The best value game you've ever bought?

SB2013 · 17-03-2013 12:05am

In terms of gameplay hours per euro spent it would have to be Skyrim, followed by Football Manager or Starcraft 2.

norrie rugger · 17-03-2013 12:20am

There are a few candidates from years gone by but the most honourable mention, from recent releases, has to go to
Faster Than Light

Zomg Okay · 17-03-2013 2:08am

A second hand copy of Demon's Souls for €30. A little much for a second hand game maybe but it's my favourite game of all time (and yes, I do have Dark Souls. Honestly prefer Demon's). Haven't put as many hours into it as other games but still the best purchase I've ever made in the gaming world. Would often get incredibly frustrated at it, then come crawling back a week later determined to try again.

...Yeah, I basically had an abusive relationship with a video game.

Spunge · 17-03-2013 2:35am

i played heroes of newerth for about 3000 hours. 30 euro. pretty good.

had to uninstall that big time. 8 months clean, now i just stick to meth.

quarryman · 17-03-2013 12:44pm

How do people spend even near 1000 hours on a single game?

Even Oblivion which is by far my most played game, I only have 200-300 hours on the clock.

NTMK · 17-03-2013 6:30pm

quarryman wrote: »

How do people spend even near 1000 hours on a single game?

Even Oblivion which is by far my most played game, I only have 200-300 hours on the clock.

I used to play red alert 2 for around 2 hours a day for close to 3 years so i would have played near 2000 hours not including the amount i played in the last 10 years

I've also racked up about 200 hours on BF3 and i wouldn't have played that consistently at all haven't played it since august last

1000 hours creeps up quite quickly with MP games you don't need to spend 6 hour a day to rack up the time just play it over the course of a year or 2

Agricola · 17-03-2013 7:23pm

quarryman wrote: »

How do people spend even near 1000 hours on a single game?

Even Oblivion which is by far my most played game, I only have 200-300 hours on the clock.

After the time Ive sunk into L4D, I know I definitely wont be doubling it. Its too samey.

I think it boils down to really loving MP games, having a good community of friends that are on almost all the time, and having the craic. Its more like a sports pastime than a videogame at that point. In some ways Id like to experience that but then I know I'd miss lots of games because of it. A friend of mine who used to buy new games fairly regularly, now only sticks to Team Fortress without exception. I guess if you're enjoying it theres no problem, but I dont think he's played even one of the many great PC games that have been released in the last 12 months. I wouldnt like to go down that road personally.

Justin1982 · 18-03-2013 2:23am

I remember there was a game I bought for the PC called "Hidden and Dangerous" which was released around 1998. It was one sick game. It was a first person shooter. 4 commandos in WWII running around various large scale maps.

There was one level where there was tanks and Germans attacking a small port which needed to be protected until you could get the team loaded onto an aeroplane and take off.
Could never get past that level. The foot soldiers just kept coming and the tanks were hard to take out with bazokaa at the best of times never mind while trying to get the footsoldiers at the same time.

If anyone likes realistic WWII games which are **** hard with some really well thought out maps then get Hidden and Dangerous on Amazon.

Spunge · 18-03-2013 2:45am

Justin1982 wrote: »

I remember there was a game I bought for the PC called "Hidden and Dangerous" which was released around 1998. It was one sick game. It was a first person shooter. 4 commandos in WWII running around various large scale maps.

There was one level where there was tanks and Germans attacking a small port which needed to be protected until you could get the team loaded onto an aeroplane and take off.
Could never get past that level. The foot soldiers just kept coming and the tanks were hard to take out with bazokaa at the best of times never mind while trying to get the footsoldiers at the same time.

If anyone likes realistic WWII games which are **** hard with some really well thought out maps then get Hidden and Dangerous on Amazon.

yeah i remember i got that game it blew my mind. it was like commandos: behind enemy lines. but you as a 3D fps. :eek:

HellboundIRL · 18-03-2013 2:50am

Company of Heroes.

