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Barozi on 23 February 2015
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t3mporary_126 said:
Barozi said:
1 hour of entertainment for $1?

gamers are spoiled these days. I can't name anything that gives you 1 hour of entertainment for such a low price.
Of course unless you keep replaying, rewatching, rereading etc. them or buying entertainment at an extremely low budget price.


I don't know what other argue for but l I argue that potential 1 hour of entertainment per dollar is perfect. Like 3D Mario games usuallly last 10-15 hours before you beat the final boss and maybe a few more hours to get all the stars/collectibles depending on the difficulty. But the game is designed to be replayed over and over again so I can potentially play it for 40 more hours and still have fun with it. 

Also I'm in extremely tight budget so I try to find games that have a lot of value. And there are plenty of games that offer 60 hours of entertainment in single player or with multiplayer as well. I usually buy Nintendo games and Smash Bros, Mario Kart, and 3D World will entertain me for 60 hours so games like these exist and probably in other platforms/consoles as well. But again, I argue a dollar per hour is perfect so anything less is also acceptable! Personally, any 60$ game in US dollars that offer less than 30 hours of potential entertainment has very poor value for me.

well who decides which games are "designed to be replayed over and over again". That's pretty subjective.
By that logic it's impossible to talk about a game's length, since even a full priced game lasting only a minute can be replayed over and over again until you get the 1:1 dollar/hour ratio. If it's the best minute of video game history, I'm sure you wouldn't refuse doing just that.