Did any of you bother with the cheap games in Tesco?

kunst nugget · 23-01-2014 2:49pm #1

Tesco are selling off a load of there games for all consoles for €5 and €1. Just wondering if any of ye bothering picking up some yourselves. I picked up a PS3 12 GB in Tesco in the first week of this month for €80 and in the last week or two I've picked up:
• Dead Island Riptide
• SSX
• Lost Planet 3
• Prototype 2
• The Darkness 2
• Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition
• Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
• Silent Hill HD Collection
• X-Men Destiny
• Grand Slam Tennis 2
• Tom Clancy Ghost Recon: Future Warrior
all for €5 each and
• Final Fantasy Xiii-2
• Lego Pirates of the Caribbean
for €1 each

I'd seen Aliens Colonial Marines and The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct going cheap but I didn't bother picking up either of them because the reviews were pretty dire on both.

As far as I can tell, the XBox has a similar amount of games going cheap with tonnes of copies of Gears of War3 in all the shops for a €5 and there's a fair few deals for the 3DS and DS like Fire Emblem, Resident Evil 6 and Tetris as well as some Pokemon, Moshi Monster and Lego games and Wii with the likes of Rayman Origins and Zelda: Skyward Sword in shops as well.

ripperman · 23-01-2014 2:55pm

kunst nugget wrote: »

Tesco are selling off a load of there games for all consoles for €5 and €1. Just wondering if any of ye bothering picking up some yourselves. I picked up a PS3 12 GB in Tesco in the first week of this month for €80 and in the last week or two I've picked up:
• Dead Island Riptide
• SSX
• Lost Planet 3
• Prototype 2
• The Darkness 2
• Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition
• Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
• Silent Hill HD Collection
• X-Men Destiny
• Grand Slam Tennis 2
• Tom Clancy Ghost Recon: Future Warrior
all for €5 each and
• Final Fantasy Xiii-2
• Lego Pirates of the Caribbean
for €1 each

I'd seen Aliens Colonial Marines and The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct going cheap but I didn't bother picking up either of them because the reviews were pretty dire on both.

As far as I can tell, the XBox has a similar amount of games going cheap with tonnes of copies of Gears of War3 in all the shops for a €5 and there's a fair few deals for the 3DS and DS like Fire Emblem, Resident Evil 6 and Tetris as well as some Pokemon, Moshi Monster and Lego games and Wii with the likes of Rayman Origins and Zelda: Skyward Sword in shops as well.

I really wanted to get Silent Hill HD but didnt see a copy in my local shop. I know Operation Racoon City and Riptide are there but meh I dont know, even at that price. Might get one of them!

krudler · 23-01-2014 2:58pm

my local one has about 50 copies of Modern Warfare 2 on the shelf, was mostly xbox games I saw and stuff like Mirror's Edge which I already have, must try the other store and see if they have more stuff

Zero-Cool · 23-01-2014 3:04pm

Will have to call in have a look, would love to try Riptide for that price.

kunst nugget · 23-01-2014 3:04pm

krudler wrote: »

my local one has about 50 copies of Modern Warfare 2 on the shelf, was mostly xbox games I saw and stuff like Mirror's Edge which I already have, must try the other store and see if they have more stuff

I started playing Dead Island Riptide and it seems decent enough - I think the main problem with it at the time was that it was a complete rehash of Dead Island which I don't have so for a fiver I'm quids in. An awful lot of the games aren't actually marked down and are not in the bargain bins so it's a case of going up to the price checker and just scanning them all in.

krudler · 23-01-2014 3:05pm

kunst nugget wrote: »

I started playing Dead Island Riptide and it seems decent enough - I think the main problem with it at the time was that it was a complete rehash of Dead Island which I don't have so for a fiver I'm quids in. An awful lot of the games aren't actually marked down and are not in the bargain bins so it's a case of going up to the price checker and just scanning them all in.

