Video Game Sales Thread

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » April 26, 2009, 2:10 pm

9.99 games, and lots of them. This is going on all week long, only 4-5 are advertised ontheir website.

I picked up: Supreme Commander, Alone in the Dark, Pure, Infinite Undiscovery, and Devil May Cry 4 (so far).

My friend picked up: C&C Red Alert 2, Warhammer Battle March, and some of the ones above that I also got.

The ones I wanted that are sold out as I type this: Soul Caliber 4 and 2 others that slip my mind...

Anyway, both the Battle Creek and Kalamazoo Best Buys are picked clean as a bone, but both stores told me that this is going on for a week, and more trucks are coming in all the time.

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » April 26, 2009, 3:32 pm

Full list of 9.99 360 games:

007 Quantum of Solace
Alone in the Dark
Blitz 2
Bolt
Bourne Conspiracy
C&C 3: Kanes Wrath
C&C: Red Alert 3
Clive Barkers Jericho
Condemned 2
Devil May Cry 4
Enemy Territory Quake Wars
Fracture
Golden Compass
Hellboy
Infinite Undiscovery
NBA Ballers Chosen One
NFL Head Coach 09
NFL Tour
NHL 2k9
Operation Darkness
Pure
Ratatouie
Rock Revolution
Silent Hill: Homecoming
Solder of Fortune 3
Soul Calibur 4
Spiderwick Chronicles
TNA Impact
Too Human
Turning Point
Turok
Universe at War
Unreal Tournament 3
Wall-E
Warhammer Battle March
WWE 2008

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » April 26, 2009, 3:53 pm

I believe the sale is across all consoles. Although the Wii selection is pretty poor. 7 whole games oooo!

Chidoro · Post by **Chidoro** » April 27, 2009, 11:34 am

is this only online, or are there in-sale sales for these items as well?

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » April 27, 2009, 11:59 am

Best Buy's website only listed 4-5 Xbox games that were all out of stock by the time I saw them. The Brick and mortor stores have the complete listing and whatever stock they have of those games is only 9.99. As I said above, both of my local Best Buys were completely picked over. Despite both places telligng me they may get more stock throughout the week, I'm not holding my breath. I think it's "what you see is what you get", and once it's gone, it's gone for good.

And yes, this sale is cross platform to all video games. Xbox has thas the vast majority though.

Funkmasterr · Post by **Funkmasterr** » April 27, 2009, 12:08 pm

Thanks for the heads up, I'm gonna head over here later tonight, hopefully I can find some stuff, there are 2 or 3 for sure on that list I'd pick up for the price.

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » April 27, 2009, 12:26 pm

Just to complete the list:

PS3:
007: Quantum of Solace
Blitz 2
Bolt
Bourne Conspiracy
Cliver Barker's Jericho
Disney Sing It w/Mic
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Ferrari Challenge
Fracture
Guitar Hero 3
Guitar Hero Aerosmith
Hail to the Chimp
Lost Planet: Extreme Conditions
MLB 08: The Show
NBA Ballers Chosen One
NFL Head Coach
NFL Tour
Overlord: Raising Hell
Pure
Rock Band
Rock Revolution
Singstar ABBA
Singstar Vol 2
Soul Calibur 4
TNA Impact

PS2:
Bolt
Dancing with the Stars
Disney's High School Muiscal (It ends there, so I'm not sure if it's 2 or what)
Disney Sing It w/ Microphones
High School Musical 3 (Two versions are listed??)
Monster Lab
Naked Brothers Band w/microphone
Shrek's Carnival Craze
Singstar Country Bundle
The Golden Compass
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Think Fast with controllers

DS:
Cheetah Girls: Passport
Disney: Cory in the House
Energy Dance Squad
Engergy Gym rockets
Igor
Imagine Ballet Star
Imagine Movie Star
Imagine Rock Star
Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon
My Fashion Studio
Naked Bros Band
Neopets
Ninja Gaiden: DS
Ninja Reflex
Petz Rescue Endangered
Prince of Persia
Quantum of Solace
Rock Revolution
Tales of Desperaux
Tecmo Bowl
Ultimate Band
WWE 2009 Smack

Wii:
BATTLE OF THE BANDS
NAKED BROTHERS BAND W/MICR
PETZ CRAZY MONKEYZ
Popstar Guitar
RUBIKS WORLD
SAMBA DE AMIGO
TALES OF DESPERAUX
THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR

My local Best Buy said they are expecting a truck on Thursday and Friday am. The product should be on the shelf by noon, if there is any on the truck. I plan on being there around 11:30 each day just in case. There are about 5-6 more games I would grab for 10 bucks each. I did not end up getting Infinite Undiscovery or Devil May Cry 4 because the website was sold out.

