Games Bought Thread 3

[A Black Falcon]

They could allow hard drive use while docked only. It'd be far from ideal but better than not supporting it at all.


... So I ended up spending a lot, and getting a pricey thing that is a quite questionable choice in most ways... but I got it anyway despite knowing that. Heh.

First, some older games I got today.

N64
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Spiderman - $11, cart only - not the best.
Deadly Arts - $6, cart only - A 3d fighter from Konami.

Playstation 1
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Machine Head - $3, complete - A first-person tank action game. Could be fun. No analog support, though.
Jumping Flash 2 - $18, complete - The second game in this popular early PS1 series. This is actually a good price for this game.

SNES
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Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge - $3, cart only. This is a first-party Super Scope game, and it's sort of a sequel to Nintendo's first mech shooter for Super Scope. I've wanted this one, so it's a nice find.


So for newer and more expensive stuff, I got an Xbox One S. Specifically, for $229 I got a 500GB one with the Forza Horizon 3 + Hot Wheels expansion bundle, plus, for free, a second controller (thanks to a Best Buy Black Friday deal). I got a black controller for the second one, to go with the white one that comes with the white X1S. Basically you get a system and two controllers, with Forza Horizon 3 with its $20 DLC pack for free; that's a good deal. This convinced me to get this one, over the $189 basic system with one controller. I need to buy an external hard drive for it, because that internal one is very small and is pretty much full already, but I missed out on a $79 4TB external drive deal from Best Buy on Black Friday as they sold out, so I guess I'll need to pay $100 for one of those... because 4TB is probably the right size, 2TB likely will fill up. It's either that or I repurpose the 2TB drive I got for the Wii U as a X1 drive, but I think I'll need more space than that so I might not do that.

Then for games, thanks to Gamestop's buy-2-get-1 used games sale, I got all this stuff, from three different stores:

Xbox One
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Kronos Battle Worlds - free, would have been $8, complete
Mortal Kombat XL - $22.40, complete
Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition - free, would have been $28, complete
For Honor - free, would have been $15, complete (with working DLC code)
Dead or Alive 5 Last Round - $16, complete (with working DLC code) - Yes, I have this game for X360 and PC already. There are some actual reasons to get this version as well -- 360 doesn't have the last two DLC characters or a bunch of the later costume DLCs and no one is playing it online anymore, and the PC port is shoddy and is missing graphical features and options. Also you can transfer over your 360 save file to the X1, which is great; no need to get all the costumes again, that takes forever and I did not want to have to do that on the PC (since I did it once on 360 already). It transfers over scores and stuff as well. Nice.
ScreamRide - $16, complete - This fun-looking puzzle game is cheaper digitally, but I'd like to have the physical copy really.
Rare Replay / Gears of War Remaster Double Pack - $12, complete - I got this for Rare Replay, one of the few things I really want for this platform.

Wii U
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Pikmin 3 - $16, complete - I'll give this series another chance...
Kirby and the Rainbow Curse - $24, complete - The sequel to the first DS Kirby game, Canvass Curse. That was good but not my favorite DS Kirby game, but I love the series so I very much want to play this one.
Lego City Undercover - free, would have been $15, complete. This game is now on lots of platforms, but the Wii U Gamepad integration makes this probably the best one.

Nintendo 3DS
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Ever Oasis - complete, $30.50 - An action-RPG released earlier this year that is from the creator of the Mana series and I think looks pretty good. I've been wanting to get it.
Kid Icarus Uprising - $20, complete - The old Kid Icarus games are pretty good and I like the characters, but I haven't tried this one. I hope it's good. This copy actually came with not only the case but also the pack of 6 AR cards that the game originally came with, so I picked it up.
Mario Tennis Open - free, would have been $13, complete - The Mario Tennis games are usually good, so I decided to pick this one up. It's kind of weird, with the optional touch controls, but the 3d is nice and the controls work well so it seems good.
The Legend of Zelda: Triforce Heroes - $12, complete. The most recent in the Four Swords-styled Zelda games, this game may not be a full-scale Zelda title but it looks fun and I have wanted to play it. I played a bit of it, it's fun.

Nintendo DS
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999: 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors - free, would have been $16, card only. This popular escape horror adventure game that started the "Zero Escape" series isn't one I'm really interested in but it's got enough praise that I want to try it.
Pokemon Ranger: Guardian Signs - $16, card only - This is the third and so far final Pokemon Ranger game. These "draw circles around monsters to capture them" Pokemon spinoff games are surprisingly fun, so I've been wanting to get this one to have all three. It's kind of too bad that this series didn't continue on the 3DS, ah well.

Playstation 3
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Atelier Rorona Plus - $12, complete - This is the enhanced remake of the first game of the first PS3 Atelier trilogy. I don't have the others.
Atelier Escha & Logy - $13.60, complete - This is the third of the Dusk trilogy of Atelier games. I have the other two.


So why in the world did I get an Xbox One? Well, of the four current platform options -- upgrading my PC hardware, Switch, PS4, and Xbox One -- in terms of game selection, it's fourth place. In terms of having the most games I want to play, it's probably also fourth, since I have a mostly-good PC. The obvious best chocie would be to upgrade my PC; I got it this year so it's mostly still quite good. I just need to get a new video card, since I didn't upgrade that so I still have a GeForce 560, and a large internal hard drive (since I could use more space) and power suppply as well (so I can put back together my previous computer). However, I think I want to wait a bit before upgrading my PC, so I'm going to hold off on that for a bit.

