What is the best bargain game you ever bought?

PenguinJim

bluenoseam wrote: »

Can't say anything containing Rogue Warrior was a bargain, that game was monumentally bad!

True. I sold it for £2, making the bundle even more of a bargain (considering Dishonored by itself hadn't yet dropped below £15).

Andy_89

Fallout 3 GOTY - £5 Boom.

duggan1

Lots and lots and lots of steam games, but that's easy...

Medieval II: Total War Collectors edition, unopened, from a charity shop. Was on sale for 2:50 but I gave them a fiver for it. Sure there's loads of them on ebay for around that but it is rare to see anything like that in a charity shop.

SueBee

Interesting that Steam and Playstation Plus are such good offerings.
You'd think they were trying to change behaviour or something!
Once we only buy games online, they'll have a strangle on the market and there won't be a second-hand games market either.
You wont even be able to lend a game to your friend.
Good for the short-term though...

tea_lover

Fallout3 99p

SueBee

tea_lover wrote: »

Fallout3 99p

We may have a winner!

PenguinJim

SueBee wrote: »

Once we only buy games online, they'll have a strangle on the market and there won't be a second-hand games market either.
You wont even be able to lend a game to your friend.

1. Why would you buy games that are so bad you don't want to keep them, to replay at a later date?

2. You can buy games online from DRM-free sources and share them with your friends. GOG.com and the Humble Store both have large catalogues of DRM-free games.

3. You can buy Steam games and share them using Steam Family Sharing.

4. Microsoft revealed a plan for everyone to be able to sell their account-based games on the Xbox One and it was not well-received. Apparently "gamers" do not want to be able to sell their download games.

bluenoseam

PenguinJim wrote: »

1. Why would you buy games that are so bad you don't want to keep them, to replay at a later date?

2. You can buy games online from DRM-free sources and share them with your friends. GOG.com and the Humble Store both have large catalogues of DRM-free games.

3. You can buy Steam games and share them using Steam Family Sharing.

4. Microsoft revealed a plan for everyone to be able to sell their account-based games on the Xbox One and it was not well-received. Apparently "gamers" do not want to be able to sell their download games.

If my memory serves me right (and it wouldn't surprise me if it doesn't!) this was around the same time as they were spouting that you couldn't trade in physical copies amongst other things which made them very popular.

and to answer one, it's not the first time I've bought a game only for it to turn out to be dire - or for the most part had the mispleasure of playing it at work and it turned out to be a turkey. For as much as I get the good stuff in probably 99 out of 100 games I buy, there is the odd one which I get wrong! (I mean c'mon, I bought Rogue Warrior cos I thought "c'mon, it's only a fiver it can't be that bad!" - yep...)

Tropez

Mass Effect 1 & 2 for about £3.50 from a Steam sale.

Company of Heroes Gold Edition for £3.74 from a Steam sale.

That EA humble bundle deal from a while back that was about £6 for 9 games or something.

Dragon Age: Origins Ultimate Edition for a fiver, again from a Steam sale.

Oh and Theme Hospital recently on an Origin sale, for less than a quid, just for some good old nostalgia.

I generally shove £50 in my Steam wallet at the start of the Christmas Sale and see what I can get hold of. I'm not sure I'll be doing it this year though as spent quite a bit lately on a new gaming PC and a new laptop, and most of the stuff I'm interested in probably won't be on sale for particularly good offers.

Johnmcl7

bluenoseam wrote: »

If my memory serves me right (and it wouldn't surprise me if it doesn't!) this was around the same time as they were spouting that you couldn't trade in physical copies amongst other things which made them very popular.

That's correct - Microsoft proposed a system similar to Steam where physical copies of the game would contain the game data but would register to a single Microsoft account and be worthless once registered. Microsoft were vague about how selling the digital games would work but suggested that it wouldn't be as straightforward as selling normal physical games, it would have to be through registered shops at fixed rates. The console would also have to check in once every 24 hours to maintain access to games.

I don't mind not being able to sell the games on Steam as I only buy them when there's a big discount on them, despite the reduced value of the digital Xbox One games they were still going to charge full price.

John