Need help from some of you bounty hunters

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 4:36 pm

(And I got Comic-Con shit for three of you bitches.)

Serious favor to ask of all you turkeys, even Dell if he can find this stuff and pull his head out of his own ass long enough to help a brother out. As you probably know, some subhuman rat bastard piece of slug shit broke into my house about two months ago. He or they stole our laptop, camera, most of the jewelry, the Gameboy, two cartons of orange juice, and the vast majority of our GameCube games (though, oddly, not the GameCube, nor the DVDs mixed in with the games that were stolen).

Mrs Anarky spoke with the insurance adjuster earlier about the claim. Most everything can be replaced, except for some jewelry that had little value beyond sentimental

, and a few video games.

Not that they're the most important things in the world, but I'd like to get all the games I hadn't finished back. This isn't by any means a case of "oh my God, I have to have these now," but there are three games, all SW games, that are out of production and apparently rather hard to get:

GameCube: Star Wars: Bounty Hunter
GameCube: Star Wars: Clone Wars
GameCube: Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast

Oddly enough, some OOP games they had, and some that I can walk into the store and buy 50 copies of right now (like Gun and Medal of Honor: Frontline) they didn't. Go figure.

Anyway, if any of you come across reasonably priced copies of those three games, please keep in mind my poor pregnant wife, who is stuck at home in 120-degree heat all summer with no Star Wars games to play.

Used copies are fine, as long as everything (case, instruction manual) is intact, and the disc isn't totally jacked up. I've always been anal with my games.

Ran · Post by **Ran** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 5:14 pm

Since my Gamecube and PS2 quit working, I haven't been in a used game store in probably 3 months. But, last time I went, I thought I saw Clone Wars and Bounty Hunter for about $7-$8 each. I'll look this weekend. Also, I have Jedi Knight II and might be willing to part with it.

Have you tried the ebgames website?

jjreason · Post by **jjreason** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 6:39 pm

Keeping the eyes open for you, Chux. I'll even check Blockbuster, which I normally don't patronize, because they often restock their used games section - and it doesn't get too picked over here for some reason.

Ran · Post by **Ran** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 7:02 pm

A game stop in one of the malls here had bounty hunter for $15 used. If you have a Hollywood Video that has a Game Crazy attached to it, they probably have it cheaper.

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 9:34 pm

I saw a copy of Bounty Hunter at EBGames today on my weekly trip into town. Trouble is, it was $14.99, no instructions, and the case was severely jacked up. I know I'm being picky, but I take meticulous care of my games, and don't want one that looks like Snigtad owned it before me, unless I know exactly who it's coming from.

I'm scoping an eBay auction for a supposedly perfect condition Bounty Hunter that ends tomorrow. If it ends less than $20, it will be mine.

I'm looking for Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit as well, though it looks like it's a much cheaper game on the second-hand market. A really serious question has presented itself in my search for this game, though. There are tons of eBay auctions for supposedly new, unplayed games. . . yet they don't include case or instructions. How the fuck is this possible? One or two, I can see, but twelve, all at different prices and from the same company? That seems way screwy to me.

Diabolical · Post by **Diabolical** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 10:41 pm

anarky wrote:I'm looking for Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit as well, though it looks like it's a much cheaper game on the second-hand market.

Wouldn't happen to be for PS1 would it?

Ran · Post by **Ran** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 11:04 pm

These are all the Need For Speed games for the GC:

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 (released 09/30/02))
Need for Speed Underground (released 11/17/03)
Need for Speed Underground 2 (released 11/15/04)
Need for Speed Most Wanted (released 11/15/05

I had Underground 1, but traded it in. There is a new one called Need for Speed Carbon is due out in November.

jjreason · Post by **jjreason** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 11:32 pm

anarky wrote:A really serious question has presented itself in my search for this game, though. There are tons of eBay auctions for supposedly new, unplayed games. . . yet they don't include case or instructions. How the fuck is this possible? One or two, I can see, but twelve, all at different prices and from the same company? That seems way screwy to me.

