Future rare/collectable game lookout thread

johnny_ultimate · 21-07-2011 5:45pm

Prominent Castlevania display in HMV Grafton today, so it's still available, and a darn good game too for what it is (somewhere between Bayonetta and God of War)! Picked up NFS: Hot Pursuit myself for 22 in Game, happy with that

But yeah, love a good browse myself to pick up a bargain. It's increasingly rare, but I've found many gems on shelves for reasonable prices - Tactics Ogre being a recent one. Dragon Quest VI is on sale in Game for 25 too if anyone's interested - I would, but an incoming pizza shaped box has pretty much sucked up my gaming budget for the next month or so!

Myrddin · 21-07-2011 6:31pm

valleyoftheunos wrote: »

You're right of course but its saddening, browsing and buying on-line just isn't as enjoyable as heading into town, touring all the shops and rattling through the shelves to see what's available.

That's true. There's nothing like sitting 40 minutues in traffic to get to town (bus OR car). Follow that up with being fleeced for car parking if you drive (Jervis Car Park has extortionate prices). Navigating through hoards of chuggers once you get into foot patrol mode, being ripped off in shops, because they themselves are being ripped off by rent and corporation rates. You then pick up a quick sandwich & drink which eats most of your €10, spend another 40 minutes sitting in more traffic, or on a urine soaked seat on a bus being coughed on by some junkball...to finally get home & play your game.

All in all, a hellish excursion with a lot of ripping off. Dublin city retailers can f''k right off tbh. If you want my money, make it more appealing & worthwhile. Fight for better rent/rates, don't expect me to take your pain.

Mr.Saturn · 21-07-2011 6:36pm

EnterNow wrote: »

That's true. There's nothing like sitting 40 minutues in traffic to get to town (bus OR car). Follow that up with being fleeced for car parking if you drive (Jervis Car Park has extortionate prices). Navigating through hoards of chuggers once you get into foot patrol mode, being ripped off in shops, because they themselves are being ripped off by rent and corporation rates. You then pick up a quick sandwich & drink which eats most of your €10, spend another 40 minutes sitting in more traffic, or on a urine soaked seat on a bus being coughed on by some junkball...to finally get home & play your game.

All in all, a hellish excursion with a lot of ripping off. Dublin city retailers can f''k right off tbh. If you want my money, make it more appealing & worthwhile. Fight for better rent/rates, don't expect me to take your pain.

Where are you living?!

johnny_ultimate · 21-07-2011 6:40pm

Town for me is hop on a bus outside my house, play PSP for an hour, get off, sushi for lunch, have a wander around the shops for potential bargains, hit up some fine well-priced world cinema in the IFI.

Your experiences sound radically different to mine :P

James Howlett · 21-07-2011 10:46pm

That's an interesting journey Enternow...

I usually hit up Blanchardstown or The Pavilions for my game shopping, hassle free for the most part. Only really venture into town when meeting up with people or buying comics - comics, yeah I'm that kind of nerd.:cool:

Pyongyang · 21-07-2011 11:25pm

James Howlett wrote: »

I usually hit up Blanchardstown or The Pavilions for my game shopping.

Those are my meccaii (sic) of choice too. I also like to head up to Belfast and Antrim every once in a while, great places to get stuffs. Belfast in particular has some fun bargain stores to grab current and last gen stuff for next to nothing.

That said I find myself heading to high street stores of any variety less and less now, mainly because I prefer to scour forums and obscure Japanese websites for my goodies.

Comics and books I don't head to stores for, I buy mine online now, both digital and physical varieties.

James Howlett · 21-07-2011 11:37pm

Pyongyang wrote: »

Comics and books I don't head to stores for, I buy mine online now, both digital and physical varieties.

If I had an IPAD I would probably buy online, where do you buy your physical ones from?

Pyongyang · 22-07-2011 12:26am

I have an iPad and a Kindle, I prefer to read texts on the Kindle. I buy 99% of texts at Amazon. Comics I rarely buy but if I do I use Amazon or my iPad.

90% of magazines I buy and/or read on my iPad too. Saves me lumbering heaps around with me.

ghostchant · 22-07-2011 9:18am

I spend virtually every Saturday in town and find it a pleasant experience, buses are heaven when you've got a DS/PSP game you're itching to play, the longer the trip the better! Wander around grafton st, go for coffee with the gf or a friend, browse through the shelves for bargains and then go to shakeaway for milkshakes! By three you've had your fill and can head somewhere more scenic for the evening. Beats heading off to ikea, woodies, etc. and helps build up your 3DS streetpass hits (though nothing like compared to Tokyo!)

