I'm an old 80's and 90's gamer. The backlog of good games I want to play is so large, I never pre-order or pay full price. I simply wishlist any games I see that comes out I'm interested in, and wait for a 75%+ discount to buy, then they join the backlog... And I don't get suckered into any scams, pre-order crap, and games are fully patched and playable by the time I get to them - or mods are out that help with anything I want to do. I encourage all of you to join me to help stop these crappy publishers from their shenanigans.
Started doing this after I pre-ordered biomutant and was incredibly let down. Now I actually spend less on games, and have way higher quality ones. Just a little patience pays off huge! Especially when the gaming industry is pricing low-income consumers out of the market.
I started doing this after cyberpunk 2077. Instead of wasting money on another AAA game,I bought a bunch of indie games and now I have a huge backlog of really cheap or free games. This is the way!
0:59 Dead Space 1:57 Hogwarts Legacy 2:39 Star Wars - Jedi survivors 3:38 Resident Evil IV 4:35 Street Fighter VI 5:24 Spongebob Squarepants 5:51 Remnant 2 6:44 Armored Core VI 7:38 For Spoken 8:56 Wolong: Fallen Dynasty 10:03 Assassin's Creed - Mirage 10:59 Talos Principle II 11:40 Crew Motor Fest 12:22 Persona V - Tactica 13:09 Avatar - Frontiers of Pandora 14:11 _Bonus_ : Red Fall
Patience can be a great money saver. By effectively keeping myself 2-3 years behind on current games, I'm able to regularly buy games that are still new and exciting for me, but only cost a fraction of their original prices, and often come bundled with DLC...not to mention most of their issues already being patched!
Same as. The best part is that it also means I don't need to upgrade my PC other than storage to play all my library. I won't play AW2 or Starfield until performance is sorted or until a card that can run them properly is reasonably priced.
I picked up shadow of war complete edition in xbox for like $10. That's $10 AUD. $6.70USD. I haven't even played it yet. But loved the first and at $10, it's pretty much free
It wasn't all that bad it just never lived up to its hype or what they said it was gonna be. And the combat was fun for a couple hours but just like destiny it got repetitive but destiny still has 1000s of players what's the excuse for that game
Thanks for the incredible list Falcon! The fact that a lot of these games have been discounted by up to 50% within a year of launch kinda shows that Publishers are scalping customers and increasing prices to £70/$70/€70 unnecessarily in my opinion.
@@ILoveLamp-sj4bx I am with you - the only game I have bought in the last few months is Elden Ring which I got for £29 in the UK, which is £20 off its normal price. But Elden Ring at its standard rate of £50 - is less than normal releases, for a game that has many many hours of value.
It's all about making money, the only people who care about games are gamers and those who make them, not the people who sell them, all they want is money
I think it's more because these games didn't sell as well as the publishers thought they would, so they HAVE to discount them to put them on people's radar and get some money out of them. Hell I had forgotten that Avatar game came out ngl
Have fun !!! Bought it on Steam for 5,99€ and it's so good ! Honestly I prefer getting any game in disc form but you can't deny sometimes digital is way better
@@Fearless_Gamer96 as long as the digital game you're buying is DRM free (if you buy on GOG for example), its good. but in general, physical is the superior choice, and 90% of times cheaper than buying on the PSN store, at least here in europe.
My problem is that when games go on sale for this cheap, it's only a matter of time before they end up on PS+ and Extra. I know the Extra tier isn't worth it for everyone, but so many big games end up there within a year or so. I will not be surprised if Wo Long, Spongebob, and Street Fighter end up on those within 7 or 8 months.
If you can wait, Ubisoft games generally go on sale very quickly - like all of them, even if they sell well. I've also seen EAFC24 for more than half off, UFC 5 for 40% off and NFS: Unbound is a little older, but it's basically free now.
Ubisoft had sales almost all month last summer and last December.... Bought some Assassin's Creed, including Valhalla Deluxe (+Dlc s) on 8o % sale., Bought the Deluxe for Phoenix just yesterday, 9o% off, less than 1o€
The thing about "recent" games is even if you somehow get them at dirt cheap prices, their DLCs are still at full price & they are all much more expensive than the actual game itself in total. They just made it much more lenient for you to access the rest of their much more expensive stuff.
Yeah, any games that have dlc or have more upcoming dlc I always wait for the Gold or Goty edition to go on sale. Farcry 6 wasn’t great (been playing em since Farcry 2) but you can get the complete version for $20 when it retails at $120. Shits absurd 😂
Yeah but... most of the DLC's nowadays are not really good? Like I can think of a few here and there, but generally speaking... I went ahead and tried the "ULTIMATE BEST EDITION" for Assassin's Creed Mirage, and frankly, I could've gotten that version, but the additions to it where so... strange? That I ended up just getting the regular version and enjoying it for what it was. If you get a game, you don't have to get all of its downloadable content; generally, I think it boils down to whether you really like the game and want more of it, or are you pleased with what the base game has to offer.
@@Timbo360 Man, I got 24-25 hours into Far Cry 5 and realized I'm just playing a newer Far Cry 4, which was a newer Far Cry 3, which Primal took and reskinned.
Gotham Knights for $17 on Xbox was actually really nice and that was the Deluxe edition. I’ve actually played the shit out of it with zero regrets and no chance I would have spent $70-$100 bucks on the game. But for just under $20 after tax. Really fun and totally worth it
You should've spent the full amount to support the devs. It's worth 70$ ^^^This...... That's what everyone keeps telling me when I want baldurs gate 3 to go on a big sale. Wtf I ain't wasting my money idgaf if it's goty
@@xhongxina9113consumer loyalty to corporations is the dumbest thing ever. They have zero loyalty or care for us. It’s all about making money, nothing else. I’ll pay what I feel it’s worth. That dev making millions to billions can support themselves. They make more in a day than I’ll make in my life.
For the Dead Space Remake, you can also play the game for way cheaper in Game Pass, well, as long as you don't mind not keeping the game permanently in your library. You also get access to other great games recently released like Lies of P, Renmant 2 and Like a Dragon.
I picked up 27 games during the winter sale. Spent about $265 in total, so about ten bucks a pop on average pretty good deal. Probably the best deal i got was Control for $10 and Alan Wake for $6. Never played them before, but really glad I picked them up. Finished Control tonight, awesome game.
@@AsmodeusMictian Control is really good. It's got a few minor issues I'm not a fan of. A few of those things I fixed with some nice quality mods. Like weapon switching for more than 2 at a time. HP Regen, hiding the UI outside of combat. I do wish main story was a tiny bit longer and we had a one or two more power ups. But overall I really liked this game. Excited to see what Control 2 might be like.
@@danieljones3846 time for gaming? Nope, I'm just adding to the backlog. JK I do get a pretty good amount of time. I only work and don't have anyone I got to take care other than myself. I don't watch TV anymore, so gaming and reading are my main hobbies.
