WongaWatch - The Grand Game Expenditure Thread 2019
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How much do you expect you'll spend on games & consoles in 2019?
£0 - £1 - Yar, yar and/or freeware for me yo.  6%  [ 1 ]
£1 - £50  0%  [ 0 ]
£50 - £100  6%  [ 1 ]
£100 - £200 (~£12.50/month)  0%  [ 0 ]
£200 - £300  18%  [ 3 ]
£300 - £400  18%  [ 3 ]
£400 - £600 (~£50/month)  12%  [ 2 ]
£600 - £800  6%  [ 1 ]
£800 - £1000  6%  [ 1 ]
£1000 - £1200 (~£100/month)  18%  [ 3 ]
£1200 - £1500  0%  [ 0 ]
£1500 - £2000  0%  [ 0 ]
£2000 - £mental  6%  [ 1 ]
Total votes : 16
<0.89> No Reload Heroes (Switch)
Abut <7.61> on the Humble BANDAI NAMCO Bundle 3.
<24.99> Borderlands GOTY Remaster/Enhanced, for PC on Steam.

Thought I'd finally give the original a go.
<2.37> Thumper for Android. Not sure how well that'll work but I'll give it a go for a couple of quid.
<10> Arizona Sunshine PSVR
Bamba wrote:
<2.37> Thumper for Android. Not sure how well that'll work but I'll give it a go for a couple of quid.

I imagine it’ll work quite well with gestures instead of a pad. Nothing is overly complex on its own.
Lonewolves wrote:
Bamba wrote:
<2.37> Thumper for Android. Not sure how well that'll work but I'll give it a go for a couple of quid.

I imagine it’ll work quite well with gestures instead of a pad. Nothing is overly complex on its own.


It works pretty well, but I've hit a bit of a brick wall with the second stage final boss. The very last section of his fight involves a couple of sections where you have to jump over an obstruction in the 'road', which leads directly into a turn. The jump is fine but I'm consistently failing the turn after it and dying. What I don't know, because the game doesn't make it clear, is whether you need to be on the ground to turn. So, do I need to jump over the obstacle then immediately swipe down to land then swipe to turn? Or am I fine staying in the air and it's just that I'm somehow fluffing the turn-swipe every single time? Both of these sections happens so quickly that I'm not getting a chance to work out what's happening, and neither approach seems to work any better; so I'm just smashing through the rest of the fight before getting to that one part and dying over and over again. Which sucks, as you can imagine.
It’s been a while since I played that section so can’t remember offhand.
Well, forget about that section specifically. I'm wondering more generally whether you can turn corners while you're in the air or not? I assume the jump technique continues to be used outside this level, although perhaps not I suppose.
<17.99> space engineers PC
Bamba wrote:
Well, forget about that section specifically. I'm wondering more generally whether you can turn corners while you're in the air or not? I assume the jump technique continues to be used outside this level, although perhaps not I suppose.

From what I can remember a jump only lasts a second or so anyway, so you drop down on your own. I’ll have to fire it up later.
Various Xbox One bits -

<6.25. The Golf Club 2
<8.99> 3 months of Xbox Live
<4.50> Rare Replay
<9.99> Couple of third party battery packs
<19.99> Third Party remote

Considering I mainly bought the console to watch blu-rays and the various video apps, I seem to be doing a fair bit of gaming.
<24.99> Dangerous Driving, XB1X
Got to about level 4-10 on Android Thumper and was really enjoying it up to that point, but the lane change mechanic is just a step too far so I'm out. Neither the tilt nor on-screen button control options gel well enough with everything else to be usable, plus it's possibly just a bit too many things to juggle for my poor aging brain. I got my money's worth though so fuck it.
Thumper but not in vr doesn't really appeal. Although Thumper in vr was a bit of an assault on the senses.
Donkey Kong Controller Switch <18.00>
Retro bit Saturn controller Saturn <17.99>
8bit do Megadrive retro receiver Megadrive <17.89>
8bit do Wireless gamepad <25.51>
Arcade classics 1 - Gameboy <2.50>
Arcade classics 4 - Gameboy <2.50>
Donkey Kong 3 - Switch <6.19>
Outrun Europa <9.63>
<22.49> Trials Rising Gold Edition (Xbox One)
<3.42> >observer_ for the PC. Been looking forward to this one for a while so happy to get it for such a good price.
<5.99> The Birdcage 2 for Android.
<14.99> Wolfenstein The Old Blood (PC from Steam)
About <6.13> on the second tier of the Humble Square Enix Collective Bundle.
<11.09> Rayman Legends (I think). Switch e-shop
Destroy all humans <2.24>
<499.99> Oculus Quest (pre-order)
Oooh!

Do you still have your DK2?
No, I have a CV1 though.
I want a quest, but I also want the knuckles...
Assuming that the Knuckles controllers have tracking LEDs in the rings, I'd guess someone will end up making them Quest compatible.
How is the finger tracking done though, will that work with quest? Who knows? More at 11, over to Grim... for the weather.
It's shorts weather!

Back to @Trooper in the studio.
<7.70> Rocket League - Rocket Pass 3 (PC)
<31.50> World War Z (PS4)
<3.56> Flashback (Switch)
<1.99> Binaries (Switch)
<1.44> Saboteur! (Switch)
<29.99> World War Z (PS4)
<11.29> Baba Is You (Switch)
<19.10>
Battlefield 1 (PC)
The Saboteur (PC)
Command and Conquer The Ultimate Collection (PC)
I wish they'd make a new C&C.
And Saboteur, that was a great game
<2.49> Jump Gunners (PC)
Saboteur! on the Switch is... not great.
GazChap wrote:
Saboteur! on the Switch is... not great.

Different game.
The Saboteur is the hiding from Nazis in Paris one, right?
Cras wrote:
The Saboteur is the hiding from Nazis in Paris one, right?

Aye.
Ah, yes. Forgot about that one.
<2.81> Mindsweeper: Puzzle Adventure for Android.
<14.99> Eleven: Table Tennis VR (Oculus) - already had it on SteamVR, but the dev has confirmed that he's enabled Cross-buy for Quest, so now I have it on Rift and Quest.
<£14.99> Frostpunk (PC).
Grim... wrote:
<£14.99> Frostpunk (PC).


Held out well on that
Is it good, it looks good.
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