General Gaming Thread of ***k your backlog | Black Friday / Holiday season buying

[chakoo]

 

So now that BF sales are starting (long before actual BF). What all have we bought to put on our backlogs?

 

So far I've racked up

. Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster (Switch)

. Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration Exp Steelbook Edition (Switch) - This one I might give to a friend as his xmas gift

. Octopath Traveler 2 (Switch)

. World of Horror (Switch)

 

I'm probably going to keep my buying a little light this year but i'm hoping that Gundam Breakers 4, Ys X, & Romancing Saga 2 go on sale (in canada).

[DPCyric]

How is World of Horror? I've been wanting to try it out.

[Best]

I have given up worrying about beating games now. I just start a game, love it, a new game releases, drop current game, play and love the new game, new game releases, drop current game, and love the new game. 

 

It's a visious cycle and I'm not able to control it. 

[chakoo]

58 minutes ago, DPCyric said:

How is World of Horror? I've been wanting to try it out.

Don’t know but I’ve heard good things so I’m curious to try it out. I got a physical copy so it will be a bit before it arrives.

[crispy4000]

I’ll hopefully buy close to nothing else this year, after spending $2k on a gaming pc.

 

I will finish out my last month of the Humble Choice promotion.  And if I keep my 4080S after the Nvidia event in January, will redeem the Indiana Jones code with it.

[Fizzzzle]

I'll probably get Veilguard at some point, but I don't have money to be blowing on games.

 

I just recently got my PS3 emulator working on my PC, so right now I'm playing through the PS3 Tales games (Xillia, Xillia 2, and Graces) since it looks like those games will probably never get ported to PC.

[Biggie]

Ace Attorney Anthology is on the cyber sale for $35.99

[XxEvil AshxX]

I guess Steam's holiday sale hasn't kicked in yet, because I keep looking at my wishlist and none of them have been discounted. As far as Xbox and Playstation, I already have pretty much everything that interests me already.

[crispy4000]

10 hours ago, Fizzzzle said:

I'll probably get Veilguard at some point, but I don't have money to be blowing on games.

 

I just recently got my PS3 emulator working on my PC, so right now I'm playing through the PS3 Tales games (Xillia, Xillia 2, and Graces) since it looks like those games will probably never get ported to PC.

I think Graces was ported recently? 

[XxEvil AshxX]

19 minutes ago, crispy4000 said:

I think Graces was ported recently? 

 

It's coming in January.

[Keyser_Soze]

45 minutes ago, XxEvil AshxX said:

I guess Steam's holiday sale hasn't kicked in yet

 

It starts on the 27th

[Fizzzzle]

5 hours ago, crispy4000 said:

I think Graces was ported recently? 

Oh nice! I'll hold off on that one, then. Between that and Suikoden I & II coming out something like 6 weeks after that, i'll be having a good time.

[DPCyric]

18 hours ago, crispy4000 said:

I’ll hopefully buy close to nothing else this year, after spending $2k on a gaming pc.

 

I will finish out my last month of the Humble Choice promotion.  And if I keep my 4080S after the Nvidia event in January, will redeem the Indiana Jones code with it.

 

Good month to finish off on as well!

[crispy4000]

38 minutes ago, DPCyric said:

 

Good month to finish off on as well!

Yeah, still waiting on the December games.  But it’s been a very strong past 5 months by Humble’s standards.  Some stuff I didn’t own that I picked up:

 

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- Ghostrunner 2

- A Plague's Tale: Reqiuem
- Persona 4 Golden
- Remnant 2

- Jusant

- Cassette Beasts

- Sifu

- Person 5 Strikers

- The Lamplighter's League

- Gotham Knights

- Spongebob: The Cosmic Shake

- High on Life

- Blacktail

- Astral Ascent

- Lost Eidons

- The Bookwalker

 

[DPCyric]

57 minutes ago, crispy4000 said:

Yeah, still waiting on the December games.  But it’s been a very strong past 5 months by Humble’s standards.  Some stuff I didn’t own that I picked up:

 

 

 

Being off work I missed some of these like Plague's Tale... I'm working off and on now so I've picked up a few of the bundles (Remnant 2 was a must get) and I'm hoping to pick up this months  (I already have Persona 4 Golden but I'm interested in Darktide, Lamplighter's League, and Cassette Beasts).

[Paperclyp]

Anyone have strong recs on a PS VR 2?  That price is pretty enticing.

[XxEvil AshxX]

Tempted to grab the FFVII Remake + Rebirth bundle on the PS store for $60. 

 

I heard Rebirth kinda runs like ass on the PS5 though.... so I dunno.

[Best]

51 minutes ago, XxEvil AshxX said:

I heard Rebirth kinda runs like ass on the PS5 though.... so I dunno.

 

It runs perfectly fine in performance mode but takes a pretty big hit with resolution.

[Bacon]

SMTV:V is on sale for 44 but I want it to be even cheaper

[crispy4000]

4 hours ago, XxEvil AshxX said:

Tempted to grab the FFVII Remake + Rebirth bundle on the PS store for $60. 

