine
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Januari 25th:
went and picked up the second order of games today (listed above) and also bought some other stuff at a second-hand store
PlayStation 2:
EyeToy Play Astro Zoo (Platinum)
DVD:
Disney's Frozen
Lego Star Wars The Yoda Chronicles Vol. 1
Mamma Mu & Kråkan The Movie
Books:
Barbie on Ski Vacation
Disney's Robin Hood the big ambush
Disney's Aristocats on the run
Other:
glass marbles and stones
and a movie rental store
DVD:
Baby Boss (2017)
Monster Trucks (2017) they had one copy left of the Bluray version of Monster Trucks but my friend saw it first, so I could only get the DVD, maybe I'll find another copy of the Bluray version some day
A shopping trip resulted in some nice finds today.
3DS:
Lego Star Wars The Force Awakens (new, sealed)
Yoshi's New Island (new, sealed)
Wii:
Star Wars The Clone Wars Lightsaber Duels
PlayStation Vita:
two Vita 2000 Slim model protection cases (new, sealed)
Xbox 360:
Lego Batman 2 DC Super Heroes
Lego Marvel Super Heroes
Hot Wheels:
Aston Martin 1963 DB5
Batman Live! Batmobile
Dragon Blaster
Flash Drive
Ford Shelby GR-1 Concept (orange with black stripe)
Howlin' Heat
Knight Draggin'
Lamborghini Countach (Tooned series)
Mad Manga
Ratmobile
Speedy Pérez
Steer Clear
Turbot
Transformers:
Dickie Toys - Transformers Robots in Disguise - Metal Series 1 - Sideswipe
Hot Wheels Star Wars:
Boba Fett's Slave I
Millennium Falcon
Rebel Snowspeeder
Tie Fighter
X-Wing Fighter - Red 5
Y-Wing Fighter - Gold Leader
tools and stuff:
several different sizes of extendable/retractable utility knives
a set of pocket sized precision screwdrivers
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Januari 16th:
some second-hand finds
PC:
American McGee's Alice (SoldOut!)
Lego:
Lego 3855 Star Wars Battle of Hoth (board game set)
Toys:
Wonder Woman figure (McDonalds 2016)
Super Mario Kart Mario figure
CD:
Basshunter - Now You're Gone (singel)
Reel 2 Real - I Like To Move It (singel)
DVD:
Barbie presenterar Tummelisa (Barbie presents THumbelina (2009))
Black Beauty (1971)
Disney's Talespin Vol. 1
Haja Läget 2 (The Reef 2)
Kungen och Jag (Anna and the King (1999))
Milo mot Mars (Mars needs moms)
Moses Nilens Prins (Prince of the Nile The Story of Moses (1998))
Sagan om My Little Pony (My Little Pony The Movie (1986))
Anime DVD:
Porco Rosso
Rurouni Kenshin Samurai X Vol. 1 Trust
Rurouni Kenshin Samurai X Vol. 2 Betrayal
Bluray:
Haj Fajv (Seefood)
Books:
Disney's Klassiker Törnrosa
Disney's Tjuren Ferdinand
Det Var En Gång Askungen
and some outlet movies from a movie rental store
DVD:
Monster High Electrified
Spark
Bluray:
Monster High Boo York, Boo York A Monsterrific Musical
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Januari 17th:
picked up some more outlet movies at the movie rental store today as they stocked up with some new ones
DVD:
Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice
Colossal
Ghost in the Shell (2017)
Hostel 3
Husdjurens Hemliga Liv (The Secret Life of Pets)
Kong Skull Island
Monster High Scaris Skräckens Stad (Monster High Scaris City of Frights)
Bluray:
Ghost in the Shell (2017)
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Januari 19th:
Ordered a bunch of games online, it's friday today so they should arrive some time next week if everything goes as planned.
from one place I ordered (these arrived the following monday, the 22nd)
Mega Drive:
Battle Frenzy (German, no manual)
Saturn:
Virtual On Cyber Troopers Operation Moongate (Japanese)
3DS:
Skylanders Giants Booster Pack (new)
GameCube:
V-Rally 3
PlayStation:
Aironauts
Cybersled
Firebugs (no manual)
Roswell Conspiracies
PlayStation 2:
Garfield Saving Arlene
Dreamcast:
Tomee High Definition VGA Cable with separate composite RCA plugs for stereo audio (new)
Amiibo:
Splatoon 2-pack - Callie & Marie (new)
and from another place I ordered (these arrived on the following thursday, the 25th)
DS:
Disney's Kim Possible Global Gemini
Lego Batman The Videogame
Lego Star Wars II Original Trilogy (no manual)
3DS:
Lego Star Wars III The Clone Wars
PlayStation:
Colin McRae Rally 2.0 (Platinum)
Syphon Filter 2 (Platinum)
PlayStation 2:
WinX Club
Lego Batman The Videogame
Offroad Extreme!
OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast
Rally Championship
Saint Seiya The Hades
Sonic Mega Collection Plus
Sonic Unleashed
WRC 4 (Platinum)
WRC Rally Evolved
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Januari 23rd:
No games today, just some other second-hand finds.
CD:
Darude - Sandstorm (single)
N.G.3 As Nasty As We Wanna Be
VCD:
Mickey Mouse (Chinese)
Tom & Jerry (Chinese)
DVD:
Disney's Princess Stories Vol. 2 Tales of Friendship
Hocus Pocus
Monster High 13 Wishes
Pixar Short Films Collection Vol. 1
The Fairytaler Vol. 12 H.C. Andersen's The Snow Queen
Bluray:
The Hobbit Smaugs Ödemark (The Desolation of Smaug)
Comics:
Bugs Bunny #1 1995
Carousel #1 2009
Carousel #3 2009
Asterix and the Vikings
Asterix Rose and Pedal
Berts Dagbok
Berts Dagbok
Lilla Fridolf
91an Karlsson
91an Karlsson
Min Häst
Tom & Jerry
Bamse
Books:
Bolt
Peter Pan
Lego:
a Lego bucket with assorted Lego Friends content
Other:
a miniature crystal stone guardian lion figurine
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Januari 25th:
went and picked up the second order of games today (listed above) and also bought some other stuff at a second-hand store
PlayStation 2:
EyeToy Play Astro Zoo (Platinum)
DVD:
Disney's Frozen
Lego Star Wars The Yoda Chronicles Vol. 1
Mamma Mu & Kråkan The Movie
Books:
Barbie on Ski Vacation
Disney's Robin Hood the big ambush
Disney's Aristocats on the run
Other:
glass marbles and stones
and a movie rental store
DVD:
Baby Boss (2017)
Monster Trucks (2017) they had one copy left of the Bluray version of Monster Trucks but my friend saw it first, so I could only get the DVD, maybe I'll find another copy of the Bluray version some day
Sunday, December 3, 2017
Now Playing - December 2017
Remember Me (Xbox 360)
Littlest Pet Shop Garden (DS)
Alien Storm (Mega Drive)
Eternal Champions (Mega Drive)
The Story of Thor A Successor of the Light (Mega Drive)
Justice League Task Force (Mega Drive)
A fun fighting game with some cool moves, some very nice visual effects and a fantastic soundtrack. Batman and Wonder Woman especially are a lot of fun to play as in this.
Justice League Task Force (Super Nintendo)
Basically a bad alternative to the vastly superior Mega Drive game, with uglier and simpler visuals, unresponsive controls that require specific timing to do what the AI can do instantly (cheating bastards), less content with some gameplay modes and options being absent entirely, no proper intro sequence and no cutscenes between fights in the story mode, and finally either boring and awful unfitting music for a fighting game with horrible ear piercing noises pretending to be instruments or no music at all with just boring ambient sounds, it's an awful game and should be completely avoided at all costs, go for the Mega Drive game instead and have a great time because you sure won't have one if you play this terrible Super Nintendo version.
Zero Tolerance (Mega Drive)
My relatively new third-party Retro-Bit 6-button controller broke while I was playing this, it's only a year or two old now but the top part of the d-pad broke straight off, the plastic that connected it in the middle underneath had given in, I glued it back and hopefully it'll hold like that for a while but once broken it's a permanent weak spot so we'll see how many games I can play before it eventually breaks again..
Steel Talons (Mega Drive)
Ok so a couple days later the controller broke again and this time I tried to drill a hole through it to reinforce it with a metal screw down the middle, while also gluing it, and so far it's holding up, but I fear the plastic just isn't good enough to last very long regardless, it's a cheaply made controller, plain and simple.
WWE Smackdown Vs. Raw 2007 (Xbox 360)
Just making some custom characters, my OC Farideh, Lara Croft and Bonnie Rockwaller.
Lego Batman 3 Beyond Gotham (3DS)
Pretty good, not exactly a step up from all the other Lego games over the last decade and a half, quite literally exactly on the same level more than anything, but I guess it's what we've all come to expect at this point.
The one positive thing to note about this specific version is that they actually have realtime stencil shadows, a bit pixelated, but they're there, which is pretty impressive for a 3DS game.
Not even the port of Lego Star Wars II The Original Trilogy on PSP had that back in the day despite PSP being notably more powerful than 3DS, however, textures are far lower resolution with some very blurry ones in some places and the framerate is not as smooth or as stable.
