Last games you bought?

Mr E

What are the last 3 games you bought? Were they on impulse? Based on reviews? Did you like them, are you still playing them, or were they a disappointment? Are they now gathering dust?

I've only bought 2 recently...

Warioware Twisted. I was a fan of the original GBA game, and of the DS game, so as soon as the USA version was released, I ordered it. I received it last week (just as well, seeing as the euro release has been delayed for another few months). Fantastic fun, and much better than Warioware Touched on the DS. The minigames, toys and souvenirs are really cool too, and make you want to keep playing. "Up there" with the original GBA warioware.

PacPix (DS). Bought on impulse over the weekend, and I don't regret it. It really gets tricky later on (I'm stuck on chapter 5 (of 12) in book 1, and there is a second (harder) book afterwards. Fun game....

kaimera

last 3 ::

all xbox >>

Forza: wanted.
MC3 : wanted but the bro bought it on impulse.
Rugby05 : impulse

monkeyfudge

The last game I bought new in a shop was Champions: Return to Arms for the PS2. I needed a new multiplayer game to play with my nephew and he enjoyed the Baldur's Gate games on the PS2. Although we haven't played it too much as he's become obsessed with Lego Star Wars since seeing Revenge of the Sith.

I picked up some second hand games recently too (from a seller on boards)... including Majora's Mask for the N64 and Metroid: Zero Mission. I really got stuck into Zero Mission, and I've almost got it beat except for the very last two space pirates who keep killing me before I can escape..

steviec

I've a terrible memory but I think it's this:

Alien Hominid(PS2) - discovered the limited signed edition was available so bought it on impulse

Mercury(PSP) - based on reviews and what I'd heard about it(and I wasn't disappointed!)

Mario Party 6- based on it being always fun in multiplayer

Retr0gamer

Megaman Anniversary collection: I've been waiting almost a month for this so have a feeling it's lost in postland. 8 classics that are some of the best games ever made at a decent price. It can't be bad.

Devil May Cry 3: Bastard hard game but still excellent. Bought on the strength of the reviews and my love of most things Capcom.

Viewtiful Joe 2: Played it only to see if it worked. Too similar to DMC3 so am waiting until I finish that before I start this game. Bought because of good reviews and because I love the first game.

All 3 made by Capcom, weird

Haven't bought much else recently. Was saving for my PC upgrade.

Kinetic^

All Xbox:

NBA Live 2005
Tiger Woods 2005
Madden NFL 2005

(EA Sports are making a killing off me every year)

CiDeRmAn

Bought Advance Wars the other day and can't put it down. fantastic stuff, can't believe I waited this long to buy it, read the recent article in Edge about it and had to get a copy. Bought Chronicles of Riddick escape from Butcher Bay, another great and now quite cheap title for the Xbox, very good indeed. Also bought Untold Legends for the PSP, its very nice indeed, wanted to play a dungeon trawler and also wanted something new for the PSP, then killed 2 birds with one stone. I have also been filling up my home collection of PS1 titles, especially now that they have gotten very cheap to pick up 2nd hand, got Wipeout 2097 and a few others for €3 each, not so bad, now if only a copy of Castlevania SOTN would turn up.

Earthhorse

Bought Metroid Fusion and Donkey Kong Country 2 'cos I got a DS and figured I'd invest in the back catalogue of GBA games.

When I was in the Game store I decided to take a look at the Doom 3 expansion but didn't really intend on buying it. They were selling it for €30 so I said fekkit, I'll get it!

After the guy scanned it in he went out to the shelf and started taking the copies off the shelves. Turns out they'd just marked it wrong!

Stephen

The last game i bought was Midnight Club 3 dub edition, pre-owned on xbox a couple of weeks ago, still playing it for the odd hour here and there. Pretty graphics and not as rock hard as its predecessor. There's some great fun to be had when you've got a fast car or bike, nitrous, and some ridiculous ramps and hills.
Before that... probably Outrun 2 (again preowned) on xbox. It was good for about 3 minutes.
And before that... Trackmania sunrise on PC. Fun but short lived.