Oh really I thought it was just what was in the bins, interesting will check a few pity there isnt a list on their site

TerrorFirmer · 23-01-2014 3:06pm

ripperman wrote: »

I know Operation Racoon City and Riptide are there but meh I dont know, even at that price. Might get one of them!

Riptide is really boring if you already put time into Dead Island. I gave up after a few hours, exact same game.

If you can accept in your head that Racoon City is not a true Resident Evil game, you'll get enjoyment out of it. I liked the single player, and the multiplayer is actually hugely underrated, far superior to the main game. I put about 40 hours into the multiplayer alone - two human teams fighting each other in a zombie infested map works extremely well. I reckon if they ripped the MP portion out of the game and reskinned it as a non-RE product, it'd sell well as a game on Live/Steam.

CiDeRmAn · 23-01-2014 4:12pm

I picked up Dirt Showdown and Silent Hill HD Collection for a fiver each.
I missed out on the 3DS games though, would have loved to have picked up Donkey Kong and Fire Emblem, I got there a couple of hours after it began and nearly everything was gone.
I see their PS2 games are still laughably over priced though.

kunst nugget · 23-01-2014 4:15pm

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I picked up Dirt Showdown and Silent Hill HD Collection for a fiver each.
I missed out on the 3DS games though, would have loved to have picked up Donkey Kong and Fire Emblem, I got there a couple of hours after it began and nearly everything was gone.
I see their PS2 games are still laughably over priced though.

Was Dirt Showdown for PS3?

calex71 · 23-01-2014 4:16pm

All that was in out local was Gears 3 and Battlefield 3 for €5

kunst nugget · 23-01-2014 4:19pm

calex71 wrote: »

All that was in out local was Gears 3 and Battlefield 3 for €5

Check the Games Shelves themselves for more bargains and it can be a case of scanning all the games to find the bargains.

CiDeRmAn · 23-01-2014 4:57pm

kunst nugget wrote: »

Was Dirt Showdown for PS3?

360

Gatling · 23-01-2014 5:05pm

Picked up Gears 3 in tallaght today finally

Didn't have much 360 wise mostly Ds and Ps3 titles available and a few Wii games could be down to feck all stock wise ,

Was hoping for some kinect games for the kids

In saying that Cex in tallaght seem to have a good few pretty new looking titles on the preowned shelf's

Sgt Hartman · 23-01-2014 5:48pm

Picked up a cheap copy of Risen 2 there, was a crock of ****e

TheDoc · 23-01-2014 6:11pm

Ordered two pokemon games but order was cancelled today Alot of the stuff on sale has popped up on adverts for €20+ euro, and as Gatling said, a good lot of people going into shops trading them in.

Saw on Facebook a few people saying how they essentially flipped stuff in CEX and Smyths, annoying. If anyone got POkemon black and white and for some reason no longer wants them, I'll tkae em for face value

B.A._Baracus · 23-01-2014 6:17pm

Are we talking Tesco in Dublin or down the country?

kunst nugget · 23-01-2014 6:20pm

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Are we talking Tesco in Dublin or down the country?

Any Tesco that has games on sale.

cloud493 · 23-01-2014 7:33pm

I only got the DS games. Pretty satisfied though.

B.A._Baracus · 23-01-2014 8:08pm

Cheers kunst nugget.
Might pop over to that big tesco in Cabra. Hope they sell games. Anyone know if they do?

*edit*
Just back. Place was reefed out of it. Only saw one xbox 360 game for €5 - which was Gears of War 3. I picked up a copy but pssh, really wanted Lost Planet 3.

calex71 · 24-01-2014 1:03am

Just a heads up lads and ladies was in the tesco extra in Drogheda there not a few minutes ago and there was at least 4 to 6 shelves full of gears of war 3 and battlefield 3 yesterday , those same shelves seemed to have had their stock pulled with no trace of them anywhere , the shelves were just empty

ripperman · 24-01-2014 10:04am

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Riptide is really boring if you already put time into Dead Island. I gave up after a few hours, exact same game.

