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180$ for the bundle and 20$ for P4G. Not the most amazing discount but I like to think of it as a regular-priced Persona bundle, which I would be all over if such a thing actually existed. Kinda wish it had come with either another game than Walking Dead or just no game and a bigger memory card, though. Well, I think I could've actually gotten a CoD Black Ops Declassified bundle but... that's actually kinda worse.

Was ready to order it from EBGames.ca at midnight but for some reason all the deals went live... except this one. I shot them a message on twitter and they said it was a known issue and it wouldn't be up until later. Kind of annoying but meh, at least I was able to order this morning. It also came with a free copy of this And finally I was tempted to get this one from PSN because it's currently on sale for 20$ but I'm only getting a 4GB memory stick with the bundle so it wasn't really an option. Luckily, it was back in stock at EBGames this morning, and they had even price matched the PSN deal, so I was able to get everything from one place.

Found some stuff I wanted in the "hidden" deals on Steam. Wadjet Eye's point-and-clicks are usually pretty damn good and I got the fourth Blackwell game in some bundle a while back, so I've been looking to pick up the first three for a while. As for La-Mulana, I had heard the name before but it somehow only recently popped up on my radar. They're all pretty cheap, only cost me around 6$ for all four. Anyway, I probably shouldn't spend any more on this sale. I settled on the Vita for my handheld purchase, so I'll be trying to get one from EBGames once their black friday deals go live at midnight and I'm gonna want a game or two to go along with it. I also need make sure I have some money left for the christmas sale...

This morning was productive! Instead of paying attention in class, I was browsing r/gamedeals and saw Amazon had finally added Far Cry 3 to their black friday deals. 7.50$ and, thankfully, it's one of the few Ubisoft titles that offer a Steam option. And that was pretty much the entirety of my Steam sale shopping list! I mean, I'm probably going to make a few impulse purchases and there's a few more titles I'll be on the lookout for. But FC3 was pretty much the only game I was 100% going to buy regardless of how good the deal was. I actually almost grabbed it for 15$ a couple weeks ago. Really glad I didn't.

Nah, and I don't really plan on getting one anytime soon.

Oh, right. I knew I vaguely remembered a thread like this. I'm using it backwards, though. Looking for recommendations rather than making one. I was gonna make this a status update but it got kinda wordy. So, I'm looking to pick up a handheld on black friday and would really appreciate the input of those of you that already own them. Personally, I kinda want the Vita more, purely out of personal preference. But the 3DS seems to have a higher number of interesting games right now, including a bunch of DS games I never got around to getting as well as a small stack I kept when I sold my DS (I just couldn't bring myself to sell the Ace Attorney games). Then again, I also have a few PSP games I got off PSN that I never got around to playing either. Ultimately, I want both systems. So this is more of a "which one should I get now" kinda deal. The deals I've found, assuming they don't sell out in seconds and I can actually grab one, are: The 3DS XL for 150$. No bundle or anything, so I'd have to get a game separately. If I can't get a deal on Vita at all, I'll probably instabuy this simply because of how much cheaper it is. Vita for 180$. I think I'll have to grab the Walking Dead bundle here, which I don't really care for since I already played it on PC and have no interest in replaying it. I really wish they still had that bundle that came with a free year of PS+. Or just one with no game and a bigger memory card. Anyway, EBGames.ca is giving a free copy of Uncharted: Golden Abyss along with it. Seems like a good deal but I was going to get PS+ anyway, specifically because of Uncharted and Gravity Rush both being in the instant games collection. So I don't know anymore... The 3DS seems like the better deal but I keep going back and forth on which one I should get. Got until tomorrow midnight to make up my mind as that's when the deals go live and I suspect they're going to sell out fairly quickly.

While you guys are all moving on to next-gen, I'm going back old school. It finally showed up on PSN today. Not sure what caused this ridiculously late release but whatever, I just can't say no to MGS. Besides, this is pretty much the only title in the entire series that I've never owned at any point, so I just had to buy it.

I'm also in. It was great last year.

Welp, I dug up my PS2 copy of Persona 3 FES tonight and fired it up for the first time in like two years. Played for a few hours, fun was had. Hopefully I can finish it this time. It's kinda weird going back to it after so long. I'm very much in the last stretch of the story and getting all these big reveals (some of which I've had spoiled by now) but they don't mean much because I remember fuck all of the story. If it were any other game, I'd start over from the beginning. But I'm 70 fucking hours into it. I don't have time to redo all that shit. And, honestly, at this point I'd much rather play Persona 4. So I'll just finish it and move on, I think. Only got 2 weeks of classes left before finals, too. So, once christmas vacations start I'll have plenty of free time. And if I do get a Vita next month, I'll definitely be grabbing P4 Golden along with it.

