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Lutter said:
If it's sealed that's way more valuable. Some scroob on YouTube will buy it for content to open on screen later.

I tossed mine in the funeral pyre at GameStop for about $175 to finance my Xbox One X iirc, lol.
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Wii U is the only console I've never owned. Not counting the more obscure shit like 3DO's, etc. I had zero compulsion for that thing.
 
Tyrsis said:
Wii U is the only console I've never owned. Not counting the more obscure shit like 3DO's, etc. I had zero compulsion for that thing.
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I remember getting mine for ~$175 used about 6 months after release from Best Buy (back when they sold trade-ins, marked is "Poor" condition... the console part was just heavily scratched [no issues with the screen unit]) so I really didn't pay a super lot for it. I mean it was basically free since I got the same value back from GameStop.

Honestly the only game from that system I miss is The Wind Waker HD which I thought had so many great improvements over the original (fast sail and they made the treasure hunting a lot less annoying). Pretty much everything else came over to the Switch eventually and was better.

Playing Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze on that thing was euphoric at the time. Still one of the best side scrollers ever (I also own it on Switch I liked it so much). It's also a much easier way to play Wii games on modern TVs since it has built-in HDMI and backwards compatibility.
 
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Japan gaming haul: Power Pro Baseball 24-25, Dragon Quest X Offline (will likely never be localized) and a 900 Yen copy of Idolmaster Platinum Stars that my daughter grabbed in Fukuoka.

I am so glad I did the majority of my game shopping on previous trips, because if you’re coming over now hoping to buy anything pre-PS3 generation… good luck and I hope you’re ready to spend a shitton.
 
Mr Gundam said:
Hooray for a decades-long backlog.
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This is my Steam library from drunkenly going on there and saying to myself "yes I need every Star Wars game ever made before the year 2015 for $12 obviously"

Oh and those early Humble Bundles where you could pay the average and get like 12 games. I think they made it now so that you can't direct 100% of money to charity and not give them even a small tip anymore (lol).

EDIT: Yep. 15% minimum to Humble. Dorks.

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GhostOfGaspar said:
I've gotten my glorious wife (who really enjoys table top games) to start playing some video games with me. We crush together at the Overcooked games, and we recently finished It Takes Two (watching her learn to use both of the sticks at the same time was frustrating, entertaining and endearing all at once). She found a used copy of A Way Out, but once we got it loaded, we discovered that it was a jacked up copy that wouldn't play. That was super-shitty.
So on a whim, I picked up Wildermyth. I really didn't know shit about it, but it was an RPG, which she has kind of enjoyed in her/our limited exposure. She really got into Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion when we played that campaign.
Man, this thing is much more rich and deep than I thought it would be. We played a couple weekends ago for about 4 hours and I feel like we were just starting to figure out how the game was structured. Seems like an 80+ hour thing. I'm not sure I can get her that engaged, so I might just start a new game for me.
Anyone have any experience with this game?
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So, this game Wildermyth has been pretty great. We've probably put like 40+ hours into it thus far, and are nearly through the second campaign. There are neat features, that to a pretty new RPG player seem really cool, like permanent transformations, legacy characters that can be recruited in later campaigns, children of characters showing up as new recruits, etc. My lovely wife has been getting a kick out of some of the lighthearted silliness we've put into the game, like naming the first campaign characters after LotR characters (which is fun, because we has a tanking warrior named Gloin; in the second campaign we recruited a character who turned out to be his son, so now we have "Gimli, Son of Gloin" rolling around in our 2nd campaign with fucking Tuco Salamanca, Walter Jr, Lydia Rodart-Quayle and Gale Boetticher). It's been a blast even though the game is a little buggy- shit like the video being really choppy when all the enemies start doing their attack turns, kind of like when Sonic gets hit and all the rings slow things down on Sega Genesis.

While I think we still have a ton of time that we can put into this game (there are like 15 campaigns), and I've read about some folks putting in hundreds of hours, I went ahead and picked up something I think will be in the same vein, but a little more of a "serious" vibe- Divinity: Original Sin 2.

Anyone have experience with that one?
 
Been having a good time with Indiana Jones and the Great Circle on Switch 2.

I mean it's basically first person Uncharted with the Indiana Jones license... what's not to like?

Also refreshing to pop in a Switch 2 game and not have to install anything. The entire game is fully on the cartridge.
 
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