I actually don't have one game that I bought because I had a PlayStation store cart with stuff from the most recent sales that I put through so they were all purchased at once. The entire purchase was a little less than $25.
Bulletstorm Duke Nukem Bundle: One of my favorite shooters from the 360. Is the addition of Duke Nukem enough to make it worth playing through again? Not sure but for under $5 I am willing to find out. I really loved this game's campaign and there's nothing quite like its scoring system, or the whip and boot mechanics.
Gauntlet Slayer Edition: I actually had this via PS+ but I sometimes buy games I have on subscription services at a heavy discount just to keep them if I ever drop the service. I just started playing it recently after trying a couple times prior and giving up because it was too hard, but this time the mechanics clicked and I really enjoyed it. You cannot play it like old Gauntlet games you need to use the various abilities or you will be overwhelmed, but once you figure out the rhythm of those abilities it's a lot of fun and scratches that old Gauntlet: Dark Legacy itch. The kind of game I will chip away at for years to come.
Worms Rumble Digital Deluxe: Eh. I kind of like Worms and even though this is a weird offshoot maybe it's worth checking out? It was cheap. I don't know this was probably a bad purchase.
Magicka 2: Special Edition: Magicka is a series that it seems like I would really like but I've never quite gotten up the energy to try it. Hopeully soon.
Strange Brigade Digital Deluxe: A third person shooter I always kind of had my eye on but thought was probably too janky for me, until I saw Metal Jesus Rocks praise the Switch version and it looked much better put together than I thought. Since this is the PS4 version I thought it would run better than Switch, and at 95% off it seemed like a good bet. I actually played through the first level this morning and...it's not fantastic but it's solid enough to be fun and in HDR on my PS4 it looks pretty nice. I've mostly been playing 2D games recently so just playing a 3D shooter with detailed graphics was fun. At $80 this package would be ludicrously overpriced but for $4 plus tax I'll probably get my money's worth playing through the campaign and messing around with some of the horde stuff and maybe a little multiplayer. I will say that it does suffer from the old Jeff Gerstmann issue of old guns being not that fun. The default gun is inaccurate and underpowered, but apparently they are upgrades so hopefully I'll be able to get some of those. Kind of feels like Serious Sam if that game were a third person shooter, though not nearly as intense and balls to the wall. Maybe it's just that the opening level is Egypt themed.
As you can see I love cheap special editions. I don't know that I'll play a ton of all of these or even play all of them at all, but with each being $5 or less that's not so important to me. I do know that both Gauntlet and Strange Brigade are currently in my rotation and so far I like them both, and Bulletstorm is at the very least a tip to the devs for a game I genuinely loved. Probably could have done without Worms and maybe Magicka, but who knows, and I do have a tendency to unearth old purchases from years ago and play through them. I bought Oceanhorn 5 years ago and I just played through it this week, finishing yesterday, so just because I don't play it immediately doesn't mean I won't. Heck Gauntlet has been in my PS+ library since 2015 and I'm just starting to really warm to it now. Especially now that fewer and fewer games are pushing the graphics envelope I just don't mind going back to older games.
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