The best value game you've ever bought?

Agricola

I never buy new titles at release, unless I can get a heavy discount, which is always possible when you're mostly on pc. The idea of firing out 40 or 50 quid on a 8 to 10 hour game sickens me.

Im closing in on 300 hours on Left 4 Dead 2. Probably a long weekend's play for many, but an astonishing commitment for me considering I don't really bother with online MP at all! The icing on the cake is I bought it maybe 18 months after release which meant I picked it up for I think it was 12 quid on Amazon. By far and away the best investment I've ever made in my time gaming.


So what would be the game that's given you the greatest bang for buck?

FIFA 20xx aside obviously!

johnny_ultimate

A boxed Japanese copy of MUSHA Aleste I got in the RAGE for fifteen euro.

Great value just because it's worth six or seven times that amount

MitchKoobski

Civilization V for €24.99 in a Steam Sale over a year ago. I don't check the hours I've put into it anymore. Once I went past a certain point I started feeling the need to re-assess my life.

On the other hand, I bought Final Fantasy IX for £20 and I've cleared that around 15 times with around 30 hours per playthrough over the years. But that could be more to do with the it being my favourite game.

2smiggy

for content perhaps The Orange Box , but for total hours it would be Dark Souls, about 750 hrs or so in total. Also would have had a good few hundred hours on both COD MW1 and MW2

a few years back pro evo 4 kept me and my friends entertained countless hours !!

Gbear

Although between DLC and everything I've spent about 80 quid on CIV 5 I have also spent about 700 hours on it so that's right up there.

I bought FF10 presumably at full price but again, I put about 400 hours into it.

On the other end of the spectrum I spent about a tenner on Skyrim and Dawn of War 2 and got about 80-100 hours on both of them.


You really don't have to spend much, especially with Steam sales, to get a lot of game time.

Retr0gamer

Suikoden 2. A relative in mine sent me a copy for free since he worked in Konami. Check the price for it now on ebay.

I tend to rank games more on how much enjoyment I got out of them rather than play time. Stuff like Persona 3 and 4 and Etrian Odyssey I've sunk about 80+ hours of play time that was amazing the whole way through.

Cienciano

Not counting stuff like pro evo, or COD where I'd play matches over and over again, I'd say Skyrim.

Heno97

Assassins Creed 2 for 12 euro in Gamestop, thoroughly enjoyed that one!

Will I Amnt

The Orange Box for me. The best €12 I've ever spent.
Also got Battlefield Bad Company 2 for a tenner and put some serious hours into that.

RoyalMarine

age of empires 2 - €10
civ 5 - €28
d3 - €60

sunk about 1000 hours into both games.
d3 - about 2000 hours now. €1800 from the rmah too

can't get enough of all three, but I reckon d3 is going on the shelf when aoe2 HD comes out.

Azza

Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition

Headstomping people nevers gets old, even after 100's of hours.

kennryyr

EU3 for the PC from Paradox Interactive for €15 can't remember from where. If you're into history from 1350 - 1820 ish and like strategy games I would highly recommend this game, it's amazing.

Also you can download a whole load of mods and upgrades for free whicj really enhance the game. My favourite being the mod called MEIOU, just google it.

muppetkiller

I would have to say IL-2 Sturmovik , Must have put literally months into that game..Released in 2001 and I still play it for hours on end. New Campaigns and user patches have extended the title for many years to come too.
I might add I still get my ass whopped online too.

That and Battlefield Bad Company 2 , Dark Souls..

DeSelby83

RoyalMarine wrote: »

d3 - about 2000 hours now. €1800 from the rmah too

do people still use the RMAH? thats a serious return

Magill

HL1 or HL2.

HL1, 10 hour SP + over 1000 hours in CTF and probably 8000+ hours of CS

HL2, 10 hour SP + Probably the same amount of MP hours with CSS.


WoW would be the only game close i guess.


CSGO i've about 400 hours since launch. Which is quite a lot considering i haven't got an awful lot of free time this year with uni.

