Your best game buy

[Asper Sarnoff]

Now tell us about the best game purchase you've ever made. Which single pack of game(s) have given you the most amount of fun, for the least amount of money.

I'll say mine was "Star Wars: Best of PC", whicn contained KoTOR(still my favorite game of all time), Empire at war, Battlefront, Republic Commando and Jedi Outcast II(Played a few minutes of it, didn't like it. Jedi academy I like tough.), which I bought dirt cheap from a reduced bin. A purchase I've never since regretted.

What's your best buys?

[rainfyre66]

Super Mario All-Stars, of course!

I dunno if the Wii would count since it's a system, but to be able to play new Wii games, Game Cube games, and old school games from various old consoles on the VC makes the Wii worth its price to me.

[Vy'drach]

For me, either Aliens vs. Predator 2 (and the Tribal Hunt expansion pack), or Delta Force: Black Hawk Down (with the Team Sabre expansion pack). I was addicted to the multiplayer in both of those games for years. Aliens vs. Predator 2 had great multiplayer and the game was nearly balanced with its classes. The only things that were really overpowered were the rocket launcher with its homing rockets that were impossible to avoid, and the Predator disc when used in the hands of someone that knew how to use it (which most didn't). Well, actually, the Predator speargun could be very overpowered if you knew how to aim it, but it also required luck (the spears took a few seconds at long range, but it made almost no noise, and would behead a human and smaller alien class with a single spear, though good luck hitting an alien with one). Fortunately though, most servers deactivated these weapons, and I played as the heavy predator, which had wristblades, a spear, a disc (when not deactivated), and a netgun. The heavy predator was the only predator that could survive a hit from the sniper rifle (but even it was sometimes one hit if it hit the right spot), the Praetorian and Queen were the only aliens that could survive it, and a Marine could only survive in an exo-suit. Anyway, he had the most health, was almost exclusively melee, and was the slowest out of all the Predators.

The game modes for AvP 2 were fun as hell, one of my favourite being "Survivor" mode, which you choose the "survivors" from any of the four "Species" to choose from (There were marines, aliens, predators, and mercenaries, which were essentially just marines, but not allied with them) The most common choice for the survivors was marines, however. Next, you choose the "mutant" race, which is taken from any of the remaining three species, but the most common choice was Aliens. It starts off as a free-for-all deathmatch, and the first one to die becomes the first mutant. After that, it resets everyone's health, and sends them to a new spawn, with the mutant now loose. Survivors gain one point a second that they stay alive, and mutants gain ten points a kill, with dead survivors coming back as mutants. Imagine a hide and seek from hell (though most people preferred to hide in the same room and try to cover each other's back, except for me). I preferred to choose one of the various hiding spots I used on the maps.

My favourite time in that entire game was playing survivor on the map that was essentially the interior of a massive ship, based around the dropship hangar, and I was hiding behind a support beam in the main room, which you had to pretty much come into that space to see into it, there was no looking in from across the room or anything. Anyway, I was behind the beam, and it got to the point where I was the last survivor, and so I knew that anything that appeared on my motion tracker was an alien, and I was watching the dots appear on it, hearing it make that nerve-wracking "beep" sound, and hearing their claws on the walkways as they went by, until I finally saw a dot not moving in line with the hallways, and it kept getting closer, until, and this brought back flashbacks of the Aliens movie, it was within the range of my cover, and I looked up, and sure enough, there was a Predalien on the wall coming right at me (and the thing about the Predalien, it's essentially like the Heavy Predator, it has the most HP of the aliens, but it's the slowest moving, but an added bonus for them is that they have the longest range and most devastating pounce attack, which is essentially that you hit E and fly forward, shredding the target to bits). I aimed up at it, and started shooting him, until he pounced at me, which I expected and avoided, and killed him as he tried to reorientate himself. However, now my cover was blown so I ran out into the hangar, and into the side hall who's doorway made up a large part of my cover, and pretty much all the aliens were hot on my trail (and of course catching since they all run faster than a human). So I turn around, and see a Praetorian, two drones, and a runner coming after my ass, and I killed the runner first, since they have the least HP but are the fastest, then the two drones, leaving the Praetorian as it can't wall climb, scarcely runs faster than a human, and can not pounce attack. So I have this Praetorian dogging me through the halls, and I'm trying to do everything I can to keep ahead of it, until I run into the Predalien that I killed earlier, who respawned. (And by the way, the reason I didn't just kill the Praetorian is because, while the Predalien has more HP, the Praetorian is armored, taking less damage from anti-personnel rounds than the others, and I have no armor piercing rounds, a shotgun with slugs, or a minigun, which slows you to a walk when you have it anyway). That situation was so adrenaline inducing, I had to take a break from playing it because I couldn't play it anymore for several minutes. My arms were shaking for the adrenaline coursing through them. THAT was a fun game right there. And those Aliens in the multiplayer were all human controlled, not bots.

