WongaWatch - The Grand Game Expenditure Thread 2018

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Tue Jul 17, 2018 6:21

Loading times just give you a period to admire the vast array of LEDs in your rig. That's what they're there for, right?

Malc · **Posted:** Tue Jul 17, 2018 7:30

Mr Dave wrote:

Loading times just give you a period to admire the vast array of LEDs in your rig. That's what they're there for, right?

They artificially added by old developers because they had to put up with loading from tapes and multiple floppy disk swapping. If they wanted to, all games would load in less than a second. But they want you to suffer as they did.

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

<3.99> Part-time UFO for Android.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... egg.nazcaf

TheVision · **Posted:** Tue Jul 17, 2018 14:09

Bamba wrote:

<3.99> Part-time UFO for Android.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... egg.nazcaf

I'm glad you included the link because that looks brilliant. What's that? Hal Laboratory inc? Sold!

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

TheVision wrote:

Bamba wrote:

<3.99> Part-time UFO for Android.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... egg.nazcaf

I'm glad you included the link because that looks brilliant. What's that? Hal Laboratory inc? Sold!

I've played a few levels and it's pretty good fun, though I suspect the difficulty could curve pretty sharply.

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

<12.79> Guacamelee! 2 - PSN

https://store.playstation.com/en-gb/pro ... REORDERBUN

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14356

zaphod79 wrote:

<12.79> Guacamelee! 2 - PSN

https://store.playstation.com/en-gb/pro ... REORDERBUN

Noice. Loved the first game a lot.

I’ll definitely be plowing this one hard.

myp · **Posted:** Fri Jul 27, 2018 19:31

<4.49> Hollow (Switch)

DBSnappa · **Posted:** Sat Jul 28, 2018 14:54

The Last Of Us remastered <18.16>

Hearthly · **Joined:** 11th May, 2008 **Posts:** 13382

<39.99> No Man's Sky - XBox One X Enhanced

Grim... · **Posted:** Sun Jul 29, 2018 19:48

<14.99> No Man's Sky, enhanced for PS4 Pro and my wallet.

Hearthly · **Joined:** 11th May, 2008 **Posts:** 13382

I possibly should have checked how much it cost for PS4 Pro but the XB1X was already turned on.

Anyway, I got to experience REAL 4K NO MAN'S SKY for all of two minutes before turning it off because the framerate was shit, and switching to 'performance' mode.

Well worth an extra £25, I think.

Grim... · **Posted:** Sun Jul 29, 2018 20:41

Modern gaming, right there.

myp · **Posted:** Sun Jul 29, 2018 22:41

The frame rate is shit on a boggo PS4 too, if that makes you feel any better.

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

<4> holedown (iOS)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/holedow ... 70249?mt=8

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

<14.99> Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

Hearthly · **Joined:** 11th May, 2008 **Posts:** 13382

<49.99> Mario Tennis Aces for Nintendo Switch - installing now for me and Trousers to joust in a gentlemanly fashion over the weekend. (I won't play it until he gets here, so we're both going in blind.)

Hearthly · **Joined:** 11th May, 2008 **Posts:** 13382

<11.99> Infinite Minigolf for XBox One. Me and Trousers agree it's fucking shit.

Do not buy Infinite Minigolf.

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

<2.49> Returner 77 for Android.

GazChap · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2018 14:15

Hearthly wrote:

<11.99> Infinite Minigolf for XBox One. Me and Trousers agree it's fucking shit.

Do not buy Infinite Minigolf.

I bought Infinite Minigolf for the Switch, and can concur that it's shit.

First thing I noticed after starting it up was that on the menu screen it says something like "31,508 holes left to play" - that's not fucking infinite, is it?

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

<1.29> ICEY for Android.

Hearthly · **Joined:** 11th May, 2008 **Posts:** 13382

<174.98> 2DS XL and Wario Ware Gold.

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

Dead Cells (Switch) - <22>

Hearthly · **Joined:** 11th May, 2008 **Posts:** 13382

<15.99> The Last Of Us Remastered for PS4.

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

<8> - Humble Tabletop Bundle
https://www.humblebundle.com/games/digi ... top-bundle

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

<7.77> - Humble Tabletop Bundle (thanks Doc)

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Aug 30, 2018 15:10

zaphod79 wrote:

<7.77> - Humble Tabletop Bundle (thanks Doc)

<7.74> Humble Tabletop Bundle (suck it, Zaphod!)

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

<13.38> Two Point Hospital (PC)

Via this deal: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018 ... -few-hours

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Aug 30, 2018 16:23

<13.38> Two Point Hospital (PC)

Via this deal: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018 ... -few-hours

I'm basically just copying Gaywood now.

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

Grim... wrote:

I'm basically just copying Gaywood now.

