WongaWatch - The Grand Game Expenditure Thread 2012

myp · **Posted:** Wed Feb 29, 2012 18:55

So, along with <£2.29> for TextTwist 2, I've also bought Z0MB13S (0n t3h ph0ne) for <£2.29>, Collapse! for <£1.49> and WordFeud for <£2.29>.

That's a total of £8.36.

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Feb 29, 2012 19:40

Anyone that wants to use the "counter" thing can just go back and edit their old posts - no need to add new ones.

Dunno if you want to put the link and the instructions in the first post?

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Feb 29, 2012 19:41

Ah - I spent <£3.99> on Dragon's Lair HD because Curio said to. It's crap

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14489

Grim... wrote:

Anyone that wants to use the "counter" thing can just go back and edit their old posts - no need to add new ones.

Dunno if you want to put the link and the instructions in the first post?

Done - and thanks for the script - I'm sure you've written more than 3 of them (you've done variations on this for me and the MAME / 8 bit challenges)

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

Christ, I'm already really blowing my prediction. I've just pre-ordered whimsical indie platformer Pirates of New Horizons after being thoroughly charmed by their original prototype some years ago which adds roughly another <£12.50> (depending on exchange rates).

Also, I've been ill all week and had a pretty shite time of it so was looking for something easy and fun to blow through given that I can't face the rest of Zelda while I feel this way. I played the demo of the recent Tin-Tin game through Gaikai the other day and thoroughly enjoyed it, plus the co-op levels are meant to be fun so Mrs B might be convinced into giving it a go, so I picked that up today for another <£15>.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Fri Mar 02, 2012 15:15

Grim... wrote:

Ah - I spent <£3.99> on Dragon's Lair HD because Curio said to. It's crap

1) It was 69p when I recommended it
2) It is brilliant

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Mar 02, 2012 15:16

Curiosity wrote:

Grim... wrote:

Ah - I spent <£3.99> on Dragon's Lair HD because Curio said to. It's crap

1) It was 69p when I recommended it

Not the iPad version.

Curiosity wrote:

2) It is brilliant

ZOMG WROMG

TheVision · **Posted:** Fri Mar 02, 2012 16:35

I was tempted to spend £2.29 on a snooker game on my phone but I've downloaded the trial and so far, it just keeps going!

I've played loads of games against loads of fictional players and it seems as full a game as can be. That's saved me some money.

myp · **Posted:** Fri Mar 02, 2012 17:47

TheVision wrote:

I was tempted to spend £2.29 on a snooker game on my phone but I've downloaded the trial and so far, it just keeps going!

I've played loads of games against loads of fictional players and it seems as full a game as can be. That's saved me some money.

Yes, I've got the trial of that as well. It's excellent! I don't understand what more you get by paying for it. :shrug:

gospvg · **Joined:** 7th Nov, 2008 **Posts:** 2306

After an expensive January, I have calmed down my spending last month

01/02/2012 Resistance PS3 4.00 kids
01/02/2012 Resistance 2 PS3 4.00 kids
01/02/2012 The Orange Box Xbox 360 4.00 gospvg
07/02/2012 Deus Ex Missing Link DLC (600 Points) Xbox 360 0.00 kids
12/02/2012 Oozi Earth Adventure Episode 1 (80 Points) Xbox 360 0.00 gospvg
17/02/2012 PGR4 Xbox 360 3.00 gospvg
18/02/2012 Resident Evil 5 Xbox 360 4.00 gospvg
21/02/2012 Xenoblade Chronicles Wii 13.00 gospvg
24/02/2012 Oh! Edo Towns iOS 0.69 gospvg

Total so far in 2012 £272.87

Grim... · **Posted:** Sat Mar 03, 2012 0:12

I just threw $10 at my first ever KickStart project (this one), so, er... <6.31>. Ish.

myp · **Posted:** Sat Mar 03, 2012 0:20

Grim... wrote:

I just threw $10 at my first ever KickStart project (this one), so, er... <6.31>. Ish.

ZOMG UR BEIN XPLOITID

Grim... · **Posted:** Sat Mar 03, 2012 0:49

myp wrote:

Grim... wrote:

I just threw $10 at my first ever KickStart project (this one), so, er... <6.31>. Ish.

ZOMG UR BEIN XPLOITID

I XPLOITID your mum and made her ZOMG.

Plissken · **Posted:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 0:15

<39.91> on SSX. Great fun thus far. Still has that SSX vibe to it.

myp · **Posted:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 0:22

<£2.29> on BulletAsylum (WP). Great little game - shame it was such an easy max, though.

