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I bought borderlands 3 deluxe edition. That was around $80 to $100 I think

I think I bought some DLC for Oblivion, shattering isles or whatever

Around $300 on the Wizards edition of Ni No Kuni. On just a regular game though, no special edition it was probably Phantasy Star III in 1991 on Genesis. That game was $79.99 which is the equivalent of $178.97 today.

I think Persona 5's Take Your Heart edition was like $120.00 or something

I've spent $1000 on some Kickstarters for offline games

Tyranthraxus posted...

I've spent $1000 on some Kickstarters for offline games

Hopefully they ended up good. RIP Mighty No. 9 backers.

That was the Persona 5 special edition for $90 + tax.

ellis123 posted...

Hopefully they ended up good. RIP Mighty No. 9 backers.

One was pillars of eternity.

Tyranthraxus posted...

One was pillars of eternity.

Well you had at least one good one.

Though the fact that you don't mention the others speaks volumes.

ellis123 posted...

Well you had at least one good one.

Though the fact that you don't mention the others speaks volumes.

I don't remember the other one tbh there's a lot that I backed at high numbers but only 3 ever that I spent on $1000. The other video game came out and I remember it being ok and it delivered on all its promises and wasn't anything at all like MN9 I'd just have to dig through my history to figure out which one it was.

The third Kickstarter I spent $1000 was for a rerelease of every volume of Kimagure Orange road.

Apparently some people had problems but my copies arrived fine.

Probably $100, I think thats what some of the special edition maddens and nba 2ks are. Would be GTA V, got whatever the most expensive version was but I traded in quite a bit and only paid out of pocket like $25.

I've bought Gotcha Force four times, so like 800 total.

The Rock Band set (not counting all the DLC) was I believe $250 for game, drums, guitar, & mic, so that.

Otherwise, probably about 100.

I remember Super Return of the Jedi for SNES being almost $100.

Tyranthraxus posted...

I don't remember the other one tbh there's a lot that I backed at high numbers but only 3 ever that I spent on $1000. The other video game came out and I remember it being ok and it delivered on all its promises and wasn't anything at all like MN9 I'd just have to dig through my history to figure out which one it was.

The third Kickstarter I spent $1000 was for a rerelease of every volume of Kimagure Orange road.

Apparently some people had problems but my copies arrived fine.

Well, if it all came out fine then it's all good.

over $10000

New game: Final Fantasy III (SNES)... I remember it being $79.99 in many places but the first Walmart I found it at was $84.99. So right at 90 bucks after tax.

Old game: I paid $140 for one of my two copies of Action 52. I think I paid $80 for the other.

Pretty sure the Xenoblade X collectors edition, Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition, Eiyuden Chronicle kickstarter backer tier I chose (physical game + OST), and Skyward Sword w/ the golden Wiimote (aka, the reason I will never pre-order a Zelda game ever again) were all around $90.

That would be the most. Unless you count the Zelda Collection Gamecube bundle, which I bought primarily for the Gamecube and the game was just a nice bonus...

3 out of 4 turned out well. Aside from the inevitability of Fed-pushed inflation pushing the numbers up eventually, I can't see myself ever paying over $100 for a game. And it's extremely rare I'll pay that much.

streamofthesky posted...

Xenoblade X collectors edition

Hopefully you didn't use the thumb drive.

Spent $110 on a dual pack of the Raidou Kuzunoha games before the reprint later that year.

On a single game, $60.

ellis123 posted...

Hopefully you didn't use the thumb drive.

I have never plugged it in out of fear from what I heard. It's just been a decorative item for a decade now. How does it fuck your computer if you do plug it in?

streamofthesky posted...

I have never plugged it in out of fear from what I heard. It's just been a decorative item for a decade now. How does it fuck your computer if you do plug it in?

It installs a backdoor onto the system that writes itself into your BIOS + starts screwing with the USB port that you plug it into, leading to the entire PC having severe issues that not even reflashing the system (including the motherboard) will fix.

the collectors ultimate whatever version of ff7 rebirth with the sephiroth statue.

ellis123 posted...

It installs a backdoor onto the system that writes itself into your BIOS + starts screwing with the USB port that you plug it into, leading to the entire PC having severe issues that not even reflashing the system (including the motherboard) will fix.

Hold on what?

If you mean 1 copy, then I spent 100 on Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth

Otherwise I bought 2 copies of Super Mario RPG on switch cuz it's really good

I bought a used copy of suikoden 2 for $104 maybe 11 or so years ago.

There is probably something else that is more but that comes to mind first.

Phantasy Star II was like $95. I have no idea where I got that kind of money then but remember taking the Toys R Us slip to the video game vault to get it.

vycebrand2 posted...

Hold on what?

It was an attempt at preventing music piracy.

They just went way too far and did an awful job at that. Like, a *very* bad job.

I wonder if it works on Linux lol

Tyranthraxus posted...

I wonder if it works on Linux lol

It did not at the time. It's always possible that someone has come up with something, but due to the nature of the frontloader it is basically just writing in Windows compatibility for a thing that all it does is attempt to write crap directly to the motherboard (ie. basically just writing virus compatibility into Linux).

And I should also say that part of the reason that it goes for your MOBO/USB is to facilitate its "actual goals." It wants to screw with your registry (it basically pseudo-encrypts it) + make it so that the USB drive in question is always stuck to a high letter drive (something like the y or z drive, IIRC) and then hide that from the user. Though because of the already mentioned "bad job" it eventually hides it from the BIOS itself, hence why the USB drive eventually just stops working. This mostly all not really being things that actually make any sense in the context of Linux.