Today, while Xmas shopping (which I hate almost as much as the season itself) I, of course, wandered into a games shop and spend money on video games I will probably never play. This week I got:

Guilty Gear XX #Reloaded (XBox)

GGXX is awesome, but I already own the PS2 version and have done now for many years. As much as I love the game, I've not touched it in ages. Really, all GGXX# has over the version I already have is Robo-Ky and an online play feature long made redundant by the passing of time. Still, it was £3 and I regret nothing.

Broken Sword 3 (XBOX)

I've played and beaten this one before, but not owning the third Broken Sword felt incorrect somehow so I cabed when i saw it super cheap. There's a pretty good chgance I'll replay this one as I constantly replay the first two when I'm out of games to try.

CSI (XBOX)

Never seen the show, but it's made by Telltale who made the new Sam & Max games, so I can expect a solid puzzle game if nothing else. It also never hurts to have another C game sitting around for the Alphas.

But buying these amde me look at all the other games I've bought and will probably never play. Here is a quick run down of the more recent ones:

EDEN

2001 shooter made by Core before Eidos decided to shoot them in their sleep and give their best games to Crystal Dynamics to rape. Because CD is a great company with a huge backlog of great games like, um, Gex? Looks brown -- a sign of things to come for SONY?

Close Combat: First to Fight

Sluggish, awkward FPS that tries to be as realistic as, say, GRAW but is a generation behind.

The Seed: Warzone (PS2)

Sci-fi consoles RTS. I played just past the intro once as was assualted with a scary amount of stats so turned off.Looks okay, but seems super complex. Maybe someday.

Syberia II (XBOX)

PLay as a sassy female New York lawyer as she searches for wooly mammoths in Syberia. Not yet tried this one, but I'm hoping for something DReamfall-esque. Looking to nab the first.

Haven: Call of the King (PS2)

Not so much as opened the game box for this one.

Xenosaga II

I doubt I'll ever bother with the only XS released in PAL. Just owning it is enough.

Alter Echo (PS2)

This one is actually pretty good. It's a cartoonish thrid-person shooter that allows you to change your form on the fly. I'd like to think it's one I'll go back to and grind a review from someday but, for now, it gathers dust.

Resident Evil (GC)

Only Gamecube game I own. Cost me £1. Which is roughly $36.

THPS4

Noteable only for being cheaper than REmake. 50p!

As of today, according to Yahoo Finance, 1 British Pound is equal to about $2.05, not $36.

I've never gotten around to picking up Broken Sword 3 at all even though I loved the first two. I need to do something about that.

I think I'm going to fly to Britain and pick up some loose change off the street.

Spaceworld'll be stuck there because e won't find enough money to fly back... lol

Dammit, EmP - why do you get your games so bloody cheap? That's not fair... ...or maybe it is. We geta wider selection. >.>;

I bet if I were to look in the store for any of those games, they'd cost me $10 at least...

Oh, well. Guess it's good you do, since you said you probably wouldn't play them anyway. Or at least not for a while. >.>

For the record, I've heard of almost none of those - or the ones I have heard of never looked into... Probably should.

What did you get me for Xmas? If the answer is kippers, I'm mailing you a package of floss.

XD Nevermind the British stereotyping, Genj - mail him a fruitcake. That's the all-time favorite American "Meh, here" gift. >.>:

For the price of a cup of coffee in the UK you could probably buy a PS3 in the US.

If you're in Europe and paying in Euros, maybe only a Wii.

Love the early Broken Sword games. Not such a fan of the third though.

I went in to BS3 thinking it would be complete crap and although I was far from impressed with the new control sceme and felt the difficulty had been scakled back, the writing was as sharp as ever. So I enjoyed it a lot.

Ending was very clumsy, though.

I'm still working on the first one, but so far it looks like both Zoe and Kate have sad robot friends.

Wait. Are you saying that after releasing Xenosaga II, they didn't bother publishing Xenosaga III? That doesn't make any sense.

Worse. They didn't even release XS1. Then they released XS2. But not XS3.

I didn't know you lived in the UK, EmP O_o !

Well, I do! South-East England, to be more exact.

LoL... bodo didn't know. *snickers* It's sooo obvious, though...

Heh. >.> Why couldn't I get that much info about your location in all the years (wow - can't believe it's that long now...) I've known you? >.> Afraid I'll tell VM and me and her'll stalk you or something? =P

BS3 had a dodgy ending? It was a piece of art when compared to the "ending" of Broken Sword IV.

BS3 had an awful ending! Plot and control-wise. But mostly control.