Games Acquired 2014

[BoneSnapDeez]

I want the shirt!

[Fragems]

Just picked up NIER the other day. Reviews seem to be pretty mixed, but I have been wanting to try it out for a while now. Seems like it has some pretty unique features should be interesting.

[Czernobog]

I hope you find you enjoy it, one of my personal favorite games. One of the few games I would call underrated (in the sense that there's a large disparity between my opinion and what I've seen from critics).

Picked up Mega Man Anniversary Collection for PS2 CIB for $1.99. I don't own any Mega Man games and have very little experience playing any of them, so I'm pretty excited to go through the collection. So far I've played a bit of Mega Man 1, (meh) and Mega Man 8 (surprisingly fun to play with my girlfriend yelling at the screen).

[prfsnl_gmr]

Picked up Mega Man Anniversary Collection for PS2 CIB for $1.99. I don't own any Mega Man games and have very little experience playing any of them, so I'm pretty excited to go through the collection. So far I've played a bit of Mega Man 1, (meh) and Mega Man 8 (surprisingly fun to play with my girlfriend yelling at the screen).

That is a great collection. If I were you, I would play the games in the following order:

Mega Man 2
Mega Man 3
Mega Man 4
Mega Man 5
Mega Man 6
Mega Man 8
Mega Man
Mega Man 7

Although I love them both, Mega Man and (the final boss in) Mega Man 7 are the most challenging parts of a reltively difficult series, and you should proabably save them for last. Moreover, Mega Man 2 is, IMO, the perfect Mega Man game; so, I think it is a great starting point. (There is a good argument in favor of Mega Man 3, however, and you may want to try that one first since it is a bit more forgiving.)

[Flake]

I would actually go ahead and keep the order chronological and just adjust the difficulty level for the individual games. Megaman 1 is actually enjoyable when the insane butt gripping difficulty gets tamed a bit.

...I'm not entirely happy with how that last sentence turned out yet I can't bring myself to edit it.

[Damm64]

Well i sold some retro games that i know i won't miss (mario kart 64, MK 64 and super mario 64, i can get two of those on the virtual console) and found some nice cheap PS3 games.. they miss the manual but since manual's these days are lame i can live without them.

Silent Hill Homecoming
L.A Noire (this one has the manual and it's cool)
God of War 3 (i might sell this one to my cousin he was looking for this game on the cheap too)
Condemned 2: Bloodshot
Viking Battle for Asgard
Super Street Fighter 4: Arcade Edition

Played most of them and they pretty good so far... i'll see if they are worth keeping in the long run.

[Sload Soap]

Got some good stuff this month, mostly PS2.

Weirdest find was Joe Montana Football CIB with the master system sales flyer for £2 in a really old fashioned book shop in my hometown. I know it's neither rare nor particularly good but it was still odd and made me smile.

I would like to add Sturmwind to the list, but it hasn't arrived yet and I'm getting a bit worried.

Games In
SMS: Joe Montana Football and Secret Command

Game Boy: Tecmo Bowl and Blades of Steel

PS1: Final Fantasy 8, Final Fantasy 9, Metal Gear Solid and Wild 9

Saturn: Fatal Fury 3, Fighter's History Dynamite and Shining Force 3: EP1 (All JAP)

N64: Wipeout 64

Dreamcast: Project Justice (JAP)

GBA: Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith

PS2: Devil May Cry 1+3, Onimusha 2+3, Killzone, Shadow of Rome, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, Gregory Horror Show, Zone of the Enders, Hyper Street Fighter 2, Drakengard, Killer7, Yakuza and MGS3.

Xbox 360: Batman: Arkham Origins, Assassin's Creed IV, Resident Evil 5, Diablo 3, Bioshock, Tales of Vesperia and Persona 4: Arena

PC: Kings Quest 4+5+6, Cannon Fodder, SWOS 96/97

Not all of these were purchases, but rather games being reintegrated back into my collection and some were gifts.

[alienjesus]

It's a little early, but I couldn't afford to buy anything more this month if I wanted to!

January
Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara Wii U eShop - £5.99
World of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse & Donald Duck Mega Drive - £4.40
Contra III: The Alien Wars Wii U VC - £1.50
Chiki Chiki Boys Mega Drive - £5.98
Metal Gear Solid GBC
Scooby-Doo: Classic Creep Capers GBC
The Simpsons: Night of the Living Treehouse of Horror GBC
Bugs Bunny in Crazy Castle 4 GBC- £8.42 for all 4 GBC games
Playstation Vita Console (3G & Wifi) w/ 16GB memory - £279.85 including following 7 games:
Tearaway PSN
Little Big Planet PSN
Dead or Alive 5 plus PSVita
Dragon's CrownPSVita
Metal Gear Solid HD Collection PSVita
Persona 4 Golden PSVita
Gravity Rush PSVita
Dragon Force Saturn
Panzer Dragoon Saturn - both Saturn games for £57.10
Total: 17 games & 1 console: £363.24

Oh my, thats about half of my entire spend last year. I plan to take February and March off of buying for the most part to try and even out my spending a little here.

D&D was on a deal so I picked it up for Together Retro later in the year. I 'updated' another Wii Virtual Console game to Wii U VC. Getting a 60hz Contra game is a nice change to a 50hz Probotector. I expanded my Mega Drive collection with two cheapish games, both of which look like a quick fun blast. Both were from eBay and prices include postage. I picked up a bundle of GBC games too, mainly for Metal Gear Solid. I'll probably try the other 3 out and decide whether to keep them. I know Noise used to recommend Classic Creep Capers, so I'll give it a go, but the other 2 I'll probably end up selling off again. Again, eBay purchase, includes postage.

Then I bought my big purchase for the month - a PSVita with 7 games. I feel the games cover a good breadth of the Vita library and are all stuff I'd be interested in outside of a bundle, so I'm quite happy with it. Wish Tearaway was a physical copy though.

Lastly, picked up a game I've wanted pretty much since I got my saturn, Dragon Force. I got a reasonable price compared to it's going rate nowadays, and it came with a copy of Panzer Dragoon, which I already own, but can sell to make some money back.

[ninjainspandex]

My first PCB arrived today (if you don't count my 1 slot MVS board) havn't gotten to test it yet as my A board doesn't arrive until tommorow.

[Sload Soap]

^Great game to start with!