Value for money?

[The Fury]

In your view are games value for money? If not why?

If yes, why? which games are the best and was well worth your $50 (£30)?

[Captain Murphy]

In your view are games value for money? If not why?

If yes, why? which games are the best and was well worth your $50 (£30)?

Not all games have good VFM, some are really short and some are crappy, some are both. Replay value also comes into play for VFM. You have to look at how good the game is in the long run, Things like EA games with a date on them (sport games 2005, 2006, 2007 etc) in my opinion are not considerd good VFM unless they are brought the year before or early in the year thats why I dont really buy them much, they are pretty crappy considering there is no sport game with a constant Up to date system, an online downloading up to date system on a sport game would be great VFM since you only have to buy one and can keep updating it.

Really for me any game completed in under 20 hours and has nothing more to do is pretty shitty VFM. I like games with alot of things to do. Multiplayer aspects should also count as a factor since there is nothing more fun than getting a few freinds on it and pwning them. Online games also seem to be the best VFM for me. I also think it matters about the issue of will it still be playable and fun in a few years if I go back to it, Games such as Halo, Super Smash Bros, Final Fantasy have this, it can be played for year after the release without any major problem compared with games of the current time, the beach mission in Halo and the Maw are some of my favourites and I love going back to do them especially on legandary difficulty. Which comes to another issue; cdoes it have challenging levels, it maybe fustrating but it is fun trying to do something on a high difficulty its easy to get through a level with maybe only a couple of deaths but on a high difficulty it requires a staretgy and a way to get around problems, you arent always just rushing in a trying to kill everything. I wouldnt pay £30 for a game anyway unless I research it online and see a wide view of reviews that appeal to me.



Good VFM games:

Super Smash Bros Melee
Final Fantasy X
Grand theft auto (any)
Halo
Sonic mega collection


Great VFM games:

Counterstrike
Runescape
Aliens vs Predator 2

[Sanagi]

The best value for money comes from really good games which nevertheless turn up in used bins for low prices. Perfect Dark is a prime example, perhaps the best console multiplayer FPS game ever, and I've seen it for $5. You still need a ram expansion, though, which is presumably why it ends up being so cheap. Although for $5, even the reduced options mode that the game has without the expansion is a steal.

Lately I've been really enjoying Mega Man Battle Network 2, which I got used for $10.

[The Fury]

You are right about sports games, game like FIFA or Madden cannot be updated, once out of date many people might seem them as pretty much useless.

It's the same was the Premier (Championship) Manager games. Each year was the same game practially just an updated database. Of course you could also download updated databases but these were usually not created by the company.

But like Captain Murphy saiid above, it's the replay facot of most games which probably do sum up VFM. Many RPGs for example has tonnes to do, games can last to 100 hours or more just to get everything done and then more if you want to go through the story again.

[Serik]

The best VFM game I've bought was Half-Life back in 2001. I've played a mod of that game several times a week ever since: Natural Selection, Team Fortress Classic, Counter Strike, Day of Defeat...

[Frodo-X]

Not many. And over the years it has become harder for me to tell which are.

That's why in the past 4 years I've bought 6 games:

The Hobbit, LotR The Two Towers, LotR Return of the King, X-men Legends, X-men Legends II, and now Marvel: Ultimate Alliance.

I stick to things I know I'll like.

[cactusmaac]

Streetfighter 2 Turbo and Super Mariokart on the SNES.

[Matt K]

Castlevania:SOTN for PS1. So much replay value.