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

On my own note - I just remembered that I pre-ordered the physical special edition of Hyper Light Drifter on Switch from Ablylight publishers. Says it should ship sometime in January. This is a game that I currently have digitally on PS4, Switch and even iOS (impulse buy when it was on sale for like £1.99 last year)

I am really stoked to receive as it has the soundtrack physically which I still like collecting. Hyper Light Drifter is closing in on Resident Evil 4 for the most re-purchases of the same game!

@RogerRoger Had to google the non-Wolfenstein ones. The enemy in the first Blake Stone image looks like a grumpy banker! I'm already on the way to failing my non-purchase resolution. Two weeks into the year and I've already bought New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe and Paper Mario: The Origami King. There was an eBay voucher involved, so it would have been stupid not to, right?

@TheOtherEden Heads up. Best Buy has a steelbook for the PS4 version now.

@Ralizah Woah that’s insane. I’m assuming the steelbook will be exclusive to Best Buy? I hope it doesn’t get hard to find because I’m thinking about waiting for a price drop for this one. Trying to avoid paying 60 dollars for games nowadays lol.

@TheOtherEden Yeah, it is. Although I'm sure people will put it up on ebay for a premium soon after launch.

@Ralizah Really you think so? Past Altus steelbooks have been very plentiful even post launch. Heck you can even still find the steelbook for Royal brand new in some places. I just hope this one isn’t any different. I wish it wasn’t store exclusive.

@TheOtherEden Previous steelbooks, afaik, weren't retailer-specific, so they were likely produced on a much larger scale.

What I can say is that the steelbook for Bloodstained, which was also a Best Buy "exclusive" for preordering, is a bit difficult to find now, and seems to fetch prices of $50+ online.

But, who knows? Maybe they'll be more plentiful.

@Ralizah Yeah Honestly I’m conflicted. You have a good point. I’m trying to save a bit of money this time around and I don’t want to buy the game at full price because of fear of losing the steelbook but then, oh look it’s 6 months later and you can find the game with the steelbook for 30 bucks.

But at the same time if I don’t preorder it, like you said it could end up meaning that the steelbook becomes really expensive and hard to find. Man tough decision honestly.

Btw the way it says on Best Buy it kind of makes it sound like you get the regular case and the steelbook case too. I wonder if that’s actually the case honestly.

@TheOtherEden I'm pretty sure the steelbook ships as a separate item, so you should also get the normal case as well.

You could always preorder the game, keep the steelbook, and sell the game itself online for a little under MSRP to make your money back.

@Ralizah I think I’m gonna give in and preorder Persona 5 Strikers. I said I was gonna save money on games this year but honestly that steelbook is so tempting. 😭 I’m just worried that it might become hard to find. Plus this is one of those games I don’t really want to wait months to play. Aw man.

I'm sat here waiting for my Collectors edition of Hyper Light Drifter for Switch. It was shipped last week from Spain but SOME PEOPLE seemed to think Brexit was a good idea and now it is taking longer for it to arrive. I rarely, if ever, get collectors edition but it was actually affordable and came with quite a lot of cool things so I went with it.

@RogerRoger

I Remember them, i loved Duke Nukem 1 & 2 (they were the first 2 duke games, pre Duke Nukem 3D's huge jump in graphics, audio and almost adult content), Crystal Caves & the Commander Keen Games

its funny you'd find more power in a typical watch today than in any home PC's when these games came out originally!

Jenny LeClue - Detectivu on the Switch eshop. $3, and the game seems to be highly regarded among the very few people who have played it.

@TheOtherEden Nice. I've thought about picking up a second copy of P5S on PS4 to complete my steelbook collection on that system, but I dunno. I'll probably just stick with my Switch copy for now and then keep an eye out for second-hand PS4 steelboxes down the line.

So, I’d previously promised myself that I would never buy another PS3 game as I am intent on clearing ‘that’ backlog at the very least (current forecast for PS3 backlog completion is around April 2022)... but I just probably set that back a couple of weeks.

Just ordered Spec Ops: The Line after reading/over-hearing one too many comments about how innovative and special a game it was. I’m not really a first-person shooter kinda guy but from what I’ve been led to believe it is not your typical first person shooter either.

@colonelkilgore It’s such a unique first person shooter that the game’s in third person 😛

@nessisonett no way, well it’s already more my thing! I don’t know why I was so sure it was first person. Have you played it?

@colonelkilgore Yeah, it’s a really great game despite the flaws that come with the time period it was made in. It actually tries to make a point which is good.

@nessisonett well in that case, roll on April 2022 then. I’ve heard that the FUBAR play through is a legit plat-blocker... I’ve got quite a few of those on the horizon 🤔.

I've wanted Radiant Historia for a very long time; the original DS version was never released in Europe, and the 3DS port was produced in such limited quantities that it's now practically impossible to find at a reasonable price. I randomly decided to search on the Nintendo website and noticed that the eshop version was reduced to £6.74, so I'm pretty chuffed with that.

Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury. Dunno if I'll be getting to it right away, but, being a Nintendo game, there's zero reason to wait to buy it later if I know I'm going to play it at some point. It's not like they go down in price.

@RogerRoger Nice. Deus Ex. I have Human Revolution on my PC. Have been intending to boot it up sooner or later, since Cyberpunk turned out to be a bit of a disappointment. It's one series I've wanted to play for a long time.