Next purchase: GTA SA on PC. I know its out in the states today - anyone know of any Irish shops likely to break the June 10th release date on it?

Gilgamesh

last three games, hmm...
well, there was SWG last weekend, kinda like it too.
Bought a GC and am seriously hooked on Tales of Symphonia now,
will be getting a PS2 on thursday now, and might get DMC 3 for it

jaggeh

Empire earth 2 - fantastic game, AI and skirmish options are top notch, map editor is easy to use and quite good, single player campaigns while not too hard are interesting. plus i was a fan of the first game so i had to get it.

Eve Online - easy low maintenance game i dont mind paying the monthly fee for.

Everquest 2 - i like this game a lot, but im going on holiday at the end of this week and saw no point in renewing my subscription for 2 weeks and losing 2 weeks cos of holiday, renewal when i return

planned purchases - Battlefield 2 and City of heroes

Makaveli

GTA:SA for the PC. Posted today from play. Been waiting for this for a long time.

Tiger Woods 2004 for the GBA. Nice game for killing time, got it with the GBA.

F-Zero GP Legend for the GBA. Got it with the GBA too, brought back memories of the SNES game so I had to have it. Don't play it nearly as much as Tiger Woods though.

Haven't had any money to buy games, so San Andreas is the only one I've gotten since Christmas.

tman

a bunch of preowned games for the xbox. all fairly smeh (despite being games that xbox fanbois rave about)
Eternal Darkness & Resident Evil for the gamecube - replacing games that i'd previously sold when short on cash

and my play.com order for San Andreas pc posted earlier this afternoon

Smellyirishman

Guild wars.
Before that, Trackmania : Sunrise.
BF2 will be my next purchase.

Ri_Nollaig

xbox: halo2 (preowned) for only 15eur
pc: brothers in arms bit of a disappointment

rainbow kirby

Skies of Arcadia Legends(GC) - normally I'm not a huge RPG fan, but I'm really enjoying this so far. And it was only 7.50 *hugs staff discount*
Yoshi's Touch and Go (DS) - It's fun while it lasts. Wish I'd spent less than 30 euro on it though, it's short-lived.
TimeSplitters: Future Perfect (GC) - I LOVE this.

ShiverinEskimo

Jade Empire - Really wanted it based on IGN giving it 9.9 but then my xbox wont read the disc (long story) so just this evening borrowed my mates xbox to play it.

Pariah - not as bad as people say on boards but no groundbreaker either.

Brothers in Arms - Loved it.

(all Xbox in case thats not evdient)

Khalim

PC:
KotOR II - Sith Lords
(Haven't really played it yet, just got it 3 days ago)

GBA:
Astro Boy - Omega Factor (nice on the go)
Metroid Fusion (Haven't played this yet)

andrewie

PC: Championship manager 5 - possibly worst football game ever made, a complete waste of money

TheGreatOne

Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 16 (PC - Different but quite good)
Silent Hunter III (PC - Not bad, needs a long session though)
Action Replay Max (PS2 - does it count as a game?)

Dooom

PC: Boiling Point
PS2: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3
Xbox: Star Wars Episode 3 Revenge Of The Sith

All of the above I bought on Saturday, all impulse buys.
Boiling Point - Sh*t. At least till it gets mega patched.
Star Wars - Sh*t. Haven't a clue why I bought it.
DBZ3 I'm still playing, I mainly bought it because the second one was a good laugh, still playing it now, and still having a laugh. It's fun like...

amp

World of ****ing Warcraft..........

There is no other game.

