Topic: Recent Retro/Misc Gaming Purchases? (Not PS4/PS5)

I've been playing quite a lot of New Star Manager on my phone again over the last few months.

I've won at least treble trebles in England, Spain, Italy, and Germany now! I eventually end up leaving as my squad gets too needy with development and contracts get too expensive to keep renewing.

I'm onto my next challenge in Scotland and holy crap the starting team are awful! I never remember having a team of only grey players at any point before and they really are not good

Bought a copy of Raging Loop for the Nintendo Switch.

I have been thinking about this game for a long time. Is it worth the purchase?

Well - after much saving (I have had a side project for the last year of Ebaying a lot of old vintage mementos from mine and my parents childhood as my father is a bit of a hoarder), I have invested in an Oculus Quest 2 headset and a cable to attach to my PC.

Half Life Alyx here I come!

@egbert Nightfire is one of the best multiplayer games from that time period. The campaign’s silly but great fun too.

@egbert I've only played the opening sequence to test it out, but I'm sure @RogerRoger would be able to help. Based on what I played it ran nicely and didn't look too shabby considering it's a GameCube game.

@egbert Nightfire is the best Bond game since GoldenEye on the N64. In alot of ways it feels like the true sequel to GoldenEye in gameplay and such. Even the multiplayer is alot of fun. If your a fan of GoldenEye then you will enjoy Nightfire.

Tales of Vesperia for the Switch. It was $12.50 digitally, so I was willing to take the plunge.

Well I haven't made a purchase yet but the post is in regards to purchasing stuff from the PS3's store so... It works... Right? 😅

My daughter and I have started making a list on all the stuff we want from the PS3's digital store and... F%€k me this gonna be one expensive endeavour.

Thank goodness it's had that stay of execution as I was NOT gonna shell out this much in so little time.

It's especially annoying now as things like Persona 2: Eternal Punishment, Raidou Kuzunoha are US store exclusive (Understandable as they only released in the US) but now thanks to some stuff already disappearing on the UK/EU stores now even things like Klonoa & Tomba/Tombi is US exclusive now so... Yay for extra hassle! 😧

Plus the PS3 store is absolute garbage to navigate. The PS4's store can be a bit cumbersome at times but it's lightning quick compared to the PS3's store!

World End Syndrome (or Worldend Syndrome, which is how it's listed on Nintendo's site, for some reason) on the Switch. It was on sale for $10, and the price changes in recent sales have been fairly erratic, so I thought it'd be a good idea to pick it up when it hit a new low. I really don't see it going much lower in price.

@RogerRoger I might just join you there with Hitman (albeit on Steam) as I’ve been curious about Contracts for a while now and that’s me all done with uni for this year!

@Ralizah World End Syndrome wasn't one I'd heard of before, but from looking at a quick trailer and overview, it seems like just my sort of thing.

I should totally find the time to play more visual novels. There's quite a few that appeal to me, but I keep sticking them on my wishlist and forgetting about them.

@crimsontadpoles It was lower priority for me than Raging Loop, but I already bought that, so this was next on the list. It seems like it leans into the daily life/social sim element a little more than I'd like, but it still sounds like an interesting experience. I like the Higurashi-esque premise, at least.

I'm a sucker for visual novels with horror/thriller elements, and the last few years have been pretty good on that front.

Although, yeah, I have a ton of these to 'play' as well. With the Great Ace Attorney games coming out soon, though, my visual novel/adventure game plate will be filled for quite a while.

Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology on the 3DS. The physical prices of the game are exploding, like they are with most of Atlus' 3DS line-up, and I don't know if Atlus will bother doing another sale on the platform again, so I decided to pick it up. Wasn't a big fan of the original game on the NDS, but maybe this version will be better.

@RogerRoger I wouldn't feel guilty over what you are playing, we all have different tastes and different moods to play certain stuff. As long as you are happy doing it and not making someone else unhappy at the same time (which is a very un-Rog thing to do), keep on doing it!

@RogerRoger Now you mention getting those games, I really should get back to Naruto. I watched from the start of Part 1 to the very end of Pain’s arc in a couple of months and so burnt out! I’ll probably binge classic Who until I burn out and then go back to Naruto 😂

@RogerRoger I'll give it to the next page and if that darn Naruto is still being mentioned, I think my finger will me hovering over the 'Ignore' button... joking of course!

@colonelkilgore Since you mentioned it yesterday and I realised the game is only on sale for a few more days, I decided to purchase Salt & Sanctuary. Will be playing it on the Vita though since it feels perfect for that system. I played it for 5 minutes just to see how the gameplay is like and it's pretty much a 2D version of Dark Souls. And it's really good! I'm glad that I decided to buy it since it honestly feels like a hidden gem.

I also bought PixelJunk Shooter Ultimate for €3 since I love twin-stick shooters and this is another game that looks perfect for handheld play so I'll be playing it on the Vita. I feel like the amount of games I have on my Vita is dwindling so it's nice to have a few more titles to play on it now.

@LtSarge yeah, I’ve always thought 2D games were perfect for handhelds. Sounds like it’s won you over pretty quick too as I know you sounded a bit on the fence about it yesterday. I’m a huge souls fan so I’ll be really interested to see how it pans out in two dimensions.

Also, I love twin-stick bullet-hells myself… never thought that I would but the sections in Nier: Automata converted me. I’ve got a few in my backlog but I’m keeping a close eye on Dead Nation and Alienation… the moment they get a price drop I’m gonna pick them up. 🤞it’ll be tomorrow.

@colonelkilgore I actually have a pretty mixed history with Souls games. On one hand I absolutely love the formula, but on the other I've played through both Dark Souls and Bloodborne by grinding so much that everything became too easy after a while. So I honestly can't say that I'm good at these games (yet) and I've still yet to play any other Souls game since those two. I really want to give another Souls game a go without grinding too much. Maybe I'll start up Dark Souls 2 one of these days and see how I fare at that game.