Gal*Gun Double Peace (PlayStation Vita)
I wasn't sure if picking the emotionally distant girl over the aggressive girl was a good choice, but turns out it was, she was actually really sweet and had a magic doll made to remind her of me because she missed me so much
Lego Batman The Videogame (Xbox 360)
I haven't played this in many years now, I never completed it back then and I probably won't this time either, but every step along the way counts, maybe some day I will have completed some of my now many Lego games.
I've gotten a lot farther now though, unlocked tons of new stuff and completed almost all of the Hero missions 100%, just a few things missing here and there where I need specific supervillains to do certain things in the levels to get the remaining stuff.
It's a very good game and I'm enjoying it a lot, so much in fact I've been looking into getting the two sequels, DC Superheroes and Beyond Gotham, for Xbox 360 or maybe PS3. I tried the demos for both on Xbox 360, downloaded from Xbox Live, and I really enjoyed them so I doubt I'd regret getting either or both of them in full version, sadly they're a bit pricey and hard to find, DC Superheroes has been available only once but it sold out again and that was only the PS3 version, so I'll have to keep an eye out.
Lego Star Wars The Force Awakens (PlayStation Vita)
Unimpressive, sadly. I haven't played for long but already I have a list of complaints that shouldn't have made it into the final version of the game.
The camera is no longer static and panning over areas nicely all the time making for a good solid experience from beginning to end, like in most other Lego games, instead it's far too often switched to a third person camera with some basic manual control, the problem is that it's way too zoomed in making it very hard to navigate the environment, there's also an insane amounts of up-close and personal pop-up, especially NPCs walking around, they will literally pop-up out of nowhere right next to your character, out of nowhere, and a lot of the time several NPCs will do this as the same time, like two or three of them just suddenly appear next to you as you bump into them, slowing you down in the process.
It's like they're just teleporting around like in Star Trek, but with a severe case of ADHD. It looks worse than anything else I've ever seen in regards to pop-up in videogames, far worse.
The controls are a complete waste of Vita features, the d-pad, left analog stick and touch screen all do the same thing, control your character's movement, with the analog stick doing the best job of the three and the touch screen being almost unusable as it can't turn properly, it moves forward or backward only and very poorly to the left and right, it's completely unbalanced. The touch pad on the back does nothing.
The shoulder buttons and right analog stick both control the camera, moving it left and right only, up and down on the right analog stick does nothing.
I haven't played far enough into the game to say how the controls are different when it changes modes to flying spaceships and such yet.
The minigames are overly simplistic, making the originals they're based on, like Space Invaders and Zaxxon, seem far more modern and complex by comparison.
When you get to play the action sequences with a classic Lego game static camera angle the game picks up and is much better and more fun to play.
Lego Marvel Avengers (PlayStation Vita)
Compared to Lego Star Wars The Force Awakens this is even more of a mixed bag, while some problems that game had have been made better, some are still there and a whole list of brand new ones have been added.
The audio first of all is really poor, the voice acting sounds like it's been recorded from an old radio with an old mix onto cassette tape and then played back and recorded onto computer with a cheap headset mic. It's really bad, dare I say even worse than Remember Me? Yes, yes I do, it's worse than Remember Me, and a lot worse at that as it encompasses the entire cast of characters throughout the entire games it seems, I haven't completed it but so far it's all bad, and I'm several hours in.
The big difference is that this game has an open world where you can free roam, a chunk of New York and a carrier ship.
There are side quests and challenges scattered about and you can jump into vehicles and destroy stuff for Lego studs, the universal currency of all modern Lego games.
The controls are about identical to the previous mentioned game, with all the same shortcomings.
Visually it's a step up and a step down depending on how you see it, the characters don't animate their faces during in-game cutscenes, I don't remember now if they did or not in Force Awakens but I want to say they did. There seems to be a bit more detail and special effects present, but it's had to compare.
Overall I think I like this one a little bit more than Force Awakens, but because I don't like marvel and their characters much, nor do I like Disney's take on Star Wars, it's safe to say I'm not a huge fan of either of these two games, they're okay when the focus is on them being Lego games but when story and characters and such come into play they both drop in quality and so does my interest and patience.
Virtua Racing (Mega Drive)
Urban Strike The Sequel To Jungle Strike (Mega Drive)
Arguably the best of the original 8- and 16-bit generation Strike games and a great helicopter action game. I still prefer Red Zone, Steel Talons and LHX Attack chopper from the 16-bit generation and the Strike games on PlayStation, Saturn, N64 and PC though.
It's nice that they have on-foot missions and different helicopters to pick from during missions, I don't remember if you had that in the previous Strike games, regardless, good stuff.
F1 World Championship Edition (1993) (Mega Drive)
A great F1 game with some fast speed, scaling 2D graphics and polygonal 3D graphics.
It plays very well, it's good and responsive, if you crash into stuff you can sometimes keep going without coming to a complete stop, this was pretty rare back in the day for racing games as a vast majority would force you to see a crash animation or wait until the car or bike or whatever reset to the track before you could drive again, it still happens in this game but mostly for things that are too high to drive over, like sign posts and trees, but for all the shorter objects including the opponent cars you can hit them and get back to driving again without a full crash and reset, it has good control and handling too so for the most part you can avoid crashing altogether, there are lots of tracks to race on and it even has a turbo mode where some of the graphics are scaled down so the game can run at twice the framerate making an already fast and smooth game even faster and smoother.
F1 World Championship Edition (1995) (Mega Drive)
Same name but slightly different game, it also boasts fast speed, scaling 2D graphics, polygonal 3D graphics and lots of tracks to race on, however, it lacks a turbo mode but adds a third person camera instead so you can see your car while you race, it also has many layers of parallax scrolling for the sky and backgrounds and it has a lot more polygonal 3D objects around the tracks.
It doesn't play quite as well as it doesn't have the minor crash physics, just the regular stop and reset to track style, but it does have good controls and handling and is fast and responsive, so you won't be crashing much anyway and it still feels very good to play.
Overall I think both games are fantastic and impressive racing games for the Mega Drive, you can't go wrong with either.
I personally prefer having a third person view so this game is my favorite of the two for that reason alone, but in all other ways they are overall equals, where one is better in one way, the other is better in another way.
New York Race (PlayStation 2)
Back in the day when PS2 launched I got mine with Armored Core 2 and Zone of the Enders as my two first games of the launch lineup available, a couple of weeks later I also got my first PS2 memory card, after some time I had saved up enough to buy more games, the third game I got was Shadow of Memories, after that however I was give the option to wish for a new game that winter, and I had narrowed down my options to two games Jet Ion GP and New York Race, after much consideration I picked Jet Ion GP, thinking I'll probably get NYR not that long after. I enjoyed Jet Ion GP a lot and it remains a classic for me but I never got NYR, not until now, in December of 2017, I had only tried it on PC back in the mid 00's and liked it but I never found a copy on sale again until I now finally ordered it online. It's very nice to finally own a copy of my own and it's a good game, I would've loved to have this back then but things turned out like this and I'll have to try and enjoy it now instead, far after the hype of the brand new PS2 has long gone died off and I can only enjoy games based on how good they are objectively, no added new generation factor giving it a push.
I can gladly say though this is a very good game and I'm enjoying it pretty much as if it was new to me back then, I can usually mentally put myself back in those days and kind of forcefully add the excitement of what it was like had I played it back when it was originally released for games in general, it's not exactly like the real experience but as close as it can get, I've had plenty of practise with games for Mega Drive and other older systems over years and it's been a blast. Great games don't really age, it's just our perception of what games are like that does, thankfully I play enough old games that I can easily keep my mind fully open to older titles and enjoy them as they would've been enjoyed back when they were new, as it should be.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Hyperstone Heist (Mega Drive)
Score International Baja 1000 World Championship Off Road Racing (PlayStation 2)
An overall mediocre game, completely locked down with all content painstakingly unlockable one thing at a time, the bad controls making it almost unplayable and very far from even remotely enjoyable.
Littlest Pet Shop Garden (DS)
Alien Storm (Mega Drive)
Eternal Champions (Mega Drive)
The Story of Thor A Successor of the Light (Mega Drive)
Justice League Task Force (Mega Drive)
A fun fighting game with some cool moves, some very nice visual effects and a fantastic soundtrack. Batman and Wonder Woman especially are a lot of fun to play as in this.
Justice League Task Force (Super Nintendo)
Basically a bad alternative to the vastly superior Mega Drive game, with uglier and simpler visuals, unresponsive controls that require specific timing to do what the AI can do instantly (cheating bastards), less content with some gameplay modes and options being absent entirely, no proper intro sequence and no cutscenes between fights in the story mode, and finally either boring and awful unfitting music for a fighting game with horrible ear piercing noises pretending to be instruments or no music at all with just boring ambient sounds, it's an awful game and should be completely avoided at all costs, go for the Mega Drive game instead and have a great time because you sure won't have one if you play this terrible Super Nintendo version.