Best 7 euro I ever spent, I still play the Blitzkrieg mod.

Thinkingaboutit · 18-03-2013 2:54am

Mount and Blade: Warband - so many great mods that I almost never play the Native or standard module, or Crusader Kings 2.

Azza · 18-03-2013 1:58pm

Justin1982 wrote:

I remember there was a game I bought for the PC called "Hidden and Dangerous" which was released around 1998. It was one sick game. It was a first person shooter. 4 commandos in WWII running around various large scale maps.

There was one level where there was tanks and Germans attacking a small port which needed to be protected until you could get the team loaded onto an aeroplane and take off.
Could never get past that level. The foot soldiers just kept coming and the tanks were hard to take out with bazokaa at the best of times never mind while trying to get the footsoldiers at the same time.

If anyone likes realistic WWII games which are **** hard with some really well thought out maps then get Hidden and Dangerous on Amazon.

Great game, great atmosphere but quite buggy.
The good news is that its legally available for free. Google Hidden and Dangerous Deluxe edition. It comes bundled with the expansion pack.

Gbear · 18-03-2013 2:34pm

quarryman wrote: »

How do people spend even near 1000 hours on a single game?

Even Oblivion which is by far my most played game, I only have 200-300 hours on the clock.

I tend to play Civ 5 while listening to podcasts.
I listen to about 8-10 hours of podcasts a week (and sometimes I continue playing for a while when I've no podcasts left).

I'd still go for months at a time without playing it but if you're playing 8-12 hours a week for about half the last 3 years then it's pretty easy to rack up 700 odd hours.

ibFoxer · 18-03-2013 2:39pm

Just for the sheer amount of hours put into it i would say Rock Band for me. Also ME3.

Magill · 18-03-2013 2:42pm

If you get hooked on a MP game its really easy to rack up thousands of hours tbh. Especially with games that have good communities, with clans, guilds or competitive scenes.

Tar.Aldarion · 18-03-2013 9:28pm

Magill wrote: »

If you get hooked on a MP game its really easy to rack up thousands of hours tbh. Especially with games that have good communities, with clans, guilds or competitive scenes.

Daaaaaamn. Warcraft 3 would probably be worse!

Mal-Adjusted · 18-03-2013 9:35pm

in terms of value for money, it's a toss up between Deus Ex and Age of Empires 2.

Justin1982 · 21-03-2013 12:40am

Azza wrote: »

Great game, great atmosphere but quite buggy.
The good news is that its legally available for free. Google Hidden and Dangerous Deluxe edition. It comes bundled with the expansion pack.

Jesus it was as buggy as hell and bullets often went through walls that shouldnt have. But I was running it on a Fujitsu Siemens 750 MHz processor PC with crap graphics card that wasnt powerful enough to cope with the game properly so it crashed all the time. I kept playing it until I got to that **** hard level. There was so many Germans coming from everywhere that the PC couldnt process the game properly so I had to abandon the game.

Kiith · 21-03-2013 12:52am

Probably World of Warcraft, Baldurs Gate 2 or Championship Manager 97/98 for me.

Warcraft, for sheer number of hours, probably wins but it did cost a fair amount over the 5 years i played. I was totally addicted for a while though, and used to easily play 10 hours a day. It was pretty much the only game i played for a long time.

CM97/98 was played for years with 2 friends, and we used to spend almost the entire summer playing it 5-6 hours a day. And that was after we bought the game for around 20 pounds.

Baldurs Gate 2 had definitely been my most played, and best value, single player game though. I've pumped hundreds of hours into it, and replayed it god knows how many times. It's (imo, though that might change after my current Planescape playthrough) the perfect example of an isometric rpg. Truly a classic, and all for less then 50 quid (game + expansion).

IRL_Sinister · 21-03-2013 12:56am

World of Warcraft. It was undoubtedly the best game I ever bought. I don't play anymore but after doing just about everything possible in the game I can safely say it was worth everything and more.

EDIT: Would have said WC3 but I got it off a friend.

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