Too Expensive!

I have been doing the same thing with HeartGold and SoulSilver, I want to find a copy with the pokewalker but I cant seem to find any for a reasonable price.

 

I actually gave in and bought a Soul Silver game for like, eighty bucks about? I don't know, it's really expensive.
Another really expensive game I can't get was, last time I checked, Sherlock Holmes and the Devil's Daughter for $50. Which sucks. Because I need it.

 

I actually want to get my hands on a physical copy of 999 (the first game in the Zero Escape series) because my rom keeps crashing, but I'm kinda sad to see I can't seem to find a second-hand copy and new ones cost 40 euros... I'm sorry, I love the Zero Escape series, but that's a little too much for me

 

Been trying to look for a cheap copy of Pokémon Colosseum. I always wanted to beat this game. When I owned it I got close but my little nephew ended up breaking it before I could finish. Cheapest I found it was like $65.

 

Second-hand ones are suspiciously hard to find. I lucked out with my copy, to be honest. Someone had just turned it in about a week before I got there. Come to think of it, Ace Attorney games are also really hard to find.

I had an incident like this in the past trying to track down a copy of Final Fantasy VI on GBA, and ultimately found it...but I ended up losing interest in the game not long after, so I begin to question if it was worth it.

I don't think there's anything right now that is hard and/or expensive for me to find, except for that one time I was trying to track down the Fire Emblem Fates Special Edition because I missed the window. In the end I had to just settle for a default copy because the SEs were prohibitively expensive after the fact. (This ended up being good for me - because Fates is a thoroughly underwhelming - and slightly awful - game.)

And then there are just games that are expensive regardless, but wanted to acquire just to try them out or because I liked how they felt - A Link Between Worlds is an example, which I bought used, even though the price difference was negligible. Some games are just perpetually expensive for one reason or another, even when supply is high; it's quite silly.

 

Some VNs on Steam are too expensive, why is a text based game more expensive than some triple AAA titles? Also, why is Co Black Ops still 40 bucks??

 

There are a few games that have a lot of explaining to do. Why exactly are you so expensive? Why should I be so interested in paying so much for your game? If it's worth the money, usually I do't mind, but there's a few that I'm still kinda undecided about in regards to whether it'd be worth my buying them.

For a start, I'm gonna say right off the bat the age-old example of MGS: Ground Zeroes. Now to be fair, my brother got that at a large discount so in terms of luck we had it. However, the game is infamous for being made full price despite having just a bit more than a demo's worth of content. And that is just not on. Selling a game of that length for that sorta price is what I'd call scummy.

Meanwhile there's a few I'm contemplating such as Kerbal Space Program (I'm very unsure because it looks fun, but I'm not sure if I wanna spend that much on what looks like a sandbox game) that sort of maybe will be worth the spending, but I'll probably wait for a sale to come on before I buy it.

 

Y'know, I'm really surprised that Pokémon heartgold and soulsilver are so expensive. I bought mine (originally, when they first came out) for $60. Checking back on Amazon, it's $80. That's pretty ridiculous for a DS game, even with the PokeWalker.

I tell you what, though. Disney Infinity, which I never planned to play let alone buy, was not worth $100 at all. After the constant updates and lack of good campaign play out of the box, Game Informer really lied to me back when I read the reviews.

 

There is only one game I bought which I thought was too expensive: Call of Duty Infinite Warfare. There was only one reason why I bought it. That's right ONE, and that was so I can play Modern Warfare 1, and it's worth it....for the $20 I spent on that. The other $60 went to IW and i'm not enjoying that game at all. Thank god I didn't buy the season pass for the maps or else I would have been really disappointed! It's pretty much a big slap in the face for those who just want Modern Warfare. It's the biggest bait in history.

 

I remember when I was young I once rented Ogre Battle 64, and though I didn't get very far because I found it confusing then, I thought it was cool. As an adult I started playing things like Bahamut Lagoon and Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen and really got into them. So I went looking around for Ogre Battle 64, since I still have my original sticker-covered N64 in my bedroom.

