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It was part of the reason why I made the thread! I look at my shelf and I see at least a dozen, maybe two dozen games that I've bought but not properly played. Having written up my list and evaluated the money spent (it's not as much as I thought), I feel alright. The last game I remember buying as soon as it came out was RE5 -- and that was part of my red console bundle! I may be forgetting a game somewhere. Perhaps if I bought games on release date I'd be more selective (there's pros and cons to that argument), and maybe I'd spend more time on each one. I don't do trade-ins - I'm not going to get much for a game that cost me £5 in the first place - but I really should consider renting. My main issue with that is that you're pretty much guarenteed x amount is coming out of your account each month. I don't think I'd operate very well. What I really should do is get swapping with mates! I know of maybe 5 people with xboxes here. Ramble ramble!

Are you looking to do a world tour to find the worst teacher living conditions, fish?

What do you think about Metro 2033? I've heard it's repetitive but it sounds like it may have enough style for me to overcome that.

TBH i'd rather end the day early than have the current situation -- ooh ooh new posts in the BSG mafia thread!!! Oh, it's just a page of nothing whatsoever.

Vote: nuffink, innit bruv? Saaafe!

Yes. Creepy Doooooll! I thought the first was alright. Don't think I've seen any of the others. This looks set to be More Of The Same by the looks of it. Looks like it could be a good bubblegum action movie.

You're very brave playing this game without watching the show. There's one main president through the show - Laura Roslin. But seeing as we can elect a new president each phase (roughly), we may as well just disregard that element of that character.

I don't understand the hate for prototype. Yeah it's repetitive, but it's fun! So far Crackdown's annoyed me with its precision fucking jumping up buildings. Prototype I can hop, skip and jump up that shit. I always recommend CeX for your bargain hunting. Red Faction: Guerrilla is only £4. As I said, games in the bargain bin will be repetitive to a degree, but if you enjoy it then what's the problem? At these sorts of prices I don't feel so bad for not liking the game. At least I get a better taste of the range of games out there! For under a tenner you're going to have to expect a 7/10 game, max. So what! That is value for money.

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I just totally schooled some 'awesome' chess player. I recently learned a move that bobby fischer liked, to do with his kingside pawn, and I decided to try it with my queenside pawn... My opponent didn't think I'd exchange even material. I traded bishops then looked at his previous games while I waited. In the 4 that I looked at he played the same line in varying order and not once had he faced a move like mine. He considered it a noob move... and, seriously, since move 3 I've just been PWNING! Like, he should've resigned 10 moves ago and we're only on move 20. I pinned his king and queen on move 9. I know it's not much but it's always something when you get that one-uppance on someone. My current grade is 1380, his is 1480. He's currently doing well against 1700 dudes and.. and I'm beating him! HAH! ... Yeah it's not been an especially interesting day. Really getting into chess atm.

I'm. So. Excited. Vote: No lynch I'd love to PreZ one of us up but not knowing what extra info it contains, there's no point risking it!

I like to buy games on the cheap. 4 for £20 or simply £5 attached to a game makes me consider it, so I figured I'd make this thread in order to air questions that I normally face in the bargain bin. The length of this generation of gaming means that quality games from a few years ago are available at a very good price. Recently I've pondered certain purchases and I really want to know if the experience the game offers is worth the advice. In essence this is a 2nd-hand thread. The Club is available for around £5. Is it worth it? I've also seen Jericho for a similar price, and F.E.A.R. 2 is available for about £10 now. The majority of my games are bought 2nd hand. We all know that some games quickly sing to bargain prices while others, usually the triple-A titles (where does that tag even come from?) tend to come out expensive and take years to become affordable for your typical dole-scummer. Wet is getting ridiculously cheap, too. Games I would recommend that are cheap; Darksiders is averaging £10 currently. Pure/Lego Batman is less than a tenner and offers an adequate racing game and honestly a very well worked out co-op game. If you're an achievement whore then it's a good bet. Crackdown is, at most, £5 now, and offers a great sandbox experience - though best played co-op. Viva Pinata is perfect for you if you are addicted to farmville-esque games - I picked up my copy for a couple of quid and it has enough content to last weeks. [prototype] is under a tenner and is a surprise at that. Give it a few hours and refuse to be overwhelmed with the array of arm manifestations and you'll be in for a treat. There are plenty of 7/10 games out there, and there are several that may be better suited to you than the review may suggest. While rental is always a good option, there's a certain psychology involved in purchasing a cheap game rather than renting it. I don't know if this thread will bomb (probably, as I've spent a lot of words in the OP) or not, but I, for one, will be using this thread to ask people of their opinions of cheap games that I spy. Because they're all I can afford.

