The Shrine

Alien Hominid is now a simple 400 microsoft points. I think I've got that in Canadian Tire money, that must mean you high rollers with your fancy cars and your procreated miscreants and your Arby's and your wasted ability to subscribe to twitter and follow me.... you MUST be able to afford it and play with me. Otherwise, I sincerely believe, that you have probably wasted your life.

Okami on the Wii for $20

Okami on the PS2 for $20

I'd love to Alien Hominid with you. Just come by and we'll pop my GC version into the Wii and have a blast.

I've been waiting to get Okami for $20 for the Wii (it's $10 or so used for the PS2 right now).

bovine wrote:Alien Hominid is now a simple 400 microsoft points. I think I've got that in Canadian Tire money, that must mean you high rollers with your fancy cars and your procreated miscreants and your Arby's and your wasted ability to subscribe to twitter and follow me.... you MUST be able to afford it and play with me. Otherwise, I sincerely believe, that you have probably wasted your life.

Honestly, those 400 points would not be worth the pain I would feel playing that game. The game is sadistic.

but you get to play as the alien in castle crashers!

All downloadable content for Oblivion is half price on XBL this week. Except horse armour, it's 2x the price. NO JOKES

bovine wrote:All downloadable content for Oblivion is half price on XBL this week. Except horse armour, it's 2x the price. NO JOKES

That's fucking hilarious :-)

That's when you know developers are feeling themselves a bit too much.

"We just wanted to be wacky, so we raised the price to twice what it ought to be!" Cue hijinks, hilarity ensues.

Tomb Raider Anniversary on sale at 75% off, now for $5 on steam. I enjoyed legend and wouldn't mind playing his remake of the original.

Steam still wants your money. All the games by "Strategy First" (whomever they are) are 50% off. Darkstar One is a pretty fun game, and now it's only 5 dollary-doos. LINK!

http://store.steampowered.com/publisher ... y%20First/

My dollary-doos have dog-diggity-darn disappeared, dang it.

I'm a little late of this one, but the first episode of the Penny Arcade game is on sale for half price on XBLA. It was very pricey when it came out, and now it is half of pricey now.

Although this thread is entitled about things you may exchange currency for, this next item is on the FREE! Do you have a PS3? Do you know someone with a PS3? Well, follow the directions found within this Destructoid C-Blog to get Wipeout HD for free by making an Austrian (in Europe, not to be confused with Oceania's Australia where Andrew and Fea live) PSN account between March 16th and April 18th. This means you should do this right now. Make sure to give them a valid email address where they can send you the code. That is all.

Also, even if you don't have a PS3, you can probably still enjoy the wonderful broken english delivered via the google translator on this site.

Oh Wipeout HD... I wish I knew how to enjoy you more.

I'll let you know if it works

Purchasing Peggle and Peggle Nights on steam will get you them for 50% off. $10 for both, that's not bad if you're into that sort of thing.

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/1481/

You are officially the best marketer for cheap-ass games ever. I like the information hookup.

free multiplayer on halo 3 this weekend for all you ghetto silver members. You still have that game Zeus?

bovine wrote:free multiplayer on halo 3 this weekend for all you ghetto silver members. You still have that game Zeus?

Oh yeah. But I'm a gold member right now. I tried out 2 of my GTA 4 1 month memberships to see if they stack (they do) so I'm good until June. I have 9 more so I'll be OK throughout 2009.

Dawn of War 2 25% off on steam, plus a singleplayer demo is out as well. That's $37.49 of your american dollars for this game. Play the demo, ask shrin and tessian about it..... but I'll tell you that the singleplayer is pretty cool and can be played coop with a pal.

LINK

http://store.steampowered.com/app/15620/

That reminds me-- you totally ditched me on the single player campaign! Did you ever even finish it? Luckily Shrin and I started our own campaign on a harder difficulty and beat it so I still got the achievements.

This is a game I know I should be playing more but I don't...

NIB Sega Dreamcasts, $100

http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/games/ba52/

You can buy a used one on Ebay really cheap. We still have 2 around here somewhere...

it might be a good investment to pick one of these up. I would imagine the resale value on a NIB dreamcast would be very good in the next 10 years or so.

Stop what you are doing right now.





Now look into your collection of videogames, either physical or on steam. Do you have Team Fortress 2? Do you have Portal? Do you have Halflife 2? Do you have the two episodic sequels to Halflife 2? If you answered no to any of these questions, you should probably go and buy the orange box on steam RIGHT NOW for $10. You can then give away any of the games that you already own to someone less fortunate so they may play it.

I can get the actual disk for 360 for that price in Cdn $. Not worth it

Zeus wrote:I can get the actual disk for 360 for that price in Cdn $. Not worth it

for the gimped version of TF2? mayhaps your deal is the one not so "worth it".

bovine wrote:

Zeus wrote:I can get the actual disk for 360 for that price in Cdn $. Not worth it

for the gimped version of TF2? mayhaps your deal is the one not so "worth it".

Not if you don't play TF2.

HAWX is 40% off on steam, down to $30. It's a great game, but I'd recommend you get it for 360 so you can discover your inner ace with your old pal bovine. L4D is also down 40% to $24 and if you don't have it yet, you should probably pick it up. They've been doing all kinds of weird things with the price. It's still a solid game and best played on the PC, although it's nice to know that they are equally supporting the 360 version this time around.