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 16:06

myp wrote:

<£2.29> on BulletAsylum (WP). Great little game - shame it was such an easy max, though.

OT: Didn't you once say that if WP7 games had official cheevos you were going to stop whoring all together out of protest? Or am I completely making that up?

TheVision · **Posted:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 16:07

Aren't all WP7 games just 50 points? I should know this really shouldn't I...

romanista · **Posted:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 16:42

some ios games, and a cave conversion probably..

myp · **Posted:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 17:37

Grim... wrote:

myp wrote:

<£2.29> on BulletAsylum (WP). Great little game - shame it was such an easy max, though.

OT: Didn't you once say that if WP7 games had official cheevos you were going to stop whoring all together out of protest? Or am I completely making that up?

Pretty sure that was Blucey. It was one of the major selling points for me getting one of the phones at all.

Vision: the free ad-supported ones like Sudoku and Minesweeper have 50G, but the premium ones have 200G, just like XBLA games.

myp · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 2:01

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (WP) <£3.99> and 2,000 MS points <£17.50>.

nickachu · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 9:07

Haven't spent anything in 2012 yet, can't imagine I'll be spending too much since I don't have live anymore and there aren't many games coming out that excite me at the moment. Unless I can find batman for a fiver or something like that I expect it to stay pretty low.

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

<£0.58> on Dead Space for Android. I was thinking about pulling the trigger on this anyway and it's got a massive reduction in the current Android sale thing so this was a no-brainer. I'm currently playing through Duke Nukem on the train so I'll move onto Dead Space as soon as that's finished and that'll hopefully keep my occupied for a good while. If any other decent stuff turns up in the Android Market daily deals as part of this promotion though I'm sure I'll snap them up.

devilman · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 10:41

I'd better add the <0.49p> for Zoo Keeper into here before I forget. Up to £11.56 now for the year.. big spender!

Zardoz · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 10:50

Still haven't spent a thing this year. I stopped my LoveFilm sub when I finished Dark Souls and started Skyrim. Skyrim was a Christmas gift so no cost there either. Oh and MarkG has let me borrow his copy of Il-2 Sturmovik and Alan Wake so that will keep me going for ages still.

Runcle · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 12:17

My stuff bought so far.

Lovefilm sub for 3 months - £33.66

iphone games
Blueprint 3D - £0.69
Words with Friends - £0.69
Eden - World Builder - £0.69
The Lost City - £0.69
Grand Prix Story - £0.69
Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars - £0.69
Midway Arcade - £0.69

Humble Bundle - £3.26
Be Mine Indie Game Bundle - £3.26

Fuzion Frenzy Xbox 360 - £2.99
1500 MS Points - £12.75

Total of <£60.75> so far.

Have I done that right?

Oh I've went for between £300 and £400 for those interested.

Runcle · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 12:18

Phwoar I'm winning.

TheVision · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 12:20

That sounds like a challenge!

Runcle · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 12:59

TheVision wrote:

That sounds like a challenge!

Game On!

Just pre-ordered the new FIFA Street (XBOX 360) <£32.47>

TheVision · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 13:25

Ok, ok.. You win... So far!

Let's revisit this next January. I don't have anything on the horizon at the moment but that's likely to change.

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 13:44

My first expenditure of the year is mass effect 3 at approx <40.00>

It's going to be cack.

Runcle · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 14:02

Mr Dave wrote:

My first expenditure of the year is mass effect 3 at approx <40.00>

It's going to be cack.

You can get it for £32ish at Tesco with this code. EX5OFF

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 14:06

Runcle wrote:

Mr Dave wrote:

My first expenditure of the year is mass effect 3 at approx <40.00>

It's going to be cack.

You can get it for £32ish at Tesco with this code. EX5OFF

Mmm, requires going to testosterone or buying something from testosterone.

As it stands, it's already been dispatched anyway.

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12243

I didn't put it in last year's total, but as I haven't opened the shrink wrap yet, I'll include it in this year's total. LA.Noire for <10.00>

KovacsC · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 14:34

Mr Dave wrote:

Runcle wrote:

Mr Dave wrote:

My first expenditure of the year is mass effect 3 at approx <40.00>

It's going to be cack.

You can get it for £32ish at Tesco with this code. EX5OFF

Mmm, requires going to testosterone or buying something from testosterone.

As it stands, it's already been dispatched anyway.

Tes what?

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14489

KovacsC wrote:

Tes what?

