2x06 - So many games for you to whinge about!
Submitted by Perrin on Thu, 26/11/2009 - 17:27
The promised time has arrived. THURSDAY!
Also we're talking about all the big games that come out in the latter part of the year. You know the ones I mean because you've been moaning about them in all the forums. Yeah, we saw you! So we talk Batman, Halo: ODST, Uncharted 2, Brutal Legend, Dragon Age, Modern Warfare 2, Assassin's Creed 2 and New Super Mario Brothers Wii.
We've skipped a couple of our normal features but this special episode also include Rob vs Raz the notorious 360 pirate on BBC Radio 4 along with our usual news coverage and reader's feedback.
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Reader's Question: "What's the most money you've spent on a single game?"
I suppose if you include
I suppose if you include console then the sole reason to this day i bought a PS3 was to play metal gear solid 4 so i guess in the region of 380 to 400 pounds at the time all i have used it to play the odd import game but otherwise its sits there gathering dust with the wii. as none of its exclusives have grabbed my eye yet.
though as of late it appears that could be changing.
I bought Secret of Mana for
I bought Secret of Mana for £65 from Blockbuster in Clapham North.
I loved it for all of a week and then never played it again.
Sold it on eBay six months later for £14.
I'm never falling for that again, ever.
Not including the music
Not including the music peripheral games, not that much. Probably £55 for MW2 Hardened Ed. I guess it depends if you take inflation into account. I remember in 92 / 93 my parents paying £45-50 RRP for Mega Drive games fairly frequently.
80 quid for Secret of Mana
80 quid for Secret of Mana and Street Fighter Turbo on import. At the same time a friend was shelling out 150 quid for Neo Geo carts. We were still at school. Madness.
Hello you two, I can't find
Hello you two,
I can't find any record of the transaction (I think I paid by cheque and my online banking doesn't go back that far!) but in about 2001 I bought a UK 'Haunted Castle' arcade board (a not-so-faithful version of the first CastleVania game) for around £190. Madness
Despite not being very good I just had to have it since I owned pretty much every CV game at the point, and I'm including UK, US and Japan releases of each one, and spent a great deal doing so - it was a snowball that kept on rolling down the hill until it got so big that it flattened my bank account.
At least it still works (I hope)!
- Barry
I bought the N64 expansion
I bought the N64 expansion pack for Majora's Mask, and then never played more than an hour of it, I don't like to think how much that cost. Over time, I think Doom must have set me back a bit with PC, GBA (twice after I lost one cart on the train), PS1 and 360 versions. I got a Dreamcast and Arcade stick just for Street Fighter Alpha 3, but eventually branched out.
Thanks for all the positivity. I've been reflecting on the last year (from me getting Dead Space for Christmas) and I can't think of a better time to play games, it's never been better than this.
Something I've thought about that level in Modern Warfare 2, which also came up in Uncharted 2, is scenes where the gamer has to become an actor. In the airport, and in the village in UC2, you're part of some very well designed setpieces, and it suddenly becomes your responsibility not to spoil the moment, by walking around slowly and looking around slowly and meaningfully. When one part of my brain was thinking how sweet the interactions in that village were, another part was thinking "I hope I don't miss a cue and fuck this up." I don't know if there's a better way to do it, that's up to someone cleverer than me, but it remains a niggle for game storytelling and immersion.
I bought Steel Battalion for
I bought Steel Battalion for all the £120 or so it was.
It was fun, but it wasn't actually that good a game. It was a quirk.
I sold it eventually to get a DS, which I've played a heck of a lot more, but occasionally I think that it would be cool if I could play a big stompy robot game with a giant controller. Alas, I never play my original XBox anyway, so it would've been mostly a waste if I'd have kept it.
Once upon a time I forked out
Once upon a time I forked out £50 for an imported copy of Super Mario Land on the GBA. There was no European release at the time and it was worth every penny.
Ah, happy days! :)
Oh, also £100 for Wii Fit, but that's hardly a game and it wasn't my idea anyway.
A very measly £55 upon the
A very measly £55 upon the Hardened Edition of Modern Warfare 2. Before that I think it would have to be a copy of Monster Hunter Dos(import) for £45. A game which many think highly of(in Japan).
I tend to borrow/steal all my
I tend to borrow/steal all my games off people so I think the last game I bought was Eternal Sonata which cost me £8 incl postage. Actually I think that is the only Xbox 360 game I have bought. Good times.
If we're not including Guitar
If we're not including Guitar Hero/Rock Band and all related DLC, then the most I have spent on a single game was £120 on the Prestige Edition of Modern Warfare 2. I am a sucker for special editions of games and things like DJ Hero set me back £130. The special editions of GTA4, Batman AA, Fallout 3, Halo 3 and Assassins Creed 2 have all set me back between £60 and £80. Most of the 'rare' games in my collection didn't cost me too much on Ebay, like MGS3: Subsistence cost me £45, bargain, although it was probably that or less at the time it came out, I wasn't big on the PS2 back in the day, I have to admit (I was more into my Gamecube and Xbox at the time).