Zero Tolerance (Mega Drive)
My relatively new third-party Retro-Bit 6-button controller broke while I was playing this, it's only a year or two old now but the top part of the d-pad broke straight off, the plastic that connected it in the middle underneath had given in, I glued it back and hopefully it'll hold like that for a while but once broken it's a permanent weak spot so we'll see how many games I can play before it eventually breaks again..
Steel Talons (Mega Drive)
Ok so a couple days later the controller broke again and this time I tried to drill a hole through it to reinforce it with a metal screw down the middle, while also gluing it, and so far it's holding up, but I fear the plastic just isn't good enough to last very long regardless, it's a cheaply made controller, plain and simple.
WWE Smackdown Vs. Raw 2007 (Xbox 360)
Just making some custom characters, my OC Farideh, Lara Croft and Bonnie Rockwaller.
Lego Batman 3 Beyond Gotham (3DS)
Pretty good, not exactly a step up from all the other Lego games over the last decade and a half, quite literally exactly on the same level more than anything, but I guess it's what we've all come to expect at this point.
The one positive thing to note about this specific version is that they actually have realtime stencil shadows, a bit pixelated, but they're there, which is pretty impressive for a 3DS game.
Not even the port of Lego Star Wars II The Original Trilogy on PSP had that back in the day despite PSP being notably more powerful than 3DS, however, textures are far lower resolution with some very blurry ones in some places and the framerate is not as smooth or as stable.
Gal*Gun Double Peace (PlayStation Vita)
I wasn't sure if picking the emotionally distant girl over the aggressive girl was a good choice, but turns out it was, she was actually really sweet and had a magic doll made to remind her of me because she missed me so much
Lego Batman The Videogame (Xbox 360)
I haven't played this in many years now, I never completed it back then and I probably won't this time either, but every step along the way counts, maybe some day I will have completed some of my now many Lego games.
I've gotten a lot farther now though, unlocked tons of new stuff and completed almost all of the Hero missions 100%, just a few things missing here and there where I need specific supervillains to do certain things in the levels to get the remaining stuff.
It's a very good game and I'm enjoying it a lot, so much in fact I've been looking into getting the two sequels, DC Superheroes and Beyond Gotham, for Xbox 360 or maybe PS3. I tried the demos for both on Xbox 360, downloaded from Xbox Live, and I really enjoyed them so I doubt I'd regret getting either or both of them in full version, sadly they're a bit pricey and hard to find, DC Superheroes has been available only once but it sold out again and that was only the PS3 version, so I'll have to keep an eye out.
Lego Star Wars The Force Awakens (PlayStation Vita)
Unimpressive, sadly. I haven't played for long but already I have a list of complaints that shouldn't have made it into the final version of the game.
The camera is no longer static and panning over areas nicely all the time making for a good solid experience from beginning to end, like in most other Lego games, instead it's far too often switched to a third person camera with some basic manual control, the problem is that it's way too zoomed in making it very hard to navigate the environment, there's also an insane amounts of up-close and personal pop-up, especially NPCs walking around, they will literally pop-up out of nowhere right next to your character, out of nowhere, and a lot of the time several NPCs will do this as the same time, like two or three of them just suddenly appear next to you as you bump into them, slowing you down in the process.
It's like they're just teleporting around like in Star Trek, but with a severe case of ADHD. It looks worse than anything else I've ever seen in regards to pop-up in videogames, far worse.
The controls are a complete waste of Vita features, the d-pad, left analog stick and touch screen all do the same thing, control your character's movement, with the analog stick doing the best job of the three and the touch screen being almost unusable as it can't turn properly, it moves forward or backward only and very poorly to the left and right, it's completely unbalanced. The touch pad on the back does nothing.
The shoulder buttons and right analog stick both control the camera, moving it left and right only, up and down on the right analog stick does nothing.
I haven't played far enough into the game to say how the controls are different when it changes modes to flying spaceships and such yet.
The minigames are overly simplistic, making the originals they're based on, like Space Invaders and Zaxxon, seem far more modern and complex by comparison.
When you get to play the action sequences with a classic Lego game static camera angle the game picks up and is much better and more fun to play.
Lego Marvel Avengers (PlayStation Vita)
Compared to Lego Star Wars The Force Awakens this is even more of a mixed bag, while some problems that game had have been made better, some are still there and a whole list of brand new ones have been added.
The audio first of all is really poor, the voice acting sounds like it's been recorded from an old radio with an old mix onto cassette tape and then played back and recorded onto computer with a cheap headset mic. It's really bad, dare I say even worse than Remember Me? Yes, yes I do, it's worse than Remember Me, and a lot worse at that as it encompasses the entire cast of characters throughout the entire games it seems, I haven't completed it but so far it's all bad, and I'm several hours in.
The big difference is that this game has an open world where you can free roam, a chunk of New York and a carrier ship.
There are side quests and challenges scattered about and you can jump into vehicles and destroy stuff for Lego studs, the universal currency of all modern Lego games.
The controls are about identical to the previous mentioned game, with all the same shortcomings.
Visually it's a step up and a step down depending on how you see it, the characters don't animate their faces during in-game cutscenes, I don't remember now if they did or not in Force Awakens but I want to say they did. There seems to be a bit more detail and special effects present, but it's had to compare.
Overall I think I like this one a little bit more than Force Awakens, but because I don't like marvel and their characters much, nor do I like Disney's take on Star Wars, it's safe to say I'm not a huge fan of either of these two games, they're okay when the focus is on them being Lego games but when story and characters and such come into play they both drop in quality and so does my interest and patience.
Virtua Racing (Mega Drive)
Urban Strike The Sequel To Jungle Strike (Mega Drive)
Arguably the best of the original 8- and 16-bit generation Strike games and a great helicopter action game. I still prefer Red Zone, Steel Talons and LHX Attack chopper from the 16-bit generation and the Strike games on PlayStation, Saturn, N64 and PC though.
It's nice that they have on-foot missions and different helicopters to pick from during missions, I don't remember if you had that in the previous Strike games, regardless, good stuff.
F1 World Championship Edition (1993) (Mega Drive)
A great F1 game with some fast speed, scaling 2D graphics and polygonal 3D graphics.
It plays very well, it's good and responsive, if you crash into stuff you can sometimes keep going without coming to a complete stop, this was pretty rare back in the day for racing games as a vast majority would force you to see a crash animation or wait until the car or bike or whatever reset to the track before you could drive again, it still happens in this game but mostly for things that are too high to drive over, like sign posts and trees, but for all the shorter objects including the opponent cars you can hit them and get back to driving again without a full crash and reset, it has good control and handling too so for the most part you can avoid crashing altogether, there are lots of tracks to race on and it even has a turbo mode where some of the graphics are scaled down so the game can run at twice the framerate making an already fast and smooth game even faster and smoother.
F1 World Championship Edition (1995) (Mega Drive)
Same name but slightly different game, it also boasts fast speed, scaling 2D graphics, polygonal 3D graphics and lots of tracks to race on, however, it lacks a turbo mode but adds a third person camera instead so you can see your car while you race, it also has many layers of parallax scrolling for the sky and backgrounds and it has a lot more polygonal 3D objects around the tracks.
It doesn't play quite as well as it doesn't have the minor crash physics, just the regular stop and reset to track style, but it does have good controls and handling and is fast and responsive, so you won't be crashing much anyway and it still feels very good to play.
Overall I think both games are fantastic and impressive racing games for the Mega Drive, you can't go wrong with either.
I personally prefer having a third person view so this game is my favorite of the two for that reason alone, but in all other ways they are overall equals, where one is better in one way, the other is better in another way.
New York Race (PlayStation 2)
Back in the day when PS2 launched I got mine with Armored Core 2 and Zone of the Enders as my two first games of the launch lineup available, a couple of weeks later I also got my first PS2 memory card, after some time I had saved up enough to buy more games, the third game I got was Shadow of Memories, after that however I was give the option to wish for a new game that winter, and I had narrowed down my options to two games Jet Ion GP and New York Race, after much consideration I picked Jet Ion GP, thinking I'll probably get NYR not that long after. I enjoyed Jet Ion GP a lot and it remains a classic for me but I never got NYR, not until now, in December of 2017, I had only tried it on PC back in the mid 00's and liked it but I never found a copy on sale again until I now finally ordered it online. It's very nice to finally own a copy of my own and it's a good game, I would've loved to have this back then but things turned out like this and I'll have to try and enjoy it now instead, far after the hype of the brand new PS2 has long gone died off and I can only enjoy games based on how good they are objectively, no added new generation factor giving it a push.
I can gladly say though this is a very good game and I'm enjoying it pretty much as if it was new to me back then, I can usually mentally put myself back in those days and kind of forcefully add the excitement of what it was like had I played it back when it was originally released for games in general, it's not exactly like the real experience but as close as it can get, I've had plenty of practise with games for Mega Drive and other older systems over years and it's been a blast. Great games don't really age, it's just our perception of what games are like that does, thankfully I play enough old games that I can easily keep my mind fully open to older titles and enjoy them as they would've been enjoyed back when they were new, as it should be.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Hyperstone Heist (Mega Drive)
Score International Baja 1000 World Championship Off Road Racing (PlayStation 2)
An overall mediocre game, completely locked down with all content painstakingly unlockable one thing at a time, the bad controls making it almost unplayable and very far from even remotely enjoyable.