 

I heard Rebirth kinda runs like ass on the PS5 though.... so I dunno.

It’s a compromised experience, but patches did make it more bearable, a bit.  You’ll want to run it in performance mode.

 

It runs well though in large part though.

[Best]

32 minutes ago, crispy4000 said:

It’s a compromised experience, but patches did make it more bearable, a bit.  You’ll want to run it in performance mode.

 

It runs well though in large part though.

 

This game is the only game where owning a PS5 Pro is worth it. 

[XxEvil AshxX]

2 hours ago, crispy4000 said:

It’s a compromised experience, but patches did make it more bearable, a bit.  You’ll want to run it in performance mode.

 

It runs well though in large part though.

 

Yeah that's the thing, I think they're done with it as far as trying to get it to run better. So whatever it runs at now is it. I might just wait for it to come to PC.

[crispy4000]

9 minutes ago, XxEvil AshxX said:

 

Yeah that's the thing, I think they're done with it as far as trying to get it to run better. So whatever it runs at now is it. I might just wait for it to come to PC.

It’s an UE4 open world game.  Prognosis is not good for the PC port.  Days Gone managed it well, as a ‘heavily modified’ version of the engine, so there’s always hope Square Enix figured out similar modifications making Rebirth.  But Remake was already a bad port.

 

I’m guessing it’s going to be a pick your poison sort of thing.  Hope I’m wrong.

[tgo]

Alan Wake 2 deluxe edition PC is tempting at $46 CDN.  

[Keyser_Soze]

9 hours ago, XxEvil AshxX said:

Tempted to grab the FFVII Remake + Rebirth bundle on the PS store for $60. 

 

I heard Rebirth kinda runs like ass on the PS5 though.... so I dunno.

 

Rebirth is the best and only reason to get a PS5 Pro.

[TheLeon]

There isn’t much I’m really looking to buy, and I’ve really curbed my “buy it ‘cuz it’s cheap” impulses in the last couple years. Alan Wake 2 Deluxe for $40 is the only thing that’s caught my eye, and even that I can wait on.

[chakoo]

12 hours ago, Bacon said:

SMTV:V is on sale for 44 but I want it to be even cheaper

For which platform? I saw the switch version is $25 on Amazon (.com).

[Bacon]

1 minute ago, chakoo said:

For which platform? I saw the switch version is $25 on Amazon (.com).

pee shee

[XxEvil AshxX]

10 hours ago, crispy4000 said:

It’s an UE4 open world game.  Prognosis is not good for the PC port.  Days Gone managed it well, as a ‘heavily modified’ version of the engine, so there’s always hope Square Enix figured out similar modifications making Rebirth.  But Remake was already a bad port.

 

I’m guessing it’s going to be a pick your poison sort of thing.  Hope I’m wrong.

 

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I'll take my chances I guess. Wouldn't be the worst $60 I've spent (I'm looking at YOU Shadowgate 64).

[Nokra]

The same friend who got me into Vampire Survivors recommended Brotato, so I bought that and its DLC for $8. I got a good 100+ hours out of Vampire Survivors for $20 so I'm optimistic.

[vaxick]

So far I've purchased 

 

Balatro - PS5

Tomb Raider 1 - 3 Remastered Collection -PS5

Neon White - PS5

Sonic X Shadow Generations - PS5

 

There's some other stuff tempting me, but I also debating what I should buy now or just wait for future price drops as I've got way too many games to play as it is.

[chakoo]

Damn reviews !!!

 

I saw Death Mark 2 was on sale. It looks cool and I've been enjoying horror VN this year so I checked on reviews and they were positive but said to play the first game first. So I saw that was at a reasonable price and I bought it. Then I found out there was a 2nd game apart of the series called NG and saw it was on sale on Amazon US so I end up buying that as well (and got Gundam Breakers 4 that I wanted which was on sale). Now DM2 is not on sale atm on Amazon Canada, lol. I'm sure it will pop back on sale soon enough.

 

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I also bought a bunch of other games on sale recently. I'll wait till I stop (hopefully soon) to post the full list. 

[dualhunter]

20 hours ago, Nokra said:

The same friend who got me into Vampire Survivors recommended Brotato, so I bought that and its DLC for $8. I got a good 100+ hours out of Vampire Survivors for $20 so I'm optimistic.

 

Brotato will be free on EGS this Thursday.

[Bitgod]

But still, that's on EGS.  Hard to say what's better, free or not opening EGS.

 

Not buying any games ATM, buying hardware before Uncle Don raises the prices.

[SaysWho?]

I'm going to post on both threads like a boss. 

 

Arriving Today:

 

Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition (PS5)

FINAL FANTASY I-VI COLLECTION Anniversary Edition (PS4)

Sea of Stars (PS5)

 

I was going to get Outer Wilds, but the wrong print went out for the PS5 version that didn't have the DLC, and I wanted it all on disc, so I'm just preordering it on iam8bit now. If you'd like the Switch version, it's $19.99.