I'm only posting because I'm bored because it's still 1 hour and 44 minutes until the server comes back up. Damn them and their maintenence upgrades, why can't they patch other servers and swap them over using network chicanary!!! I'VE JUST DINGED 40! I'VE GOT 47G! AND I HAVEN'T EVEN SKILLED UP YET!

ionapaul

Three budget titles for the PC:

-Neverwinter Nights
-Deus Ex
-Z:Steel Soldiers

Played half of Deus Ex's first level, seems fun, played a few hours of Neverwinter Nights, not as much fun as Baldur's Gate but I like it. I know if I buy GTA:SA I will stop playing everything else until I finish it...so haven't ordered it yet. But will probably crack sometime this week!

i_am_dogboy

Last games I bought.......

Electroplankton, great fish-music type stuff that's kept me entertained almost as much as animal crossing did.

Wario Ware touched, short, but incredible fun while it lasts and a great way to get funny looks in the bus/train.

Beyond Good and Evil, got this before christmas, college got in the way of games.......fantastic game, great story, characters and great fun to play.

I intend to go fetch RE4, Paper Mario 2 or Pikmin 2 but I really couldn't be bothered for now, having too much fun with tower of goo, wik and the fable of souls, and some other free games i've been playing around with the last while.

Grayarea

Xbox: Forza
PC: Silent Hunter III
Xbox: Doom III

Silent hunter is great, but you do need some time to play.
Forza is the best raceing game I have ever played. Cannot wait to use this on xbox live.
Doom is a very good conversion and excellent online.

thelordofcheese

i picked up Guardian heros advance and Shining force for the GBA in smyths for the princely sum of 50Euro.

Guardian heros kicks several flavours of ass..

Branoic

Hmm, I've gone on a bit of a buy frenzy over the last 2 months (well, it was a frenzy for me anyway) and bought 7 games.

I believe the 3 most recent were:

1) SWAT 4 (very good, but im thinking far too short. I've only had it 3 days and I'm already on mission 11 of 14. And that's 3 working days, too!)

2) Star Wars Jedi Academy. I'm exceptionally easily influenced and seeing Episode 3 got me gagging for some good light sabre action. My research led me to believe this was the best SW game for that. I don't know if that's true yet, as it only arrived in my lap here in work a few hours ago!

3) I think it was probably Pirates! Fun for about 5 hours, but extremely extremely repetitive. I couldn't believe all the glowing reviews in magazines and places like Gamespot. Very little variety, all the fights are the same, there's only 2 storeyline bad guys that you go after again and again and again. Nice graphics, fun idea, kept me avidly hooked for 5 hours, but then, meh.

Ronan|Raven

World of Warcraft... I had some sort of a life before the damn thing!

corblimey

PC Cossacks II: haven't actually installed it yet
PC Traffic Giant 2 (second hand): No instructions, so don't believe I got the best from it . Uninstalled last night
XBox Midnight Club Dub: Quite dull to begin with, but once you start making money, it's quite a lot of fun.

Next purchase: Inevitably, GTA:SA on the XBox.

tman

corblimey wrote:

XBox Midnight Club Dub: Quite dull to begin with, but once you start making money, it's quite a lot of fun.

i just gave up after 10 races.
dull, generic ****e imo

Stalfos

Baten Kaitos for the Gamecube: still playing this above average RPG after over 60 hours.

Dragon Ball Z Budokai 2, Gamecube: alright, kinda annoying though so i'm not playing it atm.

Resident Evil 4, Gamecube: Completed but amazing game.

Ri_Nollaig

Grayarea wrote:

Xbox: Forza

whats that actually like? the only racing game i ever liked was GT on the ps1 how similar is it? do you need to win races to gain money to upgrade the cars? and licenses for the better races?

Retr0gamer

Ri_Nollaig wrote:

whats that actually like? the only racing game i ever liked was GT on the ps1 how similar is it? do you need to win races to gain money to upgrade the cars? and licenses for the better races?

It's basically GT for the xbox except better.

DonkeyStyle \o/

What are the last 3 games you bought? Were they on impulse? Based on reviews? Did you like them, are you still playing them, or were they a disappointment? Are they now gathering dust?