Picked up god of war 2018 for $5, horizon zero dawn for $5, red dead 2 for $15 and gta v for $15. All which gave me hundreds of hours each over the past year as a person who doesn’t usually game, using my old dusty ps4. They still run amazingly and the graphics on red dead 2 are insane
@@nachocheez9690Same, I love rdr2 it's by far the best game I've ever played - got 622 hours worth of play out of it and it's still enjoyable to play for a few hours.
Nier Replicant 1.22 is $24 on a sale. I pre-ordered the white snow edition when it came out. It was much more than that! Heck, when I built my new PC recently, I paid the full $60. 100% the game both times. Well worth it. I even bought the game for 3 cousins, and my brother in law and my sister. Waiting for the Switch port, too. So yes, $24 is dirt cheap. Also, Automata is $16 on sale (bought it twice). Wish I could buy these games for everyone.
@@VIPER0308 Honestly what I'd really love to happen is if the entire Nier/Drakengard saga was remade with graphical fidelity at least on par with Automata.... I'd fork over a couple hundred $$$ for that in a heartbeat! That said, I think we're gonna hit a point in the next 10-15 years where AI upscaling/enhancement is going to be so widely available and easy to use that the concept of a remake is going to become entirely pointless since it'll be almost effortless to take any game you want and give it a massive upgrade graphically speaking.
@Astraeus.. I'd pay that, too. I'd love to see Drakengard get some love. Clean up 3 like they did with Replicant. It's not bad (I'm actually replaying it right now). Maybe make it a bit easier to acquire the weapons and the true ending, but I'm torn on that idea. Same for 1, although ending E (I think chapter 13?) is hell compared to D in 3. I remember it being a slog. Do we still not talk about 2?! Lol. Add it. Then make Reincarnation into a true game and ditch that gacha crap. We'll get it. There is now a market for Nier, so SE can make easy money with minimal effort in remaking Drakengard.
Great video! Also worth mentioning, if you're a physical game collector, "Buy X for the price of Y" sales at places like Target or Amazon are amazing for getting new-ish games for ~30% off or more, effectively, if you pick the right games to buy. Probably within a year after release, a lot of great, new games get included in those kinds of sales, and the sales themselves happen multiple times a year.
Also, keep an eye out for the deluxe editions being really good deals vs. the reg. edition: Dead Space Deluxe Edition (on Series X) was on sale for 8 bucks for their Christmas sale versus the reg edition at retail price.
@@edwinpritom6336 ah nice! On gog the collection only included yakuza 0-6 but you got yakuza 7 as well. so I guess that's a pretty good deal! Hope you have fun, the yakuza games are some of the best I've ever played.
This is why you should wait on a sale. Know how low it can go and wait for the moment to grab the game you are looking for. My steam is full of games waiting on sales for me to pick them up. Patience is everything!
For most games yeah. But something I'm dying to play, like the RE4 remake or Armored Core 6 I preordered. 2023 was the first year I ever preordered since I never had money for that before, I'm glad we got so many great games last year tho. I get them cheaper from key sites tho
Forspoken is a gem of a game. If it's not to your liking, that's fine. But it doesn't make it a bad game whatsoever. My wife has played almost all the Final Fantasy games, loves the Halo series, various role-playing games, farming sims, Skyrim, Horizon etc. and she is really enjoying Forspoken. She has sunk hours into just exploring the world and levelling up. I really think we need a more diverse critique cast for games. It's a shame it gets so much vocal negativity.
I'm glad I got 0 separately. Kept hearing it was the best. Played about 6h and couldn't do it. Don't like the gameplay nor the sidequests, main story was interesting but might as well just watch it on yt
Not a recent game for sure but a couple weeks ago, somewhere around New Year's, I grabbed the edition of Ghost Recon Wildlands with all the DLC and add ons for something like 25-30$ off the PSN store. Original price is 120$. Good deal
Saw Dead Space Remake digital deluxe for $7.99 at one point on Xbox before Christmas. 95% off. I could not believe my eyes. Almost bought it again just to have the deluxe stuff.
The current release prices of £70/$70 is ridiculously beyond most gamers wallets. I only now buy in discount sales, purely as I cannot afford to keep up with the release schedules.
Just a quick note to anybody. Borderlands the Handsome Collection (possibly other versions as well) is having a discounted sale on their Pandora’s box edition. If your looking to complete your Borderlands collection nows the time. Pandora box originally $150 + tax Currently $30 + tax for all 3 borderlands w/every single DLC in between games n all the goodies that are in some of the top tear requested packs for all 3 games.
Dead Space Remake (Deluxe Edition) was normally $99.99 CAD and I got it for $9.99 CAD + tax for the Xbox holiday sale here in Canada. Now that's a steal!
Just a reminder as well, with Ubisoft+, you can play these ubisoft games without paying full price/discounted price. This is the route I went since I was unsure about some of them, and I'd rather pay $15 to try the games out for a month, than full price for each game and not end up liking the game.
As a Native American, the messages in Avatar are pretty effin' relevant to me. The game literally starts with you being a Na'vi in a residential school run by the RDA to "civilize" you. All of my surviving elderly 70+ Native relatives were in one here in Canada. I grew up knowing people that endured those "schools". So I guess I am happy for you Avatar isn't culturally relevant to you, but to me, it is a means by which to tell my people's story through the lens of sci-fi with many parallels to real life issues that still affect First Nation/Native American people and is quite culturally relevant to me.
When I saw forspoken, I had some hope that it would be as fun as the infamous games. That whole trilogy NEEDS to get ported to pc; at least. They’re so much fun and although mixed opinions, I thought second son was so fluid and amazing. The story was great and the characters were fun to get to know throughout the series
Yeah I wouldn’t call ~$30 on average “dirt” cheap but these are some good deals for anyone who can’t wait another year or so to get them for $10 to $20 🤷🏽♂
@@hufflepuffler2575 I’m not arguing that 30 is better than 70-80 but it still isn’t what you’d call “dirt” cheap. I expected something in the range of 10 to 20 tops 🤷🏽♂ There’s deals on the ps store for 10 or less
@@hufflepuffler2575 I agree the day 1 prices are high, but if you're paying $80, you're buying garbage add-ons like cosmetics in "deluxe" editions and apparently aren't too concerned with where your money is going. Not to mention that with basically any game, if you wait 6 months you get better deals than these. So I'm not really sure who this video was for, because if you really want to play a game but don't want to pay full price, you'll watch it and wait for it to drop to a price you're happy with, and if you're just surfing deals until something catches your eye for a cheap price, then you'll find so many better deals than these.
About a month ago or so, Hitman WoA was on sale for $27 and something cents, WAYYYYYYYYY cheaper than the standard $70 it was selling for on Steam, absolutely worth it when I got it.
A few weeks ago I buy the Dead space deluxe edition on Xbox series X for only 7.99$ bucks a phenomenal game and price. Even the Immortals of Aveum deluxe edition was on sale for 7.99$ bucks but it’s no longer at that price, miss the chance. Great content though. Keep up the good work guys.
The sales and give aways this holiday season were incredible. I scored RDR2, GTA5, ACs Oddesy and Valhalla, KC:Deliverance, and Street Fighter5 for $5-15 apiece. Then Outer Worlds, Gardians of the Galaxy, and Saints Row for free. Waiting for sales is wiser than just plopping down full at opening day.