All in all, I'm wanting:

Condemned 2
Devil May Cry 4
Enemy Territory Quake Wars
Infinite Undiscovery
Pure
Silent Hill: Homecoming
Soul Calibur 4
Universe at War

80$ for all those is a steal IMO.

miir · Post by **miir** » April 27, 2009, 12:42 pm

Just a FYI, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is a fucking awesome game on PC... it's just horrible on consoles.
And if you can actually find copies of the other 7 they are top picks.

For PS3:
Quantum of Solace is surprisingly fun
Ferrari Challenge is a decent racing game
Disney Sing It w/Mic is a good deal for the mic which works with Singstar... and if you like karaoke games, the Singstar titles are a major steal for $10

Funkmasterr · Post by **Funkmasterr** » April 27, 2009, 12:46 pm

miir wrote:Just a FYI, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is a fucking awesome game on PC... it's just horrible on consoles.
And if you can actually find copies of the other 7 they are top picks.

For PS3:
Quantum of Solace is surprisingly fun
Ferrari Challenge is a decent racing game
Disney Sing It w/Mic is a good deal for the mic which works with Singstar... and if you like karaoke games, the Singstar titles are a major steal for $10

, I just pictured you rocking out in your living room singing ABBA. It wasn't pretty.

miir · Post by **miir** » April 27, 2009, 12:57 pm

Singstar is fucking fun!
ABBA songs are really hard to sing.

Canelek · Post by **Canelek** » April 27, 2009, 1:07 pm

Oooo, I am going to head over at lunch all week to see what I can grab (if anything).

thanks!

Canelek · Post by **Canelek** » April 27, 2009, 4:11 pm

Wow, there was only shit left. I'll try again later this week I guess!

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » April 27, 2009, 5:57 pm

Wish this was going on in Canada! Miir, you need to give me the heads up when they have crazy deals like this up here.

miir · Post by **miir** » April 27, 2009, 6:12 pm

Dregor Thule wrote:Wish this was going on in Canada! Miir, you need to give me the heads up when they have crazy deals like this up here.

You should check:
http://www.redflagdeals.com/

Straight link to the video game deals forum:
http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/foru ... xid=Games9

No need to thank me

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » May 7, 2009, 12:02 am

It's not Best Buy, but Amazon has Prince of Persia on sale for 25$ for one day only. I grabbed a copy and used some points we had laying around and got it for free!

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » May 10, 2009, 10:57 am

Best Buy has Street Fighter 4 for 39.99 this week. Going to grab a copy today.

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » June 7, 2009, 8:35 pm

I picked up the Walmart "buy 2, get one free" from the 360 platinum hits collection. It's online only. I got Army of Two, Battlefield: Bad Company, and Viva Pinata for 40$.

I then found Mass Effect in it's original box, not the platinum hits box, for 9.99$ at Target.

I topped things off with Mercinaries 2 for 19.99$ at Best Buy, and a mis-priced Red Faction for 39.99$ at Meijers. I would like to say that I told the guy at the counter and he was a fucking dick about it, so fuck Meijers, I'll take it 20 bucks cheaper because your employee was a cock.

So, 100$ later I have 6 new games.

Prototype is out this Tuesday and as I said in another thread, Toys R Us is giving away a 20$ gift card with the purchase of the game. I think I'll get Far Cry 2 with the gift card as long as it's 30$ or less at Toys R Us.

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » June 7, 2009, 8:37 pm

Oh yeah, Price of Persia is once again Amazon's deal of the day, only it's 20$ instead of 25.

