The Game Hunt is On

On 08/26/2013 at 03:50 PM by KnightDriver

Today my usual gaming buddy is MIA and so to ease my depression and loneliness, I thought I'd go on a game hunt. I'm filling out my collection of games I want to play from 2006 and 7. It's a good group to source from because the games are cheap and will probably not be in GameStop stores for much longer. I'm breaking my budget a little bit, but I'll be paying myself back over this coming week, so no worries there; although, I'm trying to remain cautious - I know how spending sprees can get out of hand.

This is my first haul. I was looking for three games in particular but I couldn't pass up three others I saw while browsing.

I was alway curious as to what was different in the Wii version of the first Far Cry, Far Cry: Vengeance. I remember it getting pretty bad reviews. But for $4, I thought it would be fun to have. I really liked the first Far Cry game.

I've played Uncharted: Drake's Fortune on a rental way back when, but I always wanted all the Uncharted games in my PS3 library and this is the first one I now own. I can't wait to go back and play it again. $8 was plenty cheap enough for an impulse buy.

Going left to right with the DS carts, Deep Labyrinth is a first person dungeon crawl I rented back in '06. I didn't finish it though. There were some doors you had to open by yelling in the DS microphone and I couldn't do that on the can at 2am while my roomate was asleep. For $2 I had to have it in my library and give it another shot.

Children of Mana is an RPG, and I love old school RPG's on the handhelds. The graphics look gorgeous too. This will be my first Mana game. It was $8. I can't wait to play it.

Orcs & Elves is another first-person dungeon crawl developed personally by John Carmack with I believe the original Doom engine. I played it all the way to the final boss on rental but failed to beat it. It's a really solid, if simiple, game that I'd like to go back and finish and for $2, I couldn't resist. Carmack did a second Orcs & Elves game, but it was for iOS only.

Sonic Chronicles: Dark Brotherhood was an impulse buy at $12, but I remember being excited by this when it came out. This was Bioware's first handheld game. Also, I thought a Sonic RPG was one way I could get into the Sonic games. I've tried so many of the Sonic games, but I found them all frustrating as heck. I mean, how do you do anything with a character that moves so darn fast? I always flew off ramps or smashed into obstacles. An RPG seems the thing for me.

And that's all for now, but the day is still young and I think I might do some more shopping.

leeradical42

08/26/2013 at 05:03 PM

Pretty good score there and i know how you feel about games on a budget i havent bought a new game for quite a while now and although i really want Xcom Declassified its not in my budget so i will have to wait for a while, and cant wait till i get a PS3 cause i have a nice list of games to get i have a wii but i never play it its more for the kiddos i never could get into the wii.

KnightDriver

08/26/2013 at 07:49 PM

I've tried to stick to new games and just buy fewer, but I've got the bug and sometimes I've gotta binge on those dirty cheap games.

08/26/2013 at 08:48 PM

Hey nothing wrong with cheap game binging Acctually im jelouse that i cant do the same lol!!

Alex-C25

08/26/2013 at 05:28 PM

I respect opinions and all, but that's the good thing about Sonic, the combination of speed and plataforming. I think if you try first the Genesis games (they are good starting points) and from there, go scalating to the modern games, you can learn instantly how the game works and control the speed.

I played the first four chapters of Uncharted on a friends PS3 (don't own the console). It was fun and I really liked the plataforming, but I thought the enemies were very cheap and the shooting is nothing to write about, but it works.

08/26/2013 at 07:50 PM

I've played the Genesis Sonic games on Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection and Sonic Adventure on Dreamcast. I just can't get the hang of those games. I'll keep trying though.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

08/26/2013 at 05:37 PM

ah, the thrill of the hunt. That's a pretty good score. I liked Uncharted, but got tired of the waves of enemies. Otherwise the platforming and stuff was cool.

I've always wanted to check out Dark Brotherhood.Seems like such a weird concept.

There's a lot of good DS 1st person dungeon crawlers. Check out Dark Spire -- it's the most difficult game I've ever played.

08/26/2013 at 07:52 PM

I love the graphics in the Uncharted games.

I've heard of Dark Spire. I'll pick that up sometime for sure. I'm a sucker for first-person dungeon crawls ala Wizardry.

daftman

08/26/2013 at 09:26 PM

Haven't played too many first-person dungeon crawls but I did have Orcs and Elves for a while. I liked it but I got stuck somewhere, a volcano or something and spent all this time and couldn't get out and died and lost my progress. I got so frustrated with it that I traded it in when I bought Metroid Prime 3. I very rarely rage quit a game, so to do that and then sell it was very unusual. I wish I still had it, to be honest, even if just to have it. It's based on the engine of the Doom RPG, by the way, which was a mobile-only game. I think it might have pre-dated iOS. I remember hearing that Orcs and Elves was a much deeper game.

I had Sonic Chronicles too for a while. It's fun but the combat got very repetitive by the end of the game. I just constantly used special attacks. I eventually traded that in (maybe at the same time as O&E?) because I couldn't see myself ever playing it again and it was worth quite a bit (don't remember how much but it was more than you paid for it). Also, a friend of mine had lost the box and I'm kind of a stickler about that, though I do have some boxless DS games to be honest.

08/26/2013 at 11:37 PM

Yea, I forgot about Doom RPG. I remember wanting to play it but didn't have a phone, but when Orcs & Elves came out I was thrilled and rented it immediately.

I was a stickler for DS boxes, but it became impossible to get them at Gamestop since they started throwing them away to make room for 3DS stuff; so I gave in and now I take what I can get. Another reason for me to pick up new games.

GeminiMan78

08/27/2013 at 02:19 AM

Ha, I didn't even know there was a Farcry game for the Wii. Secret of Mana is one of my all time faves and Sword of Mana for the GBA was not bad, but I was pretty disappointed with Children of Mana. Its very different from the earlier games, more of a dungeon crawl instead of the large open over world I was used to. But thats just me. Sonic Chronicles is one I have been wanting to get, and I have the same problem with Sonic games. Never got further that maybe the second level on any of those games, lol.

08/27/2013 at 03:57 PM

I gotta play Sonic drunk or something. I need to just go with the flow in that game and not over think it.

PixlBit