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.
I was going to say Rock Band on the Xbox 360, but then I remembered I did own a couple of games physically on the PS4 as well. The last one… Maybe Nioh? So that would be in 2017.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom.
Bought it, but never played it. It’s still in its plastic wrapping, sitting on my shelf, taunting me, quietly whispering “pile of shame” every time I walk by.
Same here. A local store had a Black Friday sale that Echoes of Wisdom qualified for, despite only being released within the last couple months, so I snagged it. But I still haven’t gotten around to playing it yet.
Very cool game that nobody ever seems to talk about
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.
It is would have been Gears of War 4 in '16 or '17. So nearly 10 years ago…
Horizon: Forbidden West. If we put a few PS5 games aside, I suspect it was Orange Box.
Morrowind, back in… Dagoth knows when it was so long ago
Practically another lifetime.
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.
I order physical copies online often, but can’t even remember the last one I bought at a proper brick and mortar retail store. Last year I did buy a copy of Soldam and Super Puyo Puyo Tsu from a vendor at a gaming convention, does that still count as retail?