If you can accept in your head that Racoon City is not a true Resident Evil game, you'll get enjoyment out of it. I liked the single player, and the multiplayer is actually hugely underrated, far superior to the main game. I put about 40 hours into the multiplayer alone - two human teams fighting each other in a zombie infested map works extremely well. I reckon if they ripped the MP portion out of the game and reskinned it as a non-RE product, it'd sell well as a game on Live/Steam.

Ok cool. Cheers. I actually had it in my hand the last day bringing it to the checkout but then decided against it. Might pick it up when I head in this evening though. Still annoyed about Silent Hill not being there!

deathrider · 24-01-2014 1:55pm

Doesn't sounds anything like my local Tesco. I was in the last week and Red Steel on Wii was still fifty quid.

kunst nugget · 21-04-2014 7:21pm

Posted this in Bargain Alerts so I thought I'd post it here.

Tesco is selling off a load of their games for a fiver and a tenner if anyone feels the missed out on the bargains here and they want to console themselves.

Bayonetta, Uncharted 3, Condemned 2, Dark Souls Limited Edition, Arkham City, All Saints 3, Enslaved, Little Big Planet, Fallout New Vegas, Lost Planet 2, Dead Island, Castlevania, Mortal Kombat, Assassin's Creed 2 and a load of others are on sale for a fiver.

There's some like Street Fighter v Tekken, Hitman Absolution, Silent Hill: Downpour, Assassin's Creed 3, Devil May Cry HD Collection and a couple others too on sale for a tenner.

There was a Ratchet and Clank but I can't remember which one and Resistance 2 for 3 euros.

All depends on what they have in store. I was in a couple of Tescos over the course of the day and some of these were in different shops - not all of them together. A great sale though.

Obviously, these are all PS3 but there's a corresponding number of good titles for Xbox and loads on sale for the Wii as well as DS and 3DS. Even saw them selling off the old PSP games for 3 euro I think.

Just to add, don't bother with Condemned 2 on PS3 - it's gimped. I bought it and had to bring it back. When you try to update it, it resets the PS3 and the sound is awful if you don't update it.

cloud493 · 21-04-2014 7:37pm

Which tesco did you see ratchet in?

CiDeRmAn · 21-04-2014 7:45pm

I picked up DIRT 3 and Yakuza 4 for a fiver each yesterday
There was a lot of other PS3 and 360 titles on offer too.
50 for DJ Hero was a bit steep though.
10 for Skylanders, the first one of the series, for the 3DS and PS3.

cloud493 · 21-04-2014 7:50pm

I grabbed

Dragon quest VI on DS for €3
Last window DS for €3
Uncharted 3 for €5
Infamous for €5
Metroid prime trilogy for €10
Gormiti (some sort of kids novelty game, kinda like spectrobes) for €3
Tekken prime 3D for €5
Pilotwings for €10

ssba91 · 21-04-2014 7:54pm

cloud493 wrote: »

I grabbed

Dragon quest VI on DS for €3

Mind if I ask which Tesco you found Dragon Quest in?

cloud493 · 21-04-2014 7:57pm

ssba91 wrote: »

Mind if I ask which Tesco you found Dragon Quest in?

The one in santry

kunst nugget · 21-04-2014 8:06pm

cloud493 wrote: »

Which tesco did you see ratchet in?

Edenderry. Last one there. I've seen Dragon Quest VI in a couple of different stores. Should be easy enough to get.

ssba91 · 21-04-2014 8:19pm

cloud493 wrote: »

The one in santry

Cheers, bit far from me though. Anyone seen any in the south dublin area?

krudler · 22-04-2014 2:15pm

Saw some decent older games in Tesco earlier for 5-10 quid each, picked up Mortal Kombat, Super Street Fighter IV and MVC3 on ps3 for the princely sum of a fiver each.
Saw stuff like Final Fantasy XIII, MGS4, Infamous 2, WWE 12, Vanquish, and a few xbox titles like Alan Wake didnt really have a look at them much. Not a bad sale at all to pick up catalogue stuff or rebuy old titles.

Did any of you bother with the cheap games in Tesco?

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