{"id":608,"date":"2007-05-13T18:26:54","date_gmt":"2007-05-13T10:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2007\/05\/13\/games-im-getting-rid-of\/"},"modified":"2007-05-13T18:49:36","modified_gmt":"2007-05-13T10:49:36","slug":"games-im-getting-rid-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2007\/05\/13\/games-im-getting-rid-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Games I&#8217;m getting rid of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent some time yesterday going through my video games and deciding which ones aren&#8217;t worth keeping for one reason or another. Some are just plain bad, but a fair few are very well-regarded games that just aren&#8217;t my cup of tea.<\/p>\n<p>I figure that I will either put them on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com.au\/\">eBay<\/a>, trade them in for store credit at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gametraders.com.au\/\">GameTraders<\/a>, or give them away. I may consider giving some of them away as prizes at future <a href=\"http:\/\/events.onetwenty.org\/\">OneTwenty events<\/a>&#8230; but most aren&#8217;t suitable.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the list (organised by console, with older consoles towards the end; everything is in excellent condition with all packaging unless otherwise noted):<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Nintendo DS<\/strong>:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tenchu: Dark Secret<\/strong>: I got this game because I really liked the original Tenchu. Unfortunately, this game is extraordinarily bad. It&#8217;s worth playing (to witness the spectacle), but definately not worth keeping.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>XBOX<\/strong>:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Freedom Fighters<\/strong>: I mostly got this game because of the physics engine (to see how it holds up), but also because it was well-recieved. I couldn&#8217;t get into it because of the control scheme.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Unreal 2: The Awakening<\/strong>: I really, really liked Unreal, and wanted to play the sequel. I don&#8217;t really play PC games anymore so I picked this up on XBOX. Played it for a while, but the load times were killing me!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Deus Ex: The Invisible War<\/strong>: Highly praised in-depth first person RPG. People I have lent it to love it to bits. I should have remembered that I don&#8217;t like in-depth RPGs&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Gamecube<\/strong>:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>James Bond 007: Nightfire<\/strong>: One of the first games I got for my Gamecube. A good FPS with novel third-person gameplay elements. Not something I will ever play again though.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Playstation 2<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jak II: Renegade<\/strong>: I rather liked Jak &#038; Daxter, and this had better graphics and tight controls&#8230; but why do you make me collect so much stuff? Why? Why!?!  I don&#8217;t have the time for this sort of game anymore; particularly with so much competition.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Automodellista<\/strong>: Anime-style car racing? Oh yeah! But the gameplay is too strongly geared (har har) towards a simulation (rather than arcade) style for my tastes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gungrave<\/strong>: You shoot stuff, look cool, and it keeps track of how many bullets you fired over the course of the game! Awesome!&#8230; no real replay value though.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Thing<\/strong>: Highly praised for it&#8217;s story, suspense, and multiple character gameplay. Turns out I don&#8217;t really look for any of those things in a game though.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Batman: Vengence<\/strong>: Simple graphics (like the TV series). Decent gameplay. Just nothing to make it stand out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Dreamcast<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Bangai-O<\/strong>: I think I bought this because it was from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Treasure_%28company%29\">Treasure<\/a>, which is a Japanese games company famous for it&#8217;s shooters. I&#8217;m told this game is absolute bliss for Treasure fans. I realised that I&#8217;m not a Treasure fan.<\/li>\n<li><strong>18 Wheeler: American Pro Trucker<\/strong>: Hmmm&#8230; it was cheap&#8230; never buy things because they are cheap&#8230; that said, I can do a great price on this one!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tech Romancer<\/strong>: Fighting game with giant robots. Nothing special. Maybe someone out there is collecting Dreamcast fighting games?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Trickstyle<\/strong>: One of my first Dreamcast games. Fun, but can&#8217;t see myself playing it again.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jo-Jo&#8217;s Bizzare Adventure<\/strong>: Well regarded fighting game from a popular license. Meh. Again, anyone collecting Dreamcast fighting games?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Gameboy Advance<\/strong>:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Doom<\/strong>: Picked this up cheap. Wondered how it fared on GBA. Guess what? It&#8217;s the same old game that I didn&#8217;t really like the first time around.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sheep<\/strong>: Sounded like a potential hit with me; a novel concept well-executed with unique gameplay elements. Turns out that herding sheep is actually pretty boring (see: Herdy Gerdy)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Gameboy Color<\/strong>:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Bionic Commando: Elite Forces<\/strong>: Bionic Commando!&#8230; now a bit <em>too<\/em> old-school for me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Gameboy<\/strong>:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Metroid 2: Return of Samus<\/strong>: I realised after playing this game that I don&#8217;t really like old Metroid games. Metroid Fusion for GBA is far better IMHO. (No packaging, permanent marker writing on cartridge)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you are interested in any of these games, please let me know!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Note<\/strong>: I also have a number of games that I am undecided on (whether to keep them or not) and I&#8217;ll be evaluating them on weekends over the next month or so (hopefully with the help of fellow Onetwenty-iens!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent some time yesterday going through my video games and deciding which ones aren&#8217;t worth keeping for one reason or another. Some are just plain bad, but a fair few are very well-regarded games that just aren&#8217;t my cup of tea. I figure that I will either put them on eBay, trade them in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2007\/05\/13\/games-im-getting-rid-of\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Games I&#8217;m getting rid of&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-9O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}