Right, a bit later due to being busier than I had planned, but this last post should bring us up to date with the best of my pick-ups! Well, I say best, but this first lot of games might not fit that description very well at all....
I've got about 450 games for the PS2 now, but instead of stopping collecting like any sane person would, I'm continuing to pick up games for 50p or £1 whenever I find one I don't have. Because of this, I'm picking up a lot of lesser known, but pretty terrible, games...
Trigger Man is a third-person shooter, that despite seemingly having a budget that the developers could blow buying a sandwich, actually kept me playing for way longer than I probably should have. The AI of the enemies is pretty terrible with baddies standing around doing nothing, and when you try to shoot them they take about ten shots unless you manage a headshot. Levels are boring and blandly designed....it's a mess basically! But I still played it for an hour....
Police Chase Down is a hard-to-control, fiddly police-motorbike game that lets you shoot enemies as they try to destroy the VIP vehicle you're trying to protect, At least, that's what the first mission consists of. I dunno about the rest, as the fact my bike moves way faster than the slow-ass limo that I'm protecting and the fact that to shoot the bad guys I have to rotate the camera around meaning I have no idea what I'm driving into, put a stop to me playing the game any further....
The Shadow Of Zorro gives an initial impression that it might be quite good, but then when you start playing it quickly becomes apparent that it's a shoddily designed mess, with a stealth mechanic that doesn't quite work and a weird QTE combat style! Might be worth playing a wee bit longer to see if it improves, but it seems to be a huge disappointment so far...
Maniac Mole is a side-scrolling platformer that feels like it was made with one of those game-creator programs that lets you do your own graphics but only has the most basic of gameplay. It's pretty poor, with crappy level design and annoying collision detection....and the music is infuriatingly awful!! It's terribleness might keep you entertained for 15 minutes or so, though....
Legion - The Legend Of Excalibur I've only recently picked-up, and so have yet to really play it properly. It's a mix of RTS and action RPG, and seems like a fairly average example of such, but it was probably the first of it's kind on PS2...Might be worth looking into further, but I generally don't have much patience for these sorts of things unless they're amazing!
Cocoto Platform Jumper is one of a series of games starring a cute little red devil, and this one does exactly what it says in the title. Taking place in rotating-tower like levels, you create Rainbow Islands style platforms to make your way to the top, killing and avoiding nasties along the way! It's actually quite fun, and easily the best of the bunch! Maybe one worth returning to later on the blog....
Another recent pick-up is this Moomin book...found it in a charity shop for a couple of quid, and having been a fan of the Moomins since I was tiny and used to watch the creepy fuzzy-felt-style series, I had to snap it up! It tells the story of Moomintroll building a house for himself and the Snork Maiden, after Little My decides to invade his room at the Moomin house and basically annoy him into leaving....
Can't really remember where I picked up these Buster comics, but they'll be added to my collection....I lost loads in a previous move when my dad decided to burn loads of stuff instead of bringing it to the new home! Packed all the best stuff up into boxes and he told us just to leave it and we could get it later, then went out and burned the lot so we didn't have clutter in the new house!
Old books, toys (including my entire Matchbox car collection and some vintage Starsky & Hutch dolls), games, and hundreds and hundreds of comics.....Never forgiven him for that and never will! Probably goes a long way to explaining why I collect as much stuff from my childhood these days too!! Hehe...
Another charity shop find was this bunch of old gaming magazines for £2.50 each! They had loads more, but I just grabbed what I could afford...including issue one of the classic SNES mag, Super Play!
Definitely a bunch o' bargains! Was interesting reading the Club Nintendo member's mag as well, as I never ever joined but remember seeing the ads for it at the back of all of SNES game manuals...
A few more 360 games next, and these were between £3-£5 each...yet to play any of them properly, as they've been piled up on the increasingly massive backlog of 360 titles.....
Infinite Undiscovery looks like it'll be a fairly decent RPG to get my teeth into once I've finally got back to finishing another 360 JRPG, Lost Odyssey.....
The Last Remnant is another one that will be eating up large chunks of my time If I ever get around to playing it! It seems to focus a lot on large battles, so it'll be interesting to see how it plays...
Warriors : Legends Of Troy is an Ancient Greece themed entry in Koei's Warriors series of games. It seems to be quite a bit gorier than the Dynasty Warriors games, but has similar hack-n-slash gameplay. Looks like I should have fun with it....
Another trip to the charity shops unearthed these Strategy Guides, all for £2.50 each! The Dino Crisis and Devil May Cry ones still have their posters attached and have interviews with the game devs, and all of them are filled with some great maps and artwork! I was very happy to find them....
I found in yet another charity shop this selection of Comic Book Day 2013 comics! These were given away free at comic shops on the actual day, but obviously I had to pay 50p each for them. A couple (Star Wars / Avatar and Dragonball / Rurouni Kenshin) are double-sided. A nice find, as usually by the time I get into town for Free Comic Book Day, Forbidden Planet has run out of copies of the freebies...even if I manage to get there for 10am!!
In the same shop I found this Dirty Pair book, also for 50p! And that's the last item in this bunch of pick-ups!
So there you go! Quite the grab-bag o' goodies, I'm sure you'll agree! I'll do another pick-up post once I accumulate enough new things and stuffs....but should be back later in the week with some more scans of things I'm finding in boxes! Probably best not to promise that though, eh!? ;)
Laters, Stuffers! :)
You did well getting Super Play #1 for £2.50. Bet it's worth more than that today.
ReplyDeleteAlso curious as to what the inside of Dirty Pair II is like...
Hehe...Dirty Pair 2 isn't as bad inside as the name or cover might suggest! ;)
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