The biggest gaming bargain you ever bought?

It may not be your favourite game ever brought, but it was that game you brought for no reason other than it was cheap. It then shocked the hell out of you by actually being a bloody good game.

Mine was Half Life!!! I only brought my 550mhz 64 meg machine to play championship manager but on the same day I brought it. I also brought a big (those days the packaging was huge) shiny black/orange box containing Half Life with the sumly price off £9.99. I played it more than champ man and along with the early counterstrike betas I was hooked. I even brought Blue Shift, Opposing Force and Gunman Chron to complete the set.

So what was your bargain?

Sacred 2 delivered in every way. For less than 10 euros.

The Orange Box

Still amazes me how good a deal it was, Portal, HL2 and hundreds of hours sunk into TF2 for a negligible sum

probably when I got the THQ Complete Pack for something like 75-80% off at a sale.

being gifted Braid on steam by shanto or someone else cant remember...awesome lil' platform

I have to concur that orange box is probably the best bargin I've bought, though years ago I bought a starwars pack which had Dark forces, xwing alliance and rebel alliance! Was probably 1999-2001 and I played those games for years!

Orange Box and the Steam THQ pack, I still have not played every game.

Orange box without a shadow of a doubt, its just so good !

Dr dragos madcap chase. Seriously, has to be almost 20 years ago i played this game i bought it for like 5 euro and i dont think there is any other game i have enjoyed this much tbh.

i was young, you could play it with your friends via "hot seat" and it was just awesome! I still get nostalgic when i think of it. here is a little video

Gotta be able to take a shot to the eye every once and a while, in this kind of business. Delicate flowers can gtfo.

Diablo 2 + Diablo 2 LoD.
or maybe Starcraft, since brood war could be "pirated" and work on bnet at the same time, as long as you had original starcraft

cracked starcraft 1 + broodwar ... amazing !
diablo 1 was good too

magicka would be cool too but no one was playing it a week or two after it came out

PS: @Katiechops , u dirty old scotbag

Think I miss out on most steam bargains because I usually have half or more of their games already when it's about packs, buying the ones I don't have yet individually afterwards is usually cheaper.

Sure games like Deathspank and Magicka were new and cheap games but I also didn't play them very long. Best value for money for me is I guess the older games I'm buying now that have become free or really cheap, but that can't really be considered bargain anymore right?

Depends how old they are I guess. I got ra2 about a year after it was released for £5 awesome buy

Archlord....
it was so nice ...really nice PVP....but that was in the old Codemaster times....
then everything turned into hacking, cheating etc.
but before that it was such a good game...i enjoyed it really
it was a lot of grinding...and i mean grinding^^ running hours in a circle with a train of mobs on your ass....and that for months...or years...

in between you had really nice castle sieges...and ofc....a lot of pvp
you could PK EVERYONE (above lvl 15, what was about 30 mins playing or maybe an hour) and EVERYWHERE (except towns)

haha that game was awesome, didn't that come with Settlers 2? played that so much aswell..