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.
It was probably when I bought my Link Between Worlds 3DS XL. I bought physical cartridges for it, but I think I was getting them on Amazon mostly. When I got the switch my whole collection was digital downloads.
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…
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.
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.
Oldrim. Was just a steam on cd if I remember right so if that doesn’t count it would be Neverwinter Nights.
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.
… Maybe EverQuest?
… Or Doom3?
I really don’t remember, it’s been so long.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.
Got Fantasy Life i on switch just two weeks ago.
Technically a Japanese cartridge because it’s the only physical edition, but it!s the same as the e-shop, all included languages and compatible with the Switch 2 upgrade patch.
I am still buying Switch 2 physical games, but only if they’re actually on the cartridge and not that empty keycard bullshit.
It is would have been Gears of War 4 in '16 or '17. So nearly 10 years ago…
Halo 2 at a Gamestop midnight release.
Ghost of Youtei. I like to swap some games with my sister and this is still the best way to do it. And it’s pretty easy to resell story games here after you are done with them.
Bloodborne on the PS4 when it first came out was the last physical game I bought. Not sure why I did cause all my other PS4 games were digital.
Horizon: Forbidden West. If we put a few PS5 games aside, I suspect it was Orange Box.
Witcher 2 Nordic Edition back in 2011. My Steam account is 21 years old :)