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Now Playing - November 2017
Alien Trilogy (PlayStation)
Jersey Devil (PlayStation)
Sonic R (PC)
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (Mega Drive)
Sonic The Hedgehog (Mega Drive, played on 3DS via SEGA 3D Classics Collection)
Baja Edge of Control (Xbox 360)
Sonic The Hedgehog (Xbox 360)
Shadow The Hedgehog (Xbox, played on Xbox 360)
Race PRO (Xbox 360)
Tomb Raider Legend (Xbox 360)
Gal*Gun Double Peace (PlayStation Vita)
Finally got hold of a Gal*Gun game, it's definitely a game with my kind of humor, I like it already. Too bad there's no instruction manual in the box, it's all digital only.
Littlest Pet Shop Garden (DS)
pet collecting and minigames aimed toward children, an extremely typical DS game in every way imaginable, mostly touch screen controls, a couple of minigames that are more puzzle focused can be enjoyable for a bit but overall it's nothing I'd recommend to anyone outside of the targeted little girl demographic
Remember Me (Xbox 360)
It looks pretty good with lots of detailed visuals and such but it also looks very cluttered making it hard to see stuff, especially early in the game in the slums where you have piles of garbage and scattered trash all over the place, the combat is sluggish and annoying relying on combos with a really poor timing system that's really hard to get a good feel for, I've managed to get it down enough that I can get through a fight relatively unscaved but it's clunky at best, the audio quality is downright some of the worst I've heard in modern times, more often than not literally sounding like the game takes place in a wooden box streamed over internet radio from the late 90s to an internet modded Mega Drive, yeah if you've played any 16-bit version of Street Fighter 2 you already know exactly what this game's voice compression quality sounds like, it's full of annoying real time info stuff and intrusive tutorials that pop up during gameplay or pause the gameplay entirely forcing you to do other stuff before you can continue doing what you were actually doing, frequently taking you out of the experience and breaking what little immersion there might have been otherwise, the camera is awful with slow control, glitchy and jerky movement as if it doesn't update the camera in real time or something and it's constantly switching between the normal (barely) controllable view and static camera angles for platforming segments and "cinematic" moments, I say that in quotation marks as it's literally just parts of the level where it forced you to walk and no other inputs work while some music plays as you're suppose to take in the visual impressions of the graphics they made, it's as shallow as it gets and because it's done so poorly it fails to have the impact it could've had if only someone with artistic and cinematic expertise had been in charge instead of the janitor or possibly a son or daughter of one of the programmers, clearly no person with any kind of knowledge on how to direct cinematic scenes ever came close to working on this game, the level design is confusing and awkward, especially in combination with the cluttered visuals and bad camera and the game has glitches, lots of glitches, sometimes the characters during cutscenes will freak out like Silent Hill monsters, twitching, turning and spassing out all over the place in the most unnatural ways possible.
Oh, there's no proper instruction booklet in the box either, just a thin pamphlet thing, so they didn't even manage that properly.
Jersey Devil (PlayStation)
Sonic R (PC)
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (Mega Drive)
Sonic The Hedgehog (Mega Drive, played on 3DS via SEGA 3D Classics Collection)
Baja Edge of Control (Xbox 360)
Sonic The Hedgehog (Xbox 360)
Shadow The Hedgehog (Xbox, played on Xbox 360)
Race PRO (Xbox 360)
Tomb Raider Legend (Xbox 360)
Gal*Gun Double Peace (PlayStation Vita)
Finally got hold of a Gal*Gun game, it's definitely a game with my kind of humor, I like it already. Too bad there's no instruction manual in the box, it's all digital only.
Littlest Pet Shop Garden (DS)
pet collecting and minigames aimed toward children, an extremely typical DS game in every way imaginable, mostly touch screen controls, a couple of minigames that are more puzzle focused can be enjoyable for a bit but overall it's nothing I'd recommend to anyone outside of the targeted little girl demographic
Remember Me (Xbox 360)
It looks pretty good with lots of detailed visuals and such but it also looks very cluttered making it hard to see stuff, especially early in the game in the slums where you have piles of garbage and scattered trash all over the place, the combat is sluggish and annoying relying on combos with a really poor timing system that's really hard to get a good feel for, I've managed to get it down enough that I can get through a fight relatively unscaved but it's clunky at best, the audio quality is downright some of the worst I've heard in modern times, more often than not literally sounding like the game takes place in a wooden box streamed over internet radio from the late 90s to an internet modded Mega Drive, yeah if you've played any 16-bit version of Street Fighter 2 you already know exactly what this game's voice compression quality sounds like, it's full of annoying real time info stuff and intrusive tutorials that pop up during gameplay or pause the gameplay entirely forcing you to do other stuff before you can continue doing what you were actually doing, frequently taking you out of the experience and breaking what little immersion there might have been otherwise, the camera is awful with slow control, glitchy and jerky movement as if it doesn't update the camera in real time or something and it's constantly switching between the normal (barely) controllable view and static camera angles for platforming segments and "cinematic" moments, I say that in quotation marks as it's literally just parts of the level where it forced you to walk and no other inputs work while some music plays as you're suppose to take in the visual impressions of the graphics they made, it's as shallow as it gets and because it's done so poorly it fails to have the impact it could've had if only someone with artistic and cinematic expertise had been in charge instead of the janitor or possibly a son or daughter of one of the programmers, clearly no person with any kind of knowledge on how to direct cinematic scenes ever came close to working on this game, the level design is confusing and awkward, especially in combination with the cluttered visuals and bad camera and the game has glitches, lots of glitches, sometimes the characters during cutscenes will freak out like Silent Hill monsters, twitching, turning and spassing out all over the place in the most unnatural ways possible.
Oh, there's no proper instruction booklet in the box either, just a thin pamphlet thing, so they didn't even manage that properly.
Tuesday, July 4, 2017
Gaming Purchases - Juli 2017
Juli 4th:
I placed an order for some games and gaming related stuff at the end of Juni, all new stuff, even the older items.
The first packet arrived today containing a PSP 2000 headphone remote control for music playback, I only had the original remote control for the original PSP 1000 model, which is not compatible with the 2000 (or 3000 in my case) model because they changed the design of the plug to allow for video output on the 2000 model for playing on TVs.
Hardware:
PSP 2000 Remote Control
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Juli 5th:
Almost everything else came today, in three separate packets, and only a couple of things are still missing, the GBA screen protector+light I ordered three of, one for each of my three GBAs, but strangely enough one of them came today packed with some of the other stuff, so why they sent the other two of the same type separately I don't know, I just hope they sent it at all so it's not been a mistake because I fucking hate having to deal with shit like that.
Hardware:
a Game Boy Advance X-Light with screen protector
an original Sony PlayStation link-cable
a red TTX Tech Classic Controller for GameCube
two GameCube controller extension cords
Game Boy Color:
Roswell Conspiracies Aliens, Myths & Legends
Game Boy Advance:
Back Track
DS:
Garfield's Nightmare
MX Vs ATV Reflex
PlayStation:
Battle Arena Toshinden 4
Crisis Beat (I already owned this but the copy I had was a second hand purchase and a bit battered)
PlayStation 2:
Resident Evil Code Veronica X
PC:
Slipstream 5000
Virtua Fighter PC
Juli 7th:
Turns out the two missing X-Lights were lost in the mail and i won't be getting them after all, they didn't have any more in stock either so I'll just be getting my money back.
Juli 8th:
Ugh, now they sent me a new bill to pay but it's updated wrong, instead of three X-Lights in now says two, but I only got one, they only reduced it by one when two were missing. I've contacted them about it but because it's the weekend I'll have to wait till monday for a reply.
Juli 10th:
I got a reply and if I understood it correctly I'm going to get a new bill with the updated correct info on it soon, but I haven't gotten it yet.
Juli 12th:
I got another reply and it's basically the same as the very first I got, and I still haven't gotten the updated bill yet, they did push up the paying date to the 21st though, so now I just gotta wait some more and hope they don't fuck up any more.
Juli 14th:
Finally got the updated bill with correct info today so I can pay for these things already.
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Juli 19th:
I ordered some more games and stuff a few days ago that arrived today. All items are new and sealed.
3DS:
Fast & Furious Showdown
Fossil Fighters Frontier
Moshi Monsters Katsuma Unleashed
Sega 3D Classics Collection
Star Fox 64 3D
Xbox 360:
Binary Domain
Other:
Super Mario Collection Princess Daisy Amiibo
Yo-kai Watch Tattletell
I placed an order for some games and gaming related stuff at the end of Juni, all new stuff, even the older items.
The first packet arrived today containing a PSP 2000 headphone remote control for music playback, I only had the original remote control for the original PSP 1000 model, which is not compatible with the 2000 (or 3000 in my case) model because they changed the design of the plug to allow for video output on the 2000 model for playing on TVs.
Hardware:
PSP 2000 Remote Control
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Juli 5th:
Almost everything else came today, in three separate packets, and only a couple of things are still missing, the GBA screen protector+light I ordered three of, one for each of my three GBAs, but strangely enough one of them came today packed with some of the other stuff, so why they sent the other two of the same type separately I don't know, I just hope they sent it at all so it's not been a mistake because I fucking hate having to deal with shit like that.