I think they get lots (like literally box lots, not just "lots and lots") of the bare discs from the manufacturers. I wonder if the print run of the discs excedes that of the packaging by a certain percentage due to flawed media, etc. If they package 50,000 copies of Gran Turismo, for example - they likely burned an extra 1 or 2 % of that total just in case of disc failure. A bunch of the extras will work fine (maybe all of them) - leading to these auctions.

Mind you - I'm totally guessing here. It could be that lots of people like to throw their perfectly good cases and instructions in the garbage, just to make their games harder to figure out and worth a lot less on the resale market.

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 2:42 pm

Okay, the latest:

I found affordable used copies of Bounty Hunter and Clone Wars. It boggles my mind how jacked-up stuff can be at GameStop. It all works, but, jeez, for someone who takes super-anal care of his games, this is a shock to the system.

I was able to get the super-limited (for real) variant cover for Bounty Hunter, though, since they didn't know the difference, so that evens out.

And I discovered INSURANCE ADJUSTERS ARE MORONS!!

The dude talked to Mrs Anarky two weeks ago, and they offered MOH: Rising Sun instead of MOH: Frontline, which they can't get. Now, as it happens, Rising Sun is one of the few games the jackoffs didn't take, so she told him that. They sent it anyway. (It didn't show up on the list of things for the cash settlement, so we were sort of hoping they'd substituted European Assault, so we'd have a full set, but anyway.)

They gave us Dr Mario (stand-alone) instead of Dr Mario/Puzzle League. It's half a game, and costs half as much. And on this one, we sent a frigging receipt that clearly indicated the full title!

They sent some interesting substitutions without consulting us first:

X-Men Legends II for X-Men Legends
Batman Begins for Batman: Vengeance
X3 for X2: Wolverine's Revenge

Now, we're not mentioning those. We're just buying the ones we lost, since they cost less.

They also mentioned in the earlier conversation that they could replace The Hobbit, Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup, Rogue Squadron 3, and Turok: Evolution. But the box arrives today and, surprise! They're on backorder. The SOB's supposed to call Mrs Anarky today, but if they're expecting a shipment from the manufacturer, it ain't happening. All of those games are OOP. Easily replaced, but it'd be nice to know if we need to or not, y'know.

Oh, and they gave us cash for Gun. It seems they, in their infinite wisdom, thought this was an actual gun attachment for the GameCube.

Funniest of all, with all the confusion about numbers and subtitles, the guy could tell Mrs A specifically when he talked to her that he could not obtain Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2. I wonder why he didn't just substitute one of the other dozen or so Need for Speed games.

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 7:58 pm

So, after almost eight months, we finally get a letter with a check, stating that Rogue Squadron III is no longer available. No shit, Sherlock. It would've been nice if we'd not been lied to several times, saying it was on their next incoming shipment.

Since August, when this whole mess started, it's gone up significantly for new copies. Used copies are usually pricey, but I noticed that there are enough on the market that copies go for reasonable prices rather often, and the expensive ones just sit there and rot.

Anyway, I just won an auction for a used, complete copy of RS3. Except for Jedi Outcast, which I was less than impressed with anyway, that's all of them. And they actually paid me almost exactly twice for the game what the auction ended at, so I made a profit, from a certain point of view.

Funny, though, I originally got it in one of those massive shipments of cheap games that Costco used to get regularly, and the used copy cost almost twice what the original new one cost.

I don't care. That fuckin' two-player Vs mode on that game rocks, and the classic SW games complement the frigging library of "Classic _____ Hits" compilations I have for the GameCube and now for the PS2. (I actually got a few on sale at Circuit City last week when they were doing a blowout, like Taito (read: Bubble Bobble!!) and Sega Genesis, and I've not even had a chance to open them yet.)

jjreason · Post by **jjreason** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:28 pm

So do you guys flip coins or play rock paper scissors when you're on head to head and little Charlotte needs a diaper?

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 12:17 pm

Oh, is that what it means when she cries for a long time? I normally bang on the closet door after about fifteen minutes, and she shuts up.

jjreason · Post by **jjreason** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 6:07 pm

It's important to teach her self-sufficiency, you can never start too soon!