The best value game you've ever bought?

johnny_ultimate · 11-03-2013 9:11pm

Agricola wrote: »

Would love to try Dark Souls but too scared of it. Frustration from repetition isnt my bag.

Don't be scared! There is a 'baptism of fire' element to it, I won't lie, but its difficulty has also been exaggerated - it is an extremely manageable game. Once you get into the rhythm of the game it is consistently tough but fair, with only a handful of 'unfair' exceptions (and luckily the insanely in-depth Wiki guides will get you past them with a minimum of fuss if needed). Honestly, you get so engrossed with it the difficulty becomes a non-issue.

Foxhole Norman · 11-03-2013 9:17pm

Dark Souls.

Josey Wales · 11-03-2013 9:17pm

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Don't be scared! There is a 'baptism of fire' element to it, I won't lie, but its difficulty has also been exaggerated - it is an extremely manageable game. Once you get into the rhythm of the game it is consistently tough but fair, with only a handful of 'unfair' exceptions (and luckily the insanely in-depth Wiki guides will get you past them with a minimum of fuss if needed). Honestly, you get so engrossed with it the difficulty becomes a non-issue.

I have read comments like that a lot but that is not how I found the game. I know everyone is different so I just had a totally different experience. I followed a lot of the advice in the huge Dark Souls thread but I got stuck way too early in the game. There is so much I've never seen.

MadYaker · 11-03-2013 9:28pm

I would have to say the orange box. I paid about €20 for it in 2007 and since then I've put about 3000+ hours into CSS alone. Probably another 1500+ into TF2 and I've played portal and half life 2 a few times as well.

SouthTippBass · 12-03-2013 12:16am

Probably Quake wars: Enemy territory, might seem like a strange choice to some, but I sunk nearly 500 hours into that game! Would love a sequel, but I dont think it sold enough

TerrorFirmer · 12-03-2013 12:40am

Command and Conquer Red Alert. Countless entire weekends lost to that game in system link.

Halo/2/3/Reach, for much the same reason.

Honorable mentions: Left4Dead, Company of Heroes, Unreal Tournament 99, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, COD4 and MW2...

Not necessarily my favorite games ever, but by far the best value given the playtime put in versus the cost.

People say games are overpriced, but the best of them are worth every cent ten times over.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 12-03-2013 12:49am

Battlefield 2, Battlefield 3 and World of Warcraft I would consider to be the best value.

Dota 2 is up there too. :P

TerrorFirmer · 12-03-2013 12:55am

God, how did I forget Battlefield 2. I have BF3 and although I enjoy it regularly, it hasn't a patch on BF2 relative to when each game was released. There was a period of about 6 months when BF2 was the one and only game I ever played.

Cookie_Monster · 12-03-2013 1:07am

Goldeneye for N64, endless hours spent on the multiplayer and trying for fast times for cheats

RoyalMarine · 12-03-2013 12:04pm

also going to throw ocarina of time in there.

Man, I love that game so much.

Think it's time to whip out the n64 adaptoid and grab an emulator!

Dave_The_Sheep · 12-03-2013 12:13pm

Any of the Civilization games. Easily a thousand hours on the earlier iterations, and about 500 on the latter ones.

Oblivion and Skyrim each reached 500, Oblivion far more than 500 now I think about it.

For sheer value for money, they would likely be top of the pile.

Arawn · 12-03-2013 12:15pm

For sheer stealyness, Dead space 1 for 5 euro in extravision bout 2 weeks before 2 came out.

For sheer enjoyment and hours played, full price day 1release of bad company 2

Penn · 12-03-2013 4:06pm

I'd either go with Borderlands 2 (have to have put over 200 hours into it so far, which is very rare for me these days), the main three PS2 GTA games or The Orange Box. Tried some of the Half Life 2 stuff for a while and didn't like it. Played through Portal a few times but that's pretty short. However, when it came out (before it became full of people using glitches and invisible things to walk on etc) I was hooked into Team Fortress 2. Hands down the best multiplayer I've ever played. It was incredible. My playtime for it was over 28 days (nearly 700 hours).

krudler · 12-03-2013 4:17pm

Street Fighter 2 has got to be up there too, the SNES version was some ludicrous price on release, think it was 70 pounds or something, but man we got the time out of it.

