Except that you don't need a $1400 pc to play games. A steam deck runs $400 to $650 and consoles are around that amount also, aside from Sony's newest fing. Even if you want a gaming desktop, you can get a cheaper one and make it work, especially with ai upscaling, it really does boost performance. If you want to just play indie games you can go much cheaper then that also.
Except wages aren't really stagnant. For the last couple years they have been pretty stedily growing at 4-5% and that out paces inflation.
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Well ok... but there's a difference between parrying "always being around" to it being the core mechanic in action games. It's about scale.
I did mention the scale and how more 3d action games are doing it, but it's still not by much.
Evil West, both Norse GoWs, and Oneechanbara Origin you can actually get through mostly fine without parrying. Though it's recommended on the Mud Zombies in Oneechanbara Origin. There are still plenty of 2d and 3d action games that don't emphasize on parrying or lack it.
Some do, others don't. Nothing has changed much as that's what happened back then.
Depends on the game.
Good. You and I have much bigger concerns, though they may be different.
Fixed that for you. What with Epic give-aways and countless sales and several subscription services there are plenty of options to access video games for more affordable prices. The sticking point is that they might not be top of the line by the time you get your hands on them but at that point the graphics card is a lot more affordable.
Perhaps in the US. Here in the UK, wages have absolutely not kept up with the cost of living.
Video gaming is a cheap as hell hobby. You have a console that cost $500 and it lasts at least 5 years (I think like 7 years is the cycle now) so that's like $8/month on the 5 year time span. Games are super cheap if you resell them. When I was gaming a lot in my life, games were $60 (I know they are $70 now), I played a game for a month or 2 depending on the game length and then sold them on eBay for like $40. So it cost say $20/month (I'll up it to $30/month just cuz) for the game portion. So that's like $40/month to game. Also, all the good games nowadays aren't AAA so they are like $20 or so new, but they are usually digital and can't resell like a physical disc. Yeah, that's not counting the Internet or electricity but you already need Internet and electricity so that's not all gaming obviously. Going to the movies once a week is more expensive than gaming.
Cell phone is probably cheaper than a land line was back in the day; land lines are really expensive now because they make them really expensive so everyone switches off of them and they don't have to maintain them anymore. My cell phone is a Moto G52 that costs $160, it'll last at least 3 years so that's essentially like $5/month, my T-Mobile cell phone bill is $15/month; that's only $20/month for a cell phone. With my job, my cell phone is now basically -$80/month because I get $100/month towards my cell phone for use with my job.
I think it depended on how much you used the phone. In the 80s I think the landline for local calls tended to be about $10 or $20 a month, depending on where you lived, but long distance calls would really balloon a bill.
Especially if you adjust for inflation, you can have a cell phone cheaper than what a land line was. Households sharing a line is a thing people don't do with cell phones; though, that might have more to do with the personal nature of smart phones and the internet aspect of being signed into accounts and whatnot. I recall my mom having to pay like $50/month (and I think she had some senior discount too) for her land line a few years back before I had her finally switch to a cell phone, she's very opposed to change.
This is really only one aspect though. Like, in the 80s you have phone, car, house/rent, utilities, groceries, maybe a magazine subscription. Cable existed but it was uncommon. Today you have the same, but add in subscriptions for games/software/services, streaming/music services, internet, used to have data plans for phones, but today that tends to be wrapped into the phone bill with unlimited data, etc. Today there are a lot more things trying to nickel and dime you and it adds up, or at least it feels like it adds up. We will always remember how things used to be, you might be making 4 time as much as you used too, but when you see a gallon of milk for $5 (thanks whole foods) you will remember when it was $1.50. (Assuming you are the right age.) And it will never feel right.
That part will fix itself eventually. The rest will continue on as usual (cheaper Indie, AA, etc.)
Have no idea what people see in Fallen Order, aside from the nostalgia bait, with Vader who's been made lame and the tired safe spot around original trilogy. The Dark Souls level design doesn't fit Star Wars, because Star Wars is more real than Dark Souls, the people I mean, the dialogue, and the chests are wasted on cosmetics anyway. Fun slides don't help either.
