Favorite gaming buys?

Flareslove

Which purchases represented the best value for money for you guys?

I ask this because i was reading the thread below, and it made me wonder if there's any gems i missed.

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=48689

For me it's pretty standard i'd assume, each item has easily claimed months of my life.

Starcraft
Warcraft
Counterstrike
dx-xtreme
ds.
snes. :P

shyguy

When Toys R Us was having that "Buy 2 get 1 free" sale on DS games over the summer, I went one day and picked up:

Mario Kart
Planet Puzzle League
and
Elite motherfucking Beat Agents

That was in May. I spent $60.

I didn't buy another DS game until Advance Wars last week.

Idx86

Diablo II and Lord of Destruction expansion pack. I can't even begin to tell you how much I loved that game in high school.

JihadJesus

Idx86 wrote: »

Diablo II and Lord of Destruction expansion pack. I can't even begin to tell you how much I loved that game in high school.

Limed for complete truthiness. I got this game when I was 18 and just out of high school. That was almost seven years ago, yet just last week I found myself obsessing over a build I had never made and fired it up again. The game just won't let go.

-SPI-

A long long long time ago I bought a double pack that had Master of Orion and Xcom on a single CD-ROM. I'm pretty certain it's the greatest CD-ROM ever produced by mankind.

ANARCHake

Garry's Mod is the best videogame-related ten bucks I ever spent.

urahonky

Super Smash Bros: Melee was simply the best $50 I'd spent on any video game. I played it all the way up to last year. I stopped because of Brawl's release coming soon.

Sheep

Stole 25$ from my brother's credit card and bought Rez HD this morning.

Was downloading as I left for work.

WingedWeasel

Gears of War (360)
Warcraft 3 (and of course it's expansion)

A raptor!

Dreamcast. I got Space Channel 5 for like five euros. That's as good as it gets.

Morrowind too, I got so much entertainment out of that game between playing the game, to downloading mods, to even dabbling in mods myself. And I never even got close to finishing the main quest.

LewieP

I bought around 20 copies of Sprung for the DS for £0.97 each, then traded them in and got a DSlite + NSMB for them.

I got about 20 good Xbox games fro £0.99 each when Virgin Megastore was clearing out. Titles included Jade Empire, Forza, PGR2, Sid Meier's Pirates!, Various Tom Clancy games, Conker Live and Reloaded, and tonnes more I can't remember off hand. I then got a new Xbox on clearance for £50, with Halo 2, Fable, and two other games I can't remember off hand.

I just the other day got Blue Dragon for £2.99, in anticipation of getting a 360 at some point.

GalCiv2 for £1.99.

The Red Star, Devil Kings, Odama + Mic for £3.99 each, Shadow of the Colossus for £7.99 all new.

Slimline PS2 for free. My mate thought it had broke, but he offered it to me to see if I could get it fixed. Turns out it was just the power supply. I told him, but he said I could keep it since he had got a new one anyway. I just bought myself a controller and memory card in a Play-Asia 10% off sale, and was all set.


I am cheap.

Dr_Keenbean

I shelled out $50 for X-COM on CD when it was released.

To this day I still have the box and all contents in pristine condition. I will play that game until the end of days.

Nitsuj82

Jagged Alliance 2 was like crack for me in high school/early college.

Mr_Grinch

Sam and Max and Day of the Tentacle for £7.99

Awesome day. Awesome times.

Reznik

Fallout 1 + 2 in a pack for $20

Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge. No other RTS has been able to hold me like that one. Not even Warcraft 2.

roywhitby

I found Dragon Warrior VII used for $13 4 years ago and played the hell out of that game. There was a buy 1 get 1 1/2 priced on PSOne games in 2004 at an EB Games where I lived in Ottawa and I actually found a copy of Suikoden 2 and Star Ocean. I haven't played Star Ocean yet but I really like Suikoden 2 and getting the two of them for around $40 was a good deal. There are so many good value games for $10 out there right now. I actually have to stop myself from buying them because there is no way I would play them all.

Mustachio Jones

JihadJesus wrote: »

Idx86 wrote: »

Diablo II and Lord of Destruction expansion pack. I can't even begin to tell you how much I loved that game in high school.

Limed for complete truthiness. I got this game when I was 18 and just out of high school. That was almost seven years ago, yet just last week I found myself obsessing over a build I had never made and fired it up again. The game just won't let go.

Between my brother and myself, we have bought 5 copies of D2 and LOD. Mostly because this little group of us every so often get a horrible urge to play it again, and of course we have to play on Bnet on ladder for the awesome drops, and inevitably someone has lost their keys. It is the worst drug ever.

urahonky

Blizzard games tend to disappear from my house over the course of time.

I think I've bought Starcraft 3 or 4 times, Warcraft 3 about 2 or 3 times, and Diablo 2 about 6 or 7 times.

shyguy

Yeah, what's up with that? I've bought Starcraft+Broodwar twice and Diablo 2+LoD twice.

Worth every single penny. I can't even being to calculate the time I put into Starcraft and Diablo 2 in high school.

DJDM

The Diablo series
The Halo series
HL2
The AoE series (just played II again recently)
The Mechwarrior series by Activision and to a lesser extent MW4

They have had or do have the highest longevity factor in my collection.

urahonky

shyguy wrote: »

Yeah, what's up with that? I've bought Starcraft+Broodwar twice and Diablo 2+LoD twice.

Worth every single penny. I can't even being to calculate the time I put into Starcraft and Diablo 2 in high school.

They literally have legs, perhaps?

Magic Pink

Phantasy Star Online is the reigning gem in my gamer tiara.

We all have gaming tiaras, yes?

Rigor Mortis

Super Smash Bros. Melee.

