What Modern Games have you bought lately?

[clarky64]

In the last week or so, I've obtained Xenoblade Chronicles, The Last Story and Pandoras Tower for the Wii (all bday presents) and I also bought Duke Nukem Forever for £3.85 brand new, can't complain.

Cool bday presents, be sure to register those codes on club Nintendo for a chance to claim the coin collection.

I'm all over it Lets just hope I actually get some. My luck is quite p!ss poor though

[Parta Paroni]

Jee, some more 360 lovin'. Finally got Avatar, Brave : A Warrior's Tale and First Templar SE for a reasonable price.

[Farzlepot]

I've recently acquired a 3G PS Vita, along with Wipeout (comes free when you top-up the SIM with a fiver),, Uncharted and Ridgeracer. I'll get a picture up tomorrow, as I love the thing to bits already.

But I felt the need to point something out to you folks regarding the little-known Tesco trade-in scheme, as someone who works there: their game trade-in scheme has been a total disaster, for the most part. To keep the pre-owned shelves looking full, because insufficient numbers of customers are trading games in compared to the number of purchases made, Tesco are actually labelling new games as pre-owned. Literally, our store regularly receives consignments of games which are completely new, aside from the wrapping being removed (and the seal being cut on 360 titles).

I'll take a photo to demonstrate tomorrow, but these essentially new titles can be identified by the white barcode label affixed over the real barcode, rather than the yellow store-printed labels used on genuinely pre-owned titles.

Have a look. It's a bit of a gamble as different stores are sent seemingly random consignments of titles (to maintain the illusion, I suppose) but there are occasionally some good prices on desireable and essentially brand-spanking-new games.

[chocklo]

A few bits through the door and few bits picked up with my voucher hoard....

(went for a DSiXL in the end - considering saving the other credit for a wii-U. Couldn't justify 2 x xbox 360 slims and 2 x Kinnects)

[Farzlepot]

Right. Here she is:



Isn't she beautiful? Even in a photo taken by an iPhone that screen looks amazing.

Over the last few weeks I've also picked these up (all brand new, including Alpha Protocol which I picked up for a couple of quid after learning about Tesco's 'pre-owned' debacle):



I'm not sure who's signature that is on The Witcher 2. I presume it's one of the developers, 'cause it came to me like that from Amazon sealed. It's a real signature though. I'm assuming this means I'm now rich 'cause I have a signed copy of something.

[Tyron]

I'm not sure who's signature that is on The Witcher 2. I presume it's one of the developers, 'cause it came to me like that from Amazon sealed. It's a real signature though. I'm assuming this means I'm now rich 'cause I have a signed copy of something.

I've got the same! It's pretty good, I think there was 1000 copies. I just hope the time they spent on signing each sleeve wasn't wasted on the game getting rid of bugs!

(I'm 3 hours in and it's not that buggy...yet )

[Farzlepot]

I've got the same! It's pretty good, I think there was 1000 copies. I just hope the time they spent on signing each sleeve wasn't wasted on the game getting rid of bugs!

(I'm 3 hours in and it's not that buggy...yet )

Well according to Digital Foundry on Eurogamer they spent a lot of time porting the game over from PC, and have improved the game engine to even be better than the original PC version in some ways. I've had a bug-free experience so far and I haven't heard of any horror stories yet! Bethesda didn't make it, so we're alright!

I'm maybe three or four hours in so far so I can't comment, but it is a lot more difficult than I was expecting. I've been spoiled with easier games I think. So I'm saving it for my looming unemployment when I'll have time to sink my teeth into it; looking forward to the challenge.

Cracking on with Mario Galaxy now. I've played the second, so I thought I may as well play the first, and as I managed to pick up a cheap Wii component lead I can finally get my Wii working on my new TV (which came sans any composite connections, but it's so lovely I forgave it). And I love it. It's one of those games that is just pure, unbridled fun, without any pretences about being something else. It's reminded me why I started playing video games in the first place!

[Tyron]

I've got the same! It's pretty good, I think there was 1000 copies. I just hope the time they spent on signing each sleeve wasn't wasted on the game getting rid of bugs!

(I'm 3 hours in and it's not that buggy...yet )

Well according to Digital Foundry on Eurogamer they spent a lot of time porting the game over from PC, and have improved the game engine to even be better than the original PC version in some ways. I've had a bug-free experience so far and I haven't heard of any horror stories yet! Bethesda didn't make it, so we're alright!

I'm maybe three or four hours in so far so I can't comment, but it is a lot more difficult than I was expecting. I've been spoiled with easier games I think. So I'm saving it for my looming unemployment when I'll have time to sink my teeth into it; looking forward to the challenge.

Exactly what I thought! It was hard until I got to Level 8 and upgraded some weapons and armour - however compared to Dark Souls (which I've not got past the first level!) it's a easy

[uberr3tronerd]

got these 2 days ago at edinburgh, was my birthday so thought id treat myself lol, got other stuff but these were the only games i bought

[Farzlepot]

Exactly what I thought! It was hard until I got to Level 8 and upgraded some weapons and armour - however compared to Dark Souls (which I've not got past the first level!) it's a easy

Dark / Demon Souls are two games that I haven't played, but really feel the need to. Just so I can say I have played them, if for no other reason!

Well I think I only managed level 4 or 5, so I'll see about making things easier for myself when I get around to playing it again!

[Jet Set Radio Future]

@ Chocklo have you played the Williams Pinball game i grabbed it for the 360 about a week ago in my opinions it's brilliant.

[totalgridlock]

Just some Nintendo stuff from the past week or so.



Metroid and Cursed Mountain were £3 apiece from a charity shop, Muramasa was a tenner in HMV, Fragile Dreams came new from Play and Kingdom Hearts was new in Tesco for £12.

[chocklo]

Stopped off at the White Rose (Leeds) on my way back home today. Decided to check in to Game to use up some more of my credit. I was surprised at how many decent games I managed to find.

Anyways, ramping up on my DS collecting now....

[chocklo]

@ Chocklo have you played the Williams Pinball game i grabbed it for the 360 about a week ago in my opinions it's brilliant.

Not had a go of it yet, but I'm hoping to have a crack at it this weekend. I hear good things about it and I have fond memories of the Funhouse machine so I'm dying to give it a whirl.

[Parta Paroni]

Dark Edition of Witcher 2 from Amazon.de + Game Guide. This will be my next 360 project.

[Atavan-Halen]

A few modern pickups over the last month or so





Viewtiful Joe is fantastic and I'm thoroughly enjoying Okamiden. Shinobi is great fun too. I was also quite surprised at how fun SSX is, although short and I'm not really a fan of the multiplayer, but it works well. Duke Nukem is pants.

[Liamh1982]

Yet more DS - I don't think this current phase is going to end any time soon!
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
Professor Layton and Pandora's Box

[chocklo]

Looks like a few of us have picked up Okamiden recently - I thought I'd join the club as well

I went to Morrisons after work today to see if if there were any budget Nintendo points but it looks like it was a regional thing only. Gunstar, you lucky so and so!

All was not a loss though. I managed to pick up some shower gel for a quid, loads of teabags for £2 and best of all, Asura's Wrath for £17. I've been wanting to give this a go for a while but I didn't fancy the £39 proce tag that it's been at for some time now. Bonus!

[chocklo]

More lovely ds games - yum yum!

[maD_mAN1983]

what is that dark looking DS game on the left on the second row? looks intersting from what i can see on the box