6th January 2017, 1:39 PM
(This post was last modified: 6th January 2017, 2:29 PM by A Black Falcon.)
I got a few more 3DS things that are on sale. These four I got today.
3DS DD - sale
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Sssnakes - $1.50 - fun looking indie update of the classic Snake game
Karous: The Beast of Re-Eden - $3.50 - shmup with mediocre reviews, understandable for something using a Milestone shmup IP, but I want to try it anyway.
Zombie Incident - $1.30 - This is yet another indie NES-style-graphics platformer, but it does have some nice 3d layering, which is nice.
Color Zen - $3.50 - This is a pretty cool puzzle game where you try to make the whole screen one color. I was playing the demo of this one recently and really enjoying it, so it's great that it's on sale!
Also I got this other stuff recently.
X360
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Sonic Unleashed - $5, complete - I have the Wii version of this okay Sonic game (though for some reason I never mentioned that in this thread and it's also missing from my game collection database... argh, when did I get that?), but I've heard the X360 version is quite different and better, so despite some misgivings (I do not like the beat 'em up half of this game), I got it. Hopefully the 3d Sonic levels are good enough to make up for the mediocre beat 'em up half.
Also, I got something that really isn't my kind of game at all, but I've wanted to play so... it was on sale so I got this thing a few days ago. :S
X360 Digital Download - on sale
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Destiny: Legendary Edition - $18 - So why would I want to play this thing? It's grindey, wants you to replay stuff over and over, has a lot of raid and MMO components I'll never try, etc... well, I tried the demo and it did seem fun, and it's also one of the best looking 360 games I've ever seen, so... I got it. I expect to play through (some of) the story and stop there, and try none of the "keep replaying it for loot and levels" stuff people come back to it for because that's not something I care about, but the shooting, controls, and graphics are fantastic so hopefully it's worth this amount for that. (Think Diablo 2, a game I quite liked... for the bit over a week it took for me to finish it once. I didn't keep playing much longer after that though, as "keep replaying it for loot" doesn't hold my interest. And all of my attempts at the online mode ended with the characters getting deleted because I'd create them and then pretty soon afterwards stop playing for months, and Blizzard deletes them after several months of not loggin in... bah. But still, good game the first time through.)
Additionally, I got a couple of things from ebay recently.
First, I finally got a Hori EX2 gamepad for the Xbox 360/PC. It's a 360 pad with two analog sticks and six face buttons, which means it's awesome! (Six face buttons will always be my favorite...) I've wanted one ever since I first heard of it, but hadn't gotten it because the things were only sold in Japan and I hadn't wanted to pay the amounts they go for. Well, I finally did that; it cost a bit over $30, but it's a very well made, good X360 controller with, indeed, six face buttons, so it's great. Hori is usually known for making quality controllers and this one is no exception. I've used it a bit with my PC too, since it's the first time I've had a PC-compatible X360 controller with analog sticks, for games that require a 360 controller for that and don't work well with xinput-to-dinput converter software, or for when I don't want to have to go setting that up for every game since that's what you have to do... so yeah, it's really nice. I might get a second one sometime, so I can have one at the PC without needing to unhook it from the 360 first.
Additionally... well, I've got another thing to add to that "list of reasons why the PS3 OS is bad" list -- so, on the first two models of the PS3, you can watch Blu-Rays with any HD video output. But on the SuperSlim, for some random reason, Sony made it so that you can only watch Blu-Rays through HDMI, watching them on component is not allowed. Of course my TV's old and doesn't have HDMI, so I was just using component, which is just fine for games, but not movies. So, I got an HDMI to component adapter from ebay. It cost $16 shipped (you could get one for a bit less than that, but those are in China so it'd have taken forever to get here, shipping things from China seems to usually take really long for some reason. I got one from a US seller and indeed, it arrived quickly.), and I was somewhat unsure about it because I've read that they have a very mixed record of if they work or not, so I wasn't sure if I was wasting my money or not... but fortunately, it works fine! It's pretty much the same as component now, except that I can watch Blu-Ray movies; image quality seems to be about the same. The audio may be quieter, but that's not too big of an issue. The adapter came with only the box and a power supply, but I do have an HDMI cable (my main computer monitor does support HDMI, so it came with something for that) and bought a component cable locally today for $5 to connect the box to the TV since I didn't have another one so the setup didn't cost much.