Pyongyang · 22-07-2011 9:48am

ghostchant wrote: »

Beats heading off to Ikea

I like IKEA. I do get a bit OCD in the storage section though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOx9uQ4cuJk

Myrddin · 22-07-2011 10:15am

Mr.Saturn wrote: »

Where are you living?!

In the real world.

ghostchant wrote: »

I spend virtually every Saturday in town and find it a pleasant experience, buses are heaven when you've got a DS/PSP game you're itching to play, the longer the trip the better!

Buses are heaven with a DS/PSP?? I tell you what, grab a 78A lets see how much your definition of heaven changes.

ghostchant · 22-07-2011 10:33am

EnterNow wrote: »

Buses are heaven with a DS/PSP?? I tell you what, grab a 78A lets see how much your definition of heaven changes.

Surely my definition of heaven would be the same, but my definition of buses would change

I've played them on nitelinks full of hammered, aggressive people and survived anyway. Anyway even if I subtract my bus journey from the equation (during term time I have to teach classes for three hours on a Saturday morning and then walk from there into town, no gaming time for me) the rest of the day is still nice, weather-permitting

Myrddin · 22-07-2011 10:36am

ghostchant wrote: »

Surely my definition of heaven would be the same, but my definition of buses would change
I've played them on nitelinks full of hammered, aggressive people and survived anyway. Anyway even if I subtract my bus journey from the equation (during term time I have to teach classes for three hours on a Saturday morning and then walk from there into town) the rest of the day is still nice, weather-permitting

Lol true that, the 78A has a certain noteriety. Where you have drunken yobs on the nightlink, you have chasing the dragon on the 78A etc etc. Its a kip of a bus.

Optimus Prime · 22-07-2011 10:37am

EnterNow wrote: »

Buses are heaven with a DS/PSP?? I tell you what, grab a 78A lets see how much your definition of heaven changes.

haha so True, I wouldnt take my phone out on that bus, your just asking for some scumbag to sit beside you and ask "wha sorta fone iz dat bud"

ghostchant · 22-07-2011 10:48am

Admittedly the 7 is a grand bus, you get the plenty of groups of d*icks at the back but in general it's fine. Just the one incident of full-on solvent abuse, though she was nice enough to sit beside me so I could enjoy the effects of it too :rolleyes: After everyone fled to the top deck the driver finally managed to get a police van to bring her the rest of the way.

johnny_ultimate · 22-07-2011 11:54am

Everyone hit up Akihabara and then reconsider whether Ebay is a preferable alternative to browsing in a shop :P

Mr.Saturn · 22-07-2011 12:22pm

EnterNow wrote: »

In the real world.

Chief, that ain't real, that's anti-Kansas.

Myrddin · 22-07-2011 12:26pm

EnterNow wrote: »

That's true. There's nothing like sitting 40 minutues in traffic to get to town (bus OR car). Follow that up with being fleeced for car parking if you drive (Jervis Car Park has extortionate prices). Navigating through hoards of chuggers once you get into foot patrol mode, being ripped off in shops, because they themselves are being ripped off by rent and corporation rates. You then pick up a quick sandwich & drink which eats most of your €10, spend another 40 minutes sitting in more traffic, or on a urine soaked seat on a bus being coughed on by some junkball...to finally get home & play your game.

All in all, a hellish excursion with a lot of ripping off. Dublin city retailers can f''k right off tbh. If you want my money, make it more appealing & worthwhile. Fight for better rent/rates, don't expect me to take your pain.

Mr.Saturn wrote: »

Chief, that ain't real, that's anti-Kansas.

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

o1s1n · 22-07-2011 12:27pm

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

You could always just walk and bring a packed lunch?

Myrddin · 22-07-2011 12:28pm

o1s1n wrote: »

You could always just walk and bring a packed lunch?

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

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 1:07pm

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 1:09pm

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 1:21pm

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 2:25pm

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 2:29pm

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 2:32pm

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 3:11pm

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 3:17pm

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 6:05pm

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 6:13pm

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 6:39pm

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 6:45pm

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 6:54pm

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 8:22am

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 1:12pm

EnterNow wrote: »

Ah, wenkel woes abound

Wankel, the funniest name for an engine ever lol

CiDeRmAn · 23-07-2011 8:58pm

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 1:16am

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 1:37pm

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!

Future rare/collectable game lookout thread

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