Bastard! You're making my awards-counting a right pain in the arse. welcome back!

Good idea dwarf! I was originally going to put brief comments but I had to panic-rush the post after I accidentally posted the thread with a title and half a line... Quake 4 Saw this for £2 so why not, eh? I think I've played the Quake 2 that came with it far more than I have played Q4. And I only played Q2 for like an hour. Alan Wake I enjoyed teh narrative angle, though it was easier than it wanted it be. Any difficult moments felt forced. Got it for maybe £13? I forget. Started a runthrough on hard with the intention to collect all the collectables, but quickly found the camera annoyed me, and some of the collectables were near-impossible to get on hard. A DLC deal could tempt me back. Darksiders Shorty said it was a great game and I noticed Daft's mad-propping here and there so when I saw it for less than a tenner I went for it. I must say that the cover doesn't do the game justice at all. I had no idea what I was getting into and it has to be one of the funnest games I've played. Ran through it on hard (on Daft's advice) first play though and it was consistantly at just the right difficulty level - always a challenge, never easy. Precisely how all games should be. Achievements were mostly good, with a couple of time-wastey ones. CoD:MW2 Something like 18 days worth of play had been invested on this game when I lived in a 6-man house, so when I came home I went and bought this and a wireless controller for £40. Bad 'net connections since have really hampered me though I do miss it, but I've got all the achievements and gone cold turkey enough to not feel the need to prestige anymore. Viva Pinata Mostly bought this because I thought my girlfriend would like it - she likes animals and gardening. When I stayed with her for a few weeks she did plug a few hours in, but she doesn't really get enough exposure. Lost Planet Played the first part of this game maybe 5 times. Can never be arsed to get further. Got it as part of a 4 for £20 deal. Left 4 Dead 2 Never played this as much as I did the first one. It just felt like I had missed the boat a bit, with everyone else being way better than me at the levels. Probably won't play it again, unless I stumble upon a new crowd of friends who haven't played it and all buy it at the same time and buy me expensive broadband, or something. Dead Space I jumped once. I played through the whole game very much as a spectator, constantly thinking something along the lines of "ah! I see what they did there! Good effort" whenever there was a scare scene. The tone of the game was great, and the gameplay was pretty much what I like best. Linear 'levels' that you go into, collect stuff, solve puzzles, kill things, get an upgrade, discover notes/lore/messages if you choose to, then return to your hub and go on to the next area. Devil May Cry 4 Collector's edition tin for £4. Why not, eh? Not actually played this copy (played Shorty's, got maybe half-way through teh game). Lost Odyssey Part of a 4 for £20 deal - at the time I figured I wouldn't be able to afford any games for ages so I got this for its epic length. Watched/played through the awesome intro, got to the first village, then got overwhelmed and put MW2 in. It's a One Day game. Condemned 2 Aced Condemned 1, saw this as a 4 for £20, figured I'd like it. Not even played it. Housemates gave it a bash but that was it. Assassin's Creed 2 Can't remember how much it was but I played it to death! Loved it to pieces. Can't wait to get Brotherhood... when it's poor and nobody's playing it anymore :'( Army of Two: 40th Day Probably a tenner? I play it maybe once a month for a few hours with a mate on our Pizza Day! It's not as good as the first. Far too many instances where you're in the same place just waiting for the waves of enemies to end. is annoying. Deadly Premonition GAME. OF. THE. YEAR. Mundi posted that he was buying it in the purchases thread, I hadn't heard of it so I figured it couldn't be a big new game, but then I hadn't seen it on my usual bargain hunting and it had the sort of cover I'd normally pick up, at least. Mundi told me about it and I went and ordered it online for £16 immediately. Played it non-stop for a few days. One of the best cases of content over graphics, which sadly means many people will just switch it off rather than endure the low polygon count and thus miss one of the greatest gaming experiences there is. Sure, some of the combat is repetitive and sure, the controls take a while to adjust to - but the storyline has its twists, the music is twee, the horror scenes are scary (axeman chases.. aiii!), the characters complex, the script humorous and the references numerous. Bioshock 2 A decent follow-up to the first game. A lot less backtracking which gave the individual areas a lot more of a contained character, but, of course, the gathering scenes weren't too inspiring. Online play was surprisingly fun passing a pad around a few mates but otherwise it's tsch. Beatles Rock Band Surprise birthday gift from the housemates, complete with instruments! Fantastic game, not as tricky as rockband. Of course, I have no space to play it these days... and not enough friends either Borderlands My housemates played this more than me. I found it too repetitive and it was far too hard to quickly determine whether the sniper on the ground was better than the one i had equipped, or the one in my inventory. Again, if I was more dedicated online I'd probably have more fun. [Prototype] Really enjoyed this! The freedom of movement and the general bad-assery was a refreshing way to play a sandbox game. The achievements are a proper bitch to do, though. I've just about got bronze on all of them but I'm a way off plat for most. Found it for a tenner, I think, so totally worth it. Crackdown Fiver! Can't knock it. had some fun running about. Only had it a week or so so not had much time to play it. Aliens vs Predator Played the first level, then I bought [prototype]. Then Deadly Premonition arrived. Then... Prince of Persia ... arrived. Playing it so soon after prototype makes the free-running feel really restrictive and clunky. it's my 'current' game. Beautiful Katamari is another game I want my girlfriend to play. It's cute enough and odd enough, but I fear the controls will get the better of her. Just remembered the other night I drunkenly ordered 4-6 games (totalling £32) off of CEX. One/two will be presents this xmas. Maybe. Can't remember what tehy were! lol! Long post is long. And boring.