Angron

Probably the L4D series. I've sunk a lot of hours into both of those games, and they've had some of my favourite moments playing with friends. Even when you play versus with public players who don't know their arses from their elbows you can still have a good laugh.

calex71

Borderlands 1+2 over 1000 hours :eek:

Fallout 3, New Vegas, Oblivion and Skyrim about 1000 hours also


So about 3 months of my life

Nody

Team Fortress 2 (yes I bought it years before it was released as F2P :P); last time I checked I think I had over 2000 hours played in it; runner up as it's an MMO would be Everquest which when I quit had something like 600 days played accross all characters (that's over 14000 hours! :eek:).

degrassinoel

Terraria, best fiver i ever spent

Taylor365

350 Hours on FM 2010

aperture_nuig

Fallout 3 for €2 in a Gamestop that was clearing out "old" PC games

krudler

MW2, I know a lot of people hate it but I got serious playtime out of that, some hilarious nights with the boardsie players back in the day.

Azza

muppetkiller wrote:

I would have to say IL-2 Sturmovik , Must have put literally months into that game..Released in 2001 and I still play it for hours on end. New Campaigns and user patches have extended the title for many years to come too.
I might add I still get my ass whopped online too.

God like sim. Glad I'm not the only 1 who played it. Spent many many an hour on hyperlobby in my Me 109 and FW190.

GavRedKing

Skyrim is after taking about 120 hours of my life since I bought it, FM's down through the years have taken vast amounts of time too but I find myself playing FM13 more then the others.

FFVIII was also a game I ploughed crazy amounts of hours into back in the day, more so then VII, dont know why really.

Retr0gamer

Kick ass card games, that's why.

Boots234

Fifa 11 on the PS3. 4 of us in the house all chipped in to buy it and we spent 100's of hours playing it and we still love it! Best entertainment for a group of lads in a house

ShagNastii

There are so many games that have amazing bang for buck when you think of the hours they give you. I'd say my favourite get was Beatles Rockband with McCartney Bass guitar for a tenner preowned in xtra vision a few years back.

Huge Beatles fan and I thought the game was cracking.

So many old games you can pick up for about €10 are just phenomenal. Came back to console gaming after a few years after not playing for ages. I picked up the Assassins Creeds, Bio-Shocks and Uncharteds for next to nothing. Hours upon hours of pure entertainment.

SeantheMan

L4D2 and TF2 I'd guess, been playing both on and off since they were released, and TF2 was on a side thing to HL2 Episode One at the time, and TF2 is free now


Oh and BF2 , and MOH:AA which I was given for free

weiland79

After a quick look on battle log I see I've clocked up 270hrs. Demons souls I'm closing in on 100 hr, I bought that for 20 quid on adverts.ie

Mr.Saturn

If we're talking time-spent versus cost, I would nominate both Pokemon SoulSilver, and Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition. An incredible lump of my youth dedicated to the pair of them.

Angron

Oh yeah, I didn't think of the pokemon games. I'd easily clock up 2-300 hours per game per playthrough, so they'd all be well up there.

ShadowHearth

Well, i cant put the exact number on few games, but some from the classics:

Diablo 2. I have played that game to death. Huge Value for Game+expansion.

Warcraft 3 + TFT. Great game, which ate hundreds of hours of my life. The best thing about this game was map editor. Even if you were not playing campaign or online, you could find hundreds of awesome community created maps. That was the editor, which gave birth to something like Dota!


Counter strike. I played it since it was born as a HL mod. It was a fantastic game and still fun today.

From newer games:

diablo 3. 260h and counting. I got back in to it again. Love it. All the patches making diablo 3 how it should be in the first place. I found it great value for how much i payed and how much play time i am getting from this.

BF3 160h++ Not bad i guess. Costed me in total about 80eu? Still playing it!

Civ 4 - Just enter the number and multiply it by 100.

Crooked Jack

I payed the full £40 whack for WWF No Mercy when it came out on the N64 but it was worth. I played it to death (had to get another copy) and still stick it on every so often. Best wrestling game ever.
Also picked up The Orange Box on the 360 for a tenner which was nice.

Magill

Crooked Jack wrote: »

I payed the full £40 whack for WWF No Mercy when it came out on the N64 but it was worth. I played it to death (had to get another copy) and still stick it on every so often. Best wrestling game ever.
Also picked up The Orange Box on the 360 for a tenner which was nice.

what a game !