So, of the other options, the Switch would be the best choice, but since I only got a Wii U this year I definitely haven't gotten all I want out of that system. Plus, since it's popular it's not on sale at all right now, and with everything I'd need for it it'd cost quite a bit more than the X1 did. I will absolutely get a Switch, much earlier in its life than I did a Wii U, but I'm going to wait at least until next year. I like the Wii U and want to play more of it first... I'd been playing a lot of Wii U this year, but there's plenty more.

And between the PS4 and Xbox One, the PS4 has a lot more games I'd want to play and a lot more exclusives. Many Japanese third-party games now are releasing on PC as well as PS4, so I can play those on PC, but all of Sony's first-party output doesn't of course, and there are still a few Japanese third-party games that are PS4-only. In comparison the X1's exclusives list is very short and is pretty much only the system's few Kinect games and the handful of first-party releases from the first few years, before MS started adding PC ports of all their first-party games. The prices are also similar, at least if I'd manaaged to find one of those $199 1TB PS4s that sold out on Black Friday.

However, several things got me to get an Xbox One instead. First of course I dislike Sony. Also, I only got a PS3 a bit under a year ago, while I got a 360 back in summer 2013, so I've gotten a lot more out of the 360 and am more ready to move on from it than the PS3. But the core of it is because of both companies' subscription services. First, I've been subscribed to Xbox Live Gold for several years now. I'm still subscribed, and the subscription doesn't run out until next August. If I got a PS4 though, I'd need to subscribe to PS Plus, adding $40 to the cost (if I'd gotten Plus when it was on sale for Black Friday). And then on top of that, XBL comes with "free" Xbox One games, at a pace of two a month, generally, that you can add to your library. Even though I didn't have the system, I always did add the games to my library. Of course you can only play these games as long as you have an active subscription, so you don't own them, so I may get physical copies of some at some point, but I have a full 70 Xbox One games in my library thanks to XBL, compared to, I believe, zero PS4 games in my Playstation library, because I only subscirbed to Plus once for a month and I don't think I bothered to add the free games at the time because I knew I wouldn't be continuing the subscription. So, for the cost of the console I get 70 games for the console for free, a majority of which are games I don't own for any other platform. That's pretty nice. That's why the X1 games I did get physical copies of (listed above) are the few ones they are, because I didn't want to buy anything I had already from XBL and that ruled out a lot of the relatively few Xbox One physical releases that I'd consider for console over PC.

And of course, that's the big elephant in the room here -- that when you have a PC, even one with a good CPU but old GPU like I do, it's better than any of these consoles. And with the Steam Link I got last week, I can play hundreds of PC games on my TV. More console-styled games look pretty nice on my TV too, or they look as nice as games can on that thing. But it's hard to just say 'meh, I've got these 70 games but won't get the system that can play them, even though now it's cheap', so even if it might be a mistake I bought one.

Here's the complete list of the digital subscription Xbox One games I've gotten from my XBL Gold subscription over the years. I list the relative few titles I also have (digitally in all cases) for the PC or Xbox 360; all others are games I only have for Xbox One. Most do have PC versions, excepting a few -- Crimson Dragon, Sunset Overdrive, and that's about it -- but I don't have them, and getting all of the ones on this list that interest me at all would cost quite a bit...

(I'm not putting impressions here, but I would like to say that the controller is really comfortable. I'd heard that, but it's true.)
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#IDARB
Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China
Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag (also have for X360)
Banner Saga 2, The
CastleStorm - Definitive Edition (also have for X360)
Child of Light
Costume Quest 2
Crew, The (also have for X360)
Crimson Dragon - Disappointing or no, as a Panzer Dragoon fan this has been a game I really, really want to play!
D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die
Deer God, The
Earthlock: Festival of Magic
Escapists, The
Evolve Hunting Season 1 [DLC]
Evolve Hunting Season 2 [DLC]
Evolve Ultimate Edition [Bundle]
Forza Horizon 2 Presents Fast & Furious Digital [Bundle] (also have for X360)
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams - Director's Cut (also have for PC)
Goat Simulator (also have for X360)
Gone Home: Console Edition
GROW UP (also have for PC)
Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship (also have for PC)
Halo: Spartan Assault
Hand of Fate (also have for PC)
How to Survive: Storm Warning Edition
Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing, The (also have for PC)
Killer Instinct
Killer Instinct: Ultra Edition Add-On [DLC]
Knight Squad
Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris
Layers of Fear
Lords of the Fallen
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Massive Chalice
Max: The Curse of Brotherhood
METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES (also have for X360)
Murdered: Soul Suspect (also have for PC)
Outlast
Oxenfree
Phantom Dust: Multiplayer Content Pack [DLC]
Pneuma: Breath of Life
Pool Nation FX
Project CARS Digital Edition [Bundle]
Rayman Legends
ReCore: Definitive Edition
Runbow
Ryse: Son of Rome
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments
Sleeping Dogs - Defininitive Edition (also have for PC)
Slime Rancher
So Many Me
SpeedRunners
Strike Suit Zero: Director's Cut (also have for PC)
Styx: Master of Shadows (also have for PC)
Sunset Overdrive
Super Dungeon Bros.
Super Mega Baseball: Extra Innings
Thief (also have for PC)
Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition (also have for X360 and PC)
TrackMania Turbo
Trials Fusion
Tumblestone
Turing Test, The
Valiant Hearts: The Great War
Volgarr the Viking (also have for PC)
Walking Dead, The: Season Two
Walking Dead, The: The Complete First Season (also have for X360)
Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate
WATCH_DOGS
Wolf Among Us, The
World of Van Helsing: Deathtrap
Worms Battlegrounds
WWE 2K16
ZHEROS
Tales from the Borderlands Complete [Episodes 1-5]