(Part 3) Top products from r/patientgamers

Worthwhile games under $20

Wii U:

Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (Currently $20 on Amazon via third-party seller) - A solid action game with good online play.

Scribblenauts Unlimited ($17 on Amazon via third-party retailer, inc. shipping) and Unmasked ($18 on Amazon) - A fun little creative toy where you solve puzzles by creating... well, just about anything.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Currently $15 on Amazon) - A superb FPS, and the Wii U version is arguably the definitive console version of the game.

Batman: Arkham City: Armored Edition ($11 on BestBuy.com) - The definitive version of one of the best superhero games of all time.

Tekken Tag Tournament 2 ($19 on Amazon) - A good fighting game.

Injustice: Gods Among Us ($14 on BestBuy.com) - A surprisingly good fighting game

Lego Marvel (Currently $20 on Amazon) - One of the better of the LEGO games, and the Wii U gamepad means that co-op play can be done with each player getting their own screen.

Assassin's Creed III (Currently $12 on Amazon via third-party seller, inc. shipping) and Black Flag ($19 on Amazon via third-party retailer, inc. shipping) - They're not really all that much better on the Wii U than other platforms, but if you don't have them yet these are decent entries in the series.

Resident Evil Revelations ($17 on BestBuy.com) - A decent entry in the series.

Wii:

Super Mario Galaxy ($20 on Amazon) - One of the best Mario games ever made, and generally considered to be one of the best videogames of all time.

Resident Evil 4 ($15 on Amazon) - One of the best survival horror games ever made.

Okami ($20 on Amazon) - A Zelda-style game with a beautiful calligraphy style.

Sin & Punishment: Star Successor ($18 on Amazon) - An action-packed shooter

Kirby's Epic Yarn ($14 on Amazon via third-party seller, inc. shipping) - It's so saccharine-cute it'll make your teeth rot, but if you can put up with that, it's an extremely inventive and fun platformer.

No More Heroes ($19 on Amazon) - A fun, very silly, violent action game.

Trauma Center: Second Opinion ($18 on Amazon) - Part surgery sim, part wicked hard arcade game.

De Blob ($18 on Amazon via third-party, inc. shipping) - A fun, inventive platformer where you bounce around to paint the scenery.

MadWorld ($11 on Amazon via third-party, inc. shipping) - A good, hyper-violent action game.

Wii U Nintendo eShop:

Shovel Knight - Old-school platformer goodness, designed like someone took the best parts of your favorite NES games and mashed them all together.

Art of Balance - A puzzle game that has you stacking blocks. It's really well-made.

Guacamelee: Super Turbo Championship Edition - A truly excellent Metroidvania-style game with a killer fighting engine and a fun, silly luchador theme. If you don't already have this on another platform, you need to get it.

Trine 2: Director's Cut - An excellent platform/puzzle game, and the Wii U version is arguably the best because the touchscreen is integrated very well.

WiiWare:

World of Goo - A superb puzzle game where you must construct various structures to get your goo to the exit.

Lost Winds 1 & 2 - Very good platformers that make good use of the Wii remote to make the gameplay interesting.

Bomberman Blast - 8-player online Bomberman. Aww yisssss.

Wii U Virtual Console - Too many good old-school games to list.

Wii Virtual Console - Tons and tons of good old-school games. It's not quite as convenient as the Wii U virtual console, because you have to go into Wii mode to play them and you can't play them with the Wii U gamepad, but the selection on the Wii's Virtual Console is far, far better than on the Wii U, and at the rate Nintendo is adding games to the Wii U Virtual Console, it looks like it'll probably stay that way for a long time. Keep in mind that if Nintendo adds a game to the Wii U Virtual Console that you already have on the Wii Virtual Console, they'll give you a discount on it to entice you to upgrade, so don't hold off just because you're hoping the game you want will come to the Wii U Virtual Console if it's already on the Wii Virtual Console.

Edit: Well, damn. Today Nintendo announced what is kinda' a game-changer - they're releasing Wii games directly for download on the Wii U's eShop for $20 each ($10 each on the week they're first released). The first game, Super Mario Galaxy 2, is out now, and the next two games will be Metroid Prime Trilogy and Punch-Out!!