Angron · 12-03-2013 4:34pm

Penn wrote: »

I'd either go with Borderlands 2 (have to have put over 200 hours into it so far, which is very rare for me these days), the main three PS2 GTA games or The Orange Box. Tried some of the Half Life 2 stuff for a while and didn't like it. Played through Portal a few times but that's pretty short. However, when it came out (before it became full of people using glitches and invisible things to walk on etc) I was hooked into Team Fortress 2. Hands down the best multiplayer I've ever played. It was incredible. My playtime for it was over 28 days (nearly 700 hours).

I'm about half that for TF2, and it's my most played steam game I think. What's your most played class out of interest?

Miguel_Sanchez · 12-03-2013 4:40pm

Wizardry.

Whole weeks went into that when I was a child.

As a grown-up probably GTA: San Andreas or Battlefield 2: Bad Company or Battlefield 3.

Grimebox · 12-03-2013 4:55pm

Half-life 1 /thread

I got it for free with a PC. It was my bread and butter for over a decade with the incredible modding community so not another penny was spent. Counter-strike, Day of Defeat, Science and Industry, Fire-Arms, Specialists, Front-line force just to name a few of multiplayer games. There was a huge host of single player mods too; Sven-coop, They Hunger. It's impossible to measure how many hours I put into it but I would guess that it would be over 10,000

Penn · 13-03-2013 12:02am

Denny M wrote: »

I'm about half that for TF2, and it's my most played steam game I think. What's your most played class out of interest?

Soldier. Nearly always played as the Soldier. Simple, but effective. Tried to play as some of the other classes but found the engineer too boring for the most part and found the spy too difficult. The rest i just never found as effective as the soldier. Mostly played Control Point in Dustbowl.

Soby · 13-03-2013 12:18am

Battlefield 3 and Orange box for me , for playing time and value for money

SpannerMonkey · 13-03-2013 12:50am

BF3 for me scary amount of hours on it . followed by Rome Total War (epic game) . followed by chivalry, cheap and soooo much fun

Angron · 13-03-2013 1:10am

Penn wrote: »

Soldier. Nearly always played as the Soldier. Simple, but effective. Tried to play as some of the other classes but found the engineer too boring for the most part and found the spy too difficult. The rest i just never found as effective as the soldier. Mostly played Control Point in Dustbowl.

I've always been a bit of a Pyromaniac myself :P I agree about the Engineer, never liked the sitting around, fixing stuff aspect for him, and I was usually just rubbish as a spy. Pyro, soldier and heavy are my 3 most played.

13-03-2013 1:20am

BF bad company 2/BF3 and recently the hitman hd collection. I haven't stopped playing it since it came out, I think the hitman games have aged brilliantly and they still have tremendous replay value, for me anyway.

FutureGuy · 13-03-2013 3:28pm

krudler wrote: »

Street Fighter 2 has got to be up there too, the SNES version was some ludicrous price on release, think it was 70 pounds or something, but man we got the time out of it.

SF2Turbo cost me £82 back in the day! Still, I must have put a thousand hours into it. SF4 and its updates is on par in terms of hours put in.

However, for sheer value, probably skyrim for 20 euro.

DonegalBonz · 13-03-2013 3:46pm

Championship Manager 97/98, coincided with my first decent powered PC so i'd say i put in many a good 15 hour session, the only game i've sat from dawn til dusk with.

If i remember correctly the full game could be played without the disc, so I lent it to 3 of my mates, well over 300 hours x 4 of gameplay from one purchase.

r3nu4l · 13-03-2013 3:54pm

I would say the following games were best value for me:

Commodore 64 - Microprose Soccer - played this all through my summer holidays one year, as often as I could. EDIT: Heh, just remembered Last Ninja II, now that's a game I played ALL the time, can't believe I forgot that!

Zork - yes, a text-based adventure but I got it for free and spent ages completing it so you can't get better value than that

PC - Age of Empires II and Civ IV, closely followed by Red Alert, none bought at full price (Civ IV was part of a cheap games bundle I bought iirc)

PS3 - COD4 or BLOPS, even though these were bought at full price I played hundreds of hours MP and they gave me great enjoyment

deathrider · 13-03-2013 4:42pm

Any of my Pokémon games. Each one got played for 100+hours, and they're still getting regular plays. They've all been presents and/or simply given to em. The only one I've paid for was White, and I scored that for about 20quid. There's still lots to do in each of them too, so I won't be putting them down any time soon. Also, I started playing Diamond Version last febuary, and that's still getting the socks layed off it. Huge amount of value in those games.

