[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Zen:
Has any game you ever played been worth more than you paid for it? Say for example a game that you couldn't stop playing, or that gave you more fun than you ever thought it would?

There's a few games that I would classify as falling into the Category of my alltime favourites. These are games that I can remember playing for hours on end, for days or weeks, and that I would still check out from time to time. This is around a dozen out of the well over 150 that I own in CD format, not counting the really old ones from my DOS days.

A quick rundown of those games would be:
Betrayal at Krondor - One of my favourite RPGs ever produced.(The instrumental track from Old Deuteronomy from Cats is a perfect soundtrack for some parts of this game.)

Star Control II - A serious contender for the best game I have ever played. The only complaint I can make about it now is that the ship combat AI is predictable once you've played against it a few thousand times. I special ordered it, and paid $80 CDN for this game when I was only 12, but never regretted it.

VGA Planets 3.X - This game ate up huge amounts of my time a decade ago.

Baldur's Gate II - Any game that will make me play it not once, but at least twice through a hundred hours is going to be right up there on the list.

Pirates! - The Amiga Version is one of the greatest classic games of all times.

Dominions 2 - The sheer amount of stuff you can do with this game, combined with my need to optimize everything about playing each race has put it in one of the top contender spots for a time sink.

There are a number of other games that approach these ones in terms of their greatness, but not that many.