Games that gave you the most bang for your buck

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Superhiro

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We have threads that talka bout best games ever, worst games ever, games worth replaying, best indy games, etc etc. I was just thinking, as I reinstalled Prophecy of Pendor for the 3rd time, what games have I gotten my money's worth over the years. Make a list with your estimated playtime of the games that were the best bang for your buck.

Mount and Blade Warband - 150h according to steam, I think I bought it for $10?
Terraria - Played it through solo once, and with different friends a couple times, then again with the big update a few months after release. 96h, and I think I got it for $15?
Civ4 - Must have reinstalled and played it 4-5 times. Guessing around 100h of playtime. I might have pirated it though, so that doesn't really work well in the calculations
WoW - Obviously, considering its an MMO. I must have over 100days played on my warrior over 4 xpacks. Who knows, maybe more. Haven't played in 2 years. But with a monthly subscription, box prices and so on, I dunno if it really has been "the best bang for your buck".
Tetris on my cellphone - I'm a fucking tetris savant or something. I can play that shit for hours on the subway. It probably cost me $.99 and I've put dozens of hours on it.
 
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Solitaire. It was free and I play it 6 - 7 hours a day, 5 days a week.
 
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Everquest
just saved from becoming a EQ circle jerk for 60+ pages
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Sutekh_sl said:
Counter-strike. 30 dollars and 13 years later ... still playing.
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You had to pay for it? Remember when that shit came out in beta for free. Even when steam came out it was connected to my account from day 1. But yeah it would be Counter-Strike for me also, just got done with a 2 hour session of some gungame maps.
 
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Insomnia_sl said:
You had to pay for it? Remember when that shit came out in beta for free. Even when steam came out it was connected to my account from day 1. But yeah it would be Counter-Strike for me also, just got done with a 2 hour session of some gungame maps.
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EQ SC CS WoW /sadlife
 
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Anwyn_sl

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Insomnia_sl said:
You had to pay for it? Remember when that shit came out in beta for free. Even when steam came out it was connected to my account from day 1. But yeah it would be Counter-Strike for me also, just got done with a 2 hour session of some gungame maps.
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You used a Half-Life key @ WON during the old days, so when it converted to Steam, you kept all original HL expansions and mods fo' free. I have friends who had to individually purchase HL, Op4, Blue Shift, and CS because none of the keys for those unlocked them all like the original HL key.

I had them all myself from the HL key, and I'm in agreement that it was probably the best $30 ever spent.
 
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Starcraft - all about the custom maps
Half Life/CS/mods
WC3/Dota/HoN
BF1942
Company of Heroes
Kerbal Space Program
Everquest
just saved from becoming a EQ circle jerk for 60+ pages
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I honestly wouldnt rate MMOs high up on the most bang per buck meter considering you pay $10-15 per month to play them while games like Half Life or Starcraft which i played a ton more of compared to EQ(even in back during Velious) and those where one time purchases.
 
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Time to get real old school up in this bitch.

Most of the old KOEI strategy games (romance, nobunaga's, etc), Wizardry (we leveled dudes to 500, we modded a toggle switch onto that large ass NES joypad's turbo fire at one point)
 
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Anwyn_sl said:
You used a Half-Life key @ WON during the old days, so when it converted to Steam, you kept all original HL expansions and mods fo' free. I have friends who had to individually purchase HL, Op4, Blue Shift, and CS because none of the keys for those unlocked them all like the original HL key.

I had them all myself from the HL key, and I'm in agreement that it was probably the best $30 ever spent.
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Pretty much, but being the evil masterminds that me and my brother were at 12 and 15, he sent me in to the local Electronics Boutique that has used games, where I took a picture of a used copy of Half-life box that had the CD key sitting out and got it for free.
 
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1 EQ (still keep in touch IRL with people I only met there) /EndEQ_DerailThere
2 First few months of Planetside 2. Was free freee freeee and not crippling for us F2P cheapos. I eventually spent $$$ on it for OP weapons that were then nerfed (they use this cycle to this day)
3 WoW

My rationale for including MMOs despite the sub fee, is that when I first started, it was what, eight bucks a month for EQ? Best value in that I stopped spending hundreds on movies and other crap.
 
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Half life 1 is, by far, the best value game I ever bought. The single player was amazing. The deathmatch was fun. But then the mods like Counter Strike, Natural Selection, The Specialists, and all the various single player mods extended its longevity even further.

Quake 3 is a close follow up. I must have put a few thousand hours into that game.
 
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I put a couple hundred hours into Zombie Panic! Source
Terraria. 100+ hours for like 5 bucks or something
Dungeons of Dredmor
Eq obviously. 100 days /played on my main at the end of GoD. A lot of those were AFK in bazaar though.
CS 1.6/ GO
Orange Box
Played through Dark Souls a few times. Top 5 all time RPGs for me
Plants vs Zombies


Trying to get into NWN2 but the old school models (terrible, EQ2 style) and the camera style are kind of bugging me out. That, and getting used to DND rules..

Also, this is a game thread, but, books. Seriously. Like 12 bucks tops for a paperback, quite a good $/hour ratio on those.

Edit: D2 back in the day, tons of time put in.
Path of exile
 
Himeo

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In terms of value?

1)Lords of the Realm 2
2)Wing Commander 4
3)Finaly Fantasy Tactics
4) Rome: Total War
5)Final Fantasy 7
6) Orance Box
7) TES: Oblivion
8) Ultima Underworld 2
9) Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
10)Quake (with mods)
11)Half Life 1/2(with mods)
12) Warcraft 3 (with mods)
13) League of Legends
14) World of Warcraft
15) TES: Morrowind
16) Baldur's Gate 2
17) Civ 3 / 4 / 5
18) Final Fantasy 7: Crisis Core
19) Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2
20) Dwarf Fortress
21) Eve Online
22) Die2nite
23) Planetside


96/97/98Greatest years in gaming value?
 
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Call of Duty 2 - bolt action rifle-only server was amazing. I played that shit for god damn ever. Probably put over 200 hours into that

CS:Source (fuck you 1.6) - one gungame server that had infinite level up, team kill, nade-->knife last levels, and those textureless boxy maps was possibly the most fun FPSing I ever had. I still remember the adrenaline pump from hiding on knife level and seeing a guy run by, and you chase him from behind for the win and at any second he could just turn around and see you and kill you. God I loved that game, then I got banned for "wall hacking" because I knew people's movement patterns on a map and correctly predicted where the guy would go. I think it was just a bs reason to kick me off the server because I had gotten better than their faggy clan members. Probably 300 hours or more

EQ / WoW - Dunno why you guys act like the $10-15 a month for MMOs takes down the bang for your buck. I put so many hours into it each month that the $10-15 was nothing.

Goldeneye / Smash Bros / Mario Kart for N64. Tons of hours w/ friends on those. Smash Bros is an iffy call because playing that destroyed the controllers so fast you had to continuously buy new ones.
 
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