31st August 2015, 7:55 PM
I have Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7: http://tcforums.com/forums/showthread.ph...post135417 but yeah, not Smash yet.
On that note, I used that $50 gift certificate, and with that plus $7 of my money, I got two new games... well, not 2015-releases new, but new-in-packaging releases from recent years, so that's new enough. :) I got two recent strategy games.
Nintendo 3DS
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Fire Emblem Awakening - would have been $36, new. I had a hard time deciding between Smash and Fire Emblem, but I went with FE because I'm sure I'll play it far more than I would SSB. I played so, so much of the GBA and GC FE games... awesome series, when it's good. And this one is supposed to be good.
PC (yes, physical copy)
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Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm - $18, new (I consider this about $10 on the gift card and the rest I paid for, I guess). Because I needed to get this sometime of course. I need to get around to playing SC2 more sometime, sure it's no Starcraft (remember, the original SC is my favorite game of all time), but it's good enough I should play it more than I have. Hopefully with my finally buying the first addon I'll do that. The second (and final?) addon releases at the end of this year. HotS comes with a Blizzard notepad, as usual for their boxed releases. I like the Zerg insignia on it, cool stuff. I still hav ea bunch of their old notepads too, from SC, Diablo II, WC3, etc.:) No manual though of course, just a basic-info card.
On that note, the absence of manuals in 3DS games is the worst thing by far about the system. Nintendo cheaping out and ditching manuals is very disappointing.
On that note, I used that $50 gift certificate, and with that plus $7 of my money, I got two new games... well, not 2015-releases new, but new-in-packaging releases from recent years, so that's new enough. :) I got two recent strategy games.
Nintendo 3DS
--
Fire Emblem Awakening - would have been $36, new. I had a hard time deciding between Smash and Fire Emblem, but I went with FE because I'm sure I'll play it far more than I would SSB. I played so, so much of the GBA and GC FE games... awesome series, when it's good. And this one is supposed to be good.
PC (yes, physical copy)
--
Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm - $18, new (I consider this about $10 on the gift card and the rest I paid for, I guess). Because I needed to get this sometime of course. I need to get around to playing SC2 more sometime, sure it's no Starcraft (remember, the original SC is my favorite game of all time), but it's good enough I should play it more than I have. Hopefully with my finally buying the first addon I'll do that. The second (and final?) addon releases at the end of this year. HotS comes with a Blizzard notepad, as usual for their boxed releases. I like the Zerg insignia on it, cool stuff. I still hav ea bunch of their old notepads too, from SC, Diablo II, WC3, etc.:) No manual though of course, just a basic-info card.
On that note, the absence of manuals in 3DS games is the worst thing by far about the system. Nintendo cheaping out and ditching manuals is very disappointing.