Josey Wales

Going way back I would say that Streets of Rage 2 was amazing value for money. I have beaten that game countless times solo or in co-op. I suppose it was common back then to try and extend the lifetime of your games as you most likely only got a couple or three a year. It never felt like a chore going back to SOR2.

More recently I would say that Assassin's Creed 2, Assassin's Creed 3 and Mass Effect 2 have offered great value for money. All three were amazing games with very long story campaigns. Mass Effect 2 in particular on the PS3 was great value because it came with all the DLC included. I think I put close to 70 hours into it.

I nearly forgot to mention Fallout 3. Bought it cheap about two years after it was released and then got all the DLC free with PS+. After putting about 80-90 hours into it, I think it is safe to assume I got value for money.

It does seem like we are excluding sports games from the list for some reason. If we weren't I'd say any of the Pro Evolution games. Regularly get 150-200 hours out of them.

ionapaul

Skyrim and Warcraft 3 for me, the only two games I think I've played for more than 100 hours; 130+ for Skyrim (bought the game for €25) and I'm sure over 100 hours for WC3 (bought for $30 back in the day). I'd estimate my maximum annual gaming time would come in at around 300 hours, so to play any game for more than 50 hours is a pretty big deal for me!

Washington Irving

Have no idea what the best ever one was, but out of my Steam library it's probably San Andreas. Cost €5, I think. Put 37 hours into the single player plus another 40 or so, so far on SAMP.

Usually when I'm considering buying a game I try to think of getting value out of a game as €1 per hour playtime, some exceptions obviously but in general I try to weigh up how much gametime I'll get from it and pay equal or less the amount of euro to amount of hours.

2Mad2BeMad

dark souls - over 250hours on it on several accounts bought it for 28e , and that was a month after its release :L i would of bought it for 100e cause it would of been worth it

age of empires 3 - probably the only pc game apart from counter strike ive put in easily over a 1000 hours on it since its launch

K.O.Kiki

Street Fighter IV & its sequels, probably been playing them an average of 12+hrs/week for the past 4 years, so ~2500hrs on- and offline...

Before that, Final Fantasy IX (bought for £9), Secret of Mana (completed multiple times, played so much I leveled up all weapons & magic to max) and Donkey Kong Country 2 (bought for £15/20, played it so much I was speed-running it every other day).
Also MDK, but that came free with our computer.

Agricola

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

Sarky

It's only after months of obsessive play that my Planetside 2 account has managed to get close to the amount of time I spent on Plants Vs. Zombies. Must be more time spent on those games than the rest of my Steam account combined.

Crooked Jack

Oh! And Jet Force Gemini. A bit expensive but amazing value.
Why has it not been resurrected?

Rebel Rebel

Would have to say it was Championship Manager 99/00, paid full price when released, it was a massive time sink. it out lasted 3 PC's/laptops and first played on Win 98 and only just retired it when i picked up the latest Football Manager in January.

mrwhimwham

Bayonetta on the 360. Payed 10 euro for it in CEX and have cleared it 4 times.

Have never done that with any other game!!

titan18

Dota 2 since it's F2P, or the free copy of DoW I got when I bought CoH. Was like €20 for CoH and DoW in it, and spent so much hours on them

sea_monkey

cod4 35 days/840 hours play time for 40euro

still the best game for console

ScumLord

Bought NetKar Pro recently, great sim, only costs €4.99. Their new game Assetto corsa is coming out later in the year, it's set to be one of the top sims of the year and I'm already getting to try it out because I bought NetKar Pro.

Before that I bought into the kart race pro sim for €15. another game I play until my arms go weak (FFB wheel).

Will have to buy ARMA 3 before the full game is realised too. The PC Beta programs really give you the chance to get some great game really cheaply.

youreadthat

SimCity 4. Cheaper than games are today + 10 years of good use.

Logical_Bear

apart from CoD/pro-evo,I have put a scary amount of hours into the civ games.

Very rarely replay games but bioshock 1&2 I have replayed many times.
Playing dark souls at the moment and have nearly sunk 100 hrs and can see me replaying it a few times

GTA IV: Paid full price on launch day, but still playing it regularly to this day.

cloud493

Pokemon black - Clock stops at 999 hours, still playing on