WongaWatch - The Grand Game Expenditure Thread 2020
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How much do you expect you'll spend on games & consoles in 2020?
£0 - £1 - Yar, yar and/or freeware for me yo.  11%  [ 2 ]
£1 - £50  0%  [ 0 ]
£50 - £100  0%  [ 0 ]
£100 - £200 (~£12.50/month)  17%  [ 3 ]
£200 - £300  11%  [ 2 ]
£300 - £400  17%  [ 3 ]
£400 - £600 (~£50/month)  11%  [ 2 ]
£600 - £800  5%  [ 1 ]
£800 - £1000  0%  [ 0 ]
£1000 - £1200 (~£100/month)  11%  [ 2 ]
£1200 - £1500  0%  [ 0 ]
£1500 - £2000  5%  [ 1 ]
£2000 - £mental  5%  [ 1 ]
Total votes : 17
<15> Empyrion (Steam)
<1.00> Xbox Game Pass for PC (1 month)
<15> Empyrion (Steam)
Castlevania: Harmony of Despair (Xbox 360) <5.99>
<20> Fall guys (steam)
<49.99> PS Plus 12 months for PS4 Pro so I can play Fall Guys (the game is free with a PS Plus subscription at the moment).
Hearthly wrote:
<49.99> PS Plus 12 months for PS4 Pro so I can play Fall Guys (the game is free with a PS Plus subscription at the moment).

For next time: https://www.cdkeys.com/playstation-netw ... ription-uk (£10 less)
SEGA AGES Columns II: A Voyage Through Time (Switch) <3.42>
Ring Fit Adventure (Switch) <69.99>
devilman wrote:
Ring Fit Adventure (Switch) <69.99>


I've only played this a couple of times but I very much enjoyed it and I definitely felt like I'd done some exercise
Findus Fop wrote:
devilman wrote:
Ring Fit Adventure (Switch) <69.99>


I've only played this a couple of times but I very much enjoyed it and I definitely felt like I'd done some exercise


I've just played through the first couple of levels and it seems like a good purchase so far. And it's also highlighting just how unfit I am too :)
<0.77> Solitaire Klondike Minimal (Switch)
<4.19> PAC-MAN Championship Edition 2 PLUS (Switch)
<5.66> A Short Hike (Switch)
Another Supergun, but with two Neo Geo to SNES pad converters, a couple of cheap SNES pads and an ATX PSU <100.87>
About <3.50> Little Nightmares (PS4)
Sunless sea on the switch <13>
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
About <3.50> Little Nightmares (PS4)

I really liked Little Nightmares.

Did the DLC come with it?
Grim... wrote:
Did the DLC come with it?
I’m not sure - Mrs Doc is playing it. Is the DLC good then?
Yes, it's excellent, and you need to play it soon after the original (it's only a few hours long) or you may not get the significance.
Grim... wrote:
Yes, it's excellent, and you need to play it soon after the original (it's only a few hours long) or you may not get the significance.

Noted, thanks! I will let her know.
Decathlete (ST-V) <31.11>
Streets of Rage 4 - Switch <45.19>
Ring Fit Adventures <59.99>
<49.99> World of Warcraft Shadowlands Expansion Pre-Purchase - Heroic Edition
About <35> - Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
About <35> - Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2


Wait what?!?
<1> Xbox gamepass ultimate
MaliA wrote:
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
About <35> - Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2

Wait what?!?

...what about this confuses and/or alarms you?
It's Raining Fists and Metal (Switch) <0.02> (it's 99p but I had some gold points, presumably from buying Ring Fit Adventure)
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
MaliA wrote:
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
About <35> - Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2

Wait what?!?

...what about this confuses and/or alarms you?


I was not aware of its existence. Now I am excited, but will probably wait a bit.
<31.74> XCOM 2 Collection (Switch)
<15> Green Hell (Steam)
<11.92> on Glass Masquerade 2 and Random Heroes for the Switch.
<15> Green Hell (Steam)
<14.39> Intertial Drift - PS4
<7.30> Ministry of Broadcast for the Switch.
<7> Little Nightmares DLC
Catching up on a couple of things

<12.79> Hotshot Racing, which I would have been better off spending on a month's Game Pass instead, as both Hotshot and Bloodstained are included on that at the moment. So to play Bloodstained, <7.99> one month of Game Pass.

Couple of grumbles - the revised Xbox dashboard really pushes Game Pass Ultimate; finding the basic Game Pass was fiddlier than it ought to be. Also, Bloodstained has already crashed out completely once so far, which doesn't fill me with confidence.
<24.29> Brain Training (Switch)
<7.99> Uncharted 4 PS4 Pro
<12.79> Hotshot Racing XB1X
Scythe <7> on my android one phone
<4.48> Blackthorne Castle for Android.
<4> among us (steam)
<55> +16 GB RAM for my PC
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
<55> +16 GB RAM for my PC

I've completed that.
Grim... wrote:
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
<55> +16 GB RAM for my PC

I've completed that.

If you got it on disc you can sell it on!
Grim... wrote:
I've completed that.

I’ve bought it for games, so into the “games expenditures” bucket it goes.
I've only for 8GB in my PC and I've always wondered whether it's making much difference. It's a relatively vintage spec in general though (older i5 and GTX 1060) so possibly the RAM isn't causing any kind of bottleneck.
Easiest way to check is have task manager open while you play a game and see if the RAM is used up to 100%. Likely in your system the CPU is the bottleneck. I have an older i5 (4th Gen) and a 1060 and the GPU is often waiting for the CPU in more complex games. MS flight sim being the most recent good example
<86.44> PC Engine mini
Submerged (Xbox One) <1.59>

Not a bad little game so far; a kind of child-friendly Tomb Raider thing with lots of climbing but no combat and, as far as i'm aware, no way to die. So it's just gentle exploration with a boat and telescope looking for new buildings to climb. Usual price is £15.99, so it's a decent discount at the moment.
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