If you’re thinking of buying Z now - the modern remake is a careless trash port FYI
Total Annihilation. Yes I peaked young.
So much fun!
Same, found that game while I was way too young to understand any strategy, which is kinda important in a Real Time Strategy to have. The units were cool enough to occupy little me’s mind, so I had a good time.
Not quite “find your pocket change” but a solid value: Starcraft + broodwars for $20.
So, soooooooo many hours. And it came in a sweet looking box! Like the kind that people shell out an extra $50 for as a pre-order these days.
I’ll always remember you this way Blizz. You were one of the greats.
Discounting Steam because otherwise I’d be here typing for an hour listing all the cheap games I enjoyed from there.
Lufia 2 for the SNES, which was great because it was a prequel to Lufia 1, though it took me a couple years to finally track down a copy in the pre-internet days. I was pleasantly surprised to find out it was a prequel, and there are actually massive spoilers for the 2nd game in the intro for the 1st one, so I unintentionally played them in the right order!
A few years back, dusting off the GameStop bargain bin with old gen games, I found a sealed copy of Zone of the Enders and a used copy of Metal Gear Rising.
I had never heard of the first, and I was only mildly aware of the second one (it was before people started memeing it into mainstream status).
Best summer ever!
Fallout and Fallout 2. Two disk set at Walmart for $10 in the late 90s. Kept me busy through college, and I was so happy to see Bethesda bring it back from the dead and create some of my favorite games of all time!
Z is a fantastic game but some of the levels infuriated me, no matter how well I played the AI seemed to have an answer… Turned out the difficulty goes up a notch after each loss since the devs expected you to git gud.
Oh wow, I wasn’t aware of that!
I remember initially falling in love with the concept of the game and the humor and the graphics, but then feeling absolutely crestfallen that I couldn’t accomplish anything in the game!
But then I had my very first big gamer epiphany - you need to be aggressive in Z! So not only was it one of my big surprise favorites, I had one of my most rewarding aha! moments as a gamer with it
Dungeon Keeper 1 and 2. There was a box set with both games in it, and the box art for DK1 caught my eye, just this cartoonish grinning demon. Of course I got it home, and then noticed the box art for DK2, which certainly got my attention and definitely not because I have a fetish for thighs.
I got metal gear rising for 5 bucks at a 5 below. Everyone shit on that game but running around as ninja Raiden was so fun.
I bought Phantom Pain for like $4. I was really burned out of the series after MGS3.
But Phantom Pain is incredible! Giant open-world game where my main focus was collecting
pokemonsoldiers by tying balloons to their asses.
Kengo on PS2. Five bucks.
“Greg Hastings’ Tournament Paintball Max’D” for the PS2. It had no right being as fun as it was, and it sure wasn’t polished, but it was a fun little title. My roommate and I played it off and on for a couple years.
Morrowind promised and delivered complete freedom to roam where I wanted and I found it in the big box of videogames at Superstore… That was after trying it for 15 minutes, thinking the animations were jank as hell even back then, and then not touching it again until a month later when I thankfully gave it another chance because I was bored
I played that game entirely to young and somehow finished the main quest line, eventually.
But man, I spent so many hours just murder hobo-ing it because I didn’t really understand the quest based game loop yet. I’d just pick a direction and look for something cool. When I found someone that looked like they’d have cool stuff I’d just kill them and take their stuff. The only time I’d reload is when I got the prophecy warning; I broke like every quest except the main one.
This was compounded by the fact that 1) I was really enjoying just exploring and 2) that game was not particularly hard to destroy the balance on. Even a kid with poor mechanical skills could get wildly OP pretty easily.
12/10 no notes.
Morrowind was the first game I started “Do a quick save so that I can go on a murder spree, and then reload when I’m done” xD Also learning how to insult people wearing glass armour enough so they’d attack me first, and now it wasnt illegal for me to kill them and loot the glass armour off of them
hahha, I’d just go on a spree picking up as much Ordinator armor as I could, sell it, and buy off my bounty.
That’s pretty clever for a kid!
never underestimate the strength of boredom and time in a pre-DSL era lol
Mission Critical, back in the 90s
God I loved that game.
Enclave. I picked up the Xbox version in a clearance bin somewhere. It’s a really solid level-based action adventure game.
Worked on that, thanks for playing! 🙂
Awesome, well whatever you did for it, good work.
3d modeling, weapons and some enemies.
Way late to the party, but I picked up Lost Kingdoms for the GameCube for $5 back when GameStop still had bargains. One of my favorite games to this day.
I got Okage for PlayStation 2 at Liquidation World for like $5.
It’s not the best RPG, but it’s one of my favourites just for its whacky humour and fantastic character designs.