3DS DD - sale
--
Sssnakes - $1.50 - fun looking indie update of the classic Snake game
Karous: The Beast of Re-Eden - $3.50 - shmup with mediocre reviews, understandable for something using a Milestone shmup IP, but I want to try it anyway.
Zombie Incident - $1.30 - This is yet another indie NES-style-graphics platformer, but it does have some nice 3d layering, which is nice.
Color Zen - $3.50 - This is a pretty cool puzzle game where you try to make the whole screen one color. I was playing the demo of this one recently and really enjoying it, so it's great that it's on sale!
Also I got this other stuff recently.
X360
--
Sonic Unleashed - $5, complete - I have the Wii version of this okay Sonic game (though for some reason I never mentioned that in this thread and it's also missing from my game collection database... argh, when did I get that?), but I've heard the X360 version is quite different and better, so despite some misgivings (I do not like the beat 'em up half of this game), I got it. Hopefully the 3d Sonic levels are good enough to make up for the mediocre beat 'em up half.
Also, I got something that really isn't my kind of game at all, but I've wanted to play so... it was on sale so I got this thing a few days ago. :S
X360 Digital Download - on sale
--
Destiny: Legendary Edition - $18 - So why would I want to play this thing? It's grindey, wants you to replay stuff over and over, has a lot of raid and MMO components I'll never try, etc... well, I tried the demo and it did seem fun, and it's also one of the best looking 360 games I've ever seen, so... I got it. I expect to play through (some of) the story and stop there, and try none of the "keep replaying it for loot and levels" stuff people come back to it for because that's not something I care about, but the shooting, controls, and graphics are fantastic so hopefully it's worth this amount for that. (Think Diablo 2, a game I quite liked... for the bit over a week it took for me to finish it once. I didn't keep playing much longer after that though, as "keep replaying it for loot" doesn't hold my interest. And all of my attempts at the online mode ended with the characters getting deleted because I'd create them and then pretty soon afterwards stop playing for months, and Blizzard deletes them after several months of not loggin in... bah. But still, good game the first time through.)
Additionally, I got a couple of things from ebay recently.
First, I finally got a Hori EX2 gamepad for the Xbox 360/PC. It's a 360 pad with two analog sticks and six face buttons, which means it's awesome! (Six face buttons will always be my favorite...) I've wanted one ever since I first heard of it, but hadn't gotten it because the things were only sold in Japan and I hadn't wanted to pay the amounts they go for. Well, I finally did that; it cost a bit over $30, but it's a very well made, good X360 controller with, indeed, six face buttons, so it's great. Hori is usually known for making quality controllers and this one is no exception. I've used it a bit with my PC too, since it's the first time I've had a PC-compatible X360 controller with analog sticks, for games that require a 360 controller for that and don't work well with xinput-to-dinput converter software, or for when I don't want to have to go setting that up for every game since that's what you have to do... so yeah, it's really nice. I might get a second one sometime, so I can have one at the PC without needing to unhook it from the 360 first.
Additionally... well, I've got another thing to add to that "list of reasons why the PS3 OS is bad" list -- so, on the first two models of the PS3, you can watch Blu-Rays with any HD video output. But on the SuperSlim, for some random reason, Sony made it so that you can only watch Blu-Rays through HDMI, watching them on component is not allowed. Of course my TV's old and doesn't have HDMI, so I was just using component, which is just fine for games, but not movies. So, I got an HDMI to component adapter from ebay. It cost $16 shipped (you could get one for a bit less than that, but those are in China so it'd have taken forever to get here, shipping things from China seems to usually take really long for some reason. I got one from a US seller and indeed, it arrived quickly.), and I was somewhat unsure about it because I've read that they have a very mixed record of if they work or not, so I wasn't sure if I was wasting my money or not... but fortunately, it works fine! It's pretty much the same as component now, except that I can watch Blu-Ray movies; image quality seems to be about the same. The audio may be quieter, but that's not too big of an issue. The adapter came with only the box and a power supply, but I do have an HDMI cable (my main computer monitor does support HDMI, so it came with something for that) and bought a component cable locally today for $5 to connect the box to the TV since I didn't have another one so the setup didn't cost much.
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