When i was ten the first game system owned was a Nintendo 64.That Christmas i got a great title I'd recommend to anyone looking for a good afternoon, Banjo Tooie. It was the first video game my parents bought for me, and given their disapproving stance on video games in general its one of maybe ten they have purchased in the last decade. Flash forward 3 months, i played that game so much one day i neglected a rather heavy chore load and upset my mother by doing so. She grounded me for nearly six and a half years. For six and a half years i was only allowed one hour of video games a day. monitored my my father i needed to ask for my hour when i wanted to play. I look back on that and i really don't mind i got to do allot of other things, for instance in a pretty good artist if i do say so myself. If there is one thing this restriction would teach me is the value of an hour.
Flash forward ten years from the Christmas with Banjo and kazooie. Im a hardcore gamer spending my 24 hour day counting the hours.24 hours in a day, 16 awake, 8 asleep, 8 at work and 8 to my discretion. do i spend an hour playing a ten hour block buster, or an old favorite.
My video game collection is immodest to say the least, i think theres at least 50 titles on various systems. and each one has at least 10 hours on it, 20 if theres the content, 50 if the game can hold my interest that long. with all the money one game costs its hard to justify spending 60 dollars on a game I'm going to play for 2 hours then leave on the shelf. So heres my point Modern video games cost allot, and the newer trend of games being shorter is upsetting to say the least, especially with the newer trend of games being increasingly expensive.
When selecting a new game to add to my collection how much it costs me to play per hour is a huge factor. for instance i paid pennies per hour of entertainment for halo 3, oblivion, or fallout 3. to find out how much you paid per hour divide the number of hours you played the game by what you paid for it. its up to you to decide if a 10 hour game is worth the 6 bucks an hour. I try not to buy a game for anything more than $2.50 an hour.
[for any one thats interested the average block buster video game within the first year of its release costs 60 US (United States). That converts into 40 EUR (Europe), 65 CAD (Canada), 66 AUD (Australia), 5,430 JPY (Japan), 410 CNY (China). whether or not thats what games cost in those countries i have no idea, thats just the conversion]
Flash forward ten years from the Christmas with Banjo and kazooie. Im a hardcore gamer spending my 24 hour day counting the hours.24 hours in a day, 16 awake, 8 asleep, 8 at work and 8 to my discretion. do i spend an hour playing a ten hour block buster, or an old favorite.
My video game collection is immodest to say the least, i think theres at least 50 titles on various systems. and each one has at least 10 hours on it, 20 if theres the content, 50 if the game can hold my interest that long. with all the money one game costs its hard to justify spending 60 dollars on a game I'm going to play for 2 hours then leave on the shelf. So heres my point Modern video games cost allot, and the newer trend of games being shorter is upsetting to say the least, especially with the newer trend of games being increasingly expensive.
When selecting a new game to add to my collection how much it costs me to play per hour is a huge factor. for instance i paid pennies per hour of entertainment for halo 3, oblivion, or fallout 3. to find out how much you paid per hour divide the number of hours you played the game by what you paid for it. its up to you to decide if a 10 hour game is worth the 6 bucks an hour. I try not to buy a game for anything more than $2.50 an hour.
[for any one thats interested the average block buster video game within the first year of its release costs 60 US (United States). That converts into 40 EUR (Europe), 65 CAD (Canada), 66 AUD (Australia), 5,430 JPY (Japan), 410 CNY (China). whether or not thats what games cost in those countries i have no idea, thats just the conversion]