Hardware:
a Game Boy Advance X-Light with screen protector
an original Sony PlayStation link-cable
a red TTX Tech Classic Controller for GameCube
two GameCube controller extension cords
Game Boy Color:
Roswell Conspiracies Aliens, Myths & Legends
Game Boy Advance:
Back Track
DS:
Garfield's Nightmare
MX Vs ATV Reflex
PlayStation:
Battle Arena Toshinden 4
Crisis Beat (I already owned this but the copy I had was a second hand purchase and a bit battered)
PlayStation 2:
Resident Evil Code Veronica X
PC:
Slipstream 5000
Virtua Fighter PC
Juli 7th:
Turns out the two missing X-Lights were lost in the mail and i won't be getting them after all, they didn't have any more in stock either so I'll just be getting my money back.
Juli 8th:
Ugh, now they sent me a new bill to pay but it's updated wrong, instead of three X-Lights in now says two, but I only got one, they only reduced it by one when two were missing. I've contacted them about it but because it's the weekend I'll have to wait till monday for a reply.
Juli 10th:
I got a reply and if I understood it correctly I'm going to get a new bill with the updated correct info on it soon, but I haven't gotten it yet.
Juli 12th:
I got another reply and it's basically the same as the very first I got, and I still haven't gotten the updated bill yet, they did push up the paying date to the 21st though, so now I just gotta wait some more and hope they don't fuck up any more.
Juli 14th:
Finally got the updated bill with correct info today so I can pay for these things already.
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Juli 19th:
I ordered some more games and stuff a few days ago that arrived today. All items are new and sealed.
3DS:
Fast & Furious Showdown
Fossil Fighters Frontier
Moshi Monsters Katsuma Unleashed
Sega 3D Classics Collection
Star Fox 64 3D
Xbox 360:
Binary Domain
Other:
Super Mario Collection Princess Daisy Amiibo
Yo-kai Watch Tattletell
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Gaming Purchases - Juni 2017
Juni 27th:
I went and got myself a 3DS at the local GameStop today, complete in original box with charger and a 4GB SD card, also got some games.
DS:
Star Wars Lethal Alliance
3DS:
3DS Aqua Blue
3DS Charger
4GB SD Card
PlayStation 3:
Beijing 2008
Xbox 360:
Gears of War
Gears of War Judgement
Halo Reach
Zone of the Enders HD Collection
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Juni 29th:
I placed an order for a whole bunch of stuff but I'll add it to next month's post as none of it will arrive until early next month anyway.
I went and got myself a 3DS at the local GameStop today, complete in original box with charger and a 4GB SD card, also got some games.
DS:
Star Wars Lethal Alliance
3DS:
3DS Aqua Blue
3DS Charger
4GB SD Card
PlayStation 3:
Beijing 2008
Xbox 360:
Gears of War
Gears of War Judgement
Halo Reach
Zone of the Enders HD Collection
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Juni 29th:
I placed an order for a whole bunch of stuff but I'll add it to next month's post as none of it will arrive until early next month anyway.
Saturday, April 8, 2017
Gaming Purchases - April 2017
April 8th:
Went to the local GameStop and got a couple of more Vita games alongside some other gems and a bunch of cheap PS3 games I'm going to use the cases to replace broken ones I have, also a DS game to use the case for one of my GBA cartridges that lacks the original box, haven't decided which one yet.
DS:
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (no manual)
PlayStation Vita:
One Piece: Unlimited World Red (new, factory sealed)
The Muppets Movie Adventure (new, factory sealed)
PlayStation 3:
Alone in the Dark: Inferno
FIFA 12
FIFA 12
FIFA 12
NFL 11 (no manual)
NFL 11 (no manual)
Xbox 360:
NeverDead
The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena + Escape from Butcher Bay Remastered
Also got some Orbeez from BR Toys.
April 27th:
I ordered some games online but they won't be arriving until May so I'll write about them when they arrive.
Went to the local GameStop and got a couple of more Vita games alongside some other gems and a bunch of cheap PS3 games I'm going to use the cases to replace broken ones I have, also a DS game to use the case for one of my GBA cartridges that lacks the original box, haven't decided which one yet.
DS:
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (no manual)
PlayStation Vita:
One Piece: Unlimited World Red (new, factory sealed)
The Muppets Movie Adventure (new, factory sealed)
PlayStation 3:
Alone in the Dark: Inferno
FIFA 12
FIFA 12
FIFA 12
NFL 11 (no manual)
NFL 11 (no manual)
Xbox 360:
NeverDead
The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena + Escape from Butcher Bay Remastered
Also got some Orbeez from BR Toys.
April 27th:
I ordered some games online but they won't be arriving until May so I'll write about them when they arrive.
Now Playing - April 2017
Continuing with Sly Cooper Thieves in Time on Vita and PS3 while also testing some other new games.
Sly Cooper Thieves in Time (PlayStation Vita)
Nearing the end now, on the final episode.
UPDATE: 10th April around 23:00 I completed the Vita version.
Sly Cooper Thieves in Time (PlayStation 3)
Catching up, only slightly behind where I am on Vita.
UPDATE: 12 April I completed the PS3 version.
NeverDead (Xbox 360)
I've heard bad things about this game but I'm having fun with it so far. It can get a bit choppy when there are lots of enemies spawning and a lot of environmental destruction is going on and the physics and controls with the main character's body dismemberment can be a bit unresponsive and bouncy, but the action is great. The rest is good too, I don't have any big complains yet. At least as far as the beginning of the game goes it seems to be a bit of an underrated hidden gem.
Earth Defense Forces 2 Portable (PlayStation Portable)
Smart As... (PlayStation Vita)
Been playing this on a daily basis doing the daily challenge and some additional free play of the minigames. It's a mixed bag in just about every way. Some minigames are challenging, others are not, some are forgiving, others are not, some control as they should, others do not, some are well designed, others aren't, some of the rules are fair and make sense, others don't, some use the Vita's different features well, others don't, some are unplayable augmented reality games because they require AR cards that don't come with the game, other AG games work fine without them, and so on.. I enjoy it for the good parts but the bad parts constantly make it a lesser experience than it should be.
The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time (Nintendo 64)
Just reminding myself of all the reason why this game sucks.
Sly Cooper Thieves in Time (PlayStation Vita)
Nearing the end now, on the final episode.
UPDATE: 10th April around 23:00 I completed the Vita version.
Sly Cooper Thieves in Time (PlayStation 3)
Catching up, only slightly behind where I am on Vita.
UPDATE: 12 April I completed the PS3 version.
NeverDead (Xbox 360)
I've heard bad things about this game but I'm having fun with it so far. It can get a bit choppy when there are lots of enemies spawning and a lot of environmental destruction is going on and the physics and controls with the main character's body dismemberment can be a bit unresponsive and bouncy, but the action is great. The rest is good too, I don't have any big complains yet. At least as far as the beginning of the game goes it seems to be a bit of an underrated hidden gem.
Earth Defense Forces 2 Portable (PlayStation Portable)
Smart As... (PlayStation Vita)
Been playing this on a daily basis doing the daily challenge and some additional free play of the minigames. It's a mixed bag in just about every way. Some minigames are challenging, others are not, some are forgiving, others are not, some control as they should, others do not, some are well designed, others aren't, some of the rules are fair and make sense, others don't, some use the Vita's different features well, others don't, some are unplayable augmented reality games because they require AR cards that don't come with the game, other AG games work fine without them, and so on.. I enjoy it for the good parts but the bad parts constantly make it a lesser experience than it should be.
The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time (Nintendo 64)
Just reminding myself of all the reason why this game sucks.
Monday, December 5, 2016
Gaming Purchases - December 2016
December 5th:
Finally the online orders I placed during November arrived.
Wii:
Tomb Raider Anniversary
Tomb Raider Underworld
Mega Drive:
Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker
PlayStation:
Retro Force (Rental Copy, no instruction manual)
PlayStation 2:
Gumball 3000
Lego Drome Racers
Midway Arcade Treasures 3
Need for Speed Underground (Platinum)
Runabout 3 Neo Age
Scaler
Star Wars Racer Revenge
Star Wars Jedi Starfighter
Stock Car Speedway
Syphon Filter The Omega Strain
Syphon Filter Dark Mirror
The Secret Saturdays Beasts of the 5th Sun
Tokyo Road Race
PlayStation 3:
Baja Edge of Control
KillZone Trilogy
Xbox 360:
Moto GP 08
Moto GP 09/10
Moto GP 10/11
Tomb Raider Anniversary
Hardware:
4x Third Party PlayStation 2 Dual Shock 2 controllers (black)
2x Third Party Wii Classic Pro controllers (black)
2x Third Party Wii Classic Pro controllers (white)
PlayStation 3 PS Eye camera
Finally the online orders I placed during November arrived.
