So I ordered a bunch of games I've been missing out on for a long time now off of Amazon.
AVP - Always heard good things about it and thought it looked cool.
AVP 2 - This one gets even more rep. And unlike the first, it's made by Monolith, which = win.
Boiling Point - It looks like just a pretty good game, I've been told by most people it's just a pretty good game, but it looks appealing to me, nonetheless. Plus, I love open worlds.
Chronicles of Riddick - Don't hear about it often, but 90% of the time that you do, people are praising it, especially Shodan, so I'm getting it.
Clive Barker's Undying - Heard lots of good things about it, and screens and videos looked good.
Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil - Finally. I've been meaning to get this one for a while (read: since its release). I don't love Doom 3, but it's still a great game, and everything I've heard says RoE is at least just as good.
Fury3 - The spiritual successor to Terminal Velocity, I played this one when I was little and now I finally get to again. Yay!
Hellbender - The spiritual successor to Fury3. Played the demo of this also when I was young, so I look forward to playing the full game now.
Republic Commando - Another game like Riddick - not mentioned often but almost always praised. Plus, I've wanted it since it came out, so, yeah.
Shogo & Septerra Core - Shogo, an old game made by Monolith I hear good things about from time to time. And made by Monolith = win. Shogo and this other game are actually on the same disc. I've never heard of Septerra, but Shogo just by itself at Amazon wasn't even a dollar less, so I thought "Why not?"
Soldier of Fortune - Played the demo at a friend's house a long, long time ago. Wasn't fantastic, but I liked it. Ahh, the original propagator of dismemberment...
Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds saga (base game bundled with expansion pack) - Whiteghost recommended this one to me, and I've gotta say, it looks pretty sweet. Eight factions with the expansion? I likes me some factions, yessir. And they're all Star Wars factions? I likes me some Star Wars, yessir.
The Orange Box (Episode 1, Episode 2, Team Fortress 2, Portal) - That's right. I'm only just now getting this. Go on, get it out of your system. Throw tomatoes at me, sucker punch me, petition for my crucifixion, all that stuff. Doe'n't hurt me none, 'CAUSE I GOT THE ORANGE BOX, YAHAHAAAA! At $30, that's $7.50 per game. Nice.
Thief 1 & 2 bundled - Heard a loooot of good stuff about the Thief games, so I'm going to give them a whirl. I didn't get the full trilogy compilation because I already have the third game downloaded for free off Gametap.
Tron 2.0 - Made by Monolith = win.
Unreal Anthology (Unreal, Unreal 2, Unreal Tournament, Unreal Tournament 2K4) - Always wanted to play the old Unreal games. Don't care much about the UT games in this, but it'll be fun to try them out too.
Uru: The Path of the Shell - Uru's great, and the PotS expansion will make it greater. Uru is a Myst game, for those of you that don't know.
I've been holding off buying lots of old games like this for a while because I have so many others I need to get through. But I've been noticing something. In most cases, when a game becomes old, it becomes really cheap. And in most cases, when a game becomes older still, it becomes really expensive. So even if I don't get to all of these within a short time, it's in my best interest to get them now before they're too expensive to be worth buying.
These all cost me about $195 with shipping, which is a lot to spend on games all at once, but when you consider this is 26 (mostly excellent) games including expansions that I got here... It's actually not that bad. Anyway, it's not like I plan to spend this much at one time again anytime soon, and I do have enough saved up that this isn't a hard blow to my funds.
So what do you guys think of my purchases?