My downloads are digital but the cheapest game I can recall liking was Toki Tori - I think it was $0.49 on Steam. I only bought it because it was so cheap, looked possibly entertaining, and I was buying something else (that I probably haven't played yet). Recently played Dynamite Jack which was a very fun game - maybe cost $2.49 or so? I really enjoyed Unmechanical and To the Moon here from GOG for I think $2 each.

Red Faction: Guerilla for $8. Volition never fail to entertain

LGR Thrifts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbSgb9dngRI
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No, bargain bin is overall really bad. Here on GOG I think that a less than 4.5 star rating should already be a warning sign and a less than 4 star rating is kind of a direct hint that the game might be really bad. It often then is. If however I'm really bored and it is a genre I like in general I might give it a try.

But the much better choices were always proven good classics. They were mostly worth its money.

Temple of Elemental Evil. All I knew about it when I found it for 2 bucks in the bargain bin was it was based on D&D rules, and I well remembered the old TSR PnP module. So I picked it up. Tragically buggy game, but after installing the Co8 mod, it turned out that 2 bucks was a steal.

Neverwinter Nights: Again, picked it up since it was based on D&D rules, but knew nothing about it. Turns out that was the best 5 bucks I ever spent on a game, considering the hundreds of hours of enjoyment I got out of it.

Divine Divinity. More than worth the 5 bucks I spent on it.

I could kick myself for not grabbing Planescape:Torment when I saw it on the bargain rack in (of all the weird places) The Bay. They wanted 8 bucks for it, but I passed as I didn't know anything about the game and didn't look that closely at it. Planescape rang a bell, of course, but it wasn't until I got home that it dawned on me what I'd passed up. I went back, but it was gone.

Those are the ones I can remember offhand that I picked up as physical copies in stores. If we're talking digital deals, there are q great number more that I spent minimal dollars on and was very pleasantly surprised.

Blue light special at K-Mart, does this make me better than you?

I love trying obscure little titles that other people overlook - not least of all because my tastes tend to be very different from most people's. I have better luck with movies and books than with games (where low-budget knockoffs have a higher chance of resulting in something unlovable), but I've certainly found a few that I enjoyed more than I expected to. Some examples:

Chaos Overlords: An obscure little underdog title that ended up becoming one of my favourite games of all time! (See here for me gushing about why I love it so much.)

Alpha Polaris: A pretty decent horror adventure title set at an Arctic oil research station (I'm a sucker for Arctic horror.)

Restricted Area: A cyberpunk diablo-style ARPG. It has a lot of flaws (buggy in some places, a serious lack of variety in level design, and for the characters I tried it felt like each had one skill path that was just obviously better than the others), but it did a decent job of scratching my cyberpunk itch for a few days.

and [url=http://www.gog.com/game/entomorph_plague_of_the_darkfall]Entomorph: Both very cool little RPGs that punch well above their weight level, and have very memorable soundtracks.

Spiderweb Software games (particularly the Avernum series): I was playing these back when they were a shareware series called "Exile", and man, did I ever obsess over them. These have become more well-known lately due to being featured in lots of bundles, but were pretty obscure for a long time so I feel like they count as "bargain bin" games owing to their heritage.

Perimeter: This is by far the weirdest RTS I have ever played, both in storyline and gameplay. That might be offputting to some people (the game does a piss-poor job of teaching you how to play, so the learning curve is pretty steep), but for me it was a breath of fresh air.

Cosmology of Kyoto: God Damn this game is creepy. God Damn! The stuff you see in the ghost-haunted city is bad enough, but it also has some of the most graphic depictions of the torments of Hell that I've ever seen outside of medieval art.

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Fallout, Fallout 2, Desperados: Dead or Alive, Nightmare Creatures, Lego Racers, Driver and Unreal Gold all of them at 20/30 ARS each one.

Two that immediately come to mind is Viewtiful Joe and Akuji the Heartless

I think that the first time I got Birthright: the Gorgon's Alliance, it was in a bargain bin. A lot of people disliked that game, but I liked it. I think I also got D&D Pool of Radiance that way.

There's another game that I got in a bargain bin that I absolutely loved, it's really bothering me but I can't remember what. It was a TBS of some kind.

I would LOVE to get my hands on Pool of Radiance - come on GoG get this one (the remake from a few years back that is ;) )

As far as bargain bin games - I picked one up recently called King Arthur and it was AMAZING - about five bucks and it had a slimmed down grand tactical / Total War aspect, with important general characters that could learn unique spells, tactics and economic skills. There were choose your own adventure quests and VERY difficult RTS combats that were tactically satisfying. LOVED the game. I poured over the turn based and upgrade options for ages and smiled a mile wide when I was able to defend against multiple attacks on my main armies using the maps to my advantage. Great game.

LOL and I was JUST about to reply to a response in this thread when I saw the "date" was tomorrow... huh? Literally stared at it for about 2 minutes before I realized this was a thread necro from about a year back :)

I would get everything from bargain bin. I would only get new versions of games that I was absolutely super excited about.

You just have to be patient, very much so.

More than half of my pre-GOG collection was paid under 15$ per game, so yeah, I got some pretty sweet deals. Boxed sets with up to a dozen games where pretty popular in the day.

I did my research on Gamespot and then waited out the price for the games I wanted so the value per dollar was pretty outstanding.

It`s always nice to meet a kindred spirit.

If the whole gaming demographic was like us, a lot of the crap flying today wouldn't fly.

We'd tell them what we want and they'd oblige in order not to go bankrupt.

PC retail is pretty much dead in Montreal as well at this point.

Last time I checked a few years back, the PC section in stores was tiny and really about full priced newer games with the rest of the space occupied by console games. This was true even in stores that previously sported only PC products.

At first, I wondered if PC gaming was free falling until I realized it had simply migrated online which made complete sense.