Just ordered Gotham Knights, The Quarry, Dying Light 2 and Tiny Tina's Wonderlands on Xbox during the Black Friday sale. Been wanting the first two games for some time now so I'm happy to use the sale as an excuse to get them now. Also looking forward to giving the other two games a go!
@RogerRoger Yep, I'm definitely looking forward to playing Gotham Knights the most out of those games. After all, I was originally planning on getting it at launch but other games took up my time and I decided to postpone the purchase.
If there's one new release that I'm surprised got a steep discount so shortly after launch, it's Sonic Frontiers. The PS5 version only costs €38 now, which is very cheap since the game only came out last week!
Just ordered Saints Row on Series X for €28. I knew the game would eventually see a massive price cut due to how poorly it was received. But I'm hopeful it'll be to my liking since I don't see anything inherently wrong with the game. It's been a long time since I've played a Saints Row game, let alone a sandbox title, so I'm definitely looking forward to giving it a go.
Also bought Lost in Random for €6 on Xbox. Looks like quite the unique experience and I'm always happy giving indie games that look promising a go.
Just bought Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, Ghostrunner and Journey to the Savage Planet on Xbox for €30 in total. Been contemplating buying some games in the digital Black Friday sale and it came down to these three. I got the first one purely because it looked so original. I've never played a game about human evolution before so I'm really excited to play it even if it's a game where you have to do a fair amount of grinding. In terms of Ghostrunner, it basically looks like a mix between the combat of Ninja Gaiden and the traversal of Titanfall 2. In other words, it looks absolutely awesome and I can't wait to give it a go. Lastly, Journey to the Savage Planet seems like a fun and relaxing experience, which could be a fitting game to play in between all the heavy action titles I've been playing lately.
@LtSarge Journey to the Savage Planet is one of those games that I really liked the look of so downloaded from PS Plus and then it ran abysmally on PS4. Hopefully the frame rate’s a bit steadier on Xbox, it seemed like a solid game otherwise.
Just ordered Burnout Paradise Remastered, Dirt 5 and Project Cars 3 on Xbox for a total of €50. I've been really wanting to buy more racing games lately and I've had these on my watchlist for quite some time so I decided to finally buy them.
I also wanted to buy Grid Legends but I saw that the game's career mode is only 4-5 hours long so I figured I might as well just play it on EA Play for €4 instead of spending €20 on a physical copy. Not to mention I could play other racing games on there as well. Granted, I could've played Dirt 5 and Burnout Paradise on EA Play as well but I felt they were long enough games that they're worth buying physically and I could take my time playing through them.
So I went ahead and bought Grid Legends for €20 anyway. I didn't realise that the game has a traditional career mode with dozens of hours of content on top of the 4-5 hour long story mode. Seriously, this game is so good. The story is excellent, the racing feels great with a good balance of arcade and sim, the graphics are so good and it's overall a joy to play. I simply have to own this game.
I'm at least glad that I managed to realise how good this game is thanks to EA Play. Now I'll be able to try out other racing games that I'm not planning on buying.
@RogerRoger For sure. It's a bit discouraging to do that with the more expensive subscription services like PS+ Extra or Game Pass. But considering EA Play is only €4, it's a great way to explore different games.
@KAIRU I can't even remember the last time I heard a 50 cent tune never mind him being so popular that he had multiple games. Get rich or die trying was such a massive hit back in the day, its easy to forget how ubiquitous fiddy was! I plan on rolling back the years with a j and a beer Friday and playing some of this followed by catching up with the game awards announcements.
I had a really strange feeling as I’ve been chipping away at the remnants of my PS3 backlog. I mean, it’s felt like an albatross around my neck at times, when I’ve had PS5 and PS4 titles on the shelves metaphorically crying out to be played… but as the amount of unplayed PS3 titles in my collection dried to the dregs, it made me feel a little… well uneasy.
I’m pretty sure that this feeling was the deciding factor in me just pulling the trigger on Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 1 & 2… now my PS3-games-left-to-play is back into double digits 😅 phew!
Just ordered Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered and Hades on Series X for a total of €40. Besides NFS: Unbound, I've pretty much bought all modern racing games that I want to get now. I'm very excited to play Hot Pursuit down the line as it's such a fun game from the little that I've played of it. Also looking forward to playing Hades but I don't think I'll be starting it anytime soon as I want to play at least one or two games made by Supergiant before I get to Hades.
Went into CEX while Christmas shopping and picked up FIFA Street 2012, COD Black Ops 2 and Modern Warfare 3 for a grand total of £7.50. PS3 games are ludicrously cheap at the moment, might as well make the most of it. Cube games on the other hand are insanely expensive, plus they had Clock Tower boxed for the PS1 for £300.
Just ordered a used copy of Need for Speed: Shift on PS3 for a tenner. Before a couple of months ago, I had no idea that NFS had a few entries that were racing sims. And they were made by Slightly Mad Studios, i.e. the Project Cars developers. So I bought Shift 2 some time ago and now I've ordered the first Shift, which looks so good! Can't wait to give it a go.
@KAIRU Glad to hear it! I've become completely obsessed with racing sims so it was a pleasant surprise to find out that NFS has a couple of those. I feel like not a lot of people talk about the Shift games though, which is a bit of a shame.
I found a Guitar Hero PS3 controller with the actual dongle for once at a decent price. Time to get as good as I once was! Apparently that controller is compatible with the Rock Band games as well, so should be cool playing through them for the first time.
@colonelkilgore Extremely late to remark on this, but your commitment to playing through your PS3 backlog is admirable. I’ve had to consign myself to abandon any hope of playing some of the PS3 games I have. Gratefully, most of them are PS+ games that I didn’t actually buy, so it’s easier to just forget about them. And now I’m finding that the further into this generation we get, the harder it is to play my PS4 backlog. Even with back-compatibility of the PS5, I feel more of a pull to play the fancy new stuff rather than the old.
That said, (largely because of your recent platinum odyssey of it —) I’m well invested in MGS2 on Vita, so I’ve not completely lost my way.
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