I usually play my games a year behind everyone else so I can pick everything up on discount. FF7 Rebirth however is a day one buy. I’ll put down $200 for that game easy
Dead Space remake is also on Game Pass for Xbox. I've been playing it on there as a first time Dead Space player and I have to say I'm loving it. Splitting my gaming time between that and Rise of the Tomb Raider. God, I love Xbox Game Pass.
Maybe not quite such a "recent" game, but Red Dead Redemption II is on sale at Epic for one more day at about €19 for the base game, with the Ultimate Edition at €26.99 (reduced from €89.99). With the addition of a 33% discount voucher I got for picking up a free game from them last week, Ultimate Edition cost me €18.08. This sale ends tomorrow (10 Jan).
I have actually been finding these "resale" games for next gen consoles at Walmart for $17.49 this week alone I've picked up RE4 , RE village, AEW and Hogwarts for Xbox X. Just gotta go to bigger Walmarts for better selections.
Thanks for the Gamefly love. I've been a customer for 20 years and they rarely ever let me down, whether I want to rent or eventually buy. (Not a sponsor)
Epic also still has their additional 33% coupon on EVERYTHING if you spend at least $15 total, so you can get Dead Space for under $17 and AC Mirage for under $23 as of the day this video posted
Can’t wait to get Hogwarts too, it’s been on sale on PS Store for around 30-40 bucks. I’m not a HP super fan but I did enjoy the movies, the game looks like it captured the world of HP very well:
@@AmericanWears As someone that's not a super fan or have seen all of the movies, it is NOT top 10 in the last 5 years, not even top 10 of 2023, but to each their own
@@randomgreatness2298 are you one of the folks mad at JK Rowling? lol everyone has their own opinion, but not even in the top 10 of 2023? Can’t even name more than 10 good game releases in 2023. hogwarts was def one of them in no order, final fantasy 16, spiderman 2, street fighter 6, armored core 6, Jedi survivor, Alan wake 2, hogwarts, dead island 2, payday 3, like a dragon gaiden. Everything else I played outside of this was kind of eh.
I did grab the deluxe edition of Jedi Survior for $50 on Xbox, it's usually $89.99. I also grabbed the deluxe edition Gran Turismo 7 at the same time for $50. GoW Ragnarok got me for the full $80 and was discounted hours later, I was so annoyed. I love grabbing games on sale, really feels like a legit steal lol.
TBF they did specify in the title that these are RECENT games. What isn’t specified is that they’re GOOD recent games. They could conceivably make a “Dirt Cheap Recent Games” list where all entries are under $10, but then they wouldn’t necessarily be good.
Frontiers of Pandora is actually an amazing game, with some of the best graphics I’ve ever seen and Ubisoft knows this so takes advantage giving you full immersive moments like when you climb the mountain at the start, just breathtaking - my jaw actually dropped when it went to night time for the first time. People hate on games before they even release nowadays and that’s why I think it was overlooked. To be fair, Ubisoft also need to have more confidence, feels like they don’t hype their games up enough anymore. I remember when they were renowned for the best trailers.
I'm kind of surprised The Division isn't on the list. They go on sale for cheap pretty often. It's been a bit since I've looked at them, but I think they are both less than $10 when they are sale. Definitely solid games for that price. I know they're not new, but they're not outdated either.
I wouldn’t consider any of these “dirt cheap.” Can’t remember the last time I payed more than 5-10$ for a game. Dead space was 1$ in August through EA subscription, SpongeBob was a free a couple months ago. There’s so many games, just wait a minute and they’ll just give it to you
Remnant 2 and Hi-Fi Rush are available on Game Pass. I'd say that qualifies for dirt cheap. Also while its not as new, Guardians of the Galaxy is still free on Epic. They are all amazing games in their own right too.
I beat AC: Mirage within around a week. I paid Ubisoft + for $15 and then cancelled it after I was done with AC. Definitely recommend that if you have PC vs paying for it.
Retail price is usually between 60 to 80 dollars. But barely anyone buys games at full price these days so putting these recent games on “sale” is the best way to milk the games for as much money as they can. Not complaining though. I ain’t paying 70 for Jedi survivor.
I really don't understand the hate on Redfall, it isn't a bad game at all. I played through it a couple times and it has bugs but it's nothing any other AAA game doesn't have. It's worth the playthrough since they've done work on it.
in my opinion, a lot of AAA games have finally just gotten WAY too expensive to be feasible AND increasingly mediocre. They used to be $30 ten years ago. When they hit $60-70, that was the breaking point in my opinion but fine. I'll still pay for games like lies of P. But now it's like every company thinks it can churn out mediocre garbage for $70-100. At the same time, development has become so democratised that some indie dev is making your dream game and selling it for $20. Meanwhile, truly fantastic games like Elden Ring and BGIII are still selling for $60. The bubble will burst, and i'm here for it. We're at the point where a game will be 40% off on sale *and* i'll get a 33% discount coupon on that and THEN it's like 30-35 dollars, which is what a game should be. And I'll still look at most AAA games and think 'nah, still not worth the time or money"
@NickReilly-iv6jg First you'll have to find a crew that is willing to crack it. Jedi Survivor and The Callisto Protocol still havent been cracked, cause one is a broken mess, another is shitty 😂
$30 AAA games 10 years ago? Where? On sale? Everytime I hear someone talk about old prices, they say some ridiculous lie. 10 years ago new AAA games were $60, and I remember hearing PC gamers talk about how it's a rip off because AAA games used to be less than $40, or even $20. Go back farther than they act like games were $10, but then you can find store listings for $80 N64 games.
@@bruhtholemew I think they're referring to any games made by AAA studios, like how Harvestella from Square Enix is from an AAA studio, even if it itself isn't an AAA-tier game, but it was being sold as one with that $60 price tag.
AAA games already had been 60 bucks ten years ago - you´ll have to go back about 16+ years for lower prices. The weird thing that changed however is that they now want 70 bucks for a game, but started giving between 60-80% off usually at most half a year after the game released 5 years ago and keep that tradition. Something that they started with all the subscription passes for all their games as the games essentially aren´t really worth that much anymore due to it, not to mention all the microtransactions in AAA games at this point - the full price is just getting some extra money from the fanbase, which already is nothing compared to the money they make additionally through mtx. It´s why I stopped even thinking about buying games at full price, I just wait until they´re on sale bundled with the season pass for like 20 and if I keep playing it for long enough and deem it worth it I just top it up by buying some skins. But talking about that with fanboys is a pain usually, I got a friend thats a Assassins Creed Fanboy and always buys the most expensive edition coming with the figure, which is fair enough if you really want the figure - but he mainly buys it because he thinks he´d be supporting the devs by paying more and if you dare oppose that delusion its getting toxic as hell.