Wii:
Tomb Raider Anniversary
Tomb Raider Underworld
Mega Drive:
Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker
PlayStation:
Retro Force (Rental Copy, no instruction manual)
PlayStation 2:
Gumball 3000
Lego Drome Racers
Midway Arcade Treasures 3
Need for Speed Underground (Platinum)
Runabout 3 Neo Age
Scaler
Star Wars Racer Revenge
Star Wars Jedi Starfighter
Stock Car Speedway
Syphon Filter The Omega Strain
Syphon Filter Dark Mirror
The Secret Saturdays Beasts of the 5th Sun
Tokyo Road Race
PlayStation 3:
Baja Edge of Control
KillZone Trilogy
Xbox 360:
Moto GP 08
Moto GP 09/10
Moto GP 10/11
Tomb Raider Anniversary
Hardware:
4x Third Party PlayStation 2 Dual Shock 2 controllers (black)
2x Third Party Wii Classic Pro controllers (black)
2x Third Party Wii Classic Pro controllers (white)
PlayStation 3 PS Eye camera
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Now Playing - Oktober 2016
Haven't played much this month, just sporadic short bursts of gameplay in random games, some new, some old.
SoulCalibur IV (Xbox 360)
Finally decided to get this game. Have to say I'm thoroughly disappointed. It lacks pretty much every single thing that made the previous games so great. There's an almost complete lack of story more and locked away fundamental content you have to pay extra for that for example the vastly superior SoulCalibur III on PS2 had in it are a couple of top reasons why this was so awful, also the controls are a lot more sluggish and unresponsive and the animations more jerky and don't transition anywhere near as well as they did in previous instalments, and it's technically ugly too, every SoulCalibur before this looked more visually impressive, I'd say even Soul Blade on PlayStation was better looking, at least from a design point of view and how well it managed to push the hardware it was on because it still holds up well today and it a lot more fun than this game is, also Yoda fucking sucks and the whole Star Wars thing in this game is a fucking joke that should never have been told, this is worse than SoulCalibur II's stupid bonus characters bullshit with the more shallow than a cardboard cutout lack-of-character Link from The Legend of Zelda for the GameCube version, the painfully unfitting and forced inclusion of one of Tekken's worst characters Heihachi Mishima for the PS2 version and a very lacking rendition of a less than optimal version of the otherwise badass comic book character Spawn for the Xbox version, no really, there's a medieval Spawn they could've used that would've fit the game perfectly and been a fucking blast to play as, such a waste, still it was a better game in all respects than this disappointing turd.
The Adventure of Willy Beamish (Mega CD/MS-DOS)
Trying out this old game for the first time. It's not bad, it's not good, it's a mixed bag. It's got one of the best intro songs I've ever heard though and I like some of the humor and characters. The Mega CD version has awful voice acting, slow loading times and choppy animations so overall the MS-DOS version is far superior with silent text based dialog, shorter loading times and smoother animations, also the MS-DOS version has far more colors and therefor better details. I like how there are a lot of funny death animations, it makes up for the fact that the game is overly cryptic with retarded logic for puzzle solving a lot of the time causing you to die without having a clue what to do to avoid it. An unbalanced game to play but still an interesting experience.
Steel Talons (Mega Drive)
Eternal Champions (Mega Drive)
Virtua Racing Deluxe (32X)
Race Drivin' (Mega Drive)
CastleVania Symphony of The Night (PlayStation)
UniRally (Super Nintendo)
SoulCalibur IV (Xbox 360)
Finally decided to get this game. Have to say I'm thoroughly disappointed. It lacks pretty much every single thing that made the previous games so great. There's an almost complete lack of story more and locked away fundamental content you have to pay extra for that for example the vastly superior SoulCalibur III on PS2 had in it are a couple of top reasons why this was so awful, also the controls are a lot more sluggish and unresponsive and the animations more jerky and don't transition anywhere near as well as they did in previous instalments, and it's technically ugly too, every SoulCalibur before this looked more visually impressive, I'd say even Soul Blade on PlayStation was better looking, at least from a design point of view and how well it managed to push the hardware it was on because it still holds up well today and it a lot more fun than this game is, also Yoda fucking sucks and the whole Star Wars thing in this game is a fucking joke that should never have been told, this is worse than SoulCalibur II's stupid bonus characters bullshit with the more shallow than a cardboard cutout lack-of-character Link from The Legend of Zelda for the GameCube version, the painfully unfitting and forced inclusion of one of Tekken's worst characters Heihachi Mishima for the PS2 version and a very lacking rendition of a less than optimal version of the otherwise badass comic book character Spawn for the Xbox version, no really, there's a medieval Spawn they could've used that would've fit the game perfectly and been a fucking blast to play as, such a waste, still it was a better game in all respects than this disappointing turd.
The Adventure of Willy Beamish (Mega CD/MS-DOS)
Trying out this old game for the first time. It's not bad, it's not good, it's a mixed bag. It's got one of the best intro songs I've ever heard though and I like some of the humor and characters. The Mega CD version has awful voice acting, slow loading times and choppy animations so overall the MS-DOS version is far superior with silent text based dialog, shorter loading times and smoother animations, also the MS-DOS version has far more colors and therefor better details. I like how there are a lot of funny death animations, it makes up for the fact that the game is overly cryptic with retarded logic for puzzle solving a lot of the time causing you to die without having a clue what to do to avoid it. An unbalanced game to play but still an interesting experience.
Steel Talons (Mega Drive)
Eternal Champions (Mega Drive)
Virtua Racing Deluxe (32X)
Race Drivin' (Mega Drive)
CastleVania Symphony of The Night (PlayStation)
UniRally (Super Nintendo)
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Gaming Purchases - Oktober 2016
Oktober 4th:
Today's second-hand finds.
CD:
Tintin - Prisoners of the Sun
DVD:
Monster High - Ghouls Rule (UPDATE: I enjoyed this movie, even watched it twice, once in original english and then also the dubbed version, I'd say both were fairly equal in quality, some voices were better in original english while others were improved in the dub)
Other:
LEGO, one smaller non-LEGO plastic container containing a smaller Star Wars set with a laser cannon, a couple of droids and the instruction manual (the two clone troopers and some other minor parts were missing) and the other being a larger LEGO bucket containing more basic bricks and other various random mixture of pieces
A fairly large figure of a fat pig woman wearing a bikini while cooking and cleaning
I also ordered some games online that should arrive in a couple of days (UPDATE: They arrived on the 6th as predicted).
PlayStation Portable:
Need for Speed Underground Rivals (UPDATE: not the original release as the store suggested but the ugly PSP Essentials version, sadly)
PlayStation 3:
Armored Core V (already own this on Xbox 360 but I always try to get as many different versions of games as possible when found cheap enough)
Disney Infinity 3.0 - Star Wars Starter Pack (UPDATE: can't play it because it requires a firmware update that I am not willing to ruin my PS3 with any further, it's bad enough as it is already thanks to Sony, it doesn't need to be a lot worse)
Xbox 360:
MorphX (already own this, decided to get this second copy as a backup because it was cheap enough)
SoulCalibur IV (UPDATE: not the original release as the site suggested but the ugly Classics version, sadly, also this game sucked for more reasons than I feel like listing right now, but an almost complete lack of story more and locked away fundamental content you have to pay extra for that for example the vastly superior SoulCalibur III on PS2 had in it are a couple of top reasons why this was so awful, also the controls are a lot more sluggish and unresponsive and the animations more jerky and don't transition anywhere near as well as they did in previous instalments, and it's technically ugly too, every SoulCalibur before this looked more visually impressive, I'd say even Soul Blade on PlayStation was better looking, at least from a design point of view and how well it managed to push the hardware it was on because it still holds up well today and it a lot more fun than this game is, also Yoda fucking sucks and the whole Star Wars thing in this game is a fucking joke that should never have been told, this is worse than SoulCalibur II's stupid bonus characters bullshit with the more shallow than a cardboard cutout lack-of-character Link from The Legend of Zelda for the GameCube version, the painfully unfitting and forced inclusion of one of Tekken's worst characters Heihachi Mishima for the PS2 version and a very lacking rendition of a less than optimal version of the otherwise badass comic book character Spawn for the Xbox version, no really, there's a medieval Spawn they could've used that would've fit the game perfectly and been a fucking blast to play as, such a waste, still it was a better game in all respects than this disappointing turd)
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Oktober 16th:
Today I bought a whole bunch of HotWheels and a DVD.
DVD:
The Swan Princess Christmas
HotWheels:
Batman - The Dark Knight - Batmobile
Batman - Batman Arkham Knight - Batmobile
Batman - The Bat
HW City Works - Time Attaxi
HW Daredevils - Cruise Bruiser
HW Exotics - Lotus Esprit S1
HW Screen Time - Back to the Future - Time Machine - Hover Mode
HW Speed Graphics - Ford GT
Muscle Mania - Camaro Z28
Sky Show - Cloud Cutter
Sky Show - Jet Threat 4.0
Street Beasts - Bad Ratitude
Street Beasts - Vampyra
Super Chromes - Two Timer
Then and Now - '90 Acura NSX
Today's second-hand finds.
