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UK bargains thread - "Ah! I'll buy it at a low price"

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  • LewiePLewieP Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Ubisoft did publish the PC ports of RE4 and Devil May Cry 3, I guess there is some leeway between what is a port and what is a multiplatform release (I would say that Splinter Cell and Rainbow 6 are just games that are released on PC and console, although the same could be said for Assasins Creed.

    Also, sorry Big Isy, I am unable to beat £35 for Skate., if you are happy to wait a while, I will keep an eye out for a good price in the near future.

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  • LewiePLewieP Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Half-Life 2 [Orange Box], PC - £18.12 delivered

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  • AshcroftAshcroft LOL The PayloadRegistered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Asian Halo 3 (the English one) is region free by the way. Tried it yesterday.

    Not bad for £25.

    By the way, cheers for the £25 misprice on VF5 Lewie. They've corrected it now of course, but I got in fast enough.

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  • LewiePLewieP Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Ashcroft wrote: »
    By the way, cheers for the £25 misprice on VF5 Lewie. They've corrected it now of course, but I got in fast enough.
    Wicked, glad to see a few people got in on it, they changed it pretty quick.

    I wasn't sure if it was a misprice at first, I thought since it's a fair bit old on PS3 now it might have had a budget release price.

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  • LewiePLewieP Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Super Mario Galaxy , Wii - £28.43 delivered

    Also, malerik, your 360 arrived yet?

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  • Big ClassyBig Classy Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Hey LewieP, thanks for searching for skate anyway. I figured it'd be kept high, it's Ea after all. I decided to hold off it and bought Orange Box for the 360 on Play-asia. Kick ass deal, risky... but kick ass.

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  • LewiePLewieP Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Football Manager 2008, PC - £17.97 delivered

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  • LewiePLewieP Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Metroid Fusion, GBA - £3.97 delivered

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  • subediisubedii Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Don't know whether you've posted this yet, but since I'm a fan of the game:

    Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance, £15 in P&P. From Gameplay.co.uk

    Cheapest I've seen it elsewhere is around £18 on Amazon, and probably more around the £20-£25 mark. Not exactly a smajor bargain, but it's good enough.

    Oh, and BTW, I'm planning on pre-ordering that Gears of War PC you linked before, so thanks for that. :mrgreen:

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  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    LewieP wrote: »
    Metroid Fusion, GBA - £3.97 delivered

    Bought'd.

    So hard to find older GBA games (that aren't fake) for reasonable prices. They seem to hang around at about £30 forever.

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  • LewiePLewieP Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    japan wrote: »
    LewieP wrote: »
    Metroid Fusion, GBA - £3.97 delivered

    Bought'd.

    So hard to find older GBA games (that aren't fake) for reasonable prices. They seem to hang around at about £30 forever.

    Yep, most decent GBA games are either still full price, not available anywhere, or if you are lucky, on clearance somewhere for next to nothing.

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  • Big ClassyBig Classy Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    I have zero mission, is fusion better? I could find a review but they're so generic.

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  • LewiePLewieP Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Big Isy wrote: »
    I have zero mission, is fusion better? I could find a review but they're so generic.

    I would say that Zero Mission is better, but they are very different, and at that price, you really can't go wrong with Fusion, it is excellent

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  • Big ClassyBig Classy Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    true ;)

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  • AddaAdda LondonRegistered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Managed to pick up Phoenix Wright 2 for £20 at woolworths and Advance wars DS preowned for £15 at gamestation this week.

    Still looking for a cheap phpenix wright number 1 though if anyone sees it..

    EDIT: Fusion is well worth getting allthough they are still having problems with my astroboy order bu I may have just got in too late.

    EDIT 2: I should have looked at woolworths.co.uk and I could have saved a couple of quid, free delivery as well. Yoshi's Island DS is on ther for £17.97 is it worth getting and if yes is it worth getting at that price?

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  • LewiePLewieP Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Avoid Yoshi's Island DS like the plague

    If you played and loved the first Yoshi's Island, then it will feel like someone is skullfucking the corpse of a childhood hero.

    If you didn't play the first Yoshi's Island, then it will seem like a meh-reffic platformer, with something aproximating an half arsed nice artstyle.

    If you played and disliked the fir Yoshi's Island then you have no soul.


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  • AddaAdda LondonRegistered User regular
    edited October 2007
    That'll be a no then :)

    I loved the original on the SNES so will pass this by.

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  • AshcroftAshcroft LOL The PayloadRegistered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Are there any Asian sites that aren't total pussies about importing PS3/PSP game to the UK? I'm fucking sick of having 2 totally region free consoles that I can't import games for. I mean, Orange Box and Skate are only £25, but Play-Asia just won't ship them, it's maddening.

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  • LewiePLewieP Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Ashcroft wrote: »
    Are there any Asian sites that aren't total pussies about importing PS3/PSP game to the UK? I'm fucking sick of having 2 totally region free consoles that I can't import games for. I mean, Orange Box and Skate are only £25, but Play-Asia just won't ship them, it's maddening.

