Future rare/collectable game lookout thread

Pyongyang · 22-07-2011 12:33PM

By the sounds of the last few posts anyone would think you's are taking a bus in to downtown Detroit!

Mr.Saturn · 22-07-2011 12:34PM

EnterNow wrote: »

Trip to town 40 mins in traffic.
Overly expensive car parking.
Excessive chugging.
Overly expensive retail sector due to high rent/rates.
Not much change out of €10 for a sambo & drink.
More sitting in traffic to get home.
Buses with junkies/scummers/both/all

Sorry dude, but if you think the above aint real/normal for a trip to Dublin city center, you need to come back to Earth

I guess it must be standard, if you like your days out to be ****e.....
I live in the southeast of Dublin though, so I imagine our bussing experiences may be completely contrasting.

o1s1n · 22-07-2011 12:38PM

EnterNow wrote: »

Nah, I'll just avoid going into the kip if at all possible

I try to be in there as much as I can. After living in the middle of it for two years, living back out in suburbia has me bored off my tits!

Andrew76 · 22-07-2011 12:47PM

Pyongyang wrote: »

By the sounds of the last few posts anyone would think you's are taking a bus in to downtown Detroit!

Ah now come on that's a bit harsh, no need to slag off Detroit like that! :pac:

Have to agree with you EnterNow, I can't stand town for a long time now either. Driving & parking or darting you get raped on travel costs either way. Cinema is rip off, game shops are rip off, food places are rip off (apart from a tasty Chinese on Capel St). Not to mention all the annoying people...

Myrddin · 22-07-2011 12:52PM

Mr.Saturn wrote: »

I guess it must be standard, if you like your days out to be ****e.....
I live in the southeast of Dublin though, so I imagine our bussing experiences may be completely contrasting.

Yeah, I love my days out to be crap :rolleyes:

Thankfully I don't have to use buses, but yeah, just because the likes of Terrenure bussing is pleasant doesn't mean they all are. As I mentioned, the 78A Thomas Street route is a particularly joyful excursion

o1s1n wrote: »

I try to be in there as much as I can. After living in the middle of it for two years, living back out in suburbia has me bored off my tits!

I can certainly understand that. There's a good buzz to city life too. My particular problem with Dublin city center shopping mainly though are the rip off prices. If it means buying from the net (to have some relevence in this thread

) I will happily buy online to save money. If the retailers fight their corner with rent/rates (which I know for a fact can be done, I've seen it done) & reduce their prices accordingly, then I'll happily support bricks n mortar.

CiDeRmAn · 22-07-2011 12:54PM

I find getting into Dublin a breeze, even though I am living in the sticks.
Hop in the car, head for the road behind the airport, down towards the Finglas rd and onto Glasnevin, past Mountjoy (on the lookout for pdbhps car, after being picked up for ram-raiding Game in his Micra), little shortcut there brings me to Mountjoy Sq, down Gardiner st, and a choice of parking, do I want to see if GameSexChange have even more overpriced copies of Fifa 92 for the MD or wander over towards Henry St?
All in all it takes me, once I don't head in at a gods-awful time of day, about 30 mins to get into town, not to bad.
The worst of it is paying for parking, hate hate hate that!
Haven't taken the bus in years, but every single time I say (or type) that I end up on the 41B within a week. Weird stuff right there.

Myrddin · 22-07-2011 12:56PM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Haven't taken the bus in years, but every single time I say (or type) that I end up on the 41B within a week. Weird stuff right there.

Renaults & French cars in general would hear the grass growing my friend...:D

Pyongyang · 22-07-2011 01:07PM

Andrew76 wrote: »

Driving & parking or darting you get raped on travel costs either way.

Commuting to town is super cheap with taxsaver.ie, I wouldn't be without my card. Saves me nearly €700 a year on travel.

EnterNow wrote: »

Renaults & French cars in general would hear the grass growing my friend...

I drive a Citroen currently and absolutely love it. Very economical, comfortable and reliable. I had a Mercedes before that. I wouldn't buy another Mercedes ever again, or a Renault (had a Renault a while ago). Both are piles of loose, watery stools.

