What are you buying this week? (03/22)

[Destructor]

PS2:

PS3:
How to Train Your Dragon
Just Cause 2
Moto GP '09 / '10

PSP:

360:
How to Train Your Dragon
Just Cause 2
Moto GP '09 / '10

Wii:
Cabela's Monster Buck Hunter
Hall of Fame Ultimate Hoops Challenge
How to Train Your Dragon
Red Steel 2
Rooms  
Cave Story (WiiWare)

DS:
Bakugan: Battle Trainer
Disney's Stitch Jam
How to Train Your Dragon
Imagine: Gymnast  
My Pet Chimp
Rooms: The Main Building
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey
Zhu Zhu Pets
Drift Street International (DSiWare)
Game & Watch: Chef (DSiWare)
Game & Watch: Judge (DSiWare)
Game & Watch: Mario’s Cement Factory (DSiWare)
Libera Wing (DSiWare)

PC:
Just Cause 2
Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom

Gee, I wonder what movie is due out this week.  

That said - looks like Just Cause 2 week. Time for more mayhem and destruction. Not like there's anything wrong with that.

What are you buying this week?

[CeeKay]

Just Cause 2 for the PC once I get my new rig sorted out, and after this week I go nothing as a definite purchase until May.

Gee, I wonder what movie is due out this week.

Hall of Fame Ultimate Hoops Challenge?

[Jarrodhk]

What?! Another game? Just Cause 2 360.

[Caine]

Can't wait til tuesday and just cause 2. Ought to be a lot of fun.

[jersoc]

maybe SMT SJ, but I dunno. I feel like I should by RoF cause it apparently is in short supply.

[EddieA]

March RPG Madness (mercifully) comes to a conclusion with Shin Megami Tensei : Strange Journey.

[Soulchilde]

Dragon Age: Origins Awakening

[Bullwinkle]

Big news this week is, of course, Cave Story.

WiiWare
Cave Story
Publisher: Nicalis, Inc.
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E10+ (Everyone 10 and Older) – Mild Cartoon Violence, Mild Language
Price: 1,200 Wii Points

Cave Story takes you into a rare world where a curious race of innocent, rabbit-like creatures called Mimiga run free. You wake up in a dark cave with no memory of who you are, where you came from or why you’re in such a place. Uncovering Mimiga Village, you discover that the once-carefree Mimiga are in danger at the hands of a maniacal scientist. Their only hope rests squarely on the shoulders of a quiet, amnesiac boy who can’t remember his own name. Take control, learn the origins of this world’s power, stop the delusional villain and save the Mimiga.

Nintendo DSiWare
Drift Street International
Publisher: Tantalus
Players: 1-4
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Price: 800 Nintendo DSi Points

Drift Street International is the ultimate high-speed, white-knuckle street racing experience, made exclusively for Nintendo DSiWare. Slide and boost your performance car around challenging city streets in high-intensity midnight races across the United States, United Kingdom and Japan. Precise, responsive controls give you total control of your car – push yourself to the edge and own your opponents. Drift sideways through corners, building your nitrous meter to let you boost past opponents on the next straightaway. Test your skills against challenging, aggressive AI drivers, or take on your friends in four-player head-to-head wireless races. Additionally, each track plays host to arcade-style checkpoint races and challenging speed trials in which you must keep the speed close to the max to avoid elimination. Unmatched speed, smoothness and draw distance are only possible by taking full advantage of the Nintendo DSi hardware.

Libera Wing
Publisher: Pixel Federation
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) – Mild Fantasy Violence
Price: 800 Nintendo DSi Points

Earth Union controls a large part of outer space. Suddenly, the connection with some of its stations is aborted and there are rumors of enemy ships approaching. Only the captain of the elite fleet Libera Wing can save the people from destruction. Become the captain of Libera Wing and save Earth Union from destruction in this tower- defense-style action-strategy game. Your objective is to combine the right strategy, item usage and abilities of your command ship. There are 36 story levels and 24 quick-play levels waiting for you.

Game & Watch: Mario’s Cement Factory
Publisher: Nintendo
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Price: 200 Nintendo DSi Points

Conveyor belts carry tubs of cement to the mixers below. Use the elevators to move Mario to different levels of the factory, dumping cement from the top mixers to the mixers below and into the trucks. Earn points for every load of cement you drop from the mixers to the cement truck. Receive mistake icons by letting a mixer overflow with cement, trying to get on an elevator when you are not level with it, or hitting the floor or ceiling while riding an elevator. Receive three mistake icons and it’s game over!

Game & Watch: Chef
Publisher: Nintendo
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Price: 200 Nintendo DSi Points

Move the chef to catch and flip the falling ingredients before they hit the floor. Contend with three ingredients in GAME A or four in GAME B. Earn one point for every ingredient the chef successfully flips into the air, or a mistake icon for each time you drop an ingredient. Receive three mistake icons and it’s game over.

Game & Watch: Judge
Publisher: Nintendo
Players: 1-2
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) – Comic Mischief
Price: 200 Nintendo DSi Points

You have a split second to decide: whack your opponent or duck out of the way? Numbers appear on two large signs. If you think your number will be as big or bigger than your opponent’s, whack him with a mallet. Dodge if you think your number will be smaller. Earn points based on correctly whacking your opponent or dodging an attack. The first player to reach 99 points wins.

[denoginizer]

Nothing for me.

[Tebunker]

Just so happen to have 1200 Wii points sitting in my account. Huh, kinda convienient? Cave Story it is!

After playing the Just Cause 2 demo, I came to the same conclusion I have with all sandbox games. They're fun for 20 to 30 minutes of blowing stuff up, but ultimately they bore me to tears.