GTA: SA - Played bits and pieces of the PS2 version, and if it's anything like GTA3 or Vice City then it's got to be good! Still waiting on my sister to come home with it... only about another hour of waiting to go

NFSU:2 - Bought on the strength of the demo, played it to death, loved it, still installed but haven't played it in a good while... it just doesn't feel as fast on my TFT.

HL2 - Bought based on preview footage and general hype, still installed, but I haven't bothered playing it through more than once... shocking I know

These are all PC versions by the way, I haven't bought a console game in years (although obviously I'm a fan of some of the console -> PC conversions )
I've been burned way too many times buying games I've never heard of on impulse... of course that was mostly back in the era of cartridges, where you don't usually get to play a demo of it.... still, some hard lessons learned with all the shít games I've bought over the years.

mewso

GTA (SA) - about 5 minutes ago. Think I can safely say it will be good.
Boiling Point Road to Hell - Genius imho even with the bugs.
Beyond Good and Evil - budget. Excellent.

Retr0gamer

Bought a few yesterday. These are just initial impressions.

Halo 2: Disappointingly average the second time playing this. At least there is the fantastic Co-op mode.
Zelda Minish Cap: It's zelda by Nintendo/Flagship Capcom. Therefore its brilliant. I didn't expect anything less.
Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Excellent little puzzle game
Mr. Driller Drill Spirits: Frustrating yet maddeningly addictive puzzler. Should more than tide me over until I get round to ordering Meteos.

Mr E

Add GTA:SA (PC) to my initial list. Looking forward to tonight!

qwertz

GTA San Andreas, bought yesterday evening

Ri_Nollaig

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote:

HL2 - Bought based on preview footage and general hype, still installed, but I haven't bothered playing it through more than once... shocking I know

not really i didnt think HL2 had much replayablity either only played through it once too

and guess i will get froza on the xbox now

RuggieBear

GTA:SA


it's good,you know?

arbeitsscheuer

Call of Duty - One of the best games I have ever played - and Silent Hunter III - the best subsim I have ever played. I just know the next game I buy is gonna be a dud... Law of Averages and all that. (Having said that, I bought Silent Hunter II a few years ago and that was sh*te, so maybe it all evens out anyway)

tman

Chronicles of Riddick (pc) - seems alright... I'm not too big into the FPS genre these days though.

Gamecube
Viewtiful Joe - bought for the second time
PN03 - ditto
Super Mario Sunshine - same
Ikaruga - haven't had a chance to play it yet (that's a lie actually. Killer7 arrived in the post today, just as i'd sat down with a mug of tea ready for some black on white action)
Smash Bros Melee - seems like a weak sp game...
Killer7 - holy **** this is good!

now all i need to do is find time to play them all

rainbow kirby

Last ones I got:
PN03 (GC) - fun, and well worth the fiver I paid for it
SSX 3 (GC) - also fun... but July is not the time to be playing a snowboarding game. Also only a fiver though
Halo 2 (Xbox) - haven't got around to playing it yet... Still not finished Halo 1 yet. Stupid Xbox controller. Seriously thinking of getting rid of the Xbox.
Astro Boy: Omega Factor (GBA) - :D:D:D:D:D Astro Boy is love. It's sooooo good.
Advance Guardian Heroes (GBA) - enjoying this... I'm stuck though. Just don't want to have to go into devil mode.

And my current wish list?
Killer 7! Want it... am paid on Friday... have 2 weeks off work starting on Saturday... must fight temptation!
Also Ikaruga, Meteos, WarioWare Twisted...

Jimi-Spandex

GC- F-Zero GX and Timesplitters 2 both second hand.

Loving them both but I need to pick one alone to get stuck into. F Zero is rock though.