Recently I had a choice between an RX8, 350Z and a C3 and weighed up the options and decided not to be a dicksqueezer*. In all honesty I wouldn't want my dog dribbling over the back seats of an RX8 or 350Z or my wife's facewipes and gossip magazines strewn all over the place. Cheap to insure, saves me a fortune in petrol and tax and importantly gets my mutt and shopping to and from wherever the good woman and I need to go.

Citroen has an odd rep, but there's lots of those chevron-badged cars hitting the roads now. Sorry for straying OT.

*that said I do have my eye on an S2000 for Sunday driving when appraisal season comes round again.

Myrddin · 22-07-2011 01:09PM

Andrew76 wrote: »

Ah now come on that's a bit harsh, no need to slag off Detroit like that! :pac:

Have to agree with you EnterNow, I can't stand town for a long time now either. Driving & parking or darting you get raped on travel costs either way. Cinema is rip off, game shops are rip off, food places are rip off (apart from a tasty Chinese on Capel St). Not to mention all the annoying people...

Finally, thank you!

pdbhp · 22-07-2011 01:21PM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

(on the lookout for pdbhps car, after being picked up for ram-raiding Game in his Micra)

Wrong, be on the look out for the manager of Game's car sticking out of the front of the shop all because he didn't have a weird Japanese obscurity for a pittance.

Eff Game!!

CiDeRmAn · 22-07-2011 02:25PM

Pyongyang wrote: »

I drive a Citroen currently and absolutely love it. Very economical, comfortable and reliable. I had a Mercedes before that. I wouldn't buy another Mercedes ever again, or a Renault (had a Renault a while ago). Both are piles of loose, watery stools.

Recently I had a choice between an RX8, 350Z and a C3 and weighed up the options and decided not to be a dicksqueezer*. In all honesty I wouldn't want my dog dribbling over the back seats of an RX8 or 350Z or my wife's facewipes and gossip magazines strewn all over the place. Cheap to insure, saves me a fortune in petrol and tax and importantly gets my mutt and shopping to and from wherever the good woman and I need to go.

Citroen has an odd rep, but there's lots of those chevron-badged cars hitting the roads now. Sorry for straying OT.

I have had 2 Citroen Xantias and 1 C5.
The first Xantia was killed by it's own timing belt
The 2nd one fell apart.
The C5 was so expensive to maintain it beggars belief, nothing but trouble, between the suspension, handbrake (Attached to the front wheels for extra fun), valves, clutch, gearbox, numerous mysterious pipes under the bonnet and one hydraulic pipe that sprung a leak in the wheel arch.

My current car is a Renault Scenic 2 and that's a pile of fetid dingos kidneys as well, the engine is doing the most unusual things and after changing coils and plugs and having a Renault tech look at it I'm no closer to the solution, oh and the AC doesn't work nor does the window washer. And I had to repair the rear passenger window and the front driver side window mechanisms.
Lots and lots of fun.

Next time I'm buying a flipping Mazda or a Nissan!

Retr0gamer · 22-07-2011 02:29PM

The timing belts on Renaults are absolutely ****e. It says they should be replaced every 70,000 km. You'd think it would snap a little bit after that then. Well mine snapped in my clio at just below 50,000 km and once the timing belt goes the engine needs a rebuild. Got it rebuilt and the guy doing it showed me that the power steering belt was hanging on by a thread as well. Other than that it's working fine, think I got lucky.

CiDeRmAn · 22-07-2011 02:32PM

Timing chains rock!
No breaky!
Just the odd adjustment, much better.

I'd love to get a Mazda RX-8, just to confound my mechanic!

Myrddin · 22-07-2011 03:11PM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Timing chains rock!
No breaky!
Just the odd adjustment, much better.

I'd love to get a Mazda RX-8, just to confound my mechanic!

Ah, wenkel woes abound

Pyongyang · 22-07-2011 03:17PM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I'd love to get a Mazda RX-8, just to confound my mechanic!