Fiery mutant · 13-03-2013 4:46pm

MW2, bought it in Harvey Norman Mullingar for €5, absolute bargain and my favourite, just ahead of NHL 10, which I paid €8 for

djkeogh · 13-03-2013 5:42pm

2 games are head and shoulders above the rest for time spent in my book.

Pinball FX2
Serious amount of time spent on this one. Loved it and still love. I actively replay 90% of the tables I've bought for this and still more and more content for it being released every month or so.

Left 4 Dead 2
I've played this one since release and still often sink hours into it. It's scary to think of the amount of time that has been committed to this over the years but it's such a cracking game. No other Co-op game can touch this one in my book.

The Pheasant · 13-03-2013 5:53pm

Age of Empires II

Oblivion

Fallout 3

Pokemon Yellow - won it off another kid in my school in a race back in '98 (the fool) and still play it, have the same save, all 151 pokemon caught - didn't have to spend a penny on it!

mitosis · 13-03-2013 5:57pm

Minecraft, bought at Alpha for €11.95 -ish. Many, many hundreds of lost hours.

_Godot_ · 13-03-2013 7:05pm

Pokemon games are always good value for me, I spend ages on them. Pokemon Diamond got played for over 300 hours. Pokemon Black got over 100.

I've been playing a browser RPG named Adventure Quest since March 2006, so that's seven years of playing. Back then I paid 20 us dollars to upgrade my character to a guardian, so I could always log on and use guardian equipment. Now I'm almost level 150.

The World Ends With You got two playthroughs. The first was 300+ hours, the second is 200+ hours. Brilliant game.

Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 Portable. I'm on my fifth playthrough and 360+ hours.

Xenoblade Chronicles. I'm on my second playthrough and 282+ hours. So much to do.

Morag · 13-03-2013 7:07pm

Single player Morrowind, multiplayer UT 2k4

martineatworld · 13-03-2013 7:13pm

_Godot_ wrote: »

Pokemon games are always good value for me, I spend ages on them. Pokemon Diamond got played for over 300 hours. Pokemon Black got over 100.

I've been playing a browser RPG named Adventure Quest since March 2006, so that's seven years of playing. Back then I paid 20 us dollars to upgrade my character to a guardian, so I could always log on and use guardian equipment. Now I'm almost level 150.

The World Ends With You got two playthroughs. The first was 300+ hours, the second is 200+ hours. Brilliant game.

Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 Portable. I'm on my fifth playthrough and 360+ hours.

Xenoblade Chronicles. I'm on my second playthrough and 282+ hours. So much to do.

How was TWEWY so long?
Admittedly I only played the first two hours and couldn't really get to grips with the battle system but I didn't think it was that massive of an RPG!?

LuckyFinigan · 13-03-2013 9:49pm

Found the collectors edition of Fallout 3 in gamestop for €30 shorty after it came out, don't know if it was a pricing error or what, but I was happy out.

keelanj69 · 13-03-2013 9:51pm

Mass effect 3 or Battlefield 3. Still playing them. Good games.

BopNiblets · 14-03-2013 1:18am

Orange Box, no question.

richymcdermott · 14-03-2013 1:45pm

Orange box

mgs hd collection

MGS4 : 400 Hours

killzone 2: 130 hours

Fallout 3: 120 hours

cod 4: 21 days i played online

Mr.Saturn · 14-03-2013 2:54pm

I probably should also nominate SMA2: Super Mario World (GBA). I picked it up for €5 on Adverts a while back, got all 96 exits and whatnot. I find myself looking for reasons to continue playing it, so I'm nabbing all the dinosaur coins and trying to max out the score and life meters.

Couple dozen hours, for a pretty meager investment. There's a lot to be said for accessibility of a portable, and it coupled with one of the most perfectly designed games the medium's ever known.

cherryghost · 14-03-2013 3:02pm

COD4 - About 2000 hours thrown into that game.

Theme Hospital - I still replay the game to this day.

FFVII - A game I revisit very often, never really gets old for me.

Harps · 14-03-2013 4:08pm

Civilization Boxset (the first 4 games plus all add-on packs and a ~100 page guide), got it on amazon for a tenner not long after the 4th one came out, I only wanted to buy IV but for some inexplicable reason buying the entire series was a lot cheaper than buying IV by itself, got probably over 500 hours out of the games

STALKER SoC, paid something like 80 cent for it on ebay with free postage, didn't know much about it and only heard of it after reading the thread on here at the time but must have gotten over 100 hours out of it and I still go back to it now and again.

