teh "what did you buy today"-thread

[Mathius]

What'd you end up thinking of Silent Hill: Downpour, NW?

[NightWolve]

I bought the others right before it (HD Collection, Home Coming), just was part of collecting all Silent Hill games for my...backlog.

Will see, but definitely I will make this an Ys 8 year, NIS America announced the PC Steam version will be ready next week, so I will definitely make time to beat that soon after I get it installed. I did beat my friend's game Insanity's Blade a few weeks ago too, so that's off the backlog.

Tangent: Speaking of Ys 8, I was supposed to make my Falcom raffle thread already, but I'll try tomorrow...

But let's do a quicky summary, 10 possible winners:

* 150 post minimum, and I reserve the right to exclude trolls
* 1st Grand Prize: Ys 8, Xanadu Next and Gurumin Steam codes
* 2nd Prize: Just Ys 8 and Gurumin
* The rest win just Gurumin Steam or GOG codes if you prefer.

Contest has been in place since September, but only 7 members gained from Facebook as I kept procrastinating to make a raffle thread here and better present it.

I talked to Johnny Millenium/Happy Console Gamer, asked if he could retweet my raffle link when ready, so that should help get it noticed. At least 40 participants would be good since 10 prizes to give away for now.

[Medic_wheat]

I haven’t picked up to many XBONE games. Any exclusive physical games worth getting? 

So far I only have

Ori
Killer instinct

[TheClash603]

I haven’t picked up to many XBONE games. Any exclusive physical games worth getting? 

So far I only have

Ori
Killer instinct

Not sure if you like racing games, but the Forza games may be the best on the system.

Then there is Halo and Gears of war, both are cheap enough now cause they are old, you might as well try them.

Sea of Theives is the shiny new exclusive, but it wasn't great to me.

Sunset Overdrive was fun.

Rare replay, though it's all old games so not really exclusive.

PUBG is console exclusive, but not physical.

Cuphead may be best game on system for people who like old shit, but not (yet) physical.

[Mathius]

Go ahead and enter me, Nightwolve.

[NightWolve]

Cool, that's 8 entrants so far, heh.

I found out today nullity recycled a defamatory dox job against me with a domain he bought, my day was a bit ruined shall we say, so I'm not quite in the mood to create my Falcom raffle, but I'll see, hopefully try tonight......

[Mathius]

Yeah I just saw. No rush.

[DragonmasterDan]

I bought a Windows 7 Professional Product Key for only $2.53. Now that they're dirt cheap, as Win 7 support is good for another 2 years and the free Windows 10 upgrade period is over, I said why not to fully complete my upgrade from Vista finally. I didn't trust these key sellers, I didn't think Windows Activation was gonna work, but it did so purty cool to get that out of the way!

I think Windows 7 was the cleanest OS Microsoft produced, all the best of XP & Vista and less of the worst. Windows 8.1 moved the OS into the tablet craze of interface design, same with Windows 10 but with more spying like Google's Android, pretty much moving it to that model.

Well, I dunno how long I should stick with it, but I'll see how it goes in the next 2 years for my home PC. All my tablets are Windows 10 now (up'ed free from 8.1), and my phones are Android, so I have them all at my disposal to continue learning from on occasion.



Listing was quickly deleted after seller finished off his batch, but you just eBay search "windows 7 key" to find others.

Was this 32-bit or 64-bit Windows 7 at that price?

[NightWolve]

Happily for 64-bit! It seemed like all would say the universal key was for both but maybe worth paying attention to.

My friend/neighbor gave me 2 of his old PCs some time back, one was stripped so I could up the DDR2 System RAM to 6GB for my classic 2008 PC tower. You must go 64-bit or Windows won't see past 3GB RAM.

FYI, if you're interested, these key offers go up and down quickly for some reason (MS don't like em?), so you gotta keep an eye out I guess. The guy also emailed me a 2015 Visual Studio Enterprise key as a secret bonus BTW, I might have some use for that IF the key works (something tells me there's something shady with these dudes, heh).

[Zero_Gamer]

Got these in the mail yesterday. Im really glad more stuff like this is being released.

Hopefully I'll get to pop them in tonight.

[Bloufo]

A couple months back I had picked up a bunch of HD-DVD's on the cheap, still sealed.
I only very recently had a chance to start going through all of them.

Had no idea that disc rot was even a thing with this format. 8 out of the 12 Warner Bros discs that I tried, ranged from having a sort of clouding effect on screen, to random disc read errors, to being unplayable. All the others -Universal, Paramount Pictures, Dreamworks, etc, played fine.

[Gypsy]

Raiden V, very nice.

[NightWolve]

A couple months back I had picked up a bunch of HD-DVD's on the cheap, still sealed.
I only very recently had a chance to start going through all of them.

Had no idea that disc rot was even a thing with this format. 8 out of the 12 Warner Bros discs that I tried, ranged from having a sort of clouding effect on screen, to random disc read errors, to being unplayable. All the others -Universal, Paramount Pictures, Dreamworks, etc, played fine.

I bought a Superman BluRay, the original classic with Christopher Reeve, left it stored for a year till I decided to watch both with the Richard Donner Cut sequel (terrible BTW, original Cut is better), so I try the BluRay, it looks perfect, totally new but it's dead!!

Just as well, I'd like to buy the 4K version someday so no big deal. Apparently there were lots of bad BluRay batches and you could get replacements from some movie distributors directly for their screw ups. I tried, I got a DVD replacement... Heh. The customer service rep screwed that up too.

[Bloufo]

A couple months back I had picked up a bunch of HD-DVD's on the cheap, still sealed.
I only very recently had a chance to start going through all of them.

Had no idea that disc rot was even a thing with this format. 8 out of the 12 Warner Bros discs that I tried, ranged from having a sort of clouding effect on screen, to random disc read errors, to being unplayable. All the others -Universal, Paramount Pictures, Dreamworks, etc, played fine.

I bought a Superman BluRay, the original classic with Christopher Reeve, left it stored for a year till I decided to watch both with the Richard Donner Cut sequel (terrible BTW, original Cut is better), so I try the BluRay, it looks perfect, totally new but it's dead!!

Just as well, I'd like to buy the 4K version someday so no big deal. Apparently there were lots of bad BluRay batches and you could get replacements from some movie distributors directly for their screw ups. I tried, I got a DVD replacement... Heh. The customer service rep screwed that up too.

So it happens on Blu-ray's as well?
I mean I thought that was an issue that was done and dusted when the LaserDisc age came to an end. That and if you store them where there is no dampness or extreme temperatures, that they'll be just fine. Just goes to show you how out of the loop I am with that.

In my case, I haven't had a single DVD or Blu-ray disc go bad in that way. But as I said, Blu-ray's "rival" at the time-HD-DVD, and most especially their discs by Warner, as I have now found out, are affected by that.

[Digi.k]

Just picked these up today. There was another retro gaming fair here in central London but the prices have shot up >.>