I just bought a Switch copy of Red Dead Redemption for $30 USD at Walmart and wondered if that’ll be the last of its purchase I’ll ever make. There’s nothing quite like buying a new cellophane-wrapped copy and it makes me sad the physical age of gaming is at its twilight.
L4D2 - it upset me that the disc just had an install of Steam and I would have to download it.
I really miss when buying PC games was fun.
When The Witcher 3 came out I had the money and bought it shortly after release at a local shop, because my net connection then was way too slow to download anything measured in gigabytes.
I think it was a set of 3 CDs. I took them home, started installing, and then found out that 3 CDs was nowhere near enough and it wanted to download somewhere in the 10s of gigabytes before I could play. It took about three days.
It is would have been Gears of War 4 in '16 or '17. So nearly 10 years ago…
Oldrim. Was just a steam on cd if I remember right so if that doesn’t count it would be Neverwinter Nights.
Must have been Half Life.
(without the “2” - yes, I am that old).Had a 20 year gaming pause some time after that and when starting again, everything was online…
Resident Evil 9. Especially now with Sony’s weird “phone home every 30 days or lose it” for digital games, I feel like it’s more important than ever to buy as much physically as possible. I get so annoyed when games are released as digital only, or now with Nintendo’s game key cartridges.
I order physical copies online often, but can’t even remember the last one I bought at a proper brick and mortar retail store. Last year I did buy a copy of Soldam and Super Puyo Puyo Tsu from a vendor at a gaming convention, does that still count as retail?
Halo 2 at a Gamestop midnight release.
Probably Super Mario Bros. Wonder or LoZ Echoes of Eisdom. I will continue to buy physical games from local stires until it’s no longer an option.
Morrowind, back in… Dagoth knows when it was so long ago
Practically another lifetime.
Somebody left a ps4 game on the bus one time. I brought it home only to realize it was someone’s mixtape left in an old game case so somebody would pick it up. That’s guerilla marketing.
Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom.
Bought it, but never played it. It’s still in its plastic wrapping, sitting on my shelf, taunting me, quietly whispering “pile of shame” every time I walk by.
Same here. A local store had a Black Friday sale that Echoes of Wisdom qualified for, despite only being released within the last couple months, so I snagged it. But I still haven’t gotten around to playing it yet.
I was going to say Rock Band on the Xbox 360, but then I remembered I did own a couple of games physically on the PS4 as well. The last one… Maybe Nioh? So that would be in 2017.
We have a couple near us. We bought a SNES/nes combo device and got a ton of old games. It was fun getting my wife and I childhood games.
I’ve picked up quite a few old DS and 3DS games over the last couple of years. There is a Book Off location nearby that sells all kinds of used console games. I stop by every few weeks to look at their book and video game selection.
I think the last one I purchased was a TMNT game for the DS.
