27th April 2016, 8:58 PM
(This post was last modified: 1st May 2016, 11:57 PM by A Black Falcon.)
Game Boy
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Boggle Plus - complete in box, $6 - This is a pretty solid early '90s GB version of the board game Boggle, the word game where you list as many words as you can from a randomized 4x4 or 5x5 (or now 6x6, though that's not in this game). I've never cared for Scrabble, people get way too serious about that game, but Boggle is fun stuff for a few rounds here and there, and this GB version's good. It has Boggle, Big Boggle, and three other word games, anagrams, categories (find words in a category), and one where you try to clear the board of tiles by making words. It's all well done, and you do have eight computer opponents of various difficulties to play against. There is no lasting single player mode, but you wouldn't expect that here. The game has one particularly cool feature, too -- if you input a word not in the ~35,000 word dictionary, after the match you can choose to allow that word or not. Now, this allows for easy cheating of course, but as there is no campaign here to play through, the only person you're cheating by doing that is yourself. It's a great feature because there are lots of words not in this dictionary, and this allows for you to use them if you want.
Also, for $5 I got the Nintendo strategy guide for Golden Sun: The Lost Age for GBA. I stopped playing that game somewhere in the middle back in the mid '00s, but maybe this will help? I think I may be hopelessly lost somewhere far away from whereever I was supposed to go next (no clue where that was now, it's been too long), but a guide should be helpful. It's a very nice guide too, with full maps for everything, djinn and inventory item lists, etc.
Also, I got this today: Humble Friends of Nintendo Bundle. I only got the $1 tier so far because the beat-the-average games didn't seem worth it for the almost $10 it currently is at, particularly since I have Freedom Planet already for PC. And as for the top tier, $13, I have Darksiders 2 for PC, and Street Fighter Iv and Ultra SFIV for PC, so getting the base version only for 3DS doesn't seem worth it. And if I ever did get it, it would be physical, not digital... but I probably won't. It's too bad no better versions of SFIV got 3DS releases. But there are still some games yet to be added to the beat-the-average tier, so if they're good I could upgrade to that, we'll see.
Nintendo 3DS eShop (DD) - Humble Friends of Nintendo Bundle - $1 tier, for the basic three games.
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Retro City Rampage DX - 3DS (who know if I'll like this, but hey, as a free-ish bonus with something else I wanted, sure I'll try the game!
Shantae and the Pirate's Curse - 3DS & Wii U (the third game in this popular platformer series I have wanted to play)
Affordable Space Adventures - Wii U (looks interesting)
And lastly for this update, Xbox Live X360 Games with Gold titles for April. My XBL Gold subscription ran out recently, but I do have all the games through the current one. I'm not sure yet when I'll resubscribe, I rarely play online on the 360 (I do sometimes, but not all that often) so not having that for a while would be fine, and the May GwG games are Grid 2 and Peggle... not sure if those are worth paying for. Simmish racers like Grid or Dirt have never interested me, and I have Peggle for PC. But anyway, I do have these.
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X360 XBLA - 'free' from Games with Gold subscription
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Dead Space - A game I already have for PC, but I'll take it since I have the subscription.
Saint's Row IV - I didn't have this one, but it's supposed to be pretty entertaining for a third-person open-world game -- you have superpowers, and all that. The problem is this isn't a genre I've ever cared for. Still, sure, I'll try it eventually.
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Boggle Plus - complete in box, $6 - This is a pretty solid early '90s GB version of the board game Boggle, the word game where you list as many words as you can from a randomized 4x4 or 5x5 (or now 6x6, though that's not in this game). I've never cared for Scrabble, people get way too serious about that game, but Boggle is fun stuff for a few rounds here and there, and this GB version's good. It has Boggle, Big Boggle, and three other word games, anagrams, categories (find words in a category), and one where you try to clear the board of tiles by making words. It's all well done, and you do have eight computer opponents of various difficulties to play against. There is no lasting single player mode, but you wouldn't expect that here. The game has one particularly cool feature, too -- if you input a word not in the ~35,000 word dictionary, after the match you can choose to allow that word or not. Now, this allows for easy cheating of course, but as there is no campaign here to play through, the only person you're cheating by doing that is yourself. It's a great feature because there are lots of words not in this dictionary, and this allows for you to use them if you want.
Also, for $5 I got the Nintendo strategy guide for Golden Sun: The Lost Age for GBA. I stopped playing that game somewhere in the middle back in the mid '00s, but maybe this will help? I think I may be hopelessly lost somewhere far away from whereever I was supposed to go next (no clue where that was now, it's been too long), but a guide should be helpful. It's a very nice guide too, with full maps for everything, djinn and inventory item lists, etc.
Also, I got this today: Humble Friends of Nintendo Bundle. I only got the $1 tier so far because the beat-the-average games didn't seem worth it for the almost $10 it currently is at, particularly since I have Freedom Planet already for PC. And as for the top tier, $13, I have Darksiders 2 for PC, and Street Fighter Iv and Ultra SFIV for PC, so getting the base version only for 3DS doesn't seem worth it. And if I ever did get it, it would be physical, not digital... but I probably won't. It's too bad no better versions of SFIV got 3DS releases. But there are still some games yet to be added to the beat-the-average tier, so if they're good I could upgrade to that, we'll see.
Nintendo 3DS eShop (DD) - Humble Friends of Nintendo Bundle - $1 tier, for the basic three games.
--
Retro City Rampage DX - 3DS (who know if I'll like this, but hey, as a free-ish bonus with something else I wanted, sure I'll try the game!
Shantae and the Pirate's Curse - 3DS & Wii U (the third game in this popular platformer series I have wanted to play)
Affordable Space Adventures - Wii U (looks interesting)
And lastly for this update, Xbox Live X360 Games with Gold titles for April. My XBL Gold subscription ran out recently, but I do have all the games through the current one. I'm not sure yet when I'll resubscribe, I rarely play online on the 360 (I do sometimes, but not all that often) so not having that for a while would be fine, and the May GwG games are Grid 2 and Peggle... not sure if those are worth paying for. Simmish racers like Grid or Dirt have never interested me, and I have Peggle for PC. But anyway, I do have these.
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X360 XBLA - 'free' from Games with Gold subscription
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Dead Space - A game I already have for PC, but I'll take it since I have the subscription.
Saint's Row IV - I didn't have this one, but it's supposed to be pretty entertaining for a third-person open-world game -- you have superpowers, and all that. The problem is this isn't a genre I've ever cared for. Still, sure, I'll try it eventually.