Plenty of other games I've put massive amounts of time into but for best value those two stand out

Cheerful Spring · 14-03-2013 4:09pm

Games i have stuck with over the years and never looked back.

Gears of War X Box 360@ Still play Gears, have done since Gears 1 and, the new Gears judgement is out the 22th of this month so excited for that http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OERFpWKVmvM

Rome total war PC @ I still play this today and other total war games. This was Rome 2 back in the day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5wgwMFiIaU

Rome2 the remake is due out this year can't wait for that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o9qW3zzPoE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptr4Ddu7mNs

Borat_Sagdiyev · 15-03-2013 2:06pm

DonegalBonz wrote: »

Championship Manager 97/98, coincided with my first decent powered PC so i'd say i put in many a good 15 hour session, the only game i've sat from dawn til dusk with.

If i remember correctly the full game could be played without the disc, so I lent it to 3 of my mates, well over 300 hours x 4 of gameplay from one purchase.

What a legendary game. Eidos deliberatey released it without any piracy prevention solely to increase it's popularity.

Going on 15 years later, I still play it*. Bringing Torquay / Doncaster / Dumbarton / Scunthorpe from division 3 cannon fodder up the divisions to eventual champions league winners never gets old.

* - USB boot into DOS. I have a FAT32 partitioned drive where the game lives and run it after installing mouse drivers. Works with any machine I've tried it on. It's much better than trying to run it from within WinXP or Win7.

ancapailldorcha · 15-03-2013 2:18pm

The Souls games for obvious reasons. Sank about 100 hours in Final Fantasy X trying to beat the horrible Dark Aeons. Sank about 100 hours in total into the 3 Mass Effect games.

Kirby · 15-03-2013 2:19pm

Based purely on time, it would have to be World of Warcraft. Even with the subscription it still works out at ludicrously good value if you simply equate money spent to time spent. I haven't touched it in two years but I played it for so long it will probably still be the game I spent the most time on years from now.

The Mass effect trilogy. The first two at any rate. I must have played the first one a dozen times all the way through. Rome Total War consumed years also.

Other notables would be any version of football manager and fifa as I play them so much. Sunk hours into Street Fighter 4. Contra 3, super mario world and Donkey Kong Country would be other contenders.

Antar Bolaeisk · 15-03-2013 11:27pm

Probably The Orange Box.

Up until that point I hadn't played any of Half Life² so I received three helpings in one. After that then there was Portal which was amazingly awesome and completely out of the blue and of course Team Fortress 2 which I've logged an embarrassingly large amount of time in (my Heavy skills are sadly not what they used to be).

I doubt we'll ever see it's like again.

I've also logged a ridiculous amount of time in both Left 4 Dead games, nearly 700 hours between the two

!

Glico Man · 16-03-2013 1:55am

Best value game I've ever bought myself would be between Football Manager 2011 and Battlefield 3. FM 2011 hours played were in the 2000+ before I decided to uninstall and currently, BF3 time played sits at 633 hours.

Best value game someone bought for me would be between FFVII and Streets of Rage 2. Played the discs/cartridge till my hands lost feeling :pac: Lost count a long, long time ago how many times I've started/finished each of them.

dan_ep82 · 16-03-2013 9:42am

ArmaII - So so much for the money once the community gets involved

Shogun Total War2 - 112 hours since xmas sales when I can get on it rarely ( i make time)

Probably going to get alot of hate but BF3. For the €60 I paid I have to say I got my money's worth

Grayditch · 16-03-2013 9:45am

Probably Demons Souls. Not only was the special edition only 45 quid, but I played it through 5 times.

Pixelbastardo · 16-03-2013 5:57pm

HL2 > CSS > L4D2

EDit,
lol, i though the thread title said "best valve game",

best value game i bought, this gen anyway, deus x HR, fallout/skyrim, badcompany series, and bf3.

[Rasta] · 16-03-2013 9:45pm

Dungeon Keeper - 500 hours or so, great game.
MOHAA - Played well over 3k hours.
COD4 - around 2k hours.
Rollercoaster tycoon 1 - dunno how much time I spent on this but it is another game that'll never get too old to play for me.
AOE 1 - I only played offline, but I loved it so much.
HoN - 20 euro and there's weekly updates on going.. have already put a good 1k hours into this.

The best value game you've ever bought?

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