You have been given $100 to by games...

[Quantom Quak]

You have been given $100 to by games that you've already beaten, or games that are over 5 years old.
What would you buy/recommend, escapist?

 

[Generalissimo]

command and conquer generals, plus zero hour expansion

 

[Fanfic_warper]

Personally I'd run to the book store instead since I need to catch up on some series, but I guess if we have to do games, then The entire Xenosaga series, Resident Evil Umbrella and Darkside Chronicles (the only 2 good resident evils in my opinion), and all the current Disgaea games.

 

[redisforever]

The Last Express, Red Alert 2 + Yuri's Revenge, Tiberian Sun (wait, no, it's free), Renegade, KoTor, IL2 Sturmovik: 1946.

 

[KaiserKnight]

You misspelled buy by the way. I really don't know, probably some old SNES games which I don't have. Can't really say much since I still own many of my preferred older games.

 

[Episode42]

Over five years old? You know what, i'd go grab a second hand N64 and as many games as i could comfortably carry.

 

[Brutal Peanut]

....Do I have to say it? Alright, I guess I do - Pssssssssychonauts!

 

[Fbuh]

Who is Games, and why did they give me $100?

Oh, you meant "buy games". I'm sorry, I couldn't understand over my dickish grammer fascism.

That aside, I would put it away for Skyrim. While Skyrim certainly wont cost that much, I could technically ut it towards a better video card so that I could even play Skyrim.

 

[KILRbuny]

Oblivion's 5 years old. get that. I've literally spent about 100 hours a year since it came out

 

[EHKOS]

I would prolly grab some PS1 classics like a Harvest Moon, and blow the rest on adding to my PS2 collection....NEEDS MORE RACING GAMES.

 

[Bigsmith]

STEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAM!

So many old games.

So little cost!

I don't know where I would start!

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

I guess if we have to do games, then The entire Xenosaga

Personally, I wouldn't recommend Xenosaga to anyone who wasn't into Sci-Fi or RPGs with long cut-scenes (especially if they didn't play Episode 1 and continued to the next two games). Not to say that it's a bad game series; the combat system is great and improves with every Episode, the cut-scenes looks great on the PS2, the story is deep (but very confusing), side missions and hidden unlockables are very rewarding, there's plenty of fun mini-games and A LOT of customization.

The only advice I could give is that if they find the first game (or series) interesting, start with Episode 1: every game starts slow, there's a lot of dialogue and the difficulty curve increases rather quickly. If they enjoy Episode 1, go nuts on the other two installments.

On the other hand,

all the current Disgaea games.

I do recommend this.

 

[Lucane]

So is that based on current Resale value or Original ending value? If the later Then ! Copy Of Tomba! and the rest towards a few copies of Suikoden II (NRFB) They sell for alot on Ebay or have before at least.

Just for playing however? Tomba!, Suikoden II, Arrow Flash (If released for current systems) Super Mario RPG(I haven't bought on Wii VC yet.)Can't think of anything Else I'd want I don't still own or want to replay/pay

 

[tacotrainwreck]

I think I'd just hop on gog.com and buy every damn thing on it... at least what I haven't grabbed already.

 

[Simulated Eon]

Well I would go to GOG(good old games) and see what they have would get at least 10 games with that money. Probably some old adventure games and some rpgs.

Edit: Damn first time ninjad.

Edit2: well not exactly ninjad more like unobservant.

 

[Scarim Coral]

One of them will be Pokemon Black (I always wanted to start a new team from scratch) and the rest will be the games I had traded away in the past (Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon, Donkey Kong Country Return and Super Monkey Ball etc).

 

[GraveeKing]

The Pikmin series along with Majora's mask, and I'd still have cash left over to buy some Mario party to fend my sister off with.

 

[Swny Nerdgasm]

Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate 2, all their expansions, and you can spend the ton of money you have left over on punch and pie

 

[Neverhoodian]

STEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAM!

So many old games.

So little cost!

I don't know where I would start!

Alternately, Good Old Games also has excellent deals. For $100 you could purchase the following games and still have some money left over:

1. Wing Commander: Privateer
2. Psychonauts
3. Fallout
4. Fallout 2
5. Beyond Good and Evil
6. Red Baron pack (contains original game and the Red Baron 3D sequel)
7. Freespace
8. Freespace 2
9. Real Myst
10. IL-2 Sturmovik (all expansions included)

EDIT: Gah, I've been ninja'd...twice. I need to stop taking so long to compose my posts.