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.

  • Segab 👻@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    I still buy physical, last I got was Kirby Air Riders with an Amiibo because I couldn’t believe they made a sequel. The price was a hard pill to swallow though.

  • JillyB@beehaw.org
    2·
    12 hours ago

    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.

  • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    10 hours ago

    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.

  • Gabadabs@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    1·
    11 hours ago

    A couple months back I picked up a copy of Resident Evil 2 for the N64 at a retro shop nearby. Honestly a great way to play the game. I don’t really buy modern releases physically these days though since I play on PC.

  • polakkenak@feddit.dk
    2·
    14 hours ago

    I think mine was in Akihabara last year for some (dirt cheap) second hand Switch games, but besides that I have no idea where or when.

  • tleb@lemmy.ca
    3·
    16 hours ago

    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.

  • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
    4·
    18 hours ago

    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…

  • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
    4·
    18 hours ago

    I honestly can’t remember. I bought a couple of physical 3DS games semi-recently, but those were ordered online. I bought Rayman Legends on the PS4 for my sister from a physical game store like 12 years ago? Might genuinely be that.

  • kbal@fedia.io
    4·
    18 hours ago

    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.