And as for Black Hawk Down, that required real tactical gameplay, since all snipers and the guns that fired .308 were one hit kills, and you used real life tactics a lot of the time, such as suppressing fire, smoke, diversions, flanking, all that. It was hectic multiplayer, and as long as I played it online, I never got max rank. I played it for about two years religiously, but didn't even come close, really.

And all guns in BHD had bullet drop, with different guns and calibers dropping at a different distance and rate, so you could master it on one gun, and select another and not hit the broadside of a barn. And god I loved the PSG-1 in that game, I used it to the point where I could out-snipe people with the MCRT .300 Tactical (Which was the "best" sniper in that game at long range, 18x zoom while the PSG-1 had an 8x, and the longest time before bullet drop set in).

[evilwaffles]

I found Modern Warfare 2 - Prestige Edition for $87 at a garage sale. Night vision gogles ftw!

[Sabre]

Legend of Legaia, £1, now a playable one goes for £50

Loads of really cheap classics, to many to list.

[ThePointingMan]

Probably The Orange Box!

Containing Half life 2, Half life 2: episode 1, half life 2: episode 2, half life 2: Blue shift, Portal, and TEAM FORTRESS 2!

Discount gamer here, I don't buy X-box games, Why would I buy one game for 60-80 dollars when I can just buy them on the computer when they are a whole lot cheaper on some crazy discount. Why would I buy those discounted games when games made exclusively for Pc are cheaper, and contain more hours of fun-ditude, and generally tend to be better on the Pc, cause people spend hours making mods ect? I wouldn't that's why! I mean sure the Orange box was on X-box... but still it's better on the Pc anyway.

Loads of really cheap classics, to many to list.

and that.

[Braux]

Sins of a solar empire: trinity,a great rts already, plus the other two expansion packs make it worth the $40.

[ndf]

Probably Wind Waker. My favorite Zelda game. I believe I purchased it at full retail price, but definitely got my moneys worth. (played through it 5 times. =P)

Honorable mentions~

GTA Chinatown Wars - only $10 in the app store.

Metroid Prime Trilogy - the case alone is worth the $50!

[Kursed]

Now tell us about the best game purchase you've ever made. Which single pack of game(s) have given you the most amount of fun, for the least amount of money.

I'll say mine was "Star Wars: Best of PC", whicn contained KoTOR(still my favorite game of all time), Empire at war, Battlefront, Republic Commando and Jedi Outcast II(Played a few minutes of it, didn't like it. Jedi academy I like tough.), which I bought dirt cheap from a reduced bin. A purchase I've never since regretted.

What's your best buys?

(Sidenote:Tomas and I are old JKa Players nice too see another)

I'd have to say the orange box Garrys mod is really fun and so is half-life 2.

[Matt Macdowel]

this is to hard!!! hmm let me think i would problay have to say super smash brothers brawl

[Sylum]

The original ratchet and clank was my first ps2 game. I've stuck with the series since.

[CrypticQuery]

I don't think I've had a really notable great game buy in a long time.  Possibly BFBC2, and maybe the upcoming Modnation Racers (PS3).  Or maybe some of the NES games I've bought recently.  I really dunno! :D

["User"]

Super Mario All-Stars, of course!

Seconded!  That and Zelda 3: A Link To The Past.  Most of the games that gave me the lasting memories and game time were on the SNES back in the day when games were actually good :P

[Guest DRL]

Super Mario All Stars (SNES)

GTA Chinatown Wars (NDS)

Star Fox 64 (N64)

SW: Knights of the Old Republic (PC)

LoTR: Battle for Middle Earth I & II (PC)

And thereare many others.

Actually, to me, any/all games that I buy

and enjoy are 'best buys' - but maybe it is

me that I do not buy as many games as other

people...

[conaly]

Hi,

mine was Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000. I bought it in 2001 and I'm still flying around in Flight Simulator (but today with a newer version). The game changed my whole life. After I bought it, I started to get really interested in airplanes and stuff related to that. I went so far, that I started a airliner pilot training a year ago. I had to cancel that due some money issues, but I'm still planning to try it again in 3 years.

[Guest DRL]

Hi,

mine was Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000. I bought it in 2001 and I'm still flying around in Flight Simulator (but today with a newer version). The game changed my whole life. After I bought it, I started to get really interested in airplanes and stuff related to that. I went so far, that I started a airliner pilot training a year ago. I had to cancel that due some money issues, but I'm still planning to try it again in 3 years.

That is AWEcool!  :cool:

[EazyIN]

Probably the Sly Cooper franchise. One of the reasons I;m kind of a furry