And I'm kind of out of luck. Apparently it's one of the rarer N64 games now and had a limited distribution to begin with (t-thanks Atlus) and I've seen some varying prices but most of them too expensive for me. Apparently out of the rare N64 games it's supposed to be one of the cheaper ones loose, but I'm not a collector of N64 or anything, I just want to try out the game again now that I can understand it better. But not at the prices I've seen.

Perhaps one day I will get lucky at a flea market.

 

tbh a 3DS with some Pokémon game >_<
been trying to get one for some time now and havent been able to fin one on a reasonable price ;_;
also Battlefield 1 but at least that one will probably have some sort of sale for christmas or maybe January <|:T

 

Not any games in specific come to mind, but I always have the price problem with buying new home consoles... The consoles are affordable, but then you have to pay that same prize to get like 5 games for it x.x
This is why I still have nothing newer than a WII and a PS2 xD

 

Second-hand games here are not expensive at all, some games are only $9. However, there are quite a few Nintendo Games I would love to buy, and although they are not too expensive, I always find myself buying the Pokémon 20th Anniversary merchandise which are expensive when buying a lot of items. The Rowlet, Litten and Popplio plush toys are $38 AUD each, perhaps because of the fine new material they were made with. A lot of Pokémon Cards are very expensive too, and I don't think trading cards should be that expensive, even the large exclusive boxes.

 

I'd really love to own Fire Emblem Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn but Radiant Dawn goes for around $100 and Path of Radiance goes for $200. It's a shame they aren't on the eShop yet.

 

I've been looking for Diablo 3:Reaper of Souls but i can't find a cheap one.
I really want to play it as Diablo 3 is one of my favorite games.

 

One game I will always gripe about in value is Halo 3: ODST. It came out in 2009 and was $59.99 USD.

Don't get me wrong. ODST has IMO, the best atmospheric and ambient atmosphere in the series. It's a change of pace from the iconic Master Chief to a regular, unaugmented soldier who's stranded in the middle of a Covenant occupied city at night. The entire place is an open world as he goes and tries to find the whereabouts of the rest of his team. You can play as his squadmates when you find clues of their activity in flashback levels.
Being sixty US dollars in price at the time it was released, everyone had already been pretty saturated with Halo 3, so we were ready for something new. This new story, new hero and new co-op mode coming out made me and a lot of other people excited. Aside from co-op campaign, Halo has never had a PvE mode until this one.

I finished the story mode, 8 whopping 30 minute(ish) missions in like 5 hours on the hardest difficulty and then the cooperative Firefight mode, which could pit up to four players together to battle hordes of enemies.
The first complaint is the price. Compared to its parent game Halo 3, ODST felt like an extra DLC add-on since the story mode was short and the Firefight mode had no engine capable of matchmaking. In order to get others to play in the same party, they had to be invited or friends.

Had there been a matchmaking system in there, I would've been logging a ton of hours playing Firefight. I love PvE modes. Same with the story too; I feel like with its current content, it should've been more like $35 or $40.

Looking at it on Amazon right now, 8 years later it's $9.25...

 

Er, most Wii U/Switch games are too expensive for me. I'm still used to the typical $39.99 cost of 3DS games so jumping to $59.99-69.99 in some cases is just aaaaa. Plus I still remember when all the games I'd buy in the late 1990s/early 2000s were $29.99 on release. ha ;o;

 

I'd love to own my own person copy of either the original Pokémon sapphire or emerald but unless I want a crappy bootleg version, the lowerst Ican find one for is $30 to $65 and the lower priced ones luck pretty sketchy as it is.

 

I bought Pokémon Battle Revolution once. I thought it was going to be an awesome sequel to Pokémon X Gale of Darkness or the Pokémon Stadium games.

And I was gravely disappointed that it wasn't. All it had was battling and barely any substance aside from that. That game was more of an expansion pack than anything else. It is not worth $50. :/