@@KainYusanagiThere's no way that's what they meant. Sure AAA devs have made cheaper games in the past, and Harvestalla should have been one of those, but this guy's making it sound like the price for highly anticipated AAA games in 2014 like Dark Souls 2, Watch Dogs, Smash 4, and Dragon Age Inquisition, were all $30 when they were actually $60. Hell they were $60 way before 2014. Halo 3 was $60 in 2007, and if you want to get weird, several N64 games were $80.
Bought Nier Automata for $15 a few weeks ago. I don't remember the last time I bought a game at it's full price, let alone more than $25. I still buy physical preordered copies or wait for those big sales (black friday/cyber Monday is rarely the biggest sale anymore...).
For EA and Ubisoft games, don't forget that there is their own version of gamepass that grants you access to pretty much all of their catalog. So you can play Avatar, Mirage, Motorfest for just 17.99 a month if you think you can finish all 3 of them in that time period. I will get Ubisoft+ in a few days just to play those 3 games + prince of persia and skull and bones when it releases in february to get the most out of that 17.99 dollars. Same for EA games, Star Wars and Dead Space can be played with their subscription service that I think is even included in gamepass ultimate. The regular EA play is 4.99 a month and the plus version is 17.99 dollars. Again, if you feel like you can finish these games in a month, I recommend trying this method to save some bucks, otherwise, look out for the sales. I personally prefer to buy the indie games rather than the ones that are part of these huge publishers.
Alan Wake 2 is on sale until TOMORROW on Epic for $39.99. If you buy either the base game or the Deluxe Edition, you get the Remastered original Alan Wake absolutely free. So it's only 20% off, but free remastered first game.
Currently playing the dead space remake - so glad I checked the store because the sale was insane and I never got to play dead space when I was younger though I had friends who played it and I watched them play and always thought it looked so cool (but also I was scared when I was younger so I preferred to watch lol) edit: also, Resident Evil 7 and Village has a bundle deal on PS5 for $29.59 where before it retailed for $79.99 (63% discount). Considering you get 2 games for basically $15 each I'd say that's a pretty good deal. Might pull the trigger on that one as well
I'm an old 80's and 90's gamer. The backlog of good games I want to play is so large, I never pre-order or pay full price. I simply wishlist any games I see that comes out I'm interested in, and wait for a 75%+ discount to buy, then they join the backlog... And I don't get suckered into any scams, pre-order crap, and games are fully patched and playable by the time I get to them - or mods are out that help with anything I want to do. I encourage all of you to join me to help stop these crappy publishers from their shenanigans.
Started doing this after I pre-ordered biomutant and was incredibly let down. Now I actually spend less on games, and have way higher quality ones. Just a little patience pays off huge! Especially when the gaming industry is pricing low-income consumers out of the market.
I started doing this after cyberpunk 2077. Instead of wasting money on another AAA game,I bought a bunch of indie games and now I have a huge backlog of really cheap or free games. This is the way!
We share the same views!
Facts
Just pirate.
0:59 Dead Space
1:57 Hogwarts Legacy
2:39 Star Wars - Jedi survivors
3:38 Resident Evil IV
4:35 Street Fighter VI
5:24 Spongebob Squarepants
5:51 Remnant 2
6:44 Armored Core VI
7:38 For Spoken
8:56 Wolong: Fallen Dynasty
10:03 Assassin's Creed - Mirage
10:59 Talos Principle II
11:40 Crew Motor Fest
12:22 Persona V - Tactica
13:09 Avatar - Frontiers of Pandora
14:11 _Bonus_ : Red Fall
Thank you man
Patience can be a great money saver. By effectively keeping myself 2-3 years behind on current games, I'm able to regularly buy games that are still new and exciting for me, but only cost a fraction of their original prices, and often come bundled with DLC...not to mention most of their issues already being patched!
Yeah but what about story spoilers?
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Amen brother
@@octolockg5059what about it?
Same as. The best part is that it also means I don't need to upgrade my PC other than storage to play all my library. I won't play AW2 or Starfield until performance is sorted or until a card that can run them properly is reasonably priced.
I'd also recommend Shadow of Mordor, when it is on sale it is usually quite cheap, and a great experience.
One of my favorites of all time
One of the best and it’s usually like $5-$10
Absolutely agree, I picked up both games in the series for dirt cheap prices and they're so much fun
yeah im still confused on why warnerbros let the series go for so cheap
I picked up shadow of war complete edition in xbox for like $10.
That's $10 AUD. $6.70USD. I haven't even played it yet. But loved the first and at $10, it's pretty much free
Seeing Anthem on sale for $1 was absolutely wild
i cant believe they are still legally allowed to sell it..
@@SmickyD same here, they really shouldn't be able too
@@SmickyDI can’t believe it still has players.
@@mr.s9783 i was so hyped that that shit when it came out then 2 hours in I hit an invisible wall and that was it for me. I'm still mad about it lol!
It wasn't all that bad it just never lived up to its hype or what they said it was gonna be. And the combat was fun for a couple hours but just like destiny it got repetitive but destiny still has 1000s of players what's the excuse for that game
Thanks for the incredible list Falcon!
The fact that a lot of these games have been discounted by up to 50% within a year of launch kinda shows that Publishers are scalping customers and increasing prices to £70/$70/€70 unnecessarily in my opinion.
Early adopter tax....
I never buy games anymore because of this. 70$ is a lot to some people.
@@ILoveLamp-sj4bx I am with you - the only game I have bought in the last few months is Elden Ring which I got for £29 in the UK, which is £20 off its normal price.
But Elden Ring at its standard rate of £50 - is less than normal releases, for a game that has many many hours of value.
It's all about making money, the only people who care about games are gamers and those who make them, not the people who sell them, all they want is money
I think it's more because these games didn't sell as well as the publishers thought they would, so they HAVE to discount them to put them on people's radar and get some money out of them. Hell I had forgotten that Avatar game came out ngl
A weekly video like this would be awesome.
but actualyl with cheap games not stuff like street fighter for 50$
@@kevineis9088that is cheap
Yes, and per platform.
@@kevineis9088 Relatively cheap
There are bunch of youtubers doing just that and many websites. I use deku deals for switch.
I picked up the RE 4 Remake in the December PS Store sale in the UK for just under £24 and it was a fantastic bargain.
Hope you enjoy it
I got it myself also resident evil 2/3 and Alan wake 2, alan wake 2 was on offer but not much cheaper then its full price
I saw the Mass Effect Legendary Edition at $11 on PS5. Immediately bought it. Absolutely WORTH
Have fun !!!
Bought it on Steam for 5,99€ and it's so good !
Honestly I prefer getting any game in disc form but you can't deny sometimes digital is way better
I've never played Mass Effect but I really want too but the stupid EA launcher puts me off.
@@Fearless_Gamer96 as long as the digital game you're buying is DRM free (if you buy on GOG for example), its good. but in general, physical is the superior choice, and 90% of times cheaper than buying on the PSN store, at least here in europe.
Sweet pickup.
I copped that game for $8.00 on Xbox. Such a fun ride!!