Oddly, when I got mine, it was the collector's edition. It says nothing about that on the product discription page. I had a firend order his copy today for 20$, so we'll see if his ends up being a collector's edition as well.

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » July 5, 2009, 10:52 pm

Picked up FEAR 2 for 15$ at Target today. Oddly enough, the price varies from store to store. It can be as high as 35 or as low as 15.

Also, Wal-Mart has Soul Calibur 2 for 16$, online only.

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » July 8, 2009, 6:24 pm

Gamestop has a bunch of 20$ games right now.

Prince of Persia
wheelman
Hawks
Bionic Commando
some others...

I grabbed Hawks and Bionic Commando.

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » July 9, 2009, 10:49 am

Here is the entire Gamestop list:

Baja: Edge of Control
Bee Movie
Beijing Olympics 2008
Bionic Commando
BioShock
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
Fallout 3: The Pitt and Operation: Anchorage official Strategy Guide
Gears of war: 2-Disc Edition
Incredible Hulk
Infinite Undiscovery
Iron Man
Lego Batman
Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust
Major League Baseball 2K9
Mirror's Edge
NBA 2K9
Nyko Xbox 360 Intercooler
Prince of Persia
Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy
Scene It? Box Office Smash - Game Only
Shaun White Snowboarding
SKATE
Ski Doo: Snowmobile Challenge
Sonic Unleashed
Space Chimps
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
Stuntman: Ignition
Tom Clancy's End War
Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.
Trivial Pursuit
Universal Rock Band Jam Kit
Wheelman
Xbox 360 Vantage USB Mic Logitech

I would also buy Infinite Undiscovery and Mirror's Edge if I saw them, but my local Gamestop didn't have those titles.

Funkmasterr · Post by **Funkmasterr** » July 9, 2009, 11:06 am

Thanks for the heads up, I grabbed Bionic Commando last night and I'm gonna try and find Infinite Undiscovery today and grab Hawx for my cousin.

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » July 9, 2009, 1:55 pm

I'm actually looking forward to Bionic Commando. Reviews have been mixed, but it has some pretty hardcore supporters.

Funkmasterr · Post by **Funkmasterr** » July 9, 2009, 2:10 pm

Fairweather Pure wrote:I'm actually looking forward to Bionic Commando. Reviews have been mixed, but it has some pretty hardcore supporters.

Me too, I will probably enjoy it just because of how much I loved the first game. I picked up Infinite Undiscovery over lunch too. My backlog of games is getting to be a little bit out of control now, I really don't have any business buying games at this point.

miir · Post by **miir** » July 9, 2009, 2:16 pm

I still have a few games to get caught up on now...

Just finished Crimson Gem Saga on my PSP and starting FF7 Crisis Core.
Still playing through Red Faction (loving the multiplayer) and still haven't finished Prototype.. Cross Edge is getting a little bit of play.

The only game I'll be picking up in the next while is BlazBlue Calamity Trigger. I'm uber fucking pissed at EB Games for not being able to fill my special edition preorder, and now they are telling me that the regular edition isn't due until the 28th.

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » July 9, 2009, 2:23 pm

I've been that way for ages. I think of it more along the lines of fleshing out my catalogue of genres so I can play pretty much anything I want, whenever I want. I was happy to get Hawx since I don't own any sort of flight sim games, just like I was happy to get Streetfighter 4 because I have no fighters. I've still not landed a copy of Soul calibur 4 yet. I've missed every sale on that game for one reason or another. My sports games could use a little fleshing out, so maybe I'll pick up some of the '09 series when the new ones come out. A Madden and Tiger Woods would be cool if I get them cheap. I need more RPGs too. I play a little bit of everything all the time.

Similar to my movie collection, I just like to have everything on hand so I can play whatever I feel like, whenever I want. My friends love coming over for gaming nights in large part to the variety I have to play.

While waiting for new releases, it's always fun to find the sales!

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » July 9, 2009, 2:30 pm

miir wrote:I still have a few games to get caught up on now...

Just finished Crimson Gem Saga on my PSP and starting FF7 Crisis Core.
Still playing through Red Faction (loving the multiplayer) and still haven't finished Prototype.. Cross Edge is getting a little bit of play.