All three of those games are extremely good, and have been selling for far more than the asking price (Metroid Prime Trilogy was $60-100 used before this news). If you're looking for cheap Wii U games and never got these titles on the Wii, Nintendo has just dropped the gauntlet with a deal you can't refuse.

For Skyward Sword the original Wii controller is mandatory, swordplay in that game follows your own movement like sideslash, slashing up etc. As for the rest of these games, get a Classic controller. And yeah, try to find Xenoblade Chronicles first ;) It's spectacular.

Other games I would suggest (playable with a Pro controller):

• Monster Hunter
  
  You can get MH Tri on the Wii, but MH 3 Ultimate is a bit nicer to look at. Equally great though imo.
  
  
• Smash Bros. Brawl
  
  Awesome game, also for the Wii. Great to play with your daughter, if she likes that kind of games.
  
  
• Pandora's Tower
  
• The Last Story
  
  Very nice RPG's, very story-driven.
  
  
  There are more of which I've heard good things like Tales of Syphonia, Arc Rise Fantasia and Muramasa, but I'm not in a position to recommend those cause I haven't played them :)
  
  As for the Wii U, there are only a few big games out at the moment but they're all pretty great (so I hear). A must buy (as was for me at least, alongside MH3U) is Zelda: The Wind Waker HD. Colorful, atmospheric, awesome overall.
  
  Edit: Of course I meant the Classic controller, not the Pro. Pro is for Wii U only. I have both and switched them up.

My average sessions is spent flying in space doing whatever I feel like that day. I especially love smuggling (very profitable and dangerous), bounty hunting and just exploring. I use a H.O.T.A.S. as a controller (but KB/M or game controller work too), plus a head-tracker. It is amazingly immersive.

There is no story line and you will never see any people. Only other ships and space stations.
You spend all your time in the cockpit of a spaceship (except with the Horizons expansion, which lets
you use a planetary SRV's, as well), first person perspective. You start out in a "bubble" of inhabited
space that includes about 10,000 space stations. From there, you can travel anywhere in the Milky Way galaxy.
Space is huge.

You can choose activities like exploration, bounty hunting, trade, mining, combat or smuggling. You can select missions
which are available on bulletin boards at all space stations, join in community goals which change weekly,
or do whatever you want to do on your own. Also you can play in Close Quarters Combat (CQC) which is an arcade-style PVP arena,
seperate from the main game, but included in the price.

You can play alone against NPCs in "Solo", with other players and NPCs in "Open" or join a private group. The game is limited to
32 players in one instance, and even that is rare. You will mostly be alone or with NPCs, except in popular star systems, unless
you join in a community goal or wing up with friends. Space is huge.

The most common complaint about Elite is that it is wide as an ocean and shallow as a puddle. This is true if you are expecting COD
or Skyrim in space. It is a sandbox with toy spaceships, and the player must add the adventure. Here are a couple of players that do
a good job of that: Isinona roleplays really well. ObsidianAnt is good at showing the beauty of exploration.

/EliteDangerous can be helpful in learning about the game, as well as lots of Youtube videos.
I hope that helps.

It's definitely worth trying! It's very fun and a very solid game and honestly one of the better puzzle games on the SNES. Make sure to play 1P Vs. mode, that's the equivalent of a "story" mode.

If you're playing on an emulator, I would recommend picking up a SNES USB controller or a USB adapter and an official, used SNES controller. I've had this for 5 or 6 years and it's how I play SNES games on PC.

Oh, Kirby's Avalanche is good too. It's not got the Tetris branding, but it's another puzzle game that got reskinned for western release. In Japan, it was called Super Puyo Puyo, and of course Puyo Puyo is still around as a series, including a recent Tetris mash-up.

Syndicate was pretty fun, although short. You can get it for about $5-$10 on amazon.

I'll throw Enslaved: Odyssey to the West out there. I definitely would not classify it as cyberpunk, more like the setting is what would happen 150 years after a cyperpunk world.

As a fan of cyberpunk fiction, I really enjoyed it. You might as well.