Was a free psn game last year
My problem is that when games go on sale for this cheap, it's only a matter of time before they end up on PS+ and Extra. I know the Extra tier isn't worth it for everyone, but so many big games end up there within a year or so. I will not be surprised if Wo Long, Spongebob, and Street Fighter end up on those within 7 or 8 months.
bro pays at least $70 to play online 💀
If you can wait, Ubisoft games generally go on sale very quickly - like all of them, even if they sell well. I've also seen EAFC24 for more than half off, UFC 5 for 40% off and NFS: Unbound is a little older, but it's basically free now.
i feel like they just went in damage control after like watchdogs or unity and just never left it
Yeah I remember UFC 5 was like half off almost immediately after release 😂
True, i just got NFS Unbound for $10.
Steep and Immortal Filx Rising are 90% off on Steam right now. Haven’t seen such deep discount from Ubisoft for a while
Ubisoft had sales almost all month last summer and last December....
Bought some Assassin's Creed, including Valhalla Deluxe (+Dlc s) on 8o % sale.,
Bought the Deluxe for Phoenix just yesterday, 9o% off, less than 1o€
Immortals Fenix rising is one of the best games I’ve played. So fun and charming
@@jeffreydean5112 Did they fix the crashes? I've seen even yesterday's reviews still mentioning constant crashes.
Free on game pass too
The thing about "recent" games is even if you somehow get them at dirt cheap prices, their DLCs are still at full price & they are all much more expensive than the actual game itself in total. They just made it much more lenient for you to access the rest of their much more expensive stuff.
What?
RE4R has entered the chat. Also most of the games in this video don't even have DLC lol
Yeah, any games that have dlc or have more upcoming dlc I always wait for the Gold or Goty edition to go on sale. Farcry 6 wasn’t great (been playing em since Farcry 2) but you can get the complete version for $20 when it retails at $120. Shits absurd 😂
Yeah but... most of the DLC's nowadays are not really good? Like I can think of a few here and there, but generally speaking... I went ahead and tried the "ULTIMATE BEST EDITION" for Assassin's Creed Mirage, and frankly, I could've gotten that version, but the additions to it where so... strange? That I ended up just getting the regular version and enjoying it for what it was.
If you get a game, you don't have to get all of its downloadable content; generally, I think it boils down to whether you really like the game and want more of it, or are you pleased with what the base game has to offer.
@@Timbo360 Man, I got 24-25 hours into Far Cry 5 and realized I'm just playing a newer Far Cry 4, which was a newer Far Cry 3, which Primal took and reskinned.
Gotham Knights for $17 on Xbox was actually really nice and that was the Deluxe edition. I’ve actually played the shit out of it with zero regrets and no chance I would have spent $70-$100 bucks on the game. But for just under $20 after tax. Really fun and totally worth it
You should've spent the full amount to support the devs. It's worth 70$
^^^This......
That's what everyone keeps telling me when I want baldurs gate 3 to go on a big sale. Wtf I ain't wasting my money idgaf if it's goty
Facts you right on that
@@xhongxina9113consumer loyalty to corporations is the dumbest thing ever. They have zero loyalty or care for us. It’s all about making money, nothing else. I’ll pay what I feel it’s worth. That dev making millions to billions can support themselves. They make more in a day than I’ll make in my life.
For the Dead Space Remake, you can also play the game for way cheaper in Game Pass, well, as long as you don't mind not keeping the game permanently in your library. You also get access to other great games recently released like Lies of P, Renmant 2 and Like a Dragon.
I played and beat it for $1 by taking advantage of the EA pass trial.
😀😀 I did the same.
I was planning to buy then I accidentally noticed it on gamepass and I am not buying it from epic.
Welfare Pass lol
What kind of bs is this? You a pony or something? Cause gamepass is pretty good value for money @@TylerTheDefiler
Game Pass is truly one of the greatest video game subscriptions ever made.
I picked up 27 games during the winter sale. Spent about $265 in total, so about ten bucks a pop on average pretty good deal.
Probably the best deal i got was Control for $10 and Alan Wake for $6. Never played them before, but really glad I picked them up. Finished Control tonight, awesome game.
Control was surprisingly good, to be honest. An absolute steal if you got it for $10. :D
@@AsmodeusMictian Control is really good. It's got a few minor issues I'm not a fan of. A few of those things I fixed with some nice quality mods. Like weapon switching for more than 2 at a time. HP Regen, hiding the UI outside of combat.
I do wish main story was a tiny bit longer and we had a one or two more power ups. But overall I really liked this game. Excited to see what Control 2 might be like.
You got that much time for games? I probably only get thru 6 games a year these days.
@@danieljones3846 time for gaming? Nope, I'm just adding to the backlog. JK I do get a pretty good amount of time. I only work and don't have anyone I got to take care other than myself. I don't watch TV anymore, so gaming and reading are my main hobbies.
Picked up god of war 2018 for $5, horizon zero dawn for $5, red dead 2 for $15 and gta v for $15. All which gave me hundreds of hours each over the past year as a person who doesn’t usually game, using my old dusty ps4. They still run amazingly and the graphics on red dead 2 are insane
Red Dead 2 my fav game ever. Pure masterpiece
@@nachocheez9690Same, I love rdr2 it's by far the best game I've ever played - got 622 hours worth of play out of it and it's still enjoyable to play for a few hours.
Just bought the Yakuza series 0-6 all for 4.99 each! Just beaten 0. Can’t wait to go through all of them. Let’s go kyoudais!
Where is it this price?
Gog games if im not mistaken
Nier Replicant 1.22 is $24 on a sale. I pre-ordered the white snow edition when it came out. It was much more than that! Heck, when I built my new PC recently, I paid the full $60. 100% the game both times. Well worth it.
I even bought the game for 3 cousins, and my brother in law and my sister. Waiting for the Switch port, too. So yes, $24 is dirt cheap. Also, Automata is $16 on sale (bought it twice). Wish I could buy these games for everyone.
The world thanks you for spreading the experience that is Nier to more people.
@@sakshamsaxena3026 thank you! I wish the world could play these beautiful games. Drakengard, too.
@@VIPER0308 Honestly what I'd really love to happen is if the entire Nier/Drakengard saga was remade with graphical fidelity at least on par with Automata.... I'd fork over a couple hundred $$$ for that in a heartbeat!
That said, I think we're gonna hit a point in the next 10-15 years where AI upscaling/enhancement is going to be so widely available and easy to use that the concept of a remake is going to become entirely pointless since it'll be almost effortless to take any game you want and give it a massive upgrade graphically speaking.
@Astraeus.. I'd pay that, too. I'd love to see Drakengard get some love. Clean up 3 like they did with Replicant. It's not bad (I'm actually replaying it right now). Maybe make it a bit easier to acquire the weapons and the true ending, but I'm torn on that idea.
Same for 1, although ending E (I think chapter 13?) is hell compared to D in 3. I remember it being a slog. Do we still not talk about 2?! Lol. Add it. Then make Reincarnation into a true game and ditch that gacha crap.
We'll get it. There is now a market for Nier, so SE can make easy money with minimal effort in remaking Drakengard.
