Black Friday/Cyber Monday Haul!

Happy Thanksgiving! Ignore the bot and its threads and tell everyone your hauls for the busiest shopping day(s) of the year!

I post it up now because some sites have already started the sales... I already got King of Fighters XIII on PS3 for $20, and two Steam games for the Autumn sale: Half Minute Hero and Hack, Slash, Loot.

What have you gotten/are planning to get? :D

EDIT: You can talk about non-gaming stuff you got, too!

My alarm is set for when Max Payne 3 goes on sale for $15 on Amazon! I've also taken advantage of GOG's 5 games for $10 deal. There was really only 1.5 that I wanted, but a couple others that looked cool enough, and for so cheap, I went for it - To The Moon (wanted this for sure), Alan Wake's American Nightmare (recently played the original and loved it, read this one wasn't as good, but if it's in any way comparable, I'm sure I'll like it), then Bontanicula, Spacechem and Anomaly Warzone Earth all passed my 'looks cool' harsh judgment single-elimination qualifier extravaganza to round out the 5 for $10. Pretty much just watching Steam's daily deals now to see if anything on my wishlist drops into my price window.

So far I've picked up Forza Horizon ($15) and To The Moon ($3) but I have a feeling a couple more things may come up.

I really wanted to get the Walmart deal of Dishonored and Xcom for $25 each, but I put both of them on Christmas list...and they're the only games on my Christmas list... :-(

Well, Black Friday's over, so I'll go ahead and post my haul.

Everything I've gotten this week thus far:

Amazon - King of Fighters XIII ($20), Xbox Live Gold 3 months ($10), random stuff for a $25 dollar order ($5 off coupon)
Steam - Half Minute Hero, Awesomenauts, Hack Slash Loot
Old Navy - ~$80 of clothes, two copies of New Super Mario Bros. U (you got one for free with $40+ purchase, as long as you were in line w/ an armband)
Target - 1600 Microsoft Points ($10 each, got four total)
goHastings.com - Lollipop Chainsaw ($10)
Best Buy - 360 Wireless Controller ($35... really needed a new one)

Needless to say, me and the boyfriend tend to save money for this time of the year. xD We probably won't buy Xmas gifts for each other, at least. There's not much else we want either, so except for maybe some Steam games I doubt we're buying much for Cyber Monday.

Pretty nice hauls there (especially gaiages)! Forza Horizon for $15 sounds like a good deal as well.

I ended up not picking up anything, actually. Most of the games I wanted releasing around this time (Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing Transformed, New Super Mario Bros. U, Persona 4: Golden) I had already ordered with one of Newegg's pre-order discounts.

Well I ended up with a Haier 32" 720p TV for $180. Coulda done better, but not too bad. More excited about the games I got:

Local Play N Trade had a buy 2 get 1 free offer, so I got Kirby's Epic Yarn, Vanquish, and the new Sonic racing game for Wii U.
Best of all though was Target. Got there too late to pick up a 3DS like I wanted, but managed to nab one of the $35 copies of Borderlands 2 and hide it behind a crappy-looking Kinect game. I went by Walmart--they had run out of their $25 copies. Didn't have time to go back to Target on Friday, so I went back this morning and it was still there.

I'd consider this a good run.

Play N Trade is great! My local one in the Orlando/Oviedo area always does Buy 2 Get 1 on used games. They haven't gotten much in the way of retro trades though lately, unfortunately.

I just glanced at your profile and noticed you're in Virginia, burningsoup. I'm originally from there. If you don't mind divulging the personal information (and I completely understand if you do mind), is your local Play N Trade the one in Cary Town / Richmond by any chance? I miss that one, they usually had something neat in stock.

Yep, that's the one! Small world, haha!

Originally Posted by: burningsoup

Yep, that's the one! Small world, haha!

Yeah :P I happen to live in the same area as Grahamtams.

I also picked up Chivalry and Hotline Miami, both of these games are fantastic and I highly recommend them, especially Hotline Miami.

Man, I wish we had a Play 'n Trade in our area--my boyfriend does go to Orlando occasionally, but he rarely has time to check the one in the area.

I think our little local not-Gamestop gaming store had a Black Friday sale... but I never was able to get over there to check. :( They have some nice B2G1 or buy one get one 50%, but nothing compared to the selection at a Play 'N Trade.

Anyway, nice hauls! :D

I used to work for Play-N-Trade before my local store closed down and I got laid off. They're a great company in that every one of them is a locally owned franchise. So when you buy from them, you're supporting a locally owned video game store (really important to us Portlanders...Portlandia was right on that!). I don't know about where you guys live, but here in Portland, locally owned and run used game stores are now few and far between. I really loved and miss my job there and our motto was to always help the customer find what they were looking for...not to make the next sell (unlike other major game store chains out there). Even if they're a little bit more expensive, support them. They be good peeps. I'm glad to see so much good energy about them here.

