The best value game you have bought?
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Disgaea: Hour of Darkness - $39.99 for ~300 hours
Left for Dead 2 - $39.99(?) for ~300 hours
Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines - $5 for 30 hours
Fallout 3 - $59.99 for ~160 hours and counting
Too many fighting games to list.
Left for Dead 2 - $39.99(?) for ~300 hours
Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines - $5 for 30 hours
Fallout 3 - $59.99 for ~160 hours and counting
Too many fighting games to list.
Probably Borderlands since I technically got it for free (Christmas gift) but even based on the RRP I've built three characters up to around level fifty and played all the DLC so I must have at least 150 hours logged so I consider that fantastic value.
Possibly Heroes of Might and Magic 3. Got that quite cheap way back in the day. I would count how many hours I burned on that game(and how many hours I burned making maps for friends) but I'd risk feeling bad for burning so much lifetime on a computer game.
Other then that: minecraft, OP:Flashpoint and Civ4 are all hot contenders.
Other then that: minecraft, OP:Flashpoint and Civ4 are all hot contenders.
Fallout 3. I got the GOTY edition for $40 CAN. I'm pretty sure I did well over 20 playthroughs with at least 90 hours each. After that, it could be FFXII(12). Played until my PS2 finally broke.
The king of fighters 2002, 10 years playing it and still learning new stuff, though i technically bought it just recently.
Probably Persona 4.
It was $40 USD, and so far I've done about 85 hours. Haven't done new game+ yet, and the persona compendium isn't complete. Did a pretty good job of maxing the attribute stats in 1 playthrough. I think only 2 of them are incomplete, at 1 notch below max.
It was $40 USD, and so far I've done about 85 hours. Haven't done new game+ yet, and the persona compendium isn't complete. Did a pretty good job of maxing the attribute stats in 1 playthrough. I think only 2 of them are incomplete, at 1 notch below max.
Advance Wars: Dual Strike. Paid 35$ for it and put over 400 hours into it.
Second place would be Borderlands. I still jump at the chance to play that with someone new. All 4 characters maxxed out.
A surprising third would be an Android app called "Great Little War Game." Think advanced wars on a smart phone. For 10 cents.
Second place would be Borderlands. I still jump at the chance to play that with someone new. All 4 characters maxxed out.
A surprising third would be an Android app called "Great Little War Game." Think advanced wars on a smart phone. For 10 cents.
The Orange Box. i got it for about $10 on steam about 2 or 3 years ago. i have at least 150 hours in TF2 alone, and about 50 in the others combined.
after that, it's probably Civ5. i got it on sale for $15 and i have about 90 hours in that.
after that, it's probably Civ5. i got it on sale for $15 and i have about 90 hours in that.
i use this as a general guide personally. not strictly for hours, but like i said, hours to how much i paid. but if i found the game that good, even a short one with no multiplayer, i'll play it a fair few times, trying to do all achievements or complete on the highest difficulty etc. my point is, if i like the game i will make up the hours by replaying it, and if it is a game with lots of padding, i will be hesitant to play it through again, if at all. overall i find the hours tend to balance themselves out.The_Blue_Rider said:
also, forgot to mention WoW, but no idea how much i spent due to the subscription, or how much of my time on it was actually fun...
That's exactly how I value games, how about that! I don't think it's a perfect system, but it works well enough a lot of the time.suitepee7 said:
I'd probably have to go with Killing Floor, since I spent £3.75 on it and up to this point I've played it for 75 hours, which means it's lasted 20 times longer than a worthwhile purchase. It was more of a time-killer than actually very enjoyable, but it's the best example of the "suitepee7-bojackx" value system.
EDIT: I'm gonna go ahead and add Minecraft, since I got it in the Alpha stage, at which point it was about £7, and I've invested hundreds of hours, unfortunately it isn't logged, but I'll assume at least 300 hours.
While I don't have the mathematical breakdown, what pops into my head is Mount & Blade and its expansions. I got them during a sale on Steam. I don't always play them, and when I do, it's not long before I find another game to play, but I keep coming back to them as interim games between bigger titles.
Well...
World of Warcraft. It's debatable whether or not it's worth how much I've ended up spending on it, with a recurring subscription for about five years now, but across the three characters I usually play I've pulled up something like 280 days of played time in that, so I'd say it's been worth it.
Skyrim. As someone who couldn't get into either Morrowind or Oblivion, Skyrim seemed to have something different that just let me dive right in and love it. Maybe it was the vastly improved third-person camera, or the gritty-yet-beautiful game world, I don't know, but I put in well over 80 hours into that.
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. There isn't enough to say about that game. It may not have the best story (but lets be honest, neither did Skyrim), it may not have the best graphical fidelity or engine, and it may be styled very much so like a single-player MMO, but I love it all the same. Great combat, great aesthetics, great sound design, and an absolutely massive world.
Metal Gear Solid. The series as a whole, really. Sure, they're 3/4 cut-scene and 1/4 game-play, but at least Hideo Kojima knows how to make the cut-scenes interesting. And lets you skip them (Though I wish you could pause them). And damn does he know how to write some characters. Disregarding the lack of an editor with the balls to cut down the scripts, at least most of the characters in that series are very well defined. Even Raiden had a great character arc in MGS2.
Mass Effect. Again, the series as a whole. But if I were to pick an individual game out of the series, it'd be Mass Effect 2. Got it on PC and PS3, put in about 60 hours on the PS3 and about 50-60 hours across two characters so far on the PC.
World of Warcraft. It's debatable whether or not it's worth how much I've ended up spending on it, with a recurring subscription for about five years now, but across the three characters I usually play I've pulled up something like 280 days of played time in that, so I'd say it's been worth it.
Skyrim. As someone who couldn't get into either Morrowind or Oblivion, Skyrim seemed to have something different that just let me dive right in and love it. Maybe it was the vastly improved third-person camera, or the gritty-yet-beautiful game world, I don't know, but I put in well over 80 hours into that.
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. There isn't enough to say about that game. It may not have the best story (but lets be honest, neither did Skyrim), it may not have the best graphical fidelity or engine, and it may be styled very much so like a single-player MMO, but I love it all the same. Great combat, great aesthetics, great sound design, and an absolutely massive world.
Metal Gear Solid. The series as a whole, really. Sure, they're 3/4 cut-scene and 1/4 game-play, but at least Hideo Kojima knows how to make the cut-scenes interesting. And lets you skip them (Though I wish you could pause them). And damn does he know how to write some characters. Disregarding the lack of an editor with the balls to cut down the scripts, at least most of the characters in that series are very well defined. Even Raiden had a great character arc in MGS2.
Mass Effect. Again, the series as a whole. But if I were to pick an individual game out of the series, it'd be Mass Effect 2. Got it on PC and PS3, put in about 60 hours on the PS3 and about 50-60 hours across two characters so far on the PC.