Cheapest:
https://www.amazon.com/Thrustmaster-T-Flight-Hotas-Flight-Stick-pc/dp/B001CXYMFS/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

Next cheapest:
https://www.amazon.com/Thrustmaster-T-16000M-FCS-HOTAS-Controller/dp/B01KCHPRXA/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

I'd recommend the second one, since the joystick sensor is much better, and you have more buttons. But the first one gets good reviews too, so it's not a bad choice. I have the second one and I'm very happy with it.

Start with Fallout 1, of course! The actions of the Vault Dweller are really important to the overall plot of the later games. Do make sure you play through Fallout 2 as well though, because gameplay-wise it improves on everything started by the first. New Vegas has SO MANY references to Fallout 1 and 2 that are really easy to miss if you haven't played them.

I also am running Windows 7 64 bit, and had no problems that a quick google search wasn't able to solve. I think there were a couple problems here and there with color conversion, but there are easy-to-use mods available to fix it.

This is the version I bought, and it runs fine on my machine.

If I'm not mistaken, I think gog.com has them for cheap as well, and they're probably optimized even more for a modern OS.

Still waiting for Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn and Xenoblade Chronicles for the Wii to come down in price. One of these days...

As for games I've actually waited a long time to play, the winner there is probably either Half Life 1 (played it for the first time this year) or maybe some old Atari games (played on one of those battery-powered hook-to-TV consoles maybe 7 years ago).

I got both, with Tactics all together for fairly cheap. The "Fallout Trilogy". I already owned 2, too. :) Best way to do it IMO.

I suggest you try and get the games on PC You Can Find Them On Ebay or Amazon....


Or You can be A BAD BOY!!!! Hue Hue and download them via Non-legal means but If you don't wan't fines up the ass (And Going To Court) I sugest you buy them, That Should Help.



The Games On Amazon;
THPS2: http://www.amazon.com/Tony-Hawks-Pro-Skater-2-PC/dp/B00004U55D
THPS3: http://www.amazon.com/Tony-Hawks-Pro-Skater-3-PC/dp/B000063SAV
THPS4: Can't Find A Link, Try Ebay
THUG: Can't Find Link, Try Ebay
THUG2: http://www.amazon.com/Tony-Hawk-Underground-2-PC/dp/B0002V3JOG
THAW: http://www.amazon.com/Tony-Hawks-American-Wasteland-PC/dp/B000BU4XHK

Hope This Helps ;D

Amazon has a mariokart bundle new for $250 ($50 off) this week, it's a great deal. The other Amazon prices are (the bad kind of) insane, up to $360+. All those bundles are $300 flat at retailers.

Edit: link

The number of solid exclusives for Wii U is very high, so you'll have used game pick ups forever:

• Mariokart
  
• Smash
  
• Splatoon
  
• Yoshi Woolly World
  
• Kirby
  
• Wonderful 101
  
• Xenoblade Chronicles X
  
• Warioware (or whatever it's called this time)
  
• Zelda Windwaker remake
  
• Mario Maker
  
• Mario & Luigi U
  
• Bayonetta
  
  Biggest issue is that a bunch of the games haven't dropped much in price since they've come out.

Currently flipping through Amazon, Brawl is $29, Mario Kart Wii is $39, Galaxy is $44, Skyward Sword is $40, Wii Sports Resort is $34... where are you buying your games? I mean, yeah, they aren't a hard $60 anymore, but these games are old. All of these should be well under $20 by now.

There won't be more single player content for Tomb Raider.

source: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/03/20/sadface-tomb-raider-dlc-will-not-offer-any-new-tombs/

It's on sale for $17,5 over at Amazon.

It's a streamlined, but rather enjoyable experience. It will get cheaper quickly, as every Square Enix title does, but it's worth $17,5 imo.

>The problem is that the more people who do this, the less money developers/publishers make. If too many people wait for the GOTY edition there won't be a GOTY edition.

That's what the marketing is for. ;)

You can buy it for $42 on Amazon. It's still expensive, but it's much better than the $90 people were charging a few years ago.

could get something like this and use the original controller on the PC http://www.amazon.com/SNES-Controller-Adapter-USB-Super-NES/dp/B002IXZ5DE

I actually just borrowed melee from a friend! And I've been playing smash bros since the n64 version, but I've never actually owned a nintendo console until now. Now my problem is that I don't have any gamecube controllers. Is the Classic Controller Pro any good for smash bros? I also see some used gamecube controllers for $14, so I might just go with that.

