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Including DLC, micro transaction purchases, etc. If you got a game for free, please also list your non-infinite next best.

For me it's Team Fortress 2. $100 total spent on hats and the Orange Box back in the day, 4200 hours plus of fun, meaning 2.3¢ AUD per hour. Initially I thought DotA2 would be my best but it turns out I've spent a lot more money in that game than I thought...

My worst is God of War: Ragnarok. Bought it full price for $95 AUD, only played 2 hours and hated it, meaning $47.50 AUD per hour.

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[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Minecraft is obviously up there, as is TF2 like you. Factorio is very high for me, relatively low cost and many hours sunk into it.

My current worst is probably Baldur's Gate 3, I bought it to play with a friend but we've only done one session so far.

[–] Zarobi@aussie.zone 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I had the same experience with BG3. It feels more like a single player game in a way, in multiplayer it felt a bit awkward with the story moments. My partner kept skipping cutscenes, and making weird story choices that often led to genocide. Which I suppose is peak chaotic neutral murder hobo DnD behaviour, but the game really isn't balanced around murder hobo 😂. I kind of was just held hostage and had to sit there while they talked to people and I had no idea what was going on. I'm planning to try again in single player eventually.

[–] grinning_serpent@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Playing a game like BG3 in co-op sounds utterly absurd to me. You're supposed to have a gripping narrative with your character (which for a lot players will be a self insert, making it even more personal) with lots of text to read and digest and process. How are you supposed to focus on all that if you're on a call with a friend??

[–] Zarobi@aussie.zone 3 points 8 hours ago

It was in person so it was even worse lol. Couch co-op chaos did not go well with BG3.

It was good in Divinity: Original Sin 1 because in that game you can kind of just ignore the entire story and play it like an action CRPG, which we enjoyed a lot. I got my MC and Jafar (not his actual name but it was a funny running joke because we couldn't remember his name), my partner got their MC and the two handed sword lady I also forget her name. It was a running joke like, FFS Jafaaaaar C'mon! Because he would constantly fall over and get crippled by every CC that got near him. Like his toe would touch one molecule of frozen floor and he'd just comically fall over for 3 turns... then fall over again as soon as he got up and tried to walk out of it. Classic Larian.

But yeah it didn't work for BG3 because the story actually matters