Honestly, if that's the case then I'd rather they didn't even bother. The way you only control a cursor in the non-dungeon crawling sections of P3P just puts me off that version of the game entirely. I'd rather stick to the superior FES version. It'd be nice if they did a proper Vita port of FES, though. Something like The Golden buut with the extra chapter included this time. Doubt it'll happen, though.

It's a Vita game. Looks quite similar to Elite Beat Agents and that game was a ton of fun on DS. At least, considering I only paid about 10 bucks for it I was satisfied with what I got. I've actually been toying with the idea of getting a handheld next month. I'll have quite a bit of extra cash and I figured getting a new system would be more fun than just blowing it all on the Steam holiday sale. While I'm still not sure if I should go with Vita or 3DS, if I do get a Vita this one will definitely be on my radar.

But more importantly!

I was wondering about that. They seem to love porting all their games to handhelds but could the Vita actually handle a proper PS3 game? I mean, there's Disgaea 3 (and an upcoming port of 4, I think?) but those are sprite games and 3 wasn't even HD. Besides, if there's any game worth keeping a PS3 around for, it's definitely Persona. I'm actually really glad it's not PS4. Not really planning on getting one for a good while.

Shit, man, you sure know your Who. Thanks for the clarifications. I don't exactly expect perfect consistency from a series with such a long and convoluted history but that kinda seemed a bit too blatant, so I figured there had to be some details I was missing. Oh and have there been any kind of hints or whatever as to what we can expect from Capaldi's run? I really liked how darker Smith's run felt. Not just with the stories and villains but also with the Doctor himself at times. It was much more compelling, imho. I also loved how his first two seasons had an almost serialized main arc to them. Main reason I was disappointed with the last season was the move away from that format. So I really hope those two aspects carry on with 13.

:bun-ohmagawd: :bun-ohmagawd: :bun-ohmagawd: Guess it's time to finish 3 and play 4...

Yeah,

Oh man, that was so, soooo good. Felt really good to see Tennant in those clothes again. Quite different from what I expected, though. And yeah, it is really strange that Eccleston wasn't in it. There were quite a few moments where having him there would've just made it all so much more awesome. A few things kinda bugged me, though. Maybe you guys can help fill in the blanks.

Honestly, Resistance was one of the first games I got for my PS3 and I remember enjoying it a lot but I never felt the need to revisit it. It's probably nowhere near as good as I remember. I suspect most of you will feel the same way about Shadow Fall in a couple years.

Oh man, for some reason I thought the special was airing tomorrow. So I figured I'd download the season finale to watch tonight. Then I find out it's actually today! Maybe I'll just make it a double feature!

I've been playing the Hearthstone beta on and off the past couple weeks. I'm fucking terrible at this kind of card games, so that usually puts me off them entirely. They seem cool on paper but I bought one of the Planeswalkers games a couple years back and couldn't even beat the single-player campaign. It really felt like bashing my head against a wall. That being said, Hearthstone is actually a lot of fun. I dunno, it's kind of a treat to look at. It really has that trademark Blizzard polish. Every single action has this awesome visual feedback to it. I'm still terrible at it. I spent most of my time in practice mode trying to unlock all the classes, and there's still a few I haven't managed to beat yet. But at least I feel like I have a decent grasp on the basics. I guess it's a more streamlined take on the genre because it was fairly easy to wrap my head around. At this point, I mostly need to start learning how to build decks. I played some unranked multiplayer tonight and it was a ton of fun. I even won a few games. I could see myself really getting into this one.

Bitch, Resistance was great.

Because being graphically dated invalidates anything else of value the game might hold. Duh!

Yeah, I looked it up after replying. I guess I didn't realize it was new because there was an ice plasmid in the original. So it didn't exactly seem all that new. I'd forgotten there wasn't one in Infinite, though.

I also played on hard and thought it was about on par with the main game. Maybe I died a bit more than I had to because I never bought any upgrades but the final fight didn't give me any trouble. Not sure what Mal is referring to that makes it a joke, though. Also, what new plasmid?