Great video! Also worth mentioning, if you're a physical game collector, "Buy X for the price of Y" sales at places like Target or Amazon are amazing for getting new-ish games for ~30% off or more, effectively, if you pick the right games to buy. Probably within a year after release, a lot of great, new games get included in those kinds of sales, and the sales themselves happen multiple times a year.
Also, keep an eye out for the deluxe editions being really good deals vs. the reg. edition: Dead Space Deluxe Edition (on Series X) was on sale for 8 bucks for their Christmas sale versus the reg edition at retail price.
I think that was a game pass deal I picked that up too $7.99
Yeah i bought it right away, they also had Immortals of Aveum digital deluxe for $8 on one of their daily deals so i bought it
The Day Before is so cheap, it's not even on Steam.
I believe the entire Yakuza collection of 1 to 7 was on sale/may still be on sale, on steam for less than 60 dollars. Now that was an easy buy.
its 5 bucks each besides 7 rn on ps store, and 7 is like 14 bucks with some dlc
On gog it was like 27 dollars
@@cutepotato_22 It was $34 for me on Steam with the premium edition for 7.
@@edwinpritom6336 ah nice! On gog the collection only included yakuza 0-6 but you got yakuza 7 as well. so I guess that's a pretty good deal! Hope you have fun, the yakuza games are some of the best I've ever played.
This is why you should wait on a sale. Know how low it can go and wait for the moment to grab the game you are looking for. My steam is full of games waiting on sales for me to pick them up. Patience is everything!
For most games yeah. But something I'm dying to play, like the RE4 remake or Armored Core 6 I preordered. 2023 was the first year I ever preordered since I never had money for that before, I'm glad we got so many great games last year tho. I get them cheaper from key sites tho
Forspoken is a gem of a game. If it's not to your liking, that's fine. But it doesn't make it a bad game whatsoever. My wife has played almost all the Final Fantasy games, loves the Halo series, various role-playing games, farming sims, Skyrim, Horizon etc. and she is really enjoying Forspoken. She has sunk hours into just exploring the world and levelling up. I really think we need a more diverse critique cast for games. It's a shame it gets so much vocal negativity.
shut up but yeah I agree broadly but still shut up yapping your gums out like that and allat
Arkham series is still 4.99 every other sale. Nuff said.
I kept seeing it and finally got it, forgot how great these games are
Ive seen the yakuza collection (0-6) go on sale for
$20-30 quite a few times and its such a great value for the price if youre at all interested on it
Absolutely. Yakuza series is amazing.
I'm glad I got 0 separately. Kept hearing it was the best. Played about 6h and couldn't do it. Don't like the gameplay nor the sidequests, main story was interesting but might as well just watch it on yt
Not a recent game for sure but a couple weeks ago, somewhere around New Year's, I grabbed the edition of Ghost Recon Wildlands with all the DLC and add ons for something like 25-30$ off the PSN store. Original price is 120$. Good deal
Seeing the entire far cry series 1-6 plus new dawn and primal and blood dragon for 44$ as a bundle was insane.
That’s crazy, where’s that?
Or every borderlands plus dlc for 30
Some know that those prices are still over what they are worth
@@WickedlyChill50-55
@@thef5558 It was on steam.
Saw Dead Space Remake digital deluxe for $7.99 at one point on Xbox before Christmas. 95% off. I could not believe my eyes. Almost bought it again just to have the deluxe stuff.
The current release prices of £70/$70 is ridiculously beyond most gamers wallets. I only now buy in discount sales, purely as I cannot afford to keep up with the release schedules.
all games are dirt cheap, but no time to play them....*cries*
Yup, THIS! 😢
Some have no money
Some have no time
Some just don't have any enthusiastic zeal left for games
Just a quick note to anybody. Borderlands the Handsome Collection (possibly other versions as well) is having a discounted sale on their Pandora’s box edition. If your looking to complete your Borderlands collection nows the time.
Pandora box originally $150 + tax
Currently $30 + tax for all 3 borderlands w/every single DLC in between games n all the goodies that are in some of the top tear requested packs for all 3 games.
Amazon has games on sale a lot of the time. Ive picked up a few good ones over xmas, and some are still on sale now, worth checking.
I’ve found immortals of aveum for like £20 Theres some banging discounts
Dead Space Remake (Deluxe Edition) was normally $99.99 CAD and I got it for $9.99 CAD + tax for the Xbox holiday sale here in Canada. Now that's a steal!
Just a reminder as well, with Ubisoft+, you can play these ubisoft games without paying full price/discounted price. This is the route I went since I was unsure about some of them, and I'd rather pay $15 to try the games out for a month, than full price for each game and not end up liking the game.
Gamefly has been a godsend for me with how the prices of games are nowadays.
I just said the same thing 😂 didn’t see your comment
Facts I might turn on GameFly again
I had a feeling avatar was gonna be first place haha
As a Native American, the messages in Avatar are pretty effin' relevant to me. The game literally starts with you being a Na'vi in a residential school run by the RDA to "civilize" you. All of my surviving elderly 70+ Native relatives were in one here in Canada. I grew up knowing people that endured those "schools". So I guess I am happy for you Avatar isn't culturally relevant to you, but to me, it is a means by which to tell my people's story through the lens of sci-fi with many parallels to real life issues that still affect First Nation/Native American people and is quite culturally relevant to me.
Its great game all around. amazing world and fun gameplay.
The Talos Principle 1 and the Batman collection on sale is incredible.
A Plague Tale: Requiem is currently super cheap on Steam. And if you have not played the first game then the bundle is cheaper than the actual game.
Also the monthly game on PS+.
This video is basically a list of all the sales I missed out on 😅
When I saw forspoken, I had some hope that it would be as fun as the infamous games. That whole trilogy NEEDS to get ported to pc; at least. They’re so much fun and although mixed opinions, I thought second son was so fluid and amazing. The story was great and the characters were fun to get to know throughout the series
Better yet, buy your game keys indirectly and not from proprietary launchers. I'm not spending $70 for a digital product, not now, not ever.
Sorry Falcon there isn't a discount great enough to get me to spend my own money on a game with "EA" or "Ubisoft" on the cover
Yeah I wouldn’t call ~$30 on average “dirt” cheap but these are some good deals for anyone who can’t wait another year or so to get them for $10 to $20 🤷🏽♂
30 is better than the 80 bucks we’re bringing forced to give companies these days 😂
@@hufflepuffler2575 I’m not arguing that 30 is better than 70-80 but it still isn’t what you’d call “dirt” cheap. I expected something in the range of 10 to 20 tops 🤷🏽♂
There’s deals on the ps store for 10 or less
Yeah, stopped a quarter into the video. 5 bucks = dirt cheap. 30? Not in my books.
@@hufflepuffler2575 I agree the day 1 prices are high, but if you're paying $80, you're buying garbage add-ons like cosmetics in "deluxe" editions and apparently aren't too concerned with where your money is going. Not to mention that with basically any game, if you wait 6 months you get better deals than these. So I'm not really sure who this video was for, because if you really want to play a game but don't want to pay full price, you'll watch it and wait for it to drop to a price you're happy with, and if you're just surfing deals until something catches your eye for a cheap price, then you'll find so many better deals than these.