Bard; threeway baby?

Will' I think you need to have your own "MY LIFE IS AWESOME AND YOURS IS NOT HA!" thread

It's pretty gay.

I posted this thread accidentally before I'd finished my post! Games released just this year... My list would be a lot shorter!

Idea triggered by the discussion of the quality of current-gen games, what games have you bought this year? Not just in terms of games that were released this year, but in general? It's a big thing to ask of some of you. Personally I've only had my xbox for about 18 months. So let's consult the shelf. In no particular order; Quake 4 Alan Wake Darksiders CoD:MW2 Viva Pinata Lost Planet Left 4 Dead 2 Dead Space Devil May Cry 4 Lost Odyssey Condemned 2 Assassin's Creed 2 Army of Two: 40th Day Deadly Premonition Bioshock 2 Beatles Rock Band Borderlands Prototype Crackdown Aliens vs Predator Prince of Persia Beautiful Katamari Not included XBLA games as I can't be bothered to turn it on. There's a few other games that I'm not certain whether it was at the end of 09 or during 2010, so the list may be longer. Generally I buy games max £10, of course there's the odd exception in that list. It's still quite a lot of games - several of which I've not played extensively, it has to be said. I'd say over the year I've spent max £300 on games. A lot of money perhaps! But if I had bought them all brand new when they first came out then that's another story altogether!

This thread was win but I'm afraid the autoplay thing was invasive in other threads.

Elaborate for the unknown!

That Ken/Harry Hill vid... You know when you see those completely random vids from japan? This is going to go viral over there.

I'm having a very bad season. Trying to develop too many strikers at once. Perhaps time to sell one or two and get a decent older forward just to beef things up!

Essentially; enjoy this thread until the autoplay thing gets fixed.