A Flatout Steal

Gaming has been slow of late, though I found myself playing more this weekend.  I don’t know why.  It just happened.

Sony is currently in the midst of their annual PlayStation – Days Of Play sale.  Some years, I take advantage of the sale.  Other years, the sale comes and goes and I don’t end up spending a dime.

Speaking of dimes, yesterday I was casually browsing the many offerings of the PlayStation Store.  I do that from time to time, looking for any deals that I can take advantage of.  I had a couple bucks available in my PSN (PlayStation Network) account, so I figured I’d see what some of the store’s latest offerings and bargains were.

I play racing games and have always been a fan of the genre since my Atari 2600 days.  I’ve been playing racing and driving games long enough to know that some of these games are bad, while others are especially good.  Sometimes it can be a crap shoot, finding quality and inexpensive racing games on the PSN.  Truthfully, there is a lot of crap on the PSN, as for whatever the reason, there happens to be an overabundance of terrible games out there, thanks to many of the independent developers out there that are making cheap and bad games for the PS4 and PS5.

As I’m looking through the many offerings that the PSN had to offer yesterday, I happen to stumble upon the game, Flatout 4: Total Insanity, for the PS4.

The Flatout series, as I remember it, dates back to the PS2.  Those early Flatout titles were decent titles and were quite fun to play.  You had excellent physics and very chaotic racing, across a multitude of tracks and locales.  Truly a good time, all told.

I don’t even remember Flatout 3, but for some reason, Flatout 4 immediately drew my attention as I saw it listed on the PSN.

Maybe the picture below had something to do with that?

I couldn’t believe it. 

Yes, you’re reading that right.

Flatout 4: Total Insanity for the PS4 cost me a whopping 22 cents.  I had to buy it.  Even if it’s a terrible game (which thankfully, it isn’t), it only cost me two dimes and two pennies.  Hardly any risk taken, so why not take the plunge?

There was some DLC (DownLoadable Content) for it as well, which also happened to cost another 22 cents, so I bought that too.  I think that DLC consisted of an extra car and maybe an additional track.  I don’t know what it contained, to be honest.  Again, for an extra 22 cents, I didn’t really care.

I just know that for a grand total of 44 cents, I managed to buy a complete PS4 game (with all its DLC), one that is actually halfway decent as far as racing games go.

I don’t know if I’ll ever break my new record for the lowest amount of money that I’ve paid for a video game.  I lucked out too, in that the game is decent, fun, and quite playable.

Paying 22 cents for anything just doesn’t happen today.

When it comes to the gaming world, in particular, that sort of thing is unheard-of.

Still, I’ll take it.

For just under 50 cents, why wouldn’t I?