The best value game you've ever bought?

Dave_The_Sheep

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SpannerMonkey

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

_Godot_

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

Single player Morrowind, multiplayer UT 2k4

martineatworld

_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

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

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

BopNiblets

Orange Box, no question.

richymcdermott

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

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

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

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