I'm on the last area of Red Faction. Such a great game. And yes, the multiplayer is great too. I think I stretched it out a little too long by doing every single side quest up until Eos. Now, I just kind of want to finish it. Once that is done, I'm thinking FEAR 2, then Prototype as my main games but I'm not sure. I may need kind of a break from horror themed stuff for awhile.

Since I play so many games at once, I have a lot of little goals here and there to complete. Tomorrow night I'm hoping to finish off the last chapter in Gears of War 1 on Hardcore with a friend. He then wants to do the same thing in Gears 2 as well as Horde Mode, but I'm partial to doing Hawx co-op for a break. We'll see.

miir · Post by **miir** » July 9, 2009, 2:40 pm

I was totally gung-ho for HAWX on the first few missions but got instantly bored with it around the 7th mission.
Glad I only paid $20 for it. I got almost full value back when I traded it in.

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » July 12, 2009, 5:51 pm

Best buy has Mirrors Edge for 20$.

miir · Post by **miir** » July 12, 2009, 11:04 pm

Mirror's Edge is a rental at best.
Great concept, mediocre execution, some really frustrating design choices and way too fucking shot.

Even $20 for a game that you can finish in one or two sessions is poor value.

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » July 12, 2009, 11:08 pm

There's a reason a lot of games are only $20... Just because something cheap doesn't mean it's worthwhile!

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » July 14, 2009, 2:22 am

People seem torn on Mirror's Edge. I wouldn't pay 60 for it, so 20 is a great deal to me. Actually, if a game has ever been on my radar and it hits a 20$ price point, I'll likely pick it up. Target has Chronicles of Riddick: Assulat on Dark Athena for 30$. I've heard good things, but that's 10 bucks more than I'm willing to pay.

My friend picked up FEAR 2 at the same Target I bought mine last week, only it was 12.50 instead of 14.98. He called to gloat because he knows how much I love the deals.

Amazon has some deals on a couple of RPGs I've been wanting to get, so I may just order them all at once since I have some coupons laying around here somewhere. Blue Dragon, Last Reminant, Infinite Undiscovery, and 2 more I can't think of right now. If I could get them all for 60-70$ out of pocket, I think that's a good deal.

Funkmasterr · Post by **Funkmasterr** » July 15, 2009, 11:55 am

I might pick up Eternal Sonata on Amazon, it's like 25.99 and is the last of the RPG's that came out that I wasn't willing to pay full price for but wanted to play that I haven't picked up yet.

Fair - what sites do you look at to find deals? I think I may have asked you this before and if so, sorry for asking again

EDIT: I lied, I still want to get Tales of Vespiria, too.

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » July 15, 2009, 4:14 pm

I don't have a specific place I look up gaming deals. Most of the time I stumble on them by accident. Although, I do have Amazons deal of the day on Twitter. I have a couple of friends that let me know whenever they find a deal. The past few
sales I mentioned in this thread were thanks to them. Other times I just post when I find a good deal completely on accident, like FEAR 2.

Amazon has Blue Dragon for 8$. I found that just by browsing.

I hear cheapassgamer is a good site forcdeal announcements. Those people had the Best Buy 9.99 blowout before anybody, but I was late to that party.

Funkmasterr · Post by **Funkmasterr** » July 15, 2009, 4:37 pm

Thanks for the heads up on cheapassgamer.com - that is quite a good site. Turns out Gamestop is doing another buy 2 get 1 free on used games tomorrow through Sunday. I'll probably pick up Eternal Sonata, Tales of Vespiria, and either Red Faction or the new Scene It game and I will literally have bought every game I want for the 360, at least until this fall starts things all over again

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » July 15, 2009, 5:14 pm

Well, since you said that I had to go check out my own suggestion. It's a good site, but they could make the deal threads easier to find. Granted, I am surfing and posting from my iPhone, so I'll check it out later on my PC.

Funkmasterr · Post by **Funkmasterr** » July 15, 2009, 5:27 pm

Yeah it's just a really basic forum with no special features to make things easier, but at least all the infoz are in one place.

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » July 16, 2009, 1:28 am

Funk, you and I gotta do something about our backlogs. I was thinking about starting a thread where us and others list out all the games we own. You could do a thread for each system. All I really give a shit about is 360 though.