It's what put me off getting one. That and the absurd MPG. I used to own a Ford Explorer and that thing got 12 MPG. That's the worst car I've owned for fuel economy, that said it was an absolute trooper, rarely let me down even in the stifling heat and salt air in Cayman.

I hated the Renault I had. Head gasket blew, electrics were wired up by someone with the IQ of a bubble in a malteaser. Rotten, horrible cars.

Love our Citroen though. I'd look to buy another one in the future if it keeps going like it has.

pdbhp · 22-07-2011 06:05PM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Timing chains rock!
No breaky!
Just the odd adjustment, much better.

I'd love to get a Mazda RX-8, just to confound my mechanic!

I've had timing chains snap on me or worse stay on but jump a couple of teeth thus smashing the pistons into the expensive to replace valves, amusingly enough I've never had a timing belt snap on me even one I had with over 100k on it

Optimus Prime · 22-07-2011 06:13PM

I only changed mine on my ford focus recently at 180km! First time i changed it too, i do a lot of driving in and out to work. im on 208km now on an 05 focus.

CiDeRmAn · 22-07-2011 06:39PM

pdbhp wrote: »

I've had timing chains snap on me or worse stay on but jump a couple of teeth thus smashing the pistons into the expensive to replace valves, amusingly enough I've never had a timing belt snap on me even one I had with over 100k on it

Well ain't you but a motoring oddity, confounding normal automotive expectations at every turn!

pdbhp · 22-07-2011 06:45PM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Well ain't you but a motoring oddity, confounding normal automotive expectations at every turn!

You forgot to mention my awesomeness:pac::pac:

Myrddin · 22-07-2011 06:54PM

pdbhp wrote: »

I've had timing chains snap on me or worse stay on but jump a couple of teeth thus smashing the pistons into the expensive to replace valves, amusingly enough I've never had a timing belt snap on me even one I had with over 100k on it

Focus/Mondeo belts are 10 years/100k afaik. But yeah, chains all the way. DPDT switches too :rolleyes:

Pyongyang · 23-07-2011 08:22AM

James Howlett wrote: »

I saw Castlevania in the Swords branch of HMV last week if that helps, although I'd ring ahead if you were thinking of going in, that's too good a bargain to just let sit there... like I did...

I didn't see it last night in The Pav.

By the way, I stand corrected on HMV in there, they do still have PC and PS2 games but still only have about 2 copies of Warcraft and 807,952 copies of Take That and Singstar.

Did someone say that there was cheap copies of Dragon Quest in there? I didn't see those either.

Retr0gamer · 23-07-2011 11:13AM

Got DQ9 in there for about 25 euro. It's the same price in all HMVs. Amazing game, definitely a must buy.

johnny_ultimate · 23-07-2011 12:03PM

DQ6 is twenty five in game, seems to have gotten a surprisingly large print run

Retr0gamer · 23-07-2011 12:30PM

Nintendo took over publishing of that game from Square Enix. SE weren't going to publish it here but nintendo are trying to push the DQ franchise in the west so did a better job than SE did with DQV

zero19 · 23-07-2011 01:12PM

EnterNow wrote: »

Ah, wenkel woes abound

Wankel, the funniest name for an engine ever lol

CiDeRmAn · 23-07-2011 08:58PM

pdbhp wrote: »

You forgot to mention my awesomeness:pac::pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g700JxCnQTk

o1s1n · 24-04-2021 12:50AM

So almost ten years later, did anything in this thread end up making anyone rich?

ShaneU · 24-04-2021 01:16AM

I would have a small collection compared to most of you but the rarest games I have going by CEX prices are

1. Persona 3 FES (PS2)
2. Paper Mario Thousand Year Door. (Gamecube)
3. Zelda Twilight Princess (Gamecube)

Doge · 24-04-2021 10:42AM

Myrddin wrote: »

Ah, wenkel woes abound

Who's this "Myrddin" wenker!

Atavan-Halen · 25-04-2021 01:37PM

Not from this thread but Godzilla on the PS4 has become a bit pricey! Got it for £20 in London several years ago when it was released. Even kept the receipt!

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