    YesAsia seem to ship worldwide. To be fair to play-asia though, look what happened to lik-sang (RIP)

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  • Big ClassyBig Classy Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    exactly, yesAsia is a much smaller site compared to play-asia so it can just about get away with it.

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  • The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    dabs.com

    40gb PS3 + free game + free shipping = £299

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  • RookRook Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Just in case anyone has missed it. The 5 free HD-DVDs with a 360 HD-DVD drive has finally made it's way to the UK. It's a pretty good deal imo (except I think the drive is a piece of crap).

    More details http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/news-features/news/Get-5-Free-HD-DVDs-16102007.htm

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  • CentipeedCentipeed Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    subedii wrote: »
    Don't know whether you've posted this yet, but since I'm a fan of the game:

    Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance, £15 in P&P. From Gameplay.co.uk

    Cheapest I've seen it elsewhere is around £18 on Amazon, and probably more around the £20-£25 mark. Not exactly a smajor bargain, but it's good enough.

    Oh, and BTW, I'm planning on pre-ordering that Gears of War PC you linked before, so thanks for that. :mrgreen:

    Just a heads up, you can buy Supreme Commander: Gold Edition, which is the the original game and the expansion (Forged Alliance) at Play.com for £18 delivered: http://www.play.com/Games/PC/4-/3511776/Supreme-Commander-Gold-Edition/Product.html?P36=6C792R

    A slightly better deal if you don't own the original already, like me.

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  • malerikmalerik Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Sorry, yes it has. haven't been on forums for a week or so cos yes, my xbox arrived!

    ReverendMalerik is currently rockin up halo 3!

    Ta Lewiep

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  • Mr_GrinchMr_Grinch Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Is that from the shopto link? My friend ordered one from there (pointed him to your blog Lewiep) and it should arrive today. He's overly excited :)

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  • LewiePLewieP Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Castlevania: Dracula X Chronicles, PSP - £14.99 delivered

    Also, grr at Shopto. Apparently they don't give commision on hardware.

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  • LewiePLewieP Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
  • Lave IILave II Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    LewieP, love your blog, but it crawls to load nowdays. Often taking upto 30secs to load.

    It seems to hang whilst it's waiting for ms.nintendo-europe.com which it does everytime the page is loaded. Any idea why that is?

    Your google ads shouldn't be triggering it, so I've no idea why it would be the case. Anyways, just trying to help.

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  • Mr_GrinchMr_Grinch Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Aye, I get that too from time to time. It comes up showing:

    "SavyGamer
    what're you buying, Stranger?"

    but everything below that is blank until it all loads up, then it all suddenly appears.

    But only sometimes.

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  • AshcroftAshcroft LOL The PayloadRegistered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Loads up fast for me. Then again, I use adblock plus and the automatically updating filter sets, and noscript, so nothing tries to load for me except the actual site.

    Anyway, Mass Effect is up on Play-Asia. For £20.

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  • Big ClassyBig Classy Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    region free!?

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  • AshcroftAshcroft LOL The PayloadRegistered User regular
    edited October 2007
    No idea. It's in English.

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  • LewiePLewieP Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    I know what it is, For the build up to the launch of Freshly Picked: Tingles Rosy Rupeeland, nintendo had a competition for people to put something on their site, I have no idea what was supposed to happen, I think it was going to take random vistor info, like screen resolution or whatever, and issue prizes based on that. I haven't heard anything from them since, and had actually forgotten about it, I'll remove the html now. Cheers for letting me know.

    And cheers Ashcroft, I'll keep an eye on Mass Effect to see if it is region free, and add it to my blog if so.

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  • Big ClassyBig Classy Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    If it's in english then it's most definitely region free. PGR4 was and since this is also a Microsoft published game, I'd guess the same. (Unless EA did a last minute takeover but that's highly doubtful).

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  • LewiePLewieP Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Blog fixed, could anyone who was having problems with it loading check to see if it's better now?

    also:
    Little Britain, PS2 - £2.99 delivered

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  • Big ClassyBig Classy Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Less than five seconds for me... But then it wasn't slow to begin with and I do have Adblock Plus active.

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  • LewiePLewieP Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Big Isy wrote: »
    If it's in english then it's most definitely region free. PGR4 was and since this is also a Microsoft published game, I'd guess the same. (Unless EA did a last minute takeover but that's highly doubtful).

    In that case, to the blog it goes.
    Big Isy wrote: »
    Less than five seconds for me... But then it wasn't slow to begin with and I do have Adblock Plus active.

    Ok, cheers. (I have adblock plus too, which is probably why I never noticed it)

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  • Big ClassyBig Classy Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Aw fuck. I'm so tempted to order it from play-asia but they take forever on getting the game out and besides, I've had a pre-order with game for over a year now. DAMMIT!"?

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  • LewiePLewieP Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Big Isy - Your sig link appears to be broken, this code should fix it -

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    Just hit quote and select everything inside the spoiler.

    You probably allready know how to fix it, but meh.

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  • Big ClassyBig Classy Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    LewieP wrote: »
    Big Isy - Your sig link appears to be broken, this code should fix it -

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    Just hit quote and select everything inside the spoiler.

    You probably allready know how to fix it, but meh.

    thanks man, ;-)

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