I also went on a buying spree last week with Muramasa, Sky Crawlers, Little Kings Story, Spyborgs, and Rondo of Blood

[coopasonic]

Another late night tonight to put Just Cause 2 (360) on the goozex list.

[Bullwinkle]

For me, it's Cave Story and Just Cause 2, for sure.  I'll also get the XBLA Game Room.

I have Rooms on the PC, and it actually is a lot of fun.  It's kind of a sliding tile puzzle game where you have to move rooms in such a way that you can get to the exit.  There's a creepy style to it, and some fun twists thrown in (teleporting telephones and such).  If they've added things to the Wii or DS version I may pick up one of those.

Oh, and I'm waiting for reviews on Red Steel 2, but if it's good, I'm in for that, too.

[semiconscious]

one ds rpg to rule them all ...

[leo8877]

Nothing for me...I don't even have anything for purchase in the next 3 months at least.  Gamefly until Reach perhaps?

[Autistic Angel]

I am sooooooo in for Just Cause 2!  I'm still running XP, so it'll be the 360 version for now.

-Autistic Angel

[Nonnahob]

I've got a bit of time left on the Just Cause 2 demo. I'm gonna give it a bit more time, but I'm with whoever else said it's fun for a while... but ultimately isn't super compelling to play. If I can't get really interested in it, probably not buying anything this week.

[EngineNo9]

Just Cause 2 for the PC!

[Farscry]

Nothing purchase-required for me coming out until Monster Hunter 3 hits the Wii. Then I'll be firing up the Wii for some serious gaming for the first time in damn near a year.

[Kagath]

Buying: Nothing.
Looking in mailbox for free GoW3 copy? Check.

[jblank]

I'm surprised at the love for Just Cause because I thought the first one was mediocre at best.

[Isgrimnur]

Meh.

Call me when Split Second (PS3) and Blur (360) come out.  In the mean time, I'll be waiting for my rental of NFS: Shift.

[CeeKay]

almost forgot that Plain Sight is coming out for the PC this week too.

[Captain Caveman]

I'm surprised at the love for Just Cause because I thought the first one was mediocre at best.

Me too, but I really enjoyed the demo for Just Cause 2. Still, I'm waiting on impressions (and hopefully a Steam sale!).

[kronovan]

Big news this week is, of course, Cave Story.

I'd say the big news this week is no Virtual Console game.

Nothing released this week interests me other than SMT Strange Journey , but I still haven't played the last DS SMT game. I will be finally downloading some XBLA games released in the past few weeks that I really should have already gotten.

[Autistic Angel]

I'm surprised at the love for Just Cause because I thought the first one was mediocre at best.

At best.  That's why I wasn't even going to try the demo until Tom Chick started gushing about it.

The first Just Cause was a navigation simulator in which an intrepid explorer named Rico Rodriguez tried to figure out which sequence of insanely convoluted roadways would lead to his next boring destination, only to discover he didn't really care.

In Just Cause 2, Rico Rodriguez has a bionic arm that lets him grapple attack choppers, shoot the passengers, punch the pilot to death, and then set the helicopter on a collision course with a nearby fuel depot while he parachutes clear of the blast radius.  All the physics-based destruction that ensues generates Chaos which is used to unlock even crazier toys and missions where you have to use your bionic arm to hijack a jet fighter in mid-fli-

Excuse me: I have to go play the demo some more.  God, just two more days....

-Autistic Angel

[WinoMcCougarstein]

Most likely Cave Story and Just Cause 2 at some point.

[skystride]

How to Train Your Dragon

Um... what? 

I would have gotten Settlers, it looks really good.  But fuck Ubisoft and their DRM.

[Lorini]

You forgot Dawn of Heroes for the DS which I'm buying. I'm also buying Settlers 7 and maybe Strange Journey.

[Misguided]

I have SMT on preorder.

[Nth Power]

SMT:SJ

[Andrew Mallon]

Pre-ordered SMT:SJ from Amazon.

Will also pick up Resonance of Fate as well.

[jztemple2]

Just Cause 2 for the 360

[EngineNo9]

I'm surprised at the love for Just Cause because I thought the first one was mediocre at best.

At best.  That's why I wasn't even going to try the demo until Tom Chick started gushing about it.

The first Just Cause was a navigation simulator in which an intrepid explorer named Rico Rodriguez tried to figure out which sequence of insanely convoluted roadways would lead to his next boring destination, only to discover he didn't really care.

In Just Cause 2, Rico Rodriguez has a bionic arm that lets him grapple attack choppers, shoot the passengers, punch the pilot to death, and then set the helicopter on a collision course with a nearby fuel depot while he parachutes clear of the blast radius.  All the physics-based destruction that ensues generates Chaos which is used to unlock even crazier toys and missions where you have to use your bionic arm to hijack a jet fighter in mid-fli-

Excuse me: I have to go play the demo some more.  God, just two more days....

-Autistic Angel

I don't think you played the first Just Cause enough.  He had the parachute and grapple in the first one, and could use them to hijack cars, boats and helicopters at any time then as well.  The second one is without a doubt improved and expanded in many respects, but you were in no way restricted to the roads in the first game.

[Isgrimnur]

Roads?  Where we're going, we don't need ... roads.

[Big Jake]

Preordered: SMT SJ (On day 6 of SMT Devil Summoner).

[KC]

Nothing this week unless the Gamestop gamer sale has a great deal.

[pingwrx]

360 Just Cause 2

[CeeKay]

almost forgot that Plain Sight is coming out for the PC this week too.

bah, went to grab this and found out it got pushed back at the last minute.