• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
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    4 months ago

    I would also generally consider £1/hour of gameplay to be pretty terrible value tbh. Truly good games are more like £0.10/hour or less

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      4 months ago

      If you only look at $/hr, there are some 70 hr games which milk your time and should have been shorter, like Assassin’s Creed, and then there are short, story rich games, like Outer Wilds, which are absolutely worth it even at more than a dollar an hour.

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        4 months ago

        Prefer games like Factorio or Rimworld that you can get many 100s of hours from.

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        4 months ago

        Not to mention that not all gaming hours are equally fungible.

        There can be shorter narrative games where a given hour is worth more (to me), so the higher per hour cost is justified.

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        4 months ago

        To you perhaps. Cinema is less than half that cost here and even then I go less than once a year because I don’t really feel like most films that come out are worth bothering to see given the combined effort and cost.

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          I don’t strictly adhere to it or anything, but I think it’s a good reminder sometimes when I balk at the price of a new game that I’m liable to spend hundreds of hours playing.