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On 04/15/2023 at 09:43 AM by KnightDriver

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Quite a few actually in the last month or so. I had some rewards money from Microsoft, and I'm working on a new game plan and needed some games to make it work. 

DWM

Rampage: Total Destruction (Wii), Tales of Zestiria (PS4), Dragon Warrior Monsters (GBC). I got these based on my old game plan. I always want to give the Tales series a shot, and I have fond memories of playing Rampage with a friend of mine. Dragon Warriors Monsters I noticed on a greatest GBC list. Combine that with my love of the Dragon Quest series and I thought I'd give it a try. 

carc

Found Carcassonne at a Goodwill for $5. Couldn't resist that. 

I regularly check digital game sales on Xbox and picked up the following digitally:

Lost Artifacts: Time Machine, The Dwarves. Lost Artifacts and Royal Roads are exactly like the Gnomes Garden games I like. They're casual resource managment and building games. The Dwarves was a Xbox One game I played a while back based on a book by the same name. It's a tactical role-playing game. I love those. All these were each $5 or less. 

blood

Got Bloodborne back again. I bounced off it the first time I played it, but I want to give it another shot. I saw Ratchet & Clank for $10 at a Gamestop too and thought I ought to have it. I am one or two events short of my first Platinum in that game. Maybe I'll take another go at it. 

combatcars

Combat Cars (Genesis), Little Nemo: Dream Master (NES), Black (Xbox), Final Fantasy Legend III (GB), and Harvest Moon (GB). I splurged a little bit here, but I wanted these for my year-long project. Combat Cars was on a best of list I saw. I think I might've played it on a collection, but I can't remember. I used to own Little Nemo. Not sure what happened to it. Black I got for free, probably for buying the next two not very cheap games. I read that the Final Fantasy Legend series became the SaGa series, which I like. I've been curious about the farming games lately and so got Harvest Moon. It's also on some best of lists. 

Finally some more digital stuff picked up because I had Microsoft money on Xbox and there was the Spring sales event. Forza Horizon 5 Rally Adventure DLC, Diablo II Resurrection and King of Seas. I've started to play Rally Adventure and really like it. I'm playing Diablo II in tandem with my friend and it's becoming an obsession. I'm a Necromancer with a skelleton army. He's a Barbarian specializing in dual-weilding. He runs around with both swords drawn making me think of someone tending a barbecue. Ha ha. King of Seas looks to me exactly like the ship-to-ship battles in Sid Meier's Pirates on Xbox that my friend and I played a lot way back. I'm excited to try it. All were on sale, FH $17, Diablo II $13, and King of Seas $5. 

And that's hopefully it for a good long while. My current project should now limit my buying quite a bit. We'll see how long that lasts. 

 

 



 

Comments

daftman

04/15/2023 at 08:06 PM

Little Nemo! We had that briefly when I was very young but I remember it being a fun game. I haven't played the Wii Rampage game but we rented the one on the N64 back in the day and it was so fun...for, like, ten minutes and then it got really repetitive lol.

KnightDriver

04/17/2023 at 03:37 PM

I swear I played Little Nemo a while back but I remember nothing about it other than it is based on an old cartoon from like the 30s or so.

Yeah, Rampage, like the arcade version is fun for short bursts. 

Cary Woodham

04/16/2023 at 08:28 AM

I'm so glad you got the LIttle Nemo game.  It's one of my favorite NES games.  I don't know if you has a NES to play it on, but I hope you can make time to play it soon because it's so awesome.  That was the game that caused me to try and learn more about Little Nemo the newspaper comic strip from the 1900s that this game is based on.  Really interesting stuff.

Rampage: Total Destruction got a lot of bad reviews back in the day.  I didn't think it was THAT bad, but I don't think it was any better than Rampage: World Tour either.  Did you know I met the guy who did the box art for Rampage: Total Destruction?

I really didn't like Tales of Zestiria that much.  I got it because I read that Go Shiina, my favorite game composer, did some of the music in the game.  Turns out he did very little of it so I was disappointed.  And I had a hard time getting into the game otherwise.  My favorites Tales game is Tales of Legendia on the PS2, which Go Shiina did ALL the music for.  It's known as the 'black sheep' of the Tales series, but I like it anyway!

KnightDriver

04/17/2023 at 03:39 PM

I have a Retron to play NES stuff on. I read some of the comic too a while ago. 

SanAndreas

04/17/2023 at 04:07 PM

I tried a Retron 5 because it played GBA games, but it kept crashing randomly, no matter which system's games I tried. Plus, no used game shops would take it. :(

KnightDriver

04/21/2023 at 09:46 AM

I have the Retron 3. I had some problem with certain Genesis cartridges and so ended up getting a Genesis. 

SanAndreas

04/26/2023 at 03:44 PM

I have a Gamecube with a GB Player, so I'm good with that. 

KnightDriver

04/28/2023 at 09:54 AM

I have that too. My favorite way to play GB, GBC and GBA games. 

SanAndreas

04/17/2023 at 04:10 PM

Zestiria had an interesting premise based around Arthurian legend, but it looks like it was built around monetization. That's notably the game that ended with the ouster of Hideo Baba as head of the series. Berseria and Arise were definitely headed back in the right direction.

KnightDriver

04/21/2023 at 09:50 AM

Interesting. I've only played about a half hour so far, but hope to get back to it soon. 

Matt Snee Staff Writer

04/18/2023 at 03:16 PM

I love Tales of Zestiria. But i haven't beaten it yet. I've restarted it three times, just so I can savor it more. It's got its flaws too though. 

KnightDriver

04/21/2023 at 09:53 AM

Cool. I'm looking forward to putting some series time into it. 

Super Step Contributing Writer

04/19/2023 at 11:42 AM

Rampage ... there's a game I'd love to play on my phone. Let's check Google Play!

KnightDriver

04/21/2023 at 10:00 AM

That would be good. 

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