Value proposition. MCC vs. LoU remastered

[MikeRox]

CommonNinja said:

So you could care less about Konami charging $40 for MGS Ground Zero as long as you enjoy the game?  To you it has the same value as a game like skyrim that has 100+ hours of content and no doubt cost a lot more money to make?

I mean I'm just saying, I don't care how good a game is, if its only a couple hours long, I expect it to be $20 or less simply because it has less content than other games.

The same thing can apply to HD remasters, if there is not a lot of effort involved in making the remaster, I expect to pay less for it than for a remaster of a game that took a lot more effort to port over and has a lot more content.

Your cinama example also is not very good as every movie offers around the same amount (time wise) of entertainment, in this case though, the MCC clearly offers a ton more content than TLOU remastered.

Well for one, I didn't buy MGS Ground Zeroes because I don't really like MGS.

But if I preferred MGS games to Skyrim, it's irrelivant that there is 100+ hours of content and a higher dev cost. MGS Ground Zero would still be better value to me.

The amount of effort and money that has gone into something, does not reflect value to the end user. Merely enjoyment of that product does.

@ Bolded, what about people who can't stand FPS games? You think they get better value having 4 games they can't stand as opposed to 1 game they can? ;)

This is why value is subjective and can't just be quantified through development cost and duration (which is the point I was trying to make with the movie example). If I don't like something, no amount of development budget and number of iterations on the disc will give me better value.

Some of the best value I've ever had from a game is actually Sega Rally on the Saturn. It had 3+1 tracks and 2+1 cars. But the course design was near perfect, the handling unmatched even now,and I poured hundreds of hours into improving my times.

I'd say for me, that was far better value than Gran Turismo which had hundreds of cars and far more tracks, but I didn't enjoy anywhere near as much because I don't like simulation racers anywhere near as much, and the course design was nowhere near as good. And 500 cars? wow, I use a whopping 10 of them frequently...