Dishwasher Dead Samurai. It's like 800 points. Might be Game of the Year.

Replay wrote:Dishwasher Dead Samurai. It's like 800 points. Might be Game of the Year.

this is the first that I have heard of you liking this game. I think that you like it so much you should make a thread out of it. Then, after you make that thread, you should post in other threads about how much you like it. That is what you should do.
Also, go buy deadspace.

Universe at War is this weekend's steam game on sale. It's down to $5 from $20.

I always buy strategy games when they drop in price, and this one will be no exception. Anyone else going to get it and beat me at it?

bovine wrote:Universe at War is this weekend's steam game on sale. It's down to $5 from $20.

I always buy strategy games when they drop in price, and this one will be no exception. Anyone else going to get it and beat me at it?

I played Universe at War... was like the last game I ever "downloaded". It was decent with an interesting story but I don't know if I'd buy it... although for $5 can I really say no?

Defense Grid: The Awakening is $5 this week too... I always loved the Tower Defense games in WC3, maybe it's good too? PCGamer seemed to think so. It's a strategy game too, Bovine

Defense Grid is a lot of fun, actually... I can't stop playing it or thinking of strategies for it. I'll be sad when I beat all the levels but they've got challenge modes and such so hopefully it'll have decent replay value. Fantastic value for $5

ragdoll kung fu is free (in the US store), and Bionic Commando: Rearmed is 1/2 price at $5 on the PSN this week

EDIT

Also, the first set of strongbad games, and two seasons of sam and max are on sale for 1/2 price on steam for 5 days

bovine wrote:ragdoll kung fu is free (in the US store), and Bionic Commando: Rearmed is 1/2 price at $5 on the PSN this week

EDIT

Also, the first set of strongbad games, and two seasons of sam and max are on sale for 1/2 price on steam for 5 days

Anyone looking for a great retro game and owns a PS3, get Bionic Commando (looks in Kup's direction). It's an excellent and extremely faithful remake (to a fault) and is ton of fun to play co-op.

What the heck is Ragdoll Kung Fu? I assume it's on PSN. And anyone know if the Sam and Max Season 2 is coming out for Wii? Didn't seem that Telltale was too keen on it but one can hope

The weekend deal on steam is Call of Duty: World at War down 50% to $25. It has that mode with zombie nazis, if that appeals to you.

Also, apparently the first guild wars is down to $20 if you want a mostly MMO that doesn't come with those messy monthly fees. It's not a bad price if you were looking for an excuse to try out the series. I have an account, and would totally reinstall if anyone got this and wanted a little bovine companionship.

I have Guild Wars as well, it's fun but not really a true MMO. All areas are instanced except the common areas like towns, etc. Its pretty fun though.

$20 for Guild Wars?

I may be in. It's one of the least demanding but still fun MMOs in terms of time commitment vs. fun factor, I heard, is that right?

Guild Wars seems more like Diablo 2 Online as opposed to your traditional MMORPG. I suspect since they don't charge a monthly fee, there's no reason to artificially slow you down as much compared to a normal MMORPG.

I loved D2. Could be worth a go.

For those without a PS3, the Bionic Commando price drop will occur on May 25 on XBLA

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3174228

Shrin and I played Guild Wars a bit back when it came out... I may even have the first expansion I totally forget. It got boring fast on your own... I can see it being a blast with a group of friends on Ventrillo but that's about it.

Zeus wrote:For those without a PS3, the Bionic Commando price drop will occur on May 25 on XBLA

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3174228

Christmas came early. Bionic commando is 1/2 price on XBLA starting today. I shamefully bought it for the PS3 when it was on sale there first, but at least it lets me confirm that it is a good game.

bovine wrote:

Zeus wrote:For those without a PS3, the Bionic Commando price drop will occur on May 25 on XBLA

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3174228

Christmas came early. Bionic commando is 1/2 price on XBLA starting today. I shamefully bought it for the PS3 when it was on sale there first, but at least it lets me confirm that it is a good game.

So BC was 1600 points? Because 800 doesn't seem like a half price....

Chris wrote:

bovine wrote:

Zeus wrote:For those without a PS3, the Bionic Commando price drop will occur on May 25 on XBLA

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3174228

Christmas came early. Bionic commando is 1/2 price on XBLA starting today. I shamefully bought it for the PS3 when it was on sale there first, but at least it lets me confirm that it is a good game.

So BC was 1600 points? Because 800 doesn't seem like a half price....

oop, looks like I was wrong. I got my information from here and apparently it was bogus.

http://majornelson.com/archive/2009/05/ ... mando.aspx

sorry team!

wow. kinda fucked that one didn'tcha herb

Mirror's Edge on steam for $20. For that price, you'd be a fool not to own it.

Especially if you recently purchased a case-warping video card.

bovine wrote:Mirror's Edge on steam for $20. For that price, you'd be a fool not to own it.

Especially if you recently purchased a case-warping video card.

It's been that low on the 360 before.....

Just to reiterate Zeus's prophecy, Bionic Commando: Rearmed is for reals down to 400 microsoft currency.

LINK

For $5, you would be a fool (or Zeus) not to buy BC:Rearmed.