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I only buy Battlefield 3 Limited Edition.
I remember buying Baldurs Gate 1 on its release date and spent the bus trip home reading its manual
The last was Skyrim for PS3, but I also ended up trading in some games for it.

But for me the days of paying "full price" for a game are pretty rare, at least when it comes to console. I manage to control my impulses. If there's something I really want, I'll put it on the "Get this some day" list and then wait until the hype has died down and the price falls.

Computer games, I may pay full price for something as long as it's under 20 bucks.
Guild Wars 2 is the only recent one. I don't remember the last time I bought a full-price game before that.
Ditto: Guild Wars 2. Wasn't worth it to me.
Before that, Little Big Planet 2. It was a gift for a special somebody
Last year i bought at full price:
Diablo 3
Max Payne 3 (and i haven't even played it)
Halo 4
COD Black Ops 2
CS GO
Uncharted Golden Abyss (PSVita)
Shinobido 2 (PSVita)
Wipeout 2048 (PSVita)
Kirby Anniversary Edition (Wii)
New Super Mario Bros U (Wii U)
Zombi U (Wii U)
Kid Icarus Uprising (3DS)
If I jump on something at release / for full price, it's usually retail adventure games I feel like supporting (with Kickstarter there's less and less "loose change" for that lately though).

Last one was the 'collector's edition' of The Book of Unwritten Tales, before that Black Mirror III, Botanicula (although that might have been on some early discount, can't remember), Tension, both Darkness Within games, Experience 112.
Also pre-ordered Gray Matter. Oh, and the boxed Resonance.

My last (and possibly first) digital at-release-purchase were the remastered Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective games.
Post edited January 12, 2013 by MoP
The most notorious for me was Diablo 2. The expectations were so high that I bought it the first day it was available in my country... man, that was a great day! Since then I became more calm and I don't rush to buy games as soon as they appear.
Super Street Fighter II for SNES maybe. I have bought a few XBOX live games, but I don't think those do much price dropping, as their price is already quite affordable. I'm not sure that's the same as buying a 60$ game. To be honest there is probably something else, but I'm not sure I remember. Oh I did buy Powerstone and Soul Calibur the day the Dreamcast came out.

When I was a kid I was more into needing to play things right away. Games were less likely to drop in price to any significant extent, they kept getting better, and there weren't as many worth going back in time for.

As an adult I view buying full price games as something of a suckers game. They start off ridiculously high, and drop in price quickly enough that its worth waiting for if one has even the slightest bit of patience for a particular game. I'm also so many years behind everyone else that there are probably a hundred great games I would like to play that are new to me, and wouldn't cost me anything close to their 60$ release price (and 50 more I already own) I finally played Batman Arkham asylum a few months ago and the GOTY version cost me all of 10$ - new.

I'm sure splurging every once in a while for something you are super pumped for is OK, but your gaming dollar goes soooo much farther if you are willing to not be chronically impulsive.
Post edited January 12, 2013 by gooberking
Normally I would have bought a lot full price but I was away from my gaming PC all year. Closest I came to full price in 2012 was buying Far Cry 3's deluxe edition for $45.

I guess the last game I paid full price for would have been... Skyrim?
Eador: Genesis

And it is well worth it. And I may pick up Imperialism II before it goes on promo.
Last one was The Witcher 2. Well, technically I suppose Torchlight 2 was actually the most recent one, although "full price" there was only $20.
Minecraft for me.
Oh yeah, completely forgot about Minecraft. So basically anyone who has that, bought it at full price.

Don't think it ever had any discounts, did it?
Over the years? Probably too many.

Skyrim - day 1 or day 2 of release....certainly inside the first week, anyway. Thrown 200+ hours into it, and find it at least as boring as Oblivion was/is.

[the following list is original release, not budget re-release or gog release.]
Command & Conquer 1.
Diablo 1.
Settlers 2.
Warcraft 2.
Duke 3D.
Baldur's Gate.
ToEE.
NeverWinter Nights 1.
Ultima Underworld 1.
Ultima 7.
Theme Hospital.
Morrowind.
Unreal Tournament...something....
Quake 2.
Rome:Total War.
UFO: Enemy Unknown.
X-Com: Terror From The Deep.
Resident Evil....which one was Nemesis? 3?
Darklight Conflict.
Privateer 2 (LOVE Jurgen Prochnow <3!! )