CD:
Tintin - Prisoners of the Sun
DVD:
Monster High - Ghouls Rule (UPDATE: I enjoyed this movie, even watched it twice, once in original english and then also the dubbed version, I'd say both were fairly equal in quality, some voices were better in original english while others were improved in the dub)
Other:
LEGO, one smaller non-LEGO plastic container containing a smaller Star Wars set with a laser cannon, a couple of droids and the instruction manual (the two clone troopers and some other minor parts were missing) and the other being a larger LEGO bucket containing more basic bricks and other various random mixture of pieces
A fairly large figure of a fat pig woman wearing a bikini while cooking and cleaning
I also ordered some games online that should arrive in a couple of days (UPDATE: They arrived on the 6th as predicted).
PlayStation Portable:
Need for Speed Underground Rivals (UPDATE: not the original release as the store suggested but the ugly PSP Essentials version, sadly)
PlayStation 3:
Armored Core V (already own this on Xbox 360 but I always try to get as many different versions of games as possible when found cheap enough)
Disney Infinity 3.0 - Star Wars Starter Pack (UPDATE: can't play it because it requires a firmware update that I am not willing to ruin my PS3 with any further, it's bad enough as it is already thanks to Sony, it doesn't need to be a lot worse)
Xbox 360:
MorphX (already own this, decided to get this second copy as a backup because it was cheap enough)
SoulCalibur IV (UPDATE: not the original release as the site suggested but the ugly Classics version, sadly, also this game sucked for more reasons than I feel like listing right now, but an almost complete lack of story more and locked away fundamental content you have to pay extra for that for example the vastly superior SoulCalibur III on PS2 had in it are a couple of top reasons why this was so awful, also the controls are a lot more sluggish and unresponsive and the animations more jerky and don't transition anywhere near as well as they did in previous instalments, and it's technically ugly too, every SoulCalibur before this looked more visually impressive, I'd say even Soul Blade on PlayStation was better looking, at least from a design point of view and how well it managed to push the hardware it was on because it still holds up well today and it a lot more fun than this game is, also Yoda fucking sucks and the whole Star Wars thing in this game is a fucking joke that should never have been told, this is worse than SoulCalibur II's stupid bonus characters bullshit with the more shallow than a cardboard cutout lack-of-character Link from The Legend of Zelda for the GameCube version, the painfully unfitting and forced inclusion of one of Tekken's worst characters Heihachi Mishima for the PS2 version and a very lacking rendition of a less than optimal version of the otherwise badass comic book character Spawn for the Xbox version, no really, there's a medieval Spawn they could've used that would've fit the game perfectly and been a fucking blast to play as, such a waste, still it was a better game in all respects than this disappointing turd)
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Oktober 16th:
Today I bought a whole bunch of HotWheels and a DVD.
DVD:
The Swan Princess Christmas
HotWheels:
Batman - The Dark Knight - Batmobile
Batman - Batman Arkham Knight - Batmobile
Batman - The Bat
HW City Works - Time Attaxi
HW Daredevils - Cruise Bruiser
HW Exotics - Lotus Esprit S1
HW Screen Time - Back to the Future - Time Machine - Hover Mode
HW Speed Graphics - Ford GT
Muscle Mania - Camaro Z28
Sky Show - Cloud Cutter
Sky Show - Jet Threat 4.0
Street Beasts - Bad Ratitude
Street Beasts - Vampyra
Super Chromes - Two Timer
Then and Now - '90 Acura NSX
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Gaming Purchases - September 2016
September 6th:
A trip to the local GameStop the day after my birthday resulted in some nice finds.
Xbox 360:
Fuse
I've had this on PS3 for ages but haven't even taken off the plastic wrapping of it's case yet. I'll probably end up playing this version first now as the PS3 game is tucked away somewhere in a box full of other PS3 games I got but never played as PS3 just isn't a very good console despite having all the potential in the world to outclass and outperform Xbox 360 in every conceivable way, if only Sony didn't work so hard to ruin it it could've been the only console you needed, instead they gave away the entire market to Microsoft and kept doing so until Microsoft screwed up so badly with their brand that PS4 was the only thing left to buy unless you want to go back a generation or two and pay for overpriced Nintendo garbage, and I think the sales for Wii and Wii U in later years have shown just how willing the market is to do just that.
Shadows of the Damned
I've been meaning to pick this up for a long time but it just never happened until now. Better late than never.
The Bureau XCOM Declassified
I'm not a fan of the XCOM series, I've played an older MS-DOS game in the series called UFO and it was alright if a bit boring and visually uninteresting and every newer game in the series I've tried has just been the same thing with better visuals and presentation, still too boring though. This seems to be a spinoff that set out to fix most if not all the issues I have with the series so if done right I may like it as I'm a fan of the setting in the games just not the execution.
Transformers Dark of the Moon
I recently got hold of the Wii version of this game, it didn't have robots, just vehicles, it was motion control only and the visuals were really weak, so this will probably be a lot better having robots, nice visuals and proper controls.
The Wii version came with a toy car though, this version does not, still I think this version has the Wii version beat in every other way and because I already have the Wii version and the toy car that came with it I really have nothing to complain about! Except of course how shitty these new Transformers movies are and how the series is dead to me because of them and all that, but hey, at least the games based on these new shitty movies are endlessly better than that Devastation garbage Platinum games regurgitated onto the market not long ago, fucking worthless PS2 budget bargain bin level crap.
PlayStation 3:
Binary Domain
I've played the demo on Xbox 360 and thought it was okay, I don't know how i'll be able to use the voice features in this game on a PS3 as I don't have a PS3 compatible headset with mic but I guess I can always buy the XBox 360 version to try that out some other day. For now the PS3 version was so much cheaper than the Xbox 360 version it even made up for all the shortcomings PS3 games have by default. Make no mistake though I'm buying this for Xbox 360 as soon as I find a cheap enough copy out there.
BioShock Infinite
I've heard a lot about this game so I was very reluctant at buying it, but because I got it for free this time I felt it was acceptable to at least give it a try. It froze after only a few minutes of gameplay and the overly convoluted story at the start of the game made it an extremely bad first impression, but I rebooted, installed an update for the game and replayed to the point I was and kept going, it hasn't frozen again yet and the story has become a bit more focused and less all over the place, it's still glitchy as fuck with enemies losing track of you when you're right infront of them and Elizabeth getting stuck because her AI is retarded and broken but at least it's playable and I like the variety of things you can do even if I would've strongly preferred being able to carry more than two weapons at a time. Seriously, this is a massively retarded limitation and needs to fucking stop being allowed to exist in videogames.
Brink Special Edition
I got this as cheap as is physically possible without getting it for free, so even if it sucks that's kind of okay. Actually I've looked it up and know it pretty much sucks as there aren't even female characters to play as in a game that prides itself on having customization options for the playable character.
[sarcasm]Yeah, really impressive having a whole one single character type to pick from, excuse me while I sit down as the sheer amount of options is making me lightheaded.[/sarcasm]
Metal Gear Solid V Ground Zeroes
I've played this on Xbox 360 and though it was so so, only one small area but at least you get a lot to do in that small area so it's okay, I guess, for the right price. The PS3 version was the cheaper of the two, otherwise I would've gotten the Xbox 360 version where I have my save file, obviously. I'll pick up the Xbox 360 version as soon as I can get it as cheap as I got this one.
Midway Arcade Origins
I don't know much about this. It was cheap and contains a small collection of really old arcade games.
Not exactly making use of the Blu-ray format as I imagine the disc space used for these old games can't possibly even reach double digit megabytes let alone the double digit gigabytes the disc they're on has to offer.
Saint Seiya Soldiers' Soul
I was really looking forward to this game but turns out I can't play it unless I take my PS3 online and downgrade to a newer official firmware, I'd rather just take a screwdriver and force it straight through the console than do a thing like that as the last time I did I permanently lost PS2 emulation, my Linux installed OtherOS and all my respect and trust to Sony as a company.
SuperCar Challenge
This is the first game on PS3 that when I've tried to play custom music in it it actually allowed me to do so, making this the first game on PS3 that actually takes that fundamental step in the right direction of being almost as good as all Xbox 360 games are by default as even the very worst games on Xbox 360 still all allowed me to play custom music without any objections, unlike all PS3 games I've tried doing so with until this one broke that trend, now if only there was a way to make PS3 not limit all games to PAL50 on an SDTV and to allow me to install games to the harddrive, then I wouldn't even need an Xbox 360 except for all the awesome exclusives PS3 never got and all the countless multiplats that run like ass on PS3 but run silky smooth and with a lot better anti-aliasing on Xbox 360.
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September 13th:
Today's second hand finds include but are not limited to..
PlayStation 2/PlayStation 3:
Buzz! USB Buzzers
Wii:
GoldenEye 007
CD:
Dr. Bombay - Rice & Curry
DVD:
Dennis The Menace Volume 4
Happy Tree Friends Volume 1 First Blood
Ice Age 4 Continental Drift
Figures:
2x Princess Peach (from Super Mario) with.. wait for it.. an umbrella! ACTION FEATURE IN YO FACE SUCKA BOOM SHAKALAKA RAMA LLAMA DING DONG BLAM!!!!
Yoshi (from Super Mario) with egg laying action feature (it's weirder than it sounds as after the eggs have been hatched from this big cum colored lump Yoshi's sitting on you twist a wheel and THEY GO BACK IN!)
