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rawiri
Joined: 01 Jun 2003
Location: Lovely day for a fire drill.
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 Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 4:22 pm Post subject: PC games at Yongsan electronics market. |
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Anyone know if i can get battlefield 2 there? Also, what sort of price would it be running at and should i pick up a hand controller or just stick to the keyboard/mouse.
Can you recommend some games for me as well? I'd like some good sports games, i'm a big tiger woods fan on playstation, not much of a soccer or basketball game fan really.
How is it finding games in english?, are they common or hard to find?
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butlerian
Joined: 04 Sep 2006
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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A lot of games are in English, but not all, so ask the person selling the game before you buy it. You can buy Battlefield 2 with the Special Foces expansion for 38,000. The new Battlefield, Battlefield 2142, is 30,000, but I don't recommend it.
Difficult to recommend games without knowing what you're into, other than sport. I'm a soccer fan so I can't help much about different sports. |
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rawiri
Joined: 01 Jun 2003
Location: Lovely day for a fire drill.
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Where exactly do you go for pc games? |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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| rawiri wrote: |
| Where exactly do you go for pc games? |
Go out of the station and across the railway yard by way of the pedestrian overpass. When you enter the blue building you will be on the 3rd floor. Go down one floor and find the pedestrian overpass to the next building.
In the basement of that building you will find TONS of PC and game consol games.
Alternatively you can go to Shinyongsan Station on the blue #4 line.
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This from the LEMONS GUIDE:
This is my prefered way to get to Yongsan. The subway station itself has a few attractions. One is a shop in the station (midway down the hall) that specializes in used laptops and digital cameras. It's a good place to get your laptop serviced if it's out of warranty. Their digicams are a bit too expensive though, considering they're used. Another attraction is an attached office building at the south end of the station (Kukje Building?) which has a good eating area with a Burger King and clean bathrooms (hard to find in Yongsan).
You exit from the north end of the station (follow the signs to "Yongsan Electronics Market"). You'll walk down a street towards a pedestrian tunnel that goes under the main Korea Rail tracks.
In the tunnel is Yongsan's most popular illegal software trade. At either end of the tunnel you'll see people staring at posted software lists on the tunnel wall. Behind them is a big guy with a smoke in one hand and a cellphone in the other. Talk to him about your software needs. His English is fair, and he has access to most English software, though his prices are higher than in Kuala Lumpur or Bangkok. I don't know this first-hand, of course.
http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=4367
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cyrax
Joined: 31 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 5:43 pm Post subject: Why yongsan? |
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Hello.
You could also order games on the internet btw. In some cases it is cheaper from the websites.
BF2 is a good game and BF2142 is worthless. They install all kinds of spyware. Besides there is nothing new in the game itself.
Anyway the place where I buy my video games is called Electronics Arcade, Tourism Terminal. It is a small complex, has a bus stop and has a traffic signal.
Assuming you are standing in front of the electronics market that you get to by crossing the bridge and facing away. Now walk straight and you should see a traffic signal with five roads. You should see a zebra crossing connecting two buildings. Both these buildings have video games. |
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butlerian
Joined: 04 Sep 2006
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 6:54 pm Post subject: Re: Why yongsan? |
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| cyrax wrote: |
Hello.
You could also order games on the internet btw. In some cases it is cheaper from the websites.
BF2 is a good game and BF2142 is worthless. They install all kinds of spyware. Besides there is nothing new in the game itself.
Anyway the place where I buy my video games is called Electronics Arcade, Tourism Terminal. It is a small complex, has a bus stop and has a traffic signal.
Assuming you are standing in front of the electronics market that you get to by crossing the bridge and facing away. Now walk straight and you should see a traffic signal with five roads. You should see a zebra crossing connecting two buildings. Both these buildings have video games. |
Can you recommend any websites? Thanks. |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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| I used to buy games in Yongsan all the time. In the underground place across the road from the main buildings. A lot of the games are in English, and one time it wasn't in English, so I went back and the guy let me trade it for a different game that was in English, so they are pretty cool about it. |
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