Post your Nominations. Best value in a game ever. Poll to follow

What I'd like to see system wars sort out is this.

What game was really a great value for all the content you got?

What game did you pay your money up front for, then just spend countless hours playing, and replaying? Exploring every nook and cranny, playing through all the options, enjoying online play, whatever it was that hooked you for so long.

This can be any game from any series or genre, however, I would like to exclude MMO's because of the play-for-pay, and/or they are designed to be time sinks.

So what say you system wars? What game gave you the most gametime from your money.

I'll lead off with my personal nomination :

Diablo 2

The only game I can think of that ended up being truly valuable to me was C&C: Renegade. Its online gameplay kept me coming back for over three years. Too bad the singleplayer campaign blew.

As for future games, I think The Orange Box goes without saying. Halo 3 also looks loaded with content.

I would say for me it was Halo 2. Almost three years in I still play it alot.

As for the majority, I think the Orange Box is a no brainer.

DMC4 and NG, two games that I've been playing since release and I still haven't gotten bored of.

And yeah, Orange Box.

Simple. Starcraft. I clocked so damn much, its crazy how much of life I turned over to the game.

DMC4 and NG, two games that I've been playing since release and I still haven't gotten bored of.

And yeah, Orange Box.

Kritical_Strike

StarCraft. Hands ****ing down. Came out in 1998, been playing it since.foxhound_fox

When two posters post the same game next to each other, its means something..

Well I have to vote for starcraft....

Although I wish they would fix bnet and get rid of hackers

I'm gonna say that Half Life Platinum Pack I bought years ago. It had: Half Life, Opposing Force, Blue Shift, Counter Strike, Team Fortress Classis. Not to mention after getting this you had access to hundreds of mods including full games such as they hunger, the specialist, and many more. The kicker was that I remember this only cost 40 bucks. Best value ever, bar none.Sir_Crocidile

This one:

Baldurs Gate 2 and its x-pack, Throne of Bhaal. Epic.

While its true I spent more time with D2 than any game ever (over 4 years!), this Collection is even higher quality, and that makes up for it.

...and at Amazon.com it costs less than $10 BRAND NEW! Anyone who doesnt have this but has even a passing interest in WRPG's needs to get this.

Simple. Starcraft. I clocked so damn much, its crazy how much of life I turned over to the game.

ArisShadows

yeah me too. that game really made me loose so many hours

Chrono Trigger

New Game+ and 13 different endings gave this game a rediculous amount of replay value

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Simple. Starcraft. I clocked so damn much, its crazy how much of life I turned over to the game.

naval

yeah me too. that game really made me loose so many hours

I mean hell, I use to play a good 8 hours (give or take) a day, every damn day in the summer time.In a month time I could have racked up over 200 hours..

Chrono Cross

FF7

Starcraft

Guildwars

2k basketball series

Take your pick. I have countless hours on all.

Half life,Best mods of all time.

CS

NS

TF

Sven CO-OP

The specialists

DoD

Skies of Arcadia (4 times through, over 200 hours) and Halo 2 (don't even wanna think about how many hours). C&C Red Alert also comes to mind.

EDIT: Oh yeah I forgot to mention, for some reason my Skies of Arcadia cost $80, I bought it a few months after the PS2 came out, and for some strange reason the store charged me more for it.