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Personally, I use the old cost per hour of play. Probably my best ever was Pokeman Silver I got at Blockbuster for 2.99. I put over 40 hours into it at around 7.5 cents an hour.

Your average game is around $2.50 per hour and average movie is $4.

Whats your best?

With the huge number of cheap ass games, it's hard to say, but I think my personal best "cost:playtime" ratio I ever got out of a game was getting a new/sealed Crazy Taxi 3 for Xbox for $3.55 including tax.

I put in around 80ish hours in Final Fantasy tactics, I found 8 copies for 15 each at a pawn store. Sealed. This was before GH was out. Yea I know they must have been
stolen.

for $0.99 at Blockbuster that I played for about 10 hours, $0.10 an hour

GTA 3, $50, 300+ hours, and thats only what I can estimate from my current save (so it's probably even more).

Another good measure of value is how long you go back to a game for. Example: The other day I went back and played through Deus Ex again. My save files from 2001 were still there.

Hmmm Halo, 50$ 200+ hours.. You do the math.. Early in the morning.. Dont wanna think..

Probably NBA Hangtime for N64, which not coincidentally is my favorite game ever. I got it when it came out for either $50 or $60, but from the number of times played it it probably cost like $0.00001 per game or something.

Is that the only way to rate a deal, by how much time you get out of the purchase?

How else can you rate a deal/value?

How about how much quality time you get?

To be ultrasimplistic, quality time = quality * time, so the value would depend on quality * time / price.

Originally Posted by CheapyD Is that the only way to rate a deal, by how much time you get out of the purchase? How else can you rate a deal/value?

It's completely subjective, but how about how much fun you've had with a game?

Good games can be short - think Max Payne and Wario Ware. Crappy games can be long. I know I've put a lot of time into crappier games (which shall remain nameles...) just because I'm determined to beat them and be done with them forever.

definately my 5 dollar rygar. multiple play throughs to get all the diskarmors and such.

I don't figure out $$$/hour formulas as to whether the game I got was a good deal. If I enjoyed the game, it was a good deal. I never overpay for games.

Originally Posted by Gothic_Walrus It's completely subjective, but how about how much fun you've had with a game? Good games can be short - think Max Payne and Wario Ware. Crappy games can be long. I know I've put a lot of time into crappier games (which shall remain nameles...) just because I'm determined to beat them and be done with them forever.

you thought wario ware was a short game? damn! i dont know how much time i spent unlocking and beating all the high scores of the mini games. not to mention the hard and thrilling difficulties. that was a value game. especially since i played it on my computer through emulation for free.

Originally Posted by metroidkiller9 you thought wario ware was a short game? damn! i dont know how much time i spent unlocking and beating all the high scores of the mini games. not to mention the hard and thrilling difficulties. that was a value game. especially since i played it on my computer through emulation for free.

Dumbass.

whats the problem banky?

Originally Posted by metroidkiller9 whats the problem banky?

the problem is you did not pay for the game

Games for me that were value.
Rainbow Six 3: I paid 40 and put in well over 500 hours
Super Street Fighter 2 for GBA(20):I still play about 15 minutes a day on this for about 2 years
Smash Bros. Melee(48) with about 400 hours when it first came out

Originally Posted by CheapyD Is that the only way to rate a deal, by how much time you get out of the purchase? How else can you rate a deal/value?

Not the only way to rate a deal per se but IMO the best way to rank them. There is the theory even short games will be replayed if the game is good enough. So you will put more time into it even it is a short game. Plus it eliminates the cheap games that one barely plays.

I am just being objective here. You can also look at how much you "would" have paid for the game and still liked it.

The best values on games were ones where I could do more than just play the game a lot to give me x hours of enjoyment per hour. Some examples:

GTA3: This would always get reactions from my relatives (mostly men) who are only familiar with games like Pong and Frogger. One time, an uncle of mine who is a psychologist tried the game for a few minutes, and he was just in hysterics, muttering how "twisted" the game was. Nevertheless, guess what I got from him as a Christmas present later that year... GTA: Vice City!

Gauntlet Legends (N64): I admit, I got this for $35 used, but its value to me was much greater. My father was always a fan of the Gauntlet series, but he said he grew out of it and didn't have time to play video games anymore. I saw this game at an arcade, and I figured he might like it. I was right, and we spent many nights playing until two in the morning. We hadn't spent such quality time together in a long time.

Super Smash Bros./Goldeneye (N64): My friends and I play mainly RPGs, so we don't play tons of group games, but for some reason, we picked up on SSB and Goldeneye real easily. I don't know exactly how long we've played those two games, but it was worth it just for the occasions to stay up the whole night playing games.

Hmm, i probably rate value on the production level of a game, and how decent it is. I dont get replay value for most console games like i would for PC games.
If i could rate any game the best value, that would be Enemy Territory for the PC... i can't reccomend a better FPS online.... and heres the best part= it's free. Of course as with any fps online you want to join a clan to avoid playing with n00bs, to get the most out of it. You may need to upgrade your video card (or pc) but most still dont have problems with gf2.

Altogether ive probably put about 300 hours injto Enemy territory, and made some good friends and buisness associates. Now thats the gift that keeps on giving.

Cost wise, I got Chrono Trigger for free from my cousin and put a good 350 hours on it. One that I've actually payed for, has to be Metroid Fusion, After that game came out, the last 3rd of my senior year was utterly wasted by that game, I must have played 3-4 hours a day for about 3 months. For $25, that has to be the best purchase I made, at least until Zero Mission comes out.