It's readily available in Amazon for pretty cheap.

US Link for those interested. Thanks!

It's $1.74 on Amazon right now! Anyone who doesn't have it by now should get it.

And KB/M FTW!

Edit: Fixed to $4.99 :(

https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Started-Dwarf-Fortress-complex/dp/1449314945/ref=nodl_

That’s what got me through the initial learning curve.

It may be out dated in some ways now, but I did refer to it past time I played (about 6 months ago)

There's a book that teaches you how to play:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1449314945/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_6ubtyb3Q4T60D

AFAIK re: graphics, there are alternative tile sets you can install.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0009XSMNA/ref=sr_1_1_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1324242486&sr=8-1&condition=used

Not too bad if you don't mind a used copy however a new one will run you about $130, and if you want Wind Waker + Master Quest you're looking at $400 for a new copy.

Ac3 is 4.99 on amazon http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00A2Z50KI/ref=mp_s_a_1_8?qid=1417153280&sr=8-8&pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70

You can get the Legendary Edition (physical copy w/Steam activation) for $15 off of Amazon right now. I think the cheapest the LE has gone for on Steam is $12.49. So, if you'd rather not wait for a sale you can get it now for an extra $2.50. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00CJ7IUIQ

Used on Amazon for SSBB says $17
http://www.amazon.com/Super-Smash-Bros-Brawl-Nintendo-Wii/dp/B000FQ9R4E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1372449788&sr=8-1&keywords=super+smash+bros+brawl

The only time they tend to reach that price point is when they get a 'gold' re-release. I've seen it called "Nintendo Selects" before. Example here is Zelda for the Wii "Nintendo Select" edition for $30: http://www.amazon.com/Legend-Zelda-Twilight-Princess-Nintendo-Wii/dp/B004WLRQMI/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1416264914&sr=8-6&keywords=zelda

Here are some links for the product in the above comment for different countries:

Link: $5-$10 on amazon

• Spain: amazon.es
  
• France: amazon.fr
  
• Japan: amazon.co.jp
  
• Canada: amazon.ca
  
• Italy: amazon.it
  
  
  This bot is currently in testing so let me know what you think by voting (or commenting).

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0002V3JOG/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used

This is the more complete version. Never seems to go cheap. If you buy the games on GOG.com you get a high quality PDF version of these books included as an extra.

Here is the desktop version of your link

Currently OoS but Amazon sells it for $20

Not sure where you're buying your MicroSD cards or your Vita cards, but I can get a 64gb MicroSD for about £33, and a 64gb Vita card for £85.

I'm not sure what that says for your micro sd prices. I can get almost two 64gb micro sd for the price of one vita 64gb.

Micro sd: http://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/B009QZH6JS

Vita 64gb: http://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/B00F27JGVA/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1398526345&sr=8-1

You missed Valkyria Chronicles.

http://www.amazon.com/Valkyria-Chronicles-Playstation-3/dp/B0016C3260

I'm confused. It's $80 on amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Legend-Zelda-Twilight-Princess-Wii/dp/B004WLRQMI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1369871406&sr=8-1&keywords=twilight+princess

Twilight Princess for $20. If that isn't a precedent, I don't know what is. This is a silly argument.

You can get it at [Target] (http://www.target.com/p/nintendo-wii-u-deluxe-set-includes-splatoon-and-super-smash-bros/-/A-50043479#prodSlot=medium_1_1&term=wii+u) with Smash and Splatoon for $300 right now. [Amazon] (http://www.amazon.com/Nintendo-32GB-Mario-Pre-Installed-Deluxe-u/dp/B011XO54MA/ref=sr_1_3?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1448983750&sr=1-3&keywords=wii+u) has it for $250 with Mario Kart 8. I think it was cheaper on black Friday. Might see if there are any more sales between now and Christmas.

Edit: Oh, damn. Just saw you're in Aus. Sorry mate!