The Thread of Gaming Randomness

[bombatomba]

My kids gifted me $40 in Steam bucks and for once I don't know what to get.  Normally I would do buy a ton of ~$5 games and call it a year, but for once I thought about maybe going for something more than a couple of bucks and maybe use some of it for blog fodder.  I figure I could do one of the following:

1 - Buy two to four Space Sim games

2 - Buy a high priced game that I normally wait up to seven years for (GTAV, Witcher 3, Just Cause 3)

3 - Just do what I normally do and buy a variety of titles, ranging from CRPG, JRPG, platforming, classic, Rouge-like, and more.

[nupoile]

While I am totally okay with you owning more space sim games bomba, going for something newer might be fun. If you play something that is popular right now, there is a whole other aspect to games with an active online community.

Of course in my mind, trading $40 for one game when I would normally trade $40 for 40 games (with my regular buying habits) is a tough call. Decisions decisions.....

[JamesGoblin]

Civilization Online (for what it's worth, I'm on the "MMO" side of the fence):

http://www.youtube.com/wa...hxhI&feature=youtu.be

[mumboking]

An ad for Light Crusader on the SEGA Mega Drive mentioned by the person who was in it.
https://twitter.com/Jason...status/681989370744848386

Yep, that's me, a job I did in the 90s. Afterwards I think I probably told girls I was a model
[img width=373 height=512]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CXaoKYkUkAACg7Z.jpg[/img]

[SirPsycho]

Pointless Arcade Games

http://imgur.com/gallery/gdZTx

[Izret101]

Apparently ActiBlizzard bought MLG for 46 million...

[Shadow Kisuragi]

46 million? Damn they devalued.

[SirPsycho]

WTF Koei WTF



[img width=320 height=180]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CYkpqTXUAAAYF_S.png[/img]

[mumboking]

I noticed something about the PS1 I recently bought...
[img width=512 height=288]http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll222/mumboking/Photos/Games/DSC_0812.jpg[/img]
[img width=512 height=288]http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll222/mumboking/Photos/Games/DSC_0813.jpg[/img]
The serial numbers match!

EDIT: I just realised that the UPC doesn't match the one in the database. But what would I add it as? What would the region be?

[mumboking]

I just fixed the vibration on a PS1 controller!
Someone had been digging around inside it before me and hadn't put the motors back in the right place. 

[Leynos]

My friend who is playing. Is a person with AAA experience at Rockstar. Now making indie games and has a series on my channel discussion Mechanics,Diversity and Narrative in RPGs. We are both huge RPG fans so we thought should be fun to play FFXV. What happened next..let you watch.

[mumboking]

I bought a PS2 memory card that had a GTA: San Andreas save on it. The previous owner had cheated 69 times on it...
I'm also surprised it had no football game saves on it.

[Schlibby]

I bought a PS2 memory card that had a GTA: San Andreas save on it. The previous owner had cheated 69 times on it...
I'm also surprised it had no football game saves on it.

That jet pack cheat was a life saver when stuck in the desert with no vehicle :-)

[Schlibby]

I noticed something about the PS1 I recently bought...
[img width=512 height=288]http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll222/mumboking/Photos/Games/DSC_0812.jpg[/img]
[img width=512 height=288]http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll222/mumboking/Photos/Games/DSC_0813.jpg[/img]
The serial numbers match!

EDIT: I just realised that the UPC doesn't match the one in the database. But what would I add it as? What would the region be?

Hi. The one in the database seems to be the A version. Yours is the B version (SCPH-5502 B). I'm guessing that's the difference.

I sorted out the PAL PS1s in the database recently. However I only had enough information to add in 1 of each main model, not A, B, C variations etc. It would be great if you could add yours as a variant with B at the end of the name.

As to the region, from what I can gather Sony seem to do a single release for all of Europe (as opposed to Nintendo who do a seperate release for different countries).

[mumboking]

I bought a PS2 memory card that had a GTA: San Andreas save on it. The previous owner had cheated 69 times on it...
I'm also surprised it had no football game saves on it.

That jet pack cheat was a life saver when stuck in the desert with no vehicle :-)

They hadn't got far in the game at all... I think it's mostly money and unlock cheats they used.

It would be great if you could add yours as a variant with B at the end of the name.

Done.