It's not just a game, it's a way of life... a religion, even.



MK: Double Dash, GTA San Andreas for PS2 and Castlevania II & SMB 1-3 for the NES get honorable mentions.

Terrendos

Of all the games I've owned, I've probably invested the most time per $ into Ocarina of Time, (my favorite game ever) and Age of Empires 2. Those titles are both a decade old, though, which helps their case, as they were among my early video game purchases once I started learning to differentiate quality. I assume that over time Twilight Princess will come to rival them, as well as The Orange Box and Bioshock if I can ever get it to work on my computer.

EDIT: I also spent an inordinate amount of time with Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. Though it is a massive game with over 300 missions to complete, I got 3 separate 100% completions, probably logging 250+ hours into that cartridge. Part of that might have been that I'm a sucker for extensive customization in RPGs, of which there was a TON in FFTA. And that Blue Mages looked like pirates.

I mean, come on! Blue Mage Pirates vs. Ninjas!

Strifer

God Hand and Shin Megami Tensei games.

Did I mention God Hand?

Vulpine

Deus Ex for £10 about five years ago: still one of my all-time favourite games. Unmodified it's still so varied and different every time you play. Other than that, Sonic 3 and Knuckles is one of those games (well, pair of) which I can just play through time and time over.

Magic Pink

Terrendos wrote: »

And that Blue Mages looked like pirates.

What? Dood, Blue Mages looked like Arab Camel Train Leaders. Which is totally cooler then pirates.

YodaTuna

Tribes 2 was probably the best money I ever spent. 50 bucks for 3 years of unadulterated joy? Yes please.

wakeboarderblunt

I was never really into gaming much until I started playing THPS 2 on PC. I beat that game with every character, learned all the tricks, and found all the gaps. Before that, I had an N64 which I played, but not real regularly. But after playing THPS2 I found myself buying games more frequently, sometimes even on the same week of release, and bought an XBox when I could afford it. Because of that, I ended up buying THPS 3 for PC and found myself playing that game to completion as well. I got alot of enjoyment out of both those games, and they changed my perception af gaming and buying games. Pretty good value I guess, allthough it seems to be costing me in the long run.

Sheep

While it's not a game, I'll toss up the Xbox 360 for totally worthwhile purchases.

Greatest. System. Ever.

Tamin

Half-Life.

Knew nothing about it. Saw it in Target, read the inside cover ("Critters can smell you? Kickass"), bought it.

Do wish the cover bit had made it in-game. Looked really cool.

MechMantis

Everyone thinks Diablo 2: LoD is so awesome.

They're wrong. It's the bane of CD drives.

My elder sister was playing online one day with my elder brother, when she heard something really really strange from the CD-Rom drive. Diablo 2 crashed right then and there.

Well, nothing a quick reboot won't fix, she thought. Reboot, log in, try to play Diablo 2... "CD is not in the drive".

"Bullshit", she said, and opened the tray. Her response?

Only about half of it remained intact. It broke apart mid-spin, hurling the shards about in the drive. That's what she heard, the CD-shrapnel ricocheting off the walls of the drive. We had to rebuy the Battlechest, as we couldn't find any standalone copies of LoD. We also needed to buy a new CD drive, but we ended up upgrading to a DVD drive.

If you guys don't believe me, I'll take a picture and post it. We've lost the shards (yes we shook them out of the drive), but we still have the piece that stayed intact.

But hey, otherwise, I've been pretty happy with my Blizzard buys. Starcraft has held up admirably, as has my original Warcraft CD. I haven't used my two Warcraft 3 CDs to be worried about them exploding yet.

shyguy

Another: Sonic the Hedgehog 2.

Sent away for it for free after getting my Genesis for Christmas. Proceeded to play the hell out of it for the next... eight years? I played through the 2D Genesis Sonics the day before the Dreamcast launched, and that was not at all an unusual occurance. I only really stopped because my Genesis bit the dust.

Agreed on SSBM. Probably the best $50 I ever spent.

wunderbar

Age of Empires 2
Smash Brothers Melee(soon to be supplanted by Brawl)
Star Trek: Birth of the Federation
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

Those are the games I have put the most time into, they are leagues above every other game.

Silvoculous

My NES. Some guy was selling it in the newspaper so my dad and I had to go to his house in order to pick it up. He gave me ten games with it: Megaman 2, Megaman 4, Super Mario Bros. 3, Donkey Kong Classics, Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt, TMNT2, Ice Hockey, Tetris, Ghostbusters II, and Battletoads.

This was in 1995, so games were ridiculously easy to get. One of my uncles had around ten of them sitting in his house (and a Game Genie) that he let me have. If anything, my favorite gaming buy (though I didn't pay for it) was that Game Genie. It introduced me to the Internet so I could print off pages and pages of codes for the games that just kept stacking up. If you remember Funcoland, they had those newspaper-like directories of every game for every system they had in their stores.

The NES is still my favorite system, and it sits high upon the largest bookshelf in my room, the large amount of games accumulated for it on a shelf just below.

A raptor!

shyguy wrote: »

Another: Sonic the Hedgehog 2.

Sent away for it for free after getting my Genesis for Christmas. Proceeded to play the hell out of it for the next... eight years? I played through the 2D Genesis Sonics the day before the Dreamcast launched, and that was not at all an unusual occurance. I only really stopped because my Genesis bit the dust.

Agreed on SSBM. Probably the best $50 I ever spent.

Oh man, that reminded me, I got Sonic & Knuckles for... about 2€, if I remember correctly (there weren't any euros back then). If I remember correctly, it was some dude who sold me someone else's copy... Yeah, I'm not too terribly proud of that, but the unbelievebly epic experience that is Sonic 3 & Knuckles did provide some confort. :P

Accualt

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