I AM A THOUGHTLEADER

brb buying a black turtleneck

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22266

Like you don't already have one...

nickachu · **Posted:** Thu Aug 30, 2018 19:20

<13.38> two point hospital.

<9.99> Empyrion Galactic Survival.

ApplePieOfDestiny · **Joined:** 17th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 8293

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

Grim... wrote:

I'm basically just copying Gaywood now.

I AM A THOUGHTLEADER

brb buying a black turtleneck

True Thought leaders bought it an hour before the price drop

TheVision · **Posted:** Mon Sep 03, 2018 11:27

I've spent another <538.25> since I last updated this. I've got lots of games... some special editions... some DLC... and some of which that I've actually played!

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Sep 03, 2018 11:31

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

<17.27> - Dead Cells for the switch

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Sep 03, 2018 11:33

Some serious PS4 shopping over the weekend.

<64.99> Spider-Man special fancy edition or something (shh, I know)
<12.99> The Jackbox Party Pack 4
<24.99> The Persistence

myp · **Posted:** Mon Sep 03, 2018 11:35

Under £400 with four months to go! Through necessity I seem to have seriously curbed my game-buying addiction.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Sep 03, 2018 12:06

Grim... wrote:

<64.99> Spider-Man special fancy edition or something (shh, I know)

It had better swing in through a window for that much.

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Sep 03, 2018 12:32

SHH, I KNOW

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Sep 03, 2018 12:38

SHAME

devilman · **Posted:** Mon Sep 03, 2018 13:50

Lonewolves wrote:

Under £400 with four months to go! Through necessity I seem to have seriously curbed my game-buying addiction.

Under £250 so far for me, which I'm pleased with. I've pretty much stopped buying cheapo Steam bundles as I know that realistically I'm not going to play them any time soon when I'm not even playing the higher priced stuff like Shenmue, FFX, EDF etc. The only gaming these days is Rocket League, so no extra spending needed right now.

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

devilman wrote:

Lonewolves wrote:

Under £400 with four months to go! Through necessity I seem to have seriously curbed my game-buying addiction.

Under £250 so far for me, which I'm pleased with. I've pretty much stopped buying cheapo Steam bundles as I know that realistically I'm not going to play them any time soon when I'm not even playing the higher priced stuff like Shenmue, FFX, EDF etc. The only gaming these days is Rocket League, so no extra spending needed right now.

I seem to have developed a level of discipline I didn't posses in years gone by wherein I'll buy cheap Steam bundles but only up to a point; I'll then stop for a while until I've actually played a majority of the backlog before I pick up anything new. My PC backlog is sitting at two games right now (one of them I got for free recently and the other one I might just uninstall) and my PS4 pile is only two I think as well (though I might play some of this month's PS+ games when they become available). Currently I'm just killing time before the new Tomb Raider game comes out anyway so playing some of the shorter stuff on the backlog will work well; and after that I'll probably jump on God of War which will keep me going for a good while. Although buying those two will almost certainly be the biggest single gaming outlays for me this year!

devilman · **Posted:** Mon Sep 03, 2018 14:50

I had a nose around to see if there's an easy way to show unplayed Steam games and this seems to work quite well. I've not played 1,466 of my games and of the games I've played, only 17 games for more than 12 hours. Oops.

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

devilman wrote:

I had a nose around to see if there's an easy way to show unplayed Steam games and this seems to work quite well. I've not played 1,466 of my games and of the games I've played, only 17 games for more than 12 hours. Oops.

I've had to change the privacy settings on my account so that service can scrape the data so it won't be available for a while. It'll be inaccurate to a certain degree because I while back I used an idler to force out trading card drops for games I wasn't interested in just so I could sell them, but even bearing that in mind I think the vast majority of my games will have been played. Certainly there'll be nothing like 1500 unplayed ones; that's a hell of a number! A lot of them will have less than 12 hours playtime but that's because I've played a lot of intentionally short games on Steam so most won't make it into double digits.

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

<0.78> on the latest Humble Bundle.

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

My data updated on that Steam Calculator site:

My Steam Profile (from SteamDB)

Worth: £1967 (£510 with sales)
Games owned: 240
Games played: 186 (77%)
Hours on record: 777.7h

I'm actually quite surprised there's so many unplayed games in there.

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Sep 05, 2018 10:24

I don't look at mine any more.

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

Grim... wrote:

I don't look at mine any more.

I'm on top of mine (i.e. I've played all the games I'm actually interested in) so I quite enjoy looking at the stats; there's no guilt in it!

myp · **Posted:** Wed Sep 05, 2018 10:32

Games Played: 143/525 (27%)
Total value: £4,749/£1,255
Hours on record: 2,191
Average play time: 15.3 hours
Average price per hour: £8.48

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