Just ordered Greedfall: Gold Edition, Grand Theft Auto The Trilogy: The Definitive Edition and Project Cars: Game of the Year Edition on Xbox for €60 in total.
Greedfall has been on my watchlist for a while now actually, so I'm looking forward to giving it a go. In terms of the GTA trilogy, I bought it since it was only €25 and because I really want to give Vice City a proper go this time around. Playing the game on 360 made it feel extremely outdated and unimpressive with its poor controls, the frame rate drops and being forced to drive all the way back when you fail missions. The definitive edition has so many improvements that hopefully it will make me like Vice City a lot more. The same goes for when I play San Andreas in the future. And I'm really hoping most of the collection's technical issues have been fixed now.
I've also become interested in checking out other racing games besides Forza, and Project Cars managed to catch my eyes. I might buy more racing titles soon, such as Project Cars 2, Need for Speed Heat and Hot Pursuit, Burnout Paradise, Dirt, Grid and so on.
Bought some more games on Xbox, mostly racing titles. This time I ordered Dirt 4, Project Cars 2, Need for Speed Heat and Star Wars: Squadrons. Really thrilled to be expanding my collection of racing games and I've got another batch that I'm planning on buying soon. Can't wait to delve into all these franchises that are new to me!
I also got Squadrons because my recent purchase of Chorus has made me more interested in space shooters and since it's Star Wars, I have fairly high hopes for it. Looking forward to playing it as well!
Not strictly speaking purchases, but in the process of putting the games room back together I found a box of Dreamcast games that I thought had been lost in the last house move - including "Shadowman", "Legacy of Kain" and "Skies of Arcadia". A nice little bonus - assuming they still work, of course.
@nessisonett Yeah - I looked at buying a replacement copy a while back but the Gamecube version (is it a straight port?) was way cheaper so I ended up going with that instead. This box of games has been in a variously damp/scorching hot awning over a garage for the better part of five years so I'm not super confident they'll still work if I'm being honest. We'll see once I get my DC up and running again.
@LN78 The GameCube version is one of those Dreamcast ports which is better in some aspects and worse in others. The soundtrack is heavily compressed but there’s various improvements elsewhere. It’s still a great game regardless! I think Dreamcast discs are supposed to deteriorate badly though so hopefully it’s alright.
@nessisonett I've never had issues with disc rot or anything like that with Dreamcast discs but I have noticed that even apparently superficial scratches can render them unplayable in many instances. I really hope "Soul Reaver:LoK" still spins. If memory serves it's the best version by miles and a total classic.
PS Just read Nichelle Nichols has died. Sad news.
@Ralizah Nice little bargains you got there. TWoM is a good game but I found it incredibly difficult to play for more than a few hours. I might have made some bad decisions in the game, but there are some things you can do in the game which made me feel really uncomfortable. Not a game to play if you need cheering up.
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@JohnnyShoulder I'm not generally a huge fan of 2D puzzle-platformery games, but I recall Sammy raving about the game and am extra interested in games that'll show off the capabilities of my new OLED Switch, so for $2, I thought: "Why not?"
Yeah, I'm not sure how I'll feel about TWoM. I don't really think my view of humanity or expectations for the future of our species can go much lower at this point, so I doubt it'll bother me, but I'm not the sort who takes immense joy in emotional torture porn, either. It also seems like the sort of game that might not control well on a console. I assume you played on a PS4/5. Did you have any control issues with the game?
@Ralizah Yeah I played it on PS4 and I don't recall any control issues, but it was a number of years ago. I think you directly control the player character. A quick Google and some people have reported that aiming and goining in/out of buildings can be a bit fiddly on consoles.
Life is more fun when you help people succeed, instead of wishing them to fail.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
Just ordered Dirt 5, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered and Burnout Paradise Remastered on Xbox. Been playing a lot of NFS: Payback and I'm loving the sections where you wreck other cars, so I just had to get Hot Pursuit and Burnout Paradise since those games are all about that. I also had a good time trying out Dirt 5 so I'm looking forward to playing the full game.
Didn't purchase these games now, but I "rediscovered" DriveClub on PS4, Need for Speed Most Wanted on Vita and Ridge Racer Unbounded on PS3 (funny enough, one racing game for every PlayStation console I have lol). Got all these games a long time ago but deleted them since I wasn't into racing games back then. I'm now very excited to give these a go, especially DriveClub since I've heard great things about it and Most Wanted since it's a handheld open world racer.
This is a bucket list game for me - it took a bloody long time to find one that didn't cost the same as a black market liver. I just hope it's as good as its reputation suggests!
@LN78 Interesting, didn't know the game was rare. I remember Microsoft giving away the digital version on Xbox Live Gold some time ago and so I've had it in my backlog all this time. I just thought it was another one of those arcade titles from Japan, lol.
I just looked it up and apparently, it's only available on Xbox 360 in the West, which is super weird! Makes me glad then that I managed to snag it for free. I also saw that it's made by Treasure, who also made the Sin & Punishment games on N64/Wii. I've played the Wii game, which was phenomenal, so I might just have to give Radiant Silvergun a go as well.
@LtSarge I can testify from personal experience that the Saturn version is an absolute ballache to find - at least with a sensible pricetag. Mine doesn't have the spine card (which a lot of hardcore Saturn completionists insist upon) - if it had it would've probably cost double what I paid. I was gutted that I missed that 360 version way back when - as well as all of those brilliant delisted Konami arcade ports. "Ikaruga" (spiritual successor to "Radiant Silvergun") is another Japanese Shmup that you might like - cheap on Switch, stupid money on Gamecube.
Just bought Valiant Hearts: The Great War, Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway, Grow Up and I Am Alive in the Ubisoft sale on Xbox for a total of €15. Looking forward to playing these games!
@LtSarge Valiant Hearts is a great little game. I really liked the art style, the puzzles were interesting but never frustrating, and it combined the WWI history into the game really well.
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