What Modern Games have you bought lately?

[Liamh1982]

A brand new New Super Mario Bros. (DS) - bought six DS games in CeX for £15, Gamestation gave me £29 trade-in. Can't complain about that - £15 for a spiffy fresh one or stay in CeX and buy one that looks like it was fed to a dog for £22?

[Darkstalker90]

A brand new New Super Mario Bros. (DS) - bought six DS games in CeX for £15, Gamestation gave me £29 trade-in. Can't complain about that - £15 for a spiffy fresh one or stay in CeX and buy one that looks like it was fed to a dog for £22?

Coincidentally, I got the same game today, complete and mint for a tenner posted . I've wanted to give this a go for a while now but the game never seems to drop more than a few quid below the brand-new RRP in places like Gamestation so I'm well chuffed with that price.

[Liamh1982]

Now that is a bargain!
Mind you, the DS is one of those where buying games online should be a last resort IMO. Don't think I'll ever find a cheaper new copy on the high street - maybe about 5 years for a second hand one!

[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.

[Revolg]

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.

[Liamh1982]

Finally nipped in Grainger Games for the first time, was underwhelmed to be honest.
Still picked up World Snooker 2008 and Touchmaster to add to my growing DS pile.

[GMass]

It's very orange!

[Collz69]

Picked up some more games to add to my sealed Mario games collection

All 3 of these for less than £47


Also picked up a copy a Super Mario 3D Land & the Japanese version on NSMB DS (which comes in a yellow box the same size as a 3DS game)


& picked up the Japanese version of th Mario 25th anniversary set (the games come cellophane sealed, unlike the UK versions)
The artwork is better than the UK & the music CD features the Famicom rather than the NES.

[Liamh1982]

It's very orange!

True, and the Wrexham store is also very small. I thought Game was cramped, that was nothing!

[maD_mAN1983]

got another game for my NFS collection today:
Need for Speed: The Run - Sealed (SCN) for the 3DS, got it for 5£ including delivery, so couldnt say no to that, and hoping that the prices on the 3DS console will go down soon, so maybe i can afford to buy one

[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!