Originally Posted by: Kain5627

I used to work for Play-N-Trade before my local store closed down and I got laid off. They're a great company in that every one of them is a locally owned franchise. So when you buy from them, you're supporting a locally owned video game store (really important to us Portlanders...Portlandia was right on that!). I don't know about where you guys live, but here in Portland, locally owned and run used game stores are now few and far between. I really loved and miss my job there and our motto was to always help the customer find what they were looking for...not to make the next sell (unlike other major game store chains out there). Even if they're a little bit more expensive, support them. They be good peeps. I'm glad to see so much good energy about them here.

Couldn't agree more. I used to live in South Central Virginia and I shopped at the Play N Trade there. I actually became friends with all of the workers there just by being a regular customer and being nice. We talk about video games, funny experiences, and romantic issues. You really can't get that kind of thing at Gamestop. Y'know, working at Play N Trade is actually kind of a dream job of mine...

Originally Posted by: pongsifu

Originally Posted by: burningsoup

Yep, that's the one! Small world, haha!

Yeah :P I happen to live in the same area as Grahamtams.

uh oh, my worlds are colliding!

Why haven't I seen No Loli-Gagging on a show bill? I want to see you gig!

Originally Posted by: burningsoup

Originally Posted by: Kain5627

I used to work for Play-N-Trade before my local store closed down and I got laid off. They're a great company in that every one of them is a locally owned franchise. So when you buy from them, you're supporting a locally owned video game store (really important to us Portlanders...Portlandia was right on that!). I don't know about where you guys live, but here in Portland, locally owned and run used game stores are now few and far between. I really loved and miss my job there and our motto was to always help the customer find what they were looking for...not to make the next sell (unlike other major game store chains out there). Even if they're a little bit more expensive, support them. They be good peeps. I'm glad to see so much good energy about them here.

Couldn't agree more. I used to live in South Central Virginia and I shopped at the Play N Trade there. I actually became friends with all of the workers there just by being a regular customer and being nice. We talk about video games, funny experiences, and romantic issues. You really can't get that kind of thing at Gamestop. Y'know, working at Play N Trade is actually kind of a dream job of mine...

I've become friends with the clerks at my local PnT by being a regular as well, they're friendly types. I've gotten some great stuff from them, including Earthbound. In my local Gamestop shops' defense, the clerks there are really great too though and about just as friendly with regulars.

South Central Virginia is where I grew up! South Hill to be more specific. I had some friends in Richmond (including my sister), and my girlfriend lived there so I made a lot of visits but never lived there myself. I went to school in the Newport News area.

I miss Richmond's fantastic food more than anything. Eat some Acacia, Sticky Rice, or Elephant Thai for me burningsoup. :D

P.S. Sorry for derailing the topic train here a bit. ._.'

EDIT: On topic: The gold nunchuk from club Nintendo is back in stock today for 900 coins, my lone cyber Monday/Black Friday 'purchase' https://club.nintendo.com/rewards-details/a/29508.do

You know, I'm not even sure what I'm getting. I ordered God of War saga and Fable: The Journey from Walmart for $15 each, and the next day I got an e-mail saying basically "oops we don't have any Fable: The Journey left." I am feeling the bait-and-switch. Who knows what will actually show up?

Originally Posted by: burningsoup

Couldn't agree more. I used to live in South Central Virginia and I shopped at the Play N Trade there. I actually became friends with all of the workers there just by being a regular customer and being nice. We talk about video games, funny experiences, and romantic issues. You really can't get that kind of thing at Gamestop. Y'know, working at Play N Trade is actually kind of a dream job of mine...

Awesome! That's how my store was too. I had a great boss and my coworkers were all really great and cool people. My boss even donated a wii and a bunch of games to a youth homeless shelter for Thanksgiving one year.

Talking with the customers that came in about games or whatever they wanted was awesome. Yeah, man. Best job I've ever had. Wasn't the best paying job I've had, but still my most favorite.

My final tally is the GOG stuff I mentioned before, and now includes some good stuff from Steam -

Dragon Age: Origins "Ultimate Edition" for $9.99 or $8.99 or something - This is cool because I have had the regular game for over 2 years sitting in its case and never played. Now I can sell that.
The Witcher 2 - went 75% off for $7.49. Steam tried to tempt me with 66% off on the first day of the sale, but good things come to those who wait.
Saints Row 3 DLC - all 3 of the big DLC missions dropped 75% to a dollar and change.

And I caved and bought Mists of Pandaria. My friend who I've played the entire game with since forever signed up for the 10-day trial a couple weeks ago, and I joined him. Then he bought it. I didn't join him. But I went to see how many days I had left on my trial to go play around a little bit this weekend, and I noticed my 6-month subscription had renewed itself just a few days earlier. I had signed up for the yearlong commitment to get Diablo III and completely forgot about my WoW subscription. I immediately canceled so it won't renew in 6 months. So anyway, accidentally shelling out another 6 months' of cash for WoW + Blizzard Cyber Monday sale for Mists of Pandaria at $20 = I'm back in Azeroth.

Glad everyone seems to have gotten good hauls. Until Winter sales!

Picked it up yesterday during a Cyber Deal on Nintendo eshop for Switch ($41.99) and cannot wait to give it a shot!