Other:
Vinyl Records
POGs
a giant oversized novelty pencil
more figures (examples: Smurfette, Minions, Snoopy characters and Bloom from WinX Club)
other random stuff (examples: an old McDonald's Angelica Pickles in racing kart toy from 1998 and My Little Pony face masks of Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, Rarity and Rainbow Dash)
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September 27th:
Today's second hand finds include but are not limited to..
DVD:
The 3 Wise Men
WinX Club 3 Vol. 3
WinX Club 3 Vol. 5
A trip to the local GameStop the day after my birthday resulted in some nice finds.
Xbox 360:
Fuse
I've had this on PS3 for ages but haven't even taken off the plastic wrapping of it's case yet. I'll probably end up playing this version first now as the PS3 game is tucked away somewhere in a box full of other PS3 games I got but never played as PS3 just isn't a very good console despite having all the potential in the world to outclass and outperform Xbox 360 in every conceivable way, if only Sony didn't work so hard to ruin it it could've been the only console you needed, instead they gave away the entire market to Microsoft and kept doing so until Microsoft screwed up so badly with their brand that PS4 was the only thing left to buy unless you want to go back a generation or two and pay for overpriced Nintendo garbage, and I think the sales for Wii and Wii U in later years have shown just how willing the market is to do just that.
Shadows of the Damned
I've been meaning to pick this up for a long time but it just never happened until now. Better late than never.
The Bureau XCOM Declassified
I'm not a fan of the XCOM series, I've played an older MS-DOS game in the series called UFO and it was alright if a bit boring and visually uninteresting and every newer game in the series I've tried has just been the same thing with better visuals and presentation, still too boring though. This seems to be a spinoff that set out to fix most if not all the issues I have with the series so if done right I may like it as I'm a fan of the setting in the games just not the execution.
Transformers Dark of the Moon
I recently got hold of the Wii version of this game, it didn't have robots, just vehicles, it was motion control only and the visuals were really weak, so this will probably be a lot better having robots, nice visuals and proper controls.
The Wii version came with a toy car though, this version does not, still I think this version has the Wii version beat in every other way and because I already have the Wii version and the toy car that came with it I really have nothing to complain about! Except of course how shitty these new Transformers movies are and how the series is dead to me because of them and all that, but hey, at least the games based on these new shitty movies are endlessly better than that Devastation garbage Platinum games regurgitated onto the market not long ago, fucking worthless PS2 budget bargain bin level crap.
PlayStation 3:
Binary Domain
I've played the demo on Xbox 360 and thought it was okay, I don't know how i'll be able to use the voice features in this game on a PS3 as I don't have a PS3 compatible headset with mic but I guess I can always buy the XBox 360 version to try that out some other day. For now the PS3 version was so much cheaper than the Xbox 360 version it even made up for all the shortcomings PS3 games have by default. Make no mistake though I'm buying this for Xbox 360 as soon as I find a cheap enough copy out there.
BioShock Infinite
I've heard a lot about this game so I was very reluctant at buying it, but because I got it for free this time I felt it was acceptable to at least give it a try. It froze after only a few minutes of gameplay and the overly convoluted story at the start of the game made it an extremely bad first impression, but I rebooted, installed an update for the game and replayed to the point I was and kept going, it hasn't frozen again yet and the story has become a bit more focused and less all over the place, it's still glitchy as fuck with enemies losing track of you when you're right infront of them and Elizabeth getting stuck because her AI is retarded and broken but at least it's playable and I like the variety of things you can do even if I would've strongly preferred being able to carry more than two weapons at a time. Seriously, this is a massively retarded limitation and needs to fucking stop being allowed to exist in videogames.
Brink Special Edition
I got this as cheap as is physically possible without getting it for free, so even if it sucks that's kind of okay. Actually I've looked it up and know it pretty much sucks as there aren't even female characters to play as in a game that prides itself on having customization options for the playable character.
[sarcasm]Yeah, really impressive having a whole one single character type to pick from, excuse me while I sit down as the sheer amount of options is making me lightheaded.[/sarcasm]
Metal Gear Solid V Ground Zeroes
I've played this on Xbox 360 and though it was so so, only one small area but at least you get a lot to do in that small area so it's okay, I guess, for the right price. The PS3 version was the cheaper of the two, otherwise I would've gotten the Xbox 360 version where I have my save file, obviously. I'll pick up the Xbox 360 version as soon as I can get it as cheap as I got this one.
Midway Arcade Origins
I don't know much about this. It was cheap and contains a small collection of really old arcade games.
Not exactly making use of the Blu-ray format as I imagine the disc space used for these old games can't possibly even reach double digit megabytes let alone the double digit gigabytes the disc they're on has to offer.
Saint Seiya Soldiers' Soul
I was really looking forward to this game but turns out I can't play it unless I take my PS3 online and downgrade to a newer official firmware, I'd rather just take a screwdriver and force it straight through the console than do a thing like that as the last time I did I permanently lost PS2 emulation, my Linux installed OtherOS and all my respect and trust to Sony as a company.
SuperCar Challenge
This is the first game on PS3 that when I've tried to play custom music in it it actually allowed me to do so, making this the first game on PS3 that actually takes that fundamental step in the right direction of being almost as good as all Xbox 360 games are by default as even the very worst games on Xbox 360 still all allowed me to play custom music without any objections, unlike all PS3 games I've tried doing so with until this one broke that trend, now if only there was a way to make PS3 not limit all games to PAL50 on an SDTV and to allow me to install games to the harddrive, then I wouldn't even need an Xbox 360 except for all the awesome exclusives PS3 never got and all the countless multiplats that run like ass on PS3 but run silky smooth and with a lot better anti-aliasing on Xbox 360.
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September 13th:
Today's second hand finds include but are not limited to..
PlayStation 2/PlayStation 3:
Buzz! USB Buzzers
Wii:
GoldenEye 007
CD:
Dr. Bombay - Rice & Curry
DVD:
Dennis The Menace Volume 4
Happy Tree Friends Volume 1 First Blood
Ice Age 4 Continental Drift
Figures:
2x Princess Peach (from Super Mario) with.. wait for it.. an umbrella! ACTION FEATURE IN YO FACE SUCKA BOOM SHAKALAKA RAMA LLAMA DING DONG BLAM!!!!
Yoshi (from Super Mario) with egg laying action feature (it's weirder than it sounds as after the eggs have been hatched from this big cum colored lump Yoshi's sitting on you twist a wheel and THEY GO BACK IN!)
Other:
Vinyl Records
POGs
a giant oversized novelty pencil
more figures (examples: Smurfette, Minions, Snoopy characters and Bloom from WinX Club)
other random stuff (examples: an old McDonald's Angelica Pickles in racing kart toy from 1998 and My Little Pony face masks of Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, Rarity and Rainbow Dash)
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September 27th:
Today's second hand finds include but are not limited to..
DVD:
The 3 Wise Men
WinX Club 3 Vol. 3
WinX Club 3 Vol. 5
Tuesday, August 2, 2016
Gaming Purchases - Augusti 2016
Augusti 2nd:
A trip to the local GameStop.
PlayStation Portable:
GameStop PSP Unique Pack (contains a USB charger and transfer cable, screen protector and travel case)
Xbox 360:
Nascar 08
Test Drive Unlimited 2
Other:
LEGO DC Super Heroes Wonder Woman LED pocket light
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Augusti 30th:
Today's second hand finds.
Game Boy Color:
Spider-Man with plastic protective case (missing box and manual)
PC:
Need for Speed Underground (complete)
Figures:
Mario (from Super Mario) with jumping sound effect
Boo Diddley (from Super Mario) with sticking out tongue action feature
Dragon (from Shrek) with sound effects (broken sound effect and is missing her wings, sadly)
Moto Moto (from Madagascar) with sound effects
Battle Cat (from He-Man)
CD:
South Park Bigger, Longer & Uncut Movie Soundtrack
DVD:
Ralph Bakshi's Coonskin
Other:
3x TDK VHS-C video camcorder tapes
RCA composite video and audio to 3,5mm converter
2x aimable water taps for sink faucets
Comics:
multiple Buzz Lightyear comics
A trip to the local GameStop.
PlayStation Portable:
GameStop PSP Unique Pack (contains a USB charger and transfer cable, screen protector and travel case)
Xbox 360:
Nascar 08
Test Drive Unlimited 2
Other:
LEGO DC Super Heroes Wonder Woman LED pocket light
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Augusti 30th:
Today's second hand finds.
Game Boy Color:
Spider-Man with plastic protective case (missing box and manual)
PC:
Need for Speed Underground (complete)
Figures:
Mario (from Super Mario) with jumping sound effect
Boo Diddley (from Super Mario) with sticking out tongue action feature
Dragon (from Shrek) with sound effects (broken sound effect and is missing her wings, sadly)
Moto Moto (from Madagascar) with sound effects
Battle Cat (from He-Man)
CD:
South Park Bigger, Longer & Uncut Movie Soundtrack
DVD:
Ralph Bakshi's Coonskin
Other:
3x TDK VHS-C video camcorder tapes
RCA composite video and audio to 3,5mm converter
2x aimable water taps for sink faucets
Comics:
multiple Buzz Lightyear comics
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