We've all been there, walking through a game store or a Wal-Mart or something and you find a big bin of games all for $10 or less (surely there is some equivalent of this for non-US Escapists, just games that they're selling for dirt-cheap). You browse around the selection and find a game that mildly piques your interest. Price tag only says $5 so you figure why the hell not.
You take it home and pay it and while it certainly doesn't dazzle and amaze you (or maybe it does
) you've gotta admit that it is a decent little game that you're actually glad you picked up.
I'm wondering what bargin-bin games you've gotten for really, really cheap and actually enjoyed playing, thinking it was well worth your $5 or whatever.
A good example for me is Tenchu Z. I had always enjoyed the Tenchu games, and when my local video rental store was going out of business and selling off all their stuff, I found Tenchu Z for ony $7. As mentioned above, I figured "why the hell not?" and picked up the game. Took it home and really enjoyed it. My only real complaint is the lack of levels. There's only like 7 or 8 maps that they reuse over and over again for the game's 50 missions. That said, however, I really liked the challenge of scouting and scoping out the place first, finding which guards are watching which direction, analyzing the defenses to find the weak spot where you can pick off a guard and put a crack in the wall, so to speak...ultimately from that first guard kill you can work your way around, stealth killing everyone, until it's time to take out your target.
So what bargin-bin games did you get that you found surprisingly fun to play?
P.S. On an unrelated note, I finally grew a pair of testicles and beat Mass Effect 2 on Insanity. My previous attempt at doing so ended with me going to two weeks of rape therapy...but my problem was I was loading up an already completed playthrough of ME 2, meaning that while I started out on a higher level, since I had no upgrades I might as well have been shooting a slingshot at my enemies. Loaded up a character from ME 1 and found it to be not overly challenging at all.
You take it home and pay it and while it certainly doesn't dazzle and amaze you (or maybe it does
) you've gotta admit that it is a decent little game that you're actually glad you picked up.I'm wondering what bargin-bin games you've gotten for really, really cheap and actually enjoyed playing, thinking it was well worth your $5 or whatever.
A good example for me is Tenchu Z. I had always enjoyed the Tenchu games, and when my local video rental store was going out of business and selling off all their stuff, I found Tenchu Z for ony $7. As mentioned above, I figured "why the hell not?" and picked up the game. Took it home and really enjoyed it. My only real complaint is the lack of levels. There's only like 7 or 8 maps that they reuse over and over again for the game's 50 missions. That said, however, I really liked the challenge of scouting and scoping out the place first, finding which guards are watching which direction, analyzing the defenses to find the weak spot where you can pick off a guard and put a crack in the wall, so to speak...ultimately from that first guard kill you can work your way around, stealth killing everyone, until it's time to take out your target.
So what bargin-bin games did you get that you found surprisingly fun to play?
P.S. On an unrelated note, I finally grew a pair of testicles and beat Mass Effect 2 on Insanity. My previous attempt at doing so ended with me going to two weeks of rape therapy...but my problem was I was loading up an already completed playthrough of ME 2, meaning that while I started out on a higher level, since I had no upgrades I might as well have been shooting a slingshot at my enemies. Loaded up a character from ME 1 and found it to be not overly challenging at all.
