What was your last gaming related impulse buy?

ME3 yesterday night, was putting it off to do later but i was just too damn bored.

Rebought No More Heroes Paradise for 49 NOK~ 8 USD and gave it away to my little brother. That game deserved better than being in some barginbin and later being thrown out.

I've been playing through Halo Anniversary and remembering how damn good that game is, then decoddd that I should play all of the Halo games, so I bought a copy of Halo Wars online. It'll be here soon.

I'd say the vast majority of my video game purchases are impulse. There are maybe three games a year that I know for sure I want to buy and the rest are just a combination of boredom and one click shopping on Amazon.

Purchased all these in one afternoon last week. Did not plan on buying any of these, just happened.

• ICO HD
• Shadow of the Colossus HS
• Sly Cooper Trilogy
• Hunted: the Demon's forge
• Dead Space 2
• 40K: Space marine
• Agarest generations of war: zero
• Blazblue: continuum shift
• Darksiders

@PeasantAbuse said:

@Sackmanjones said:

I bought shogun 2 for 7 bucks. Now THAT is basically free

Tell me how to do this.

Steam

The Hitman Collection on Steam. I don't even want to play them but for 5€, I'd lose more money to inflation if I didn't buy them.

Blitz 2000 for the N64.

@ahaisthisourchance said:

Rebought No More Heroes Paradise . . . That game deserved better than being in some barginbin and later being thrown out.

Hardly. Despite having a few bonus features, the PS3 port is pretty much trash compared to the Wii original. Controls are sluggish at best, and that's both with or without the Move controller. Keep in mind, Grasshopper Manufacture had nothing to do with this port.

I bought Legend of Grimlock for $12. Got a steam key too!

Also bought once upon a monster from best buy for $10. Shipped.

SSX. Was thinking about ME3 when when everyone was talking about SSX, so I was already in the game buying state of mind.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution

I knew I'd like it but I also knew that given how busy I am there's no way I'd finish it before Gears 3 came out. I couldn't help but grab it on Steam though since word was that it was a great PC version.

I was right - I haven't been back to it since Gears 3 and Mass Effect 3 came out even though I was having a great time with it.

@Catarrhal said:

@ahaisthisourchance said:

Rebought No More Heroes Paradise . . . That game deserved better than being in some barginbin and later being thrown out.

Hardly. Despite having a few bonus features, the PS3 port is pretty much trash compared to the Wii original. Controls are sluggish at best, and that's both with or without the Move controller. Keep in mind, Grasshopper Manufacture had nothing to do with this port.

Are you sure we're talking about the same version here? There was a Japanese version in 2010 that was completely horrible both control and preformencewise. The Paradise version that came out a year later in the west was a vast improvement IMO.

The latest BF3 maps

red dead redemption was my first, i always research my games purchases, no matter what. But red dead was my first time just going with the flow.

the last time i did it was with skyrim.

I can't recall, but it's definitely related to any Steam Sales.

I do remember buying GTA IV + 2 DLC for the PC for a great price (20/30 bucks, 2 years ago) and then when I got home I remembered that my computer would probably not run it very well and yep, it totally didn't run smoothly.

I bought a new stick and buttons for my arcade stick. Spent about $60 putting new parts in that thing.

Renegade Ops +DLC for Steam from Amazon for $7.50.

I got child of Eden for 360 for $9.45. Still in plastic

Two at the same time: White Knight Chronicles II (!!!! FINALLY !!!!!) for $25 and Vanquish for $15. Not too bad at all, considering I couldn't even find WKCII when it was new...

The reason why I'm so pumped about WKCII is because it comes with the first game on the same disc, AND the Geonet license wasn't even used by the previous owner. So I basically got the online pass and the first game included in that $25, as well as the sequel. :)

At the moment my mouse is hovering over the buy button for Skylanders. Should I buy it?

I have Star Craft 2 sitting in my cart in Amazon. Will buy it shortly. Dam you MLG streams for scratching that urge again!!

a gamefly subscription.

The Vita

GTX 680, EVGA of course.

Terraria was the last game I decided to buy on an absolute whim. It was worth what I paid, even if I didn't play it for too long.

Logitech G400 mouse, mainly so that I could bind the knife in BF3 to the back side button like I did in BFBC2.

Binary Domain, 23 quid from Tesco.

I haven't played it yet, so I cannot confirm whether or not that was sweeeet.

My last impulse buy was the Skyrim Collector's Edition for PS3 when it was $60 last week. I already had the regular edition for 360. That is a pretty great collector's edition, though.

Got S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat during some crazy holiday steam sale to goof around in after Dave's fairly awesome quicklook. 150 hours in that game at this point.

Amazon just started a buy 2, get 1 deal so I bought Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts, Ys Seven, and Shin Megami Tensei Devil Survivor 2 without a second thought even though I have no time to play them.

All of my steam purchases.

iOS games aside (?), I grabbed the MMO7 mouse as soon as AMZ had it in stock, cause I was all like 'zomG I play MMOs...I NEED those buttons!' O_O It's pricey but...(please see,Buttons)

I am about to return though - seems like a better fit for claw-grip peeps (jerks!) even with all the adjustment ability. I'm going to stick with my Logi G500 for the time being, which really is an exceptional mouse (*pets G500...)

Bunch of Fallout (the good ones) off a steam sale. 1,2 and tactics for £5.

Be good to play on the laptop and genrally, better than that Bethesda Oblivion with guns nonsense.

$600 for my younger brother (aspiring indie dev) to have dinner with John Romero and Will Wright (separately). Other than that? I don't know. I buy a game on Steam or GOG almost every single day, a game via Amazon for the console almost every week or two, and back a game on Kickstarter two to four times a week. So . . . I pretty much make a game-related impulse buy on a more-than-daily basis. :P

Probably when I kicked in $50 to The Banner Saga kickstarter and $10 to the FTL one. If by actual games that I could now be playing, I guess it would be a few weeks back when I bought Splatterhouse and Halo Wars for the 360 for around $30. $10 for Splatterhouse and $20 for Halo Wars.

Deus Ex Human Revolution on Steam over this past weekend. Can't say no to 75% off.

And Night Warriors: Darkstalker's Revenge at a local game store. Definitely don't regret that one.

Bought SSX for $40 last week despite having very few funds in my bank account. Worth it.

Started watching a Fallout fan web sieres called Fallout Nuka Break....and I ended up re-buying New Vegas for $12 at Gamestop.

One time I shit my pants in my sleep for some reason, so I bought a PS3 to make myself feel better.

True story

Just bought Yakuza 4 new for £9. No regrets.

I bought the fallout collection THING on steam since it was like 6 bucks again...who knows if I'll get around to playing them.

Deus Ex: HR on steam 66% off after already owning it on 360 and then finding out it was 75% off a couple weeks later. I need to stop buying games and start playing the ones I have.

Binary Domain, 23 quid from Tesco.

I haven't played it yet, so I cannot confirm whether or not that was sweeeet.

I got a Track-IR, but haven't used it yet.

Still configuring my previous impulse buy (Saitek X-65F) to fly my Warthog

Bought The First Templar while drunk.