Anyway, anyone who wants to participate can list all thier games and seperate them into a few categories like ones you've finished, haven't really played at all, are close to beating, or perhaps ones you would like to play co-op or something. A spereate list for XBL games would be nice too. I also think this would be a good way to kinda sorta track when you add games to your collection since everything would be in one spot and could be edited/moved around as you finish games.

I think it would be fun to see what everyone has, and if we have enough people with the same games, we could issue some VV challanges or all start a game at the same time or something like that. I'm just trying to think of some fun motivation to play certian games in our libraries. For instance, we start playing Bionic Commando next week. We could make a thread calling it "game of the week" and discuss our progress with others.

I decided I was going to put in and play the 12 games I own that have never even been in my Xbox. I played each one until I unlocked at least 1 acheivement. Just look at my gamer card, lol.
That was pretty fucking fun. I still have 2 more to play and I'm going to do that right now.

It's late and I'm tired. I'm just riffing here...

Funkmasterr · Post by **Funkmasterr** » July 16, 2009, 10:57 am

Sounds like a plan to me. I have a Excel spreadsheet at home that I use to keep track of all my games, so putting mine into a list would be as easy as copy/paste

I'll make one thread like you said with a list separated by system and by what I have and haven't played.

Then after I get some replies we can start talking about a game of the week or something.

I actually don't even have my xbox right now, it's still at my apartment and being the nice guy that I am (I know that may be hard to believe) I don't want to take anything out of the apartment cause my ex is still living there and I don't want it to be any harder for her to be there than it already is by making the place half empty.. SOOOO, life story aside I don't know when I could actually start participating but maybe I'll work up the nerve to go there and get my games/tv.

Good ideas though, cause yes the backlog is getting out of control (and might get 3 more games deep at lunch today, rofl).

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » July 16, 2009, 11:06 pm

Target is having a buy 1, get the other game for 50% off. Sale runs 7/19 - 7/25.

I may go for a couple of cheap titles, especially if they have the RPGs I'm looking for.

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » July 16, 2009, 11:06 pm

Target is having a buy 1, get the other game for 50% off. Sale runs 7/19 - 7/25.

I may go for a couple of cheap titles, especially if they have the RPGs I'm looking for.

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » July 28, 2009, 2:12 pm

In case you were either holding out or saving up for Street Fighter IV on the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360, now would be an excellent time to scrape up those pennies and head to GameStop.

How cheap is cheap? How about $40 off the normal retail price? That's right, GameStop has marked down Street Fighter IV new for the PS3 and 360 to only $19.99.

miir · Post by **miir** » July 28, 2009, 2:18 pm

US, and in-store only.

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » July 29, 2009, 9:29 pm

FutureShop is currently selling LocoRoco 2 and Patapon 2 online and in-store for 9.99$ each.

Needless to say I went and bought both.

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » August 29, 2009, 4:37 pm

Tales of vesparia is 15$ today only at Amazon. I picked up that, Blue Dragon, Last Remnant, and Infinite Undiscovery for $50 shipped.

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » August 29, 2009, 7:28 pm

I was at Wal Mart yesterday and was holding a copy of Mirror's Edge in a bargain bin for 20$. I decided against it eventually, saving the money instead. Had I not had plans for bigger purchases down the line however, I totally would've jumped.

Sabek · Post by **Sabek** » August 30, 2009, 12:37 am

Not sure Mirror's Edge is worth $20.

miir · Post by **miir** » August 30, 2009, 11:08 am

It's a fun game.. just too short to warrant even a $20 price tag, IMO.

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » August 30, 2009, 11:16 am

I'll go against the grain and say I think it's totally worth 20$. Mirror's edge is one of those games that divides gamers. I appreciatwd the originality, style, and graphics. I hated not knowing where to go next. It has more replayability than most games because once you know what you're suppossed to do, you can simply have fun doing all of the jumps and acrobatics.

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » August 30, 2009, 11:17 am

Best Buy is doing buy 1 game, get the other 1/2 off. This applies
to preorders. I'm seriously considering buying all of my games for the rest of the year with this deal. That works out to about 45$ per game.