Still have to finish Skies of Arcadia. So many games so little time.

tman

rainbow kirby wrote:

Halo 2 (Xbox) - haven't got around to playing it yet... Still not finished Halo 1 yet. Stupid Xbox controller. Seriously thinking of getting rid of the Xbox.

heh. i did a couple of weeks ago. hadn't played it in over 3 weeks and i started getting sick of it taking up so much space
very unimpressive selection of games for that console, it's way too noisy and the controllers are crap.
gamecube for life etc etc

rainbow kirby

Jimi-Spandex wrote:

GC- F-Zero GX and Timesplitters 2 both second hand.

Great choice
I bought these games together... the day F-Zero GX came out.

tman wrote:

heh. i did a couple of weeks ago. hadn't played it in over 3 weeks and i started getting sick of it taking up so much space
very unimpressive selection of games for that console, it's way too noisy and the controllers are crap.

agreed 100%. I can't play Halo for more than an hour at a time because the controller makes my left hand cramp up when I'm playing FPS games... damn little girly hands of mine.

gamecube for life etc etc

\m/

Cravez

PC:
1) SWAT 4: Love multiplayer on this game, reason i got it was because im a fan of the other SWAT games.
2) Stronghold 2: Ok Strategy game but has technical flaws with my PC , reason why i bought it was because i felt i needed a strategy game fix and a break from other type of games
3) Guild Wars: Im a big RPG lover, and seein it was free subscriptions with those fantastic visuals, how could i resist? reason: Enough said

PS2:
1) Time Splitters Future Perfect: Best Timesplitters in the series, MUCH wider range of characters to use in Multiplayer, Single player is good also. Reason: Multiplayer action with mates
2) Devil May Cry 3: I loved this game, visuals and gameplay are flawless and the characters are superb. Dante must die mode is rightly hard though Reason: Loved the first game, couldnt resist this one!

TheAlmightyArse

Mad Maestro (PS2) - essentially a game of pressing one button over and over again, but is it fun? Mmmmm, yes. The first rhythm-action game I've played where you actually control the music, rather than just tapping buttons along with it, and it's really enjoyable and intuitive as a result. It's a shame about the slightly disappointing MIDI tracks, but the sound still impresses, as do the graphics. Loads to do, too. Hurrah!

The Curse of Monkey Island (PC) - just got it working, thanks to some lovely chaps in another thread. Seems like more of the same. Excellent!

Killer7 (Cube) - I've only finished the first level, but I like it. If the puzzles get better, I'll love it. If they don't, meh. It's really cool anyway. I think I prefer this Kevin Smith.

Gizzard

tman wrote:

heh. i did a couple of weeks ago. hadn't played it in over 3 weeks and i started getting sick of it taking up so much space
very unimpressive selection of games for that console, it's way too noisy and the controllers are crap.
gamecube for life etc etc

you might as well get rid of it now while you can with 360 coming out in a couple of months

smokingman

PC: GTR - I dare anyone to find a better racing game on ANY platform!!!

Cube : Conflict Desert Storm 2 - second hand but got bored and drove GTR instead

Resident Evil 4 : Got it the day it came out and have finished it 7 times, twice in pro mode.

Retr0gamer

God of War: Bloody fantastic game. Really pushes the PS2 to it's limits.
Gaurdian Heroes advance: Haven't played it yet
Gregory Horror Show: Haven't played it either :rolleyes:
Medal of Honour European Assault: Surprisingly good but not brilliant. The last boss is stupidly cheap so it's currently being punished.
Viewtiful Joe 2: Haven't played it.
Devil May Cry: Excellent game but driving me nuts. It's so bloody difficult.
Ninja Gaiden: Excellent game. Not as challenging as people make it out to be. Two and a half weeks is all it took me.
Mega Man Anniversary Collection: Well it finally arrived and I can't play it because my brother has my freeloader disc for Resi 4. I'm dying to play Megaman 2 again :mad:

I've also a load of games to get including Killer 7. Must remember that fridays are for picking up new games and not for drinking.