About a month ago or so, Hitman WoA was on sale for $27 and something cents, WAYYYYYYYYY cheaper than the standard $70 it was selling for on Steam, absolutely worth it when I got it.
Sekiro never goes on sale for less than half off after five years. Shows how worthy it is
Falcon just said "niggling" and we’re all just going to let it slide? 1:39
Liked for the chapters in the description 👊
A few weeks ago I buy the Dead space deluxe edition on Xbox series X for only 7.99$ bucks a phenomenal game and price. Even the Immortals of Aveum deluxe edition was on sale for 7.99$ bucks but it’s no longer at that price, miss the chance. Great content though. Keep up the good work guys.
Copped Dead Space Remake (Deluxe) for less than $10 on xbox. I believe it was 6.99
The sales and give aways this holiday season were incredible. I scored RDR2, GTA5, ACs Oddesy and Valhalla, KC:Deliverance, and Street Fighter5 for $5-15 apiece. Then Outer Worlds, Gardians of the Galaxy, and Saints Row for free. Waiting for sales is wiser than just plopping down full at opening day.
I usually play my games a year behind everyone else so I can pick everything up on discount. FF7 Rebirth however is a day one buy. I’ll put down $200 for that game easy
Dead Space remake is also on Game Pass for Xbox. I've been playing it on there as a first time Dead Space player and I have to say I'm loving it. Splitting my gaming time between that and Rise of the Tomb Raider. God, I love Xbox Game Pass.
Maybe not quite such a "recent" game, but Red Dead Redemption II is on sale at Epic for one more day at about €19 for the base game, with the Ultimate Edition at €26.99 (reduced from €89.99). With the addition of a 33% discount voucher I got for picking up a free game from them last week, Ultimate Edition cost me €18.08. This sale ends tomorrow (10 Jan).
Nobody wants to deal with Epic trash store though....
@@85wastedyears Why is epic store consider so bad like everywhere I see people say it's trash? I'm not PC so I have no idea
I have actually been finding these "resale" games for next gen consoles at Walmart for $17.49 this week alone I've picked up RE4 , RE village, AEW and Hogwarts for Xbox X. Just gotta go to bigger Walmarts for better selections.
If only Nintendo could get the memo
Thanks for the Gamefly love. I've been a customer for 20 years and they rarely ever let me down, whether I want to rent or eventually buy. (Not a sponsor)
Epic also still has their additional 33% coupon on EVERYTHING if you spend at least $15 total, so you can get Dead Space for under $17 and AC Mirage for under $23 as of the day this video posted
Speaking of steals, one of the best one for me is Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy on Epic which is currently FREE until Jan 12.
I got RE4 special edition for 40 off PlayStation around Christmas. Been enjoying it overall.
Can’t wait to get Hogwarts too, it’s been on sale on PS Store for around 30-40 bucks. I’m not a HP super fan but I did enjoy the movies, the game looks like it captured the world of HP very well:
It’s in the top 10 best games released within the past 5 years, you won’t regret it. I’m like you not a super fan but watched the movies.
Its pretty much a Ubisoft game, dont waste your time or money.
@@citizeny3795 Not really it has alot more charm to it. IF you like the HP universe. It could have been alot better though with more RPG features.
@@AmericanWears As someone that's not a super fan or have seen all of the movies, it is NOT top 10 in the last 5 years, not even top 10 of 2023, but to each their own
@@randomgreatness2298 are you one of the folks mad at JK Rowling? lol everyone has their own opinion, but not even in the top 10 of 2023? Can’t even name more than 10 good game releases in 2023. hogwarts was def one of them in no order, final fantasy 16, spiderman 2, street fighter 6, armored core 6, Jedi survivor, Alan wake 2, hogwarts, dead island 2, payday 3, like a dragon gaiden. Everything else I played outside of this was kind of eh.
I got the 2023 deluxe edition Dead Space for $9.99 CAD for my Series S this holiday season. Crazy! I guess because it just came to GamePass.
Yes I agree you should release this video routinely, maybe weekly or monthly.
I did grab the deluxe edition of Jedi Survior for $50 on Xbox, it's usually $89.99. I also grabbed the deluxe edition Gran Turismo 7 at the same time for $50. GoW Ragnarok got me for the full $80 and was discounted hours later, I was so annoyed. I love grabbing games on sale, really feels like a legit steal lol.
I got Jedi Survivor for $23 and change because of a added 33% coupon I had! :) I was waiting on a good deal for that game!
ye seems that the coupon is unlimited until janury 10 like 5pm
Enjoy, it´s an awesome game(I love the story), but if you haven´t tried SW fallen order you should start with that first :)
The avatar comment is spot on. The movies make insane amounts of money, but I’ve literally never met a person that watched any of them lmao
Yall need to stop calling these dirt cheap. 😤 anything more than $10 is not dirt cheap
get more money bud maybe work?
TBF they did specify in the title that these are RECENT games. What isn’t specified is that they’re GOOD recent games. They could conceivably make a “Dirt Cheap Recent Games” list where all entries are under $10, but then they wouldn’t necessarily be good.
Dirt costs more than $10
😂😂😂😂😂@@BRICKBURN
FORSPOKEN is 17.50$ at gamestop right now ( dec 9th)
Rest in peace to the ones who paid $100 and even flexed the game on social media like a Bugatti.
Who in the hell would do that
Which game?
@@anons000 you
Frontiers of Pandora is actually an amazing game, with some of the best graphics I’ve ever seen and Ubisoft knows this so takes advantage giving you full immersive moments like when you climb the mountain at the start, just breathtaking - my jaw actually dropped when it went to night time for the first time. People hate on games before they even release nowadays and that’s why I think it was overlooked. To be fair, Ubisoft also need to have more confidence, feels like they don’t hype their games up enough anymore. I remember when they were renowned for the best trailers.
i’ll wait for performance fix but i have a mid card
Games ass
"Dirt cheap" *proceeds to show a game that's over $20*
I'm kind of surprised The Division isn't on the list. They go on sale for cheap pretty often. It's been a bit since I've looked at them, but I think they are both less than $10 when they are sale. Definitely solid games for that price. I know they're not new, but they're not outdated either.
Does D2 still have an active player base? Id go back if it does
The Division released in *2016.* Eight years ago is not recent by any metric. You acknowledge that it's not new... so why bring it up?
I wouldn’t consider any of these “dirt cheap.” Can’t remember the last time I payed more than 5-10$ for a game. Dead space was 1$ in August through EA subscription, SpongeBob was a free a couple months ago. There’s so many games, just wait a minute and they’ll just give it to you
Avatar has a couple of major issues.... The first and foremost being a lack of a manual save. The second being combat and the third being stealth.
So basically "the game itself"? 🙂
Got cyberpunk with phantom liberty for about 40$ around Christmas time such a great deal. 70+ hours in the game right now
Remnant 2 and Hi-Fi Rush are available on Game Pass. I'd say that qualifies for dirt cheap. Also while its not as new, Guardians of the Galaxy is still free on Epic. They are all amazing games in their own right too.
