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So many games, so little time.

DremDrem Registered User regular
edited July 2007 in Games and Technology
Yesterday, I was forced to stop at Big Lots to do some shopping. While there, I happened across a Movie/Software stand that housed such classic as Virtual Sexuality and Peepshow. Yeah, Big Lots has really fallen. However, on one side of the stand were actual games! The only ones I had heard of were Traitor's Gate 2 and Commandos, and they all seemed failry cheap (VIRTUAL SOLITAIRE OH YEAH). However, behind them all I managed to peruse 3 games more my style:

1. Darwinia
2. Shadow of Destiny
3. Armed and Dangerous

$3.99 each. Faster than I could yell the Kool-Aid katchphrase, those games were in my cart.

But now that I have them, I don't know where to start. I never liked getting multiple games at once because I don't like diverting my attention between various games, as I'll probably not finish any of them faster than I would have playing them by themselves. And while I know of each game, I don't know them enough to assess their individual worths. So basically what I'm asking here:

In what order should I play these games? I'd prefer to play them in order in GREATNESS, as by the time I finish one or two, I'll be busy with Persona 3.

P.S. What's with Shadow of Destiny's back cover? It's all pictures of the protagonist hitting on girls, and only one of them has him actually dying. I thought it was a mystery/adventure game, not a dating sim. : /

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    I'm sad that the Big Lots in my city closed, because I got great PC game deals there all the time.

    Homeworld 2 for $4? Yes please.

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  • BullioBullio Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    I think we still have a Big Lots around here somewhere. I remember finding a bunch of the original TMNT figures from 90-92 there in 97 or 98 all brand new. Cool store. It's like a Dollar General with things people will actually use.

    The game I've heard of out of those 3 is Darwinia, and it's supposed to a whole bucket full o joy.

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  • OhioOhio Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    I'm sad that the Big Lots in my city closed, because I got great PC game deals there all the time.

    Homeworld 2 for $4? Yes please.

    I got you beat. I got Homeworld 2 at the dollar store for....a dollar.

    They had about 100 copies of it.

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  • DarlanDarlan Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Darwinia is my favorite RTS by a long shot. I typically don't like RTSes, but that game was so fresh and fun to play.

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  • LewiePLewieP Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    See this thread

    I just got RE4 Wii edition and Gotlieb pinball classics too.

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  • ImprovoloneImprovolone Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Drem wrote: »
    $3.99 each. Faster than I could yell the Kool-Aid katchphrase, those games were in my cart.

    Oh, so you had a quarter on you.
    Good for you.

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  • ZerinanZerinan Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Drem wrote: »
    $3.99 each. Faster than I could yell the Kool-Aid katchphrase, those games were in my cart.

    Oh, so you had a quarter on you.
    Good for you.

    I don't get the quarter thing. What's the big deal with the "in my cart" part? I fail at understanding.

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  • DeusfauxDeusfaux Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    when at the supermarket you use a quarter to get a cart

    (when you put it back you get your quarter back)

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  • ZerinanZerinan Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Hmm... the supermarkets around here don't have those, just a bunch of 'em lined up. I'll blame my lack of understanding on that.

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  • SirsonSirson Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Deusfaux wrote: »
    when at the supermarket you use a quarter to get a cart

    (when you put it back you get your quarter back)


    Never heard of this crazy practice before.

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  • apotheosapotheos Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited July 2007
    Sirson wrote: »
    Deusfaux wrote: »
    when at the supermarket you use a quarter to get a cart

    (when you put it back you get your quarter back)


    Never heard of this crazy practice before.

    Those carts are expensive. The coin prerequisite diminishes the number of carts that disappear.

    At some stores you need a dollar, but that is a feature of Canada having a dollar coin, no doubt.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    I've never heard of this either. Does any place in the US do this?

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  • KoekjesKoekjes Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    I've never heard of this either. Does any place in the US do this?

    None of the big chains I've ever been in do this.

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  • DeusfauxDeusfaux Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    this is why all the US lakes and rivers are full of shopping cart reefs

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