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Best money spent on a game?

Souls series.

I'd also put Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal in there. I would keep my eye out for discounted games that I thought were worth taking a chance on and one day I got that beauty for 10 or 20 dollars. The thing about it wasn't just what I got out of that game, it exposed me to the series which has become one of my favorites.
 
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate. 500+ hours, free DLC, and just had 3 other friends that shared my passion for MH. We played so much, and then I got my wife into it and we did it all over again. IMO best MH for new players and vets.
 
Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.

I spent £10 on it and got hundreds of hours of entertainment. My ex also got hundreds of hours out of it. Incredible game.
 
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Minecraft, got it as a gift and have put at least a thousand hours into it. Runner up would have to be Fallout 4 or Oblivion. Witcher 3 is right next to them also all three give an enormous amount of content.
 
The Witcher 3 + expansions. Paid £55 and after a few hours I felt like I paid too little. If I knew how much I was going to enjoy the game then I'd have bought the collector's edition. I remember hesitating to pay that much money because I had never played a Witcher game before. Bought it again on PS4 for £25. The expansion pass cost £20 and I got just under 60 hours of gameplay from it and I didn't even do all the quests in B&W (some were bugged out).

Another game would be Rocket League. got it for "free" on PS4 thanks to PS+. would have happily paid £20-30 for it. Bought it again on PC but it only cost £10. It's insane that I've got so many hours of enjoyment for so little money.
 
Probably the $7 for Far Cry 2 and its DLC or PS Plus fees for Infamous: First Light. I got so much play out of both games.
 
For me it has to be one of the following:

Diablo 2 + Lord of Destruction back in the day. Countless hours spent into that.
Minecraft when it was in alpha. Again, countless hours sunk into this game.
Pokémon Crystal originally and Pokémon SoulSilver later on.
Tetris DS.

And a subscription to WoW during some summers was an incredible value proposition.
 
Xbox 360 (having the benefit of entering the generation late, in 2010):
-Red Dead Redemption, Max Payne 3, LA Noire and Halo: Reach for something like $5-10 a piece.

-Every NBA2K (from ´06 to ´13) for approximately $80, from a regretful Nintendo fan who was leaving Xbox when the NX rumors began. I had some of them from before, but sold them for more and got this cheap "complete package" as I am a big NBA fan.

-The Orange Box, used, for approximately $5. Even when I consider Valve´s games to be brutally overrated, I knew I was paying mere coins for a lot of content.



Xbox One:
-Doom (2016) was relatively cheap in my country´s marketplace: 666 pesos (roughly, $40, at launch). Great game.

-The Witcher 3 with all its content at $80 still feels as an incredible purchase.

-Both Wolfensteins for $14.

-Telltale Collection for... $40? I got lots of great stories for relatively cheap.

Honorable mentions: I got so many great moments from World of Tanks and Warframe that I felt obliged to invest in some microtransactions for both of them (some gold in WoT, some cosmetics in WF). Excellent free-to-play games.
 
I got Until Dawn for 12.99 via Best Buy with my Gamer's Club Unlocked a few weeks back when a lot of PS4 games went on sale for 14.99. Just beat it tonight and thought that was a fantastic value -- extremely surprised by how much I enjoyed that game, despite traditionally having extremely low interest in both the gameplay genre and the narrative genre.

Highly recommended to any PS4 owner. 12.99 isn't quite the going price anymore, but snagging a copy at around 19.99USD is very easy and I still think that's a fantastic price. I'm looking to do another playthrough, and then putting the game in the hands of some friends to see if vastly different outcomes occur in the story.
 
5 bucks for Killing Floor, which I played for well over 100 hours.

I think I got SOTN for $7 at a pawn shop back in 2002.
 
Picked up Final Fantasy XII long after it released for around $20-$30 brand new. Sunk over 200 hours into it. My favorite FF game.
 
The Lord of the Rings: War in the North Collector's Edition (yeah, the one with the quiver!) that was originally $130 or whatever, I ended up getting on Amazon months later for $30. While certainly not my favorite game of all time, and it DOES have its fair share of issues (particularly in the terrible difficulty balancing), I actually thoroughly enjoyed the game. A great Diablo/Baldur's Gate style ARPG in the Middle Earth universe.
 
I bought Destiny (plus season pass) at launch, bought The Taken King on day one and I've spent 3808 hours playing it since.

I've definitely got my money's worth
 
I think I got Kerbal Space Program for like $8 when it first went up for sale, probably 600+ hours in it

TF2, Monday Night Combat, Lethal League, Rocket League, and Minecraft are also contenders
 
$10 on Oblivion from Gamestop. It was in a bargain bin and I had never played any of the elder scroll games. I remembered the gameinformer cover story for the game years back and I thought "Hey that looked cool"... Never looked back
 
$30 on Persona 4 Golden.

I'm 150 hours in and on my 3rd playthrough, and I plan on running through it at least one more time in the near future before P5.
 
$3.74 for Killing Floor 1, got over 150hrs out of that which is the most I've ever played one game (BF4 comes close but it did cost more).
 
Mario Kart 8 DLC. Orange Shy Guy and 16 new tracks takes an already excellent game to the ultimate fun gaming. Still playing it.
 
Divinity Original Sin, was able to buy for a good deal 2 copies and I had great time with my friend in co-op. We no lifed it during 3 days, finished it. Was fun.
 
Powerstone, easily. Posted that game for years. Nothing has come close since. Probably some of my fondest gaming memories. Halo 2/3 came pretty close.
 
Fletch said:
$25 for The Witcher 3 is absolutely ridiculous for the amount of high quality content I got from it
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Dis!!
Just got back into the witcher and holy Shiite there is so much content and detail in this game. Truly next gen. Witcher 3 is the game to beat and what others should be compared to.
 
Definitely Destiny; besides the hundreds of hours the fun I have with friends is still going on today 18 months later. Stepping it back up in September with Rise of Irons. Complete strangers have now become my real life buddies.

2nd place FFXI played for 6 years; was my first MMO and loved every second. Galka DRK forever.
 
Minecraft and The Witcher 3 by far. Since I started gaming under my own power (buying my own games and systems) I've have gotten at least 500+ hours between these two games.

I got Minecraft just before the beta started for like, $12. I spent full retail on Witcher 3 and bought the expansions, have 197 hours in it now and it was worth every penny.
 
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