And Dead Space remake too
I beat AC: Mirage within around a week. I paid Ubisoft + for $15 and then cancelled it after I was done with AC. Definitely recommend that if you have PC vs paying for it.
Damn this video is genuinely so useful, great work man, tbh thanks. keep doing this kinda content helps me out a lot
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haf of these deals are over...another trash falcon upload per usual@@gameranxTV
Hey falcon over here falcon look at me over here 👋 👋 👋
@@Dr.PussNballs man just be glad that you can do something with the other half
Thats dumb @@bob_fromtv
Retail price is usually between 60 to 80 dollars. But barely anyone buys games at full price these days so putting these recent games on “sale” is the best way to milk the games for as much money as they can. Not complaining though. I ain’t paying 70 for Jedi survivor.
With having Game Pass, I can't remember the last time I paid full price for a game. Literally THE best deal in gaming history.
What games do u play?
@@Robert-gs5vz mostly soulslike, RPGs, and indies
I really don't understand the hate on Redfall, it isn't a bad game at all. I played through it a couple times and it has bugs but it's nothing any other AAA game doesn't have. It's worth the playthrough since they've done work on it.
I always play games 2 year after they release, Best prices and fully patched and bug free 😊
Also, whatever DLC they're ever going to get is most likely all released, so you can get it all in one purchase and play it all in one go.
Standard price in canada is now $90 for standard editions and 110- 120 for deluxe. That's what we get for using Monoploy money.
in my opinion, a lot of AAA games have finally just gotten WAY too expensive to be feasible AND increasingly mediocre.
They used to be $30 ten years ago. When they hit $60-70, that was the breaking point in my opinion but fine. I'll still pay for games like lies of P.
But now it's like every company thinks it can churn out mediocre garbage for $70-100. At the same time, development has become so democratised that some indie dev is making your dream game and selling it for $20. Meanwhile, truly fantastic games like Elden Ring and BGIII are still selling for $60.
The bubble will burst, and i'm here for it. We're at the point where a game will be 40% off on sale *and* i'll get a 33% discount coupon on that and THEN it's like 30-35 dollars, which is what a game should be. And I'll still look at most AAA games and think
'nah, still not worth the time or money"
@NickReilly-iv6jg First you'll have to find a crew that is willing to crack it. Jedi Survivor and The Callisto Protocol still havent been cracked, cause one is a broken mess, another is shitty 😂
$30 AAA games 10 years ago?
Where? On sale?
Everytime I hear someone talk about old prices, they say some ridiculous lie. 10 years ago new AAA games were $60, and I remember hearing PC gamers talk about how it's a rip off because AAA games used to be less than $40, or even $20. Go back farther than they act like games were $10, but then you can find store listings for $80 N64 games.
@@bruhtholemew I think they're referring to any games made by AAA studios, like how Harvestella from Square Enix is from an AAA studio, even if it itself isn't an AAA-tier game, but it was being sold as one with that $60 price tag.
AAA games already had been 60 bucks ten years ago - you´ll have to go back about 16+ years for lower prices.
The weird thing that changed however is that they now want 70 bucks for a game, but started giving between 60-80% off usually at most half a year after the game released 5 years ago and keep that tradition. Something that they started with all the subscription passes for all their games as the games essentially aren´t really worth that much anymore due to it, not to mention all the microtransactions in AAA games at this point - the full price is just getting some extra money from the fanbase, which already is nothing compared to the money they make additionally through mtx.
It´s why I stopped even thinking about buying games at full price, I just wait until they´re on sale bundled with the season pass for like 20 and if I keep playing it for long enough and deem it worth it I just top it up by buying some skins.
But talking about that with fanboys is a pain usually, I got a friend thats a Assassins Creed Fanboy and always buys the most expensive edition coming with the figure, which is fair enough if you really want the figure - but he mainly buys it because he thinks he´d be supporting the devs by paying more and if you dare oppose that delusion its getting toxic as hell.
@@KainYusanagiThere's no way that's what they meant. Sure AAA devs have made cheaper games in the past, and Harvestalla should have been one of those, but this guy's making it sound like the price for highly anticipated AAA games in 2014 like Dark Souls 2, Watch Dogs, Smash 4, and Dragon Age Inquisition, were all $30 when they were actually $60.
Hell they were $60 way before 2014. Halo 3 was $60 in 2007, and if you want to get weird, several N64 games were $80.
Question: Why not label the chapters with the actual game name, instead of 'number 1-15'?
Maybe if I bought Hogwarts Legacy for 30$ I wouldnt be so dissapointed with this game
Bought Nier Automata for $15 a few weeks ago. I don't remember the last time I bought a game at it's full price, let alone more than $25. I still buy physical preordered copies or wait for those big sales (black friday/cyber Monday is rarely the biggest sale anymore...).
I love Forspoken it got unnecessary hate and I brought it at launch and I absolutely loved it I want a sequel
For EA and Ubisoft games, don't forget that there is their own version of gamepass that grants you access to pretty much all of their catalog. So you can play Avatar, Mirage, Motorfest for just 17.99 a month if you think you can finish all 3 of them in that time period. I will get Ubisoft+ in a few days just to play those 3 games + prince of persia and skull and bones when it releases in february to get the most out of that 17.99 dollars. Same for EA games, Star Wars and Dead Space can be played with their subscription service that I think is even included in gamepass ultimate. The regular EA play is 4.99 a month and the plus version is 17.99 dollars. Again, if you feel like you can finish these games in a month, I recommend trying this method to save some bucks, otherwise, look out for the sales. I personally prefer to buy the indie games rather than the ones that are part of these huge publishers.
Since when is $30 to $50 dirt cheap?
Alan Wake 2 is on sale until TOMORROW on Epic for $39.99. If you buy either the base game or the Deluxe Edition, you get the Remastered original Alan Wake absolutely free. So it's only 20% off, but free remastered first game.
I remember when the most expensive games were like 60, now they’re getting up to 80 bucks
What website do you use to see where these games are on sale?
I use cheapshark, and/or isthereanydeal (the one they show here.)
Currently playing the dead space remake - so glad I checked the store because the sale was insane and I never got to play dead space when I was younger though I had friends who played it and I watched them play and always thought it looked so cool (but also I was scared when I was younger so I preferred to watch lol)
edit: also, Resident Evil 7 and Village has a bundle deal on PS5 for $29.59 where before it retailed for $79.99 (63% discount). Considering you get 2 games for basically $15 each I'd say that's a pretty good deal. Might pull the trigger on that one as well
I feel like we have to talk about what "dirt cheap" means. The games listed are cheaper, but not what I'd ever consider "dirt cheap"
i'd say dirt cheap is £10 or less lol
Mid-December I picked up Mad Max for $7. Canadian (when I was visiting). SEVEN DOLLARS...... That is basically free in good old USA currency.
The best feeling is seeing a "older" single player game thats cheap now
Guardians of the Galaxy is currently Free on Epic Games store. I think it runs until Jan. 11th.