Post everytime that you buy a new game...

[DaMadFiddler]

Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness Limited Edition (PS3)

I need an amusing RPG to play. This should do.

If you want an amazing story and don't mind somewhat clunky gameplay, go find yourself a copy of Nier. Make sure to do all the playthroughs, though, to get the full story.

[Matisfaction]

Little Inferno: eShop discount (£4.99)

[BlueCrab]

Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness Limited Edition (PS3)

I need an amusing RPG to play. This should do.

If you want an amazing story and don't mind somewhat clunky gameplay, go find yourself a copy of Nier. Make sure to do all the playthroughs, though, to get the full story.

If only I had the time to play through multiple playthroughs of a game. Sadly, I don't...

[DaMadFiddler]

Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness Limited Edition (PS3)

I need an amusing RPG to play. This should do.

If you want an amazing story and don't mind somewhat clunky gameplay, go find yourself a copy of Nier. Make sure to do all the playthroughs, though, to get the full story.

If only I had the time to play through multiple playthroughs of a game. Sadly, I don't...

You really need to with Nier, though. It's... pretty impressive. And depressing as hell.

[Specially Cork]

It's 3DS time! Such an awesome little console.

Mario & Luigi: Dream Team
Paper Mario: Sticker Star
Pokemon X

I've heard mixed things about Sticker Star, but as I've never played a Paper Mario before it seems like that's one of the biggest issues solved.

Still, these should keep me busy for a long time. At least until Zelda comes out.

[not just souLLy now]

Funnily enough I preferred Sticker Star to Dream Team, I 100 percented Sticker Star but found Dream Team a chore from pretty much the beginning and not just for the relentless hand-holding it's infamous for.

[DaMadFiddler]

New Super Mario Bros. 2 (3DS)
Yeah, it's more of the same, but in this case, that's a good thing.

Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing: Transformed (Wii U)
This got absolutely stellar reviews, and given my love of both MarioKart and Sega franchises, I had to give it a shot. I was originally going to get the PS3 version so that I'd have a kart racer on that platform, but I ended up getting the Wii U version after hearing about the Wii U-exclusive Monkey Ball mode

The Wii U has actually become my "default" console for buying cross-platform titles that are otherwise more or less equal, in part because it needs the sales but mainly because I really like having the option of off-screen play. (Sony promised this with the PS3+PSP/Vita, but very few games actually took advantage of it. It looks like they're trying to fix that with the PS4, though.) And since the PS3 and Wii U are both connected to the same TV, and my fiance and I are both avid gamers, being able to play separate games simultaneously is a significant plus for us.

Wonderful 101 (Wii U)



...I'm still looking for a reasonably priced Virtual Boy, by the way. I bought one on eBay last month, but it arrived broken and I had to return it. I have pretty much all the games I want for it, but my system was lost during a move many years ago.

[Specially Cork]

Watch Dogs has just been delayed 6 months, 1 month before release.

Pretty disappointing, was looking forward to that.

[Matisfaction]

SteamWorld Dig: 3DS eshop $8.99

[Matisfaction]

Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut (Wii U) £23.99

[Specially Cork]

Batman Arkham Origins

It's a very lazy game in many ways - it's basically Arkham City again with recycled everything. But I love the boss fights. So rare these days to find a game with boss fights, let alone decent ones.

[Specially Cork]

Assassin's Creed IV

It's actually very good. Back to 2 and Brotherhood standard - potentially the best in the series. It's still the same old, same old but oh my god it's lightyears ahead of 3.

[DaMadFiddler]

As we start the switch from one console generation to the next, it's time to start binge-purchasing discounted games that I never got around to. Here's the next crop:

Portal 2 (PS3)
Pandora's Tower (Wii)
Lost in Shadow (Wii)

At the same time, Eva bought The Last Story.

[Matisfaction]

Pandora's Tower (Wii)

Excellent Purchase.

Resident Evil Revelations 3DS $9.99

[Matisfaction]

Super Castlevania IV - Wii U eShop
Castlevania - 3DS eShop

[Veggita2099]

Humble Bundle Warner Bros

All ready played the batman games to death on Xbox but hadn't ever played any of the Scribblenauts game. Who couldn't enjoy a game that lets you summon a dead body to help frogger cross the stream?

[Matisfaction]

Batman Arkham City £8.79 (Wii U)
Super Mario 3D World (Wii U)
Playstation 3 (12GB Super Slim).

[Specially Cork]

Humble Bundle Warner Bros

All ready played the batman games to death on Xbox but hadn't ever played any of the Scribblenauts game. Who couldn't enjoy a game that lets you summon a dead body to help frogger cross the stream?

I've always struggled with Scribblenauts. It's so heavily built around using your imagination, but it never rewards you for it. The puzzle stages are just visualized word-games, and the action stages can be too easily beaten with obvious god items like a jet-pack.

Anyway, I bought:

Zelda: LBW
Steamworld Dig
Megaman 2

All on 3DS.

That's it for this year, excluding iOS stuff.

Next year is definitely a backlog clearing year. Can't see myself buying a new console for a while. Although, Mario is tempting me...

[not just souLLy now]

Got the special edition Zelda: Link Between Worlds and preordered a Retron 5. PS4 and XBox One are going to have to wait until there's something worth playing.

[DaMadFiddler]

Good call. Buying a console in its first year is usually a waste of money, particularly if it's not backwards-compatible. It's at its highest price point, its least refined iteration (only exception being the PS3, whose first form was its best), and you have the fewest games available, all of which are still at or near the full release price. Backwards compatibility can mitigate that somewhat, particularly if you're trying to keep your setup minimized, but for the most part there's really no point to early adoption unless the system has a strong launch lineup.

The Wii U and 3DS have been out 1 and 2 years, respectively, and they're both starting to hit their stride. The 3DS has a really nice catalog now, and the Wii U is building the start of a good catalog. Up until now, Eva and I have shared handhelds; she used my DS for most of its run until she got a 3DS, and I've used her 3DS when there games I wanted to play for that. And after getting an iPhone, I thought I was done buying handhelds. But there's enough good stuff for the 3DS that I may have to get my own, just so we're not competing for it all the time.