Best Bargin-bin games you've played.

[targren]

$130 for two new games is fucking sweet.

Are you in Australia or NZ, by any chance? Because if you're in the US, I think I have a bridge you might be interested in buying.

 

[GundamSentinel]

Rome: Total War was the best ?5 I've ever spent (all those hours I would have otherwise spent doing boring things *shudder*), closely followed by Neverwinter Nights for the same price.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

I bought Planescape: Torment for 3 dollars as part of a double pack with Pool of Radiance way back when. What an amazing find that was. I probably never would have discovered Torment until much later otherwise.
I discovered Arcanum the same way.

 

[Soxafloppin]

Lost Kingdoms II for about £3, worth more to me as its one of my favourite games.

 

[TacticalAssassin1]

Bioshock 1 for 5 bucks off steam. Never looked back.

 

[lRookiel]

Baldurs Gate collection for £10 on Amazon last year, ZOMG!

I'd already played the first BG to death many years ago, but then I get an expansion pack aswell as BG 2 + another expansion! DOUBLE ZOMG!

 

[arnoldthebird]

Just Cause 2, $10....500 HOURS OF GAMEPLAY!!!

That is a game I can just continually replay, always on my active games list.

 

[Guffe]

Bought a star wars game "Republic commando" for 10? and I really enjoyed that tactical First person shooter, was fun and a bit challenging too.

 

[Eternal Visitor]

I grabbed a copy of Deus Ex GOTY edition a few years back, $10, hard not to call it the most played game I still own, even working almost flawlessly on machines made long after it's last patch (it handles widescreen resolutions better then some of the new games I have)

$10, years of fun, still works straight from disk. hard to beat that I think.

 

[hazabaza1]

Got the first Mass Effect for like, a tenner.
Not quite as good as I remember being in retrospect, but still a great series.

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

I doubt many will beat this.

I bought MGS3 for £5 years ago after hearing it was "fun enough" and seeing 10 seconds of MGS2 VR footage while flicking through a PSM2 DVD years before.

My body was not ready.

indeed, i say you get the win. MGS3 is so good i've bought it six times, and am going to buy it a seventh when the 3ds game comes out

my biggest surprise from a bargain buy came from Banjo Kazooie Nuts 'n' Bolts
The most fun i had from a bargain bin purchase would be a tie between Red Faction Guerilla and Mercs 2
But the overall best game would be when i picked MAG up again. I loved the demo, and hated the released game, but one day i saw it on sale for five bucks, and i thought, "fuck it"
the intervening patches and rebalances have made it awesome again

 

[Keava]

Hard to say. Thanks to CDRojekt being the distributor in Poland pretty much most of the 1-2 year old titles get a 2in1 promotion for total of 10-12$ every now and then, bought plenty of games that i didn't considered worth the full price at release like that as well as some I simply didn't have money/time for at time of their release.

Think best deal I made, few years ago, was getting Company of Heroes+Both Expansions+Supreme Commander for total of 15$.

 

[MrShowerHead]

Terraria, during the Steam Holiday sales. I think it was something like 5 euros. Also Super Meat Boy for about 2,5 euros. Not too bad, if you ask me

 

[Cobalt Cobalt]

*deep breath*

Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2
Shin Megami Tensei: Lucifers Call
Global Defense Force
Crimson Sea 2

A billion ps2 games

Bioshock and Bioshock 2

 

[Ultress]

When I re bought a PS2 I picked up Wild Arms 3 on the recommendation of the stores JRPG nerd for about 5 bucks.It was packed to the gills with puzzles and things to do; plus Virgina Maxwell is second only to Terra in my list of favorite Female leads. It is one of my favorite non-SMT JRPGs.

Speaking of SMT, I picked up Persona 3 FES for about $15 which for everything they pack into that game is a damn steal for that price.

 

[MajorTomServo]

Black for PS2. Great game man, great game.

 

[joshuaayt]

Easy- maybe not my very favourite game, but close, and certainly the vessel I took into my favourite universe. I found a copy of Persona 3 for about $7.00- bought it on a whim.

Soon afterwards, I realised that there was a portable remake, and you can play as a female MC- I *needed* that. Played it twice, in fact. Love me some Minako.

Then came FES, and finally Persona 4, probably my Game Of The Always And Ever.

 

[Ickorus]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow Of Chernobyl


I'd seen the game a lot previously but always stopped myself from buying it at the last moment because I wasn't sure it'd be any good despite thinking it looked cool, one day I just bought it on a whim and have been a massive fan of the series ever since.

 

[K84]

Mass Effect 1 was on my list as soon as i got an 360,
and for ? 12,50 it was an awesome bargain bin.

And after having it signed by Lance Henriksen and Marina Sirtis, it's become invaluable.
To me that is^^