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Valmond, do gaming w When was a game's price worth it to you?

Red Alert & World of Warcraft.

I guess Diablo 2 but I didn’t have the possibility to buy it back in the day. Buying games wasn’t as straightforward as buying a CD of music where I lived.

Entropy, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 22nd

Been playing Mario Wonder that last 2 days, but I gotta put it down and finish The Legend of Zelda: The Monish Cap. I was on the last dungeon. Great game, I don’t know why I waited so long to play it.

ndguardian, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 22nd

I am just now starting through Fallout 4. I’ve had it in my library for a while but never got around to it.

GammaGames, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 22nd

I recently discovered Snowrunner and have been having a ton of fun playing on the switch! I’ve also rolled down the same hill multiple times 🥲 though I’m learning to tame the mud

CalamityPayne,
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Stick with it, the juice is worth the squeeze!!

GammaGames,

It is! Last night I discovered the fleetstar had awd in the garage 🥴 I’ve built two bridges, fixed two rockslides, and pulled the truck to the farm in the time since!

xilliah, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 22nd

Oxygen not included.

All my dupes fart so much that I can run a generator off them.

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tissek, do gaming w When was a game's price worth it to you?
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Larger and/or gamey games 1€/h. Here I put games such as the Tomb Raiders, cRPGs etc.

Narrative experiences 5€/h. Stray Gods and other high quality intense experiences. Often short and with limited replayability. Like seeing a movie a second time.

Furimbus, do games w Anyone have good memories of (or still belong to) a gaming clan or guild?

I helped co-found a guild back when WOW was new - I was the guild webmaster. The guild never really got that big or active, but here it is 20 years later and I still occasionally get credit card offers in the mail for “The Blackrazor Brotherhood.”

Some of my favorite gaming memories are from my time in a guild called The Sylvan Guard on an EverQuest server around 1998 or so. It was a small guild but the last time I saw a question similar to this posted, on Reddit a few years ago, I checked in and so did a former guild-mate I hadn’t spoken with in decades.

skeletorfw, do gaming w When was a game's price worth it to you?

I have a rule I refer to as the pint limit.

If you are in a pub and have one pint an hour, you would generally consider that to be a good use of time. This means one hour is worth approximately the cost of your usual pint at your local pub. For me this is about £3.50.

I then divide the price of the game by this number to get the number of hours the game has to provide to make it worth it. So for example Risk of Rain 2 cost me about £21 and I have played about 280 hours, meaning that I have exceeded my pint limit of about 6 hours by nearly 274 hours. Solidly worth it!

Occasionally a game will not reach its pint limit, but will be worth it nonetheless, e.g. The Return of the Obra Dinn, but generally I find the metric exceptionally accurate to my feeling of worth for a game.

The final advantage is that this scales with the cost of living (and usually thus wages) in your area.

I think about 10% of the games I bought since 2016 have not yet reached the pint limit, which is generally pretty good going.

missingno, do gaming w When was a game's price worth it to you?
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I already have enough zillion-hour games to grind, I don't need every game to be that. As much as I love JRPGs I have a hard time setting aside time to finish one these days since I have too much else I also want to play.

DaedalousIlios, do gaming w When was a game's price worth it to you?
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Terraria. Hands down. No other game I’ve ever played has had the same sheer amount of value for $10 fucking dollars.

A honorable mention would be Stellaris and good ol’ Skyrim. But their larger price tag definitely means that Terraria is greater value.

magnetosphere, (edited ) do gaming w When was a game's price worth it to you?
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The absolute best value I ever got for a video game was for my old Atari 2600. I got a Solaris cartridge at a flea market for just a few bucks. It was cheap enough that I bought it despite never having heard of the game before.

The graphics capabilities of an Atari are laughable by today’s standards, but in terms of overall fun and hours played, nothing has ever beaten Solaris.

Moonguide, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 22nd

BG3 and Halo: Infinite with friends, Doom: Eternal, Crusader Kings III and Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous solo.

Klanky, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 22nd
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Ace Combat 7. Never played one before and loving the just-right arcade feel of the controls.

delitomatoes,

You should definitely try the earlier ones !

Poopfeast420,

Every time this goes on sale, I’m debating on whether to buy it or not. Like you, I’ve never played one of the Ace Combat games before, but some arcade style gameplay could be fun.

Father_Redbeard, do gaming w When was a game's price worth it to you?
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Vampire Survivor. So cheap but fun to jump in for a run or six.

aka_oscar, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 22nd

Ive been obsessed with The Witness for a few weeks now. Some puzzles are so damn tricky but figuring them out is so pleasurable. This is one of the few puzzle games im actually trying to solve on my own instead of relying on walkthroughs so the experience is very fulfilling

GammaGames,

The Witness may be one of the best puzzle games I’ll never beat. The repeated Aha! moments are something else

JowlesMcGee,
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After you finish the witness, you should try The Looker. It's a free parody of the witness that's also pretty good as a puzzle game in its own right. Though, like the witness, I didn't finish it either.

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