was the first full priced game you bought worth the price?

[Souther Thorn]

That would be my first NES with Supermario Bros./Duck Hunt packed in. 2 months of mowing lawns all around our neighborhood and I had just enough. I had an excitement headache for an hour after getting home before I could unbox and power it up and SQUEE.

I bought Metroid with birthday money the next month.

 

[Arnoxthe1]

Either Halo 4 or Spec Ops: The Line... I can't remember now.

Halo 4 was pretty good but also disappointing on a lot of levels too. Spec Ops was great but it was only good for a single playthrough of course so I don't know how to judge that.

 

[Zeterai]

Vampire: The Masquerade, Bloodlines. Full price retail version, $50 plus tax. I'm one of roughly seventy-two thousand people who can say that, and it's never going to be any less satisfying. As first games bought go, I think I win on general principle.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I don't recall the first game I bought with my hard-earned money. I do however remember buying a PS2 with money I earned with a short-termed gig a few years ago. It was worth every penny.

 

[Guffe]

I got some money every week from my parents when I was a kid if I did chores at home and did my studies well enough.
It wasn't much, to get a game I would've had to save up something like 15 weeks or something. But I started saving this money when I heard a new pokemon game was coming for the GBA, can't remember if it was 2nd or 3rd gen, but that would be the first game I see myself as paying for, myself.
And hell yeah it was worth it

 

[MailOrderClone]

I paid $60 for Donkey Kong Country when it came out. Yes it was worth that.

 

[Korentin_Black]

Hard to say, but it would have been on a cassette tape... Possibly something like Jet Set Willy: http://www.fraserking.co.uk/spectrum/screenshots/Jet_Set_Willy_2-The_Final_Frontier.png ^_^

 

[thetoddo]

Mega Man 4. And yes. Oh, oh yes. 12 year old me LOVED that game. (Though way too old me now views it as one of the weaker entries in the series)

 

[happyninja42]

Holy crap are you kidding? I was like...10 years old. That was 28 years ago! I have no clue what game it was, much less if it was worth it. It probably was, I don't recall disliking games back then as my sense of taste and enjoyment was still developing.

 

[loc978]

I spent $80 on Chrono Trigger in late 1995 (I was 14). That was shortly before I got my first actual job, so I earned the money doing manual labor for my various elderly neighbors. Before that, all of the games I had were gifts of one form or another.

Totally worth the asking price. Cartridge still works, too (though when I go back to replay the game, I tend to gravitate toward my DS copy. The SNES cart is a collector's item, now).

 

[FPLOON]

Uh... I think it was Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories for the GBA... Granted, I did buy it at full price alongside its respected official strategy guide (and a few other "games" for said GBA) using a 100 dollar Toys R Us gift card I got for Christmas that particular year, but I digress...

Now apparently, as I was thinking of basically the first game I officially ever bought at full price, I started listing games I did buy at full price that was well worth their weight in money, in my opinion:

Spoiler: The list in question... in no particular order, I guess...

Kingdom Hearts: Chain of MemoriesKingdom Hearts: 358/2 DaysKingdom Hearts: Re:CODEDKingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance*Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD ReMIX*Pokemon RubyPokemon EmeraldPokemon BlackPokemon WhitePokemon XPokemon YRayman OriginsRayman LegendsOdamaCatherineSonic GenerationsHyperdimension NeptuniaHyperdimension Neptunia mk2Hyperdimension Neptunia VictoryJak and Daxter CollectionGod of War Saga*Ratchet & Clank CollectionLollipop ChainsawTales of Symphonia Chronicles*Tales of Xillia*Tales of Xillia 2*Persona 4 ArenaPersona 4 Arena UltimaxYs 1 and 2 Chronicles*BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend*BlazBlue: Chronophantasma*Skullgirls**

*Came in a Limited/Collector's Edition packaging
**Not counting Skullgirls Encore because that version came complimentary, anyway...

Yep... Also, I just realized that it would "soon" be the 10th anniversary of buying my first official game at full price, basically...

 

[Windcaler]

I was going to say Chrono trigger but then I went back further to the NES days and remembered how great mega man 2 was and that I had bought it full price. It was a game I earned through hard labor. Mowing lawns, washing cars, helping my dad put an engine in his truck. I got paid slave wages for all the work I did but in the end it was oh so worth it

So yeah Im going to go with Mega man 2 because it was great. To this day Ill pull it up on my PC and play it a bit too. Anytime I can play a game 10+ years later you know they did something right

 

[Dark Prophet]

The first one I bought right after launch was S.T.A.L.K.E.R. SoC and it was and still is worth every cent I payed for it, because I have played it and it's various mods something like 750-800 hours by now and every now and then I go through the vanilla one despite the fact that visually it starts to look kinda crap. It still is one of the most atmospheric and immersive games for me and that soundtrack, shit now I have to uninstall all the mods and play vanilla again, thanks a lot I was in the middle of my Dota 2 rampage.

 

[Treeberry]

I remember paying for a lot of games as a kid but I think the majority of the time the games were quite far away from their release dates and thus significantly cheaper. I think the first game I actually paid full price for might have been Soul Calibur III. I got it because I loved Soul Blade and suddenly found out the 'new' series. In my opinion, it was not worth it. No breakable weapon system, the characters were largely gross-looking fanservice and I swear everyone had the same nose. And I kept getting lag in the shop and extra modes.

 

[MysticSlayer]

I don't remember the first game I bought at full price. It was probably some game on the Gamecube, but the first I remember actually paying full price for was Civilization V. Considering it is my second most played game on Steam and all of those hours were enjoyed, I'd say it was certainly worth the price.

 

[Starbird]

when say first full priced game you bought; I mean with money you earned though some kind of job, not money that you where given as a present, found on the sidewalk, a game someone else paid for.

Spoiler

I recently decided to buy a game have been eyeing for a while at full price($20) with my money since I have an income. I got Transistor full price on the pc. that made be the same people who made bastion, which is a game in my favorite games list.

It has 6 hours story, plus some challenge areas that took up some time and fun gameplay. It seems like that the gameplay is getting more interesting on new game plus as well. I want to see all the what different combinations of ability's I can make. I only played 9-ish hours but I can see my self potentially getting close or maybe even better then $1 = 1 hour of enjoyment.

I got bastion in a Humble Indie Bundle. In a way I view it as supporting supergiant for making bastion and getting game I heard good things about. Even when just looking at Transistor on it's own would say I don't regret playing full price for it, so far.

Edit- I forgot to mention the art style, music, story is good. although You only are given the basics of the story but you are not directly told all the details. From my understanding you are going to have to dig for the details and you get all them in a single playthough. I will be replaying it so I am ok with that.

That's an interesting question since the first game I ever bought with my own money was Mortal Kombat 3. I got *months* of entertainment out of it and to this day I don't know why.

So yes. Inexplicably yes.

 

[seris]

i bought garrysmod 4 years ago and ive gotten over 3600 hours out of it with only paying 10 dollars (and about 80 dollars extra because i bought all of half life 2, portal, portal 2 and css for the content)

 

[mirasiel]

Exile (1991) on the C64 with pocket money earned doing chores at home.

If that doesn't count then UFO: Enemy Unknown (1994) with money from doing chores around my neighbourhood.

 

[duwenbasden]

Gotten with allowance: Starcraft (1998). 500+ hours later, yes, money.
Gotten with real work money: SimCity 4 (2003). 7000+ hours and still going.