Mr Daves phone (we should have a dimlie for that)

2.98 - Bulletstorm epic edition from Gamestation

I originally paid with paypal and got an email a few days later that it had been cancelled - so i re-ordered using my credit card only to get another email a few days later that that was cancelled as well :-(

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

Having finished Tintin and got sick of Skyward Sword I took them down to the swap shop a few minutes ago. <£10> later I've got Gears of War 3 (it was either that or El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron) and Deus Ex: Human Revolution instead. Not bad at all.

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Thu Mar 08, 2012 18:18

Mr Dave wrote:

As it stands, it's already been dispatched anyway.

And it's arrived today. Early and everything.

Also, went into Gamestation and picked up a trio of cheapy games. (well, sort of)

Eternal Sonata <4.99>
Crysis 2<7.99>
Metroid PRime Trilogy <17.98>
Well, ok the last one isn't that cheap, but it is a pain to get a hold of.

Runcle · **Posted:** Fri Mar 09, 2012 15:28

Bloody Game selling games cheap.

Bulletstorm - £2.99
Brink - £2.99
Bayonetta - £2.98
Killzone 2 - £0.49
Truth or Lies - £0.49 and my soul

Minus 3 quid from a game card I've had since trading games in for Forza 3.

<£6.94>

I'm hoping that's the last from me for a while. Although a cheap deal on Rock Band 3 and the keyboard would probably tempt me.

Runcle · **Posted:** Fri Mar 09, 2012 15:28

And I've broke the £100 barrier before even 3 months is up.

TheVision · **Posted:** Fri Mar 09, 2012 15:32

I've just bought Brink for £2.98

They saw you coming!

TheCookie197 · **Joined:** 23rd Sep, 2010 **Posts:** 729

Just because i want to keep track of how much I've spent, and I'm too lazy to work it out myself.
Please just ignore me.

Need for Speed (iPhone) <£3.99>
Mass Effect 3 (Xbox) <£39.99>

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

<£50> on a PSP 3000. I've fancied one for ages but never been able to justify it, fifty quid is low enough though. I should probably buy some games for it now or something...

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sat Mar 10, 2012 0:36

Umm.. <£5.98> on Bulletstorm. <£1.98> on some shitty kids game for the gamerscore, <£1> on Hunted: Demonforge. Er.... <£26> on Two Worlds 2.

TheVision · **Posted:** Sat Mar 10, 2012 14:13

I've just bought the following from Game and Gamestation.

Brink
Trauma Center New Blood
Conduit 2
Super Paper Mario
NBA Jam
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Battalion Wars 2

Which totalled <£31.87>

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

Picking through Game to use up some store credit while its still worth anything, I bought Ico & Shadow Of The Colussus HD for <£17.48>.

myp · **Posted:** Sat Mar 10, 2012 17:29

I made the mistake of going into Gamestation while pottering around Gainsborough today:

The Saboteur <£7.98>
Rise of the Argonauts <£4.98>
Alan Wake <£7.98>
Fable III <£7.98>
Fallout New Vegas <£4.98>

Also, Xbox 360 250GB HDD for <£29.99>. Does anyone have a spare transfer cable they could lend me?

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Sat Mar 10, 2012 17:30

TheVision wrote:

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

As above, I got the trilogy for the wii.

The controls do appear to be pap so far.

TheCookie197 · **Joined:** 23rd Sep, 2010 **Posts:** 729

Same as above, went into game today.

Crackdown 1 (Xbox) - <£2.99>
Dragon age II (Xbox) - <£7.98>

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

myp wrote:

I made the mistake of going into Gamestation while pottering around Gainsborough today:

The Saboteur <£7.98>
Rise of the Argonauts <£4.98>
Alan Wake <£7.98>
Fable III <£7.98>
Fallout New Vegas <£4.98>

Also, Xbox 360 250GB HDD for <£29.99>. Does anyone have a spare transfer cable they could lend me?

Yeah. Send me your address. It'll take about two months though.

myp · **Posted:** Sat Mar 10, 2012 18:50

Craster wrote:

myp wrote:

I made the mistake of going into Gamestation while pottering around Gainsborough today:

The Saboteur <£7.98>
Rise of the Argonauts <£4.98>
Alan Wake <£7.98>
Fable III <£7.98>
Fallout New Vegas <£4.98>

Also, Xbox 360 250GB HDD for <£29.99>. Does anyone have a spare transfer cable they could lend me?

Yeah. Send me your address. It'll take about two months though.

Send it first class, you tight git.

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