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Exú Marabô Oct 1, 2022 @ 7:01am

"Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game."

Yup. Hear the man and don't buy this, the game is really lacking and the ending is "meh" to bad.

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necrophonic has Return to Monkey Island

Oct 1, 2022 @ 8:23am

I enjoyed it

n3mes1s Oct 1, 2022 @ 9:12am

"Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game." lol, even 20 bucks is already too much for videogames today. And when you do an exception and you are willing to pay 20 or even more money than that... you get dissapointed still. lol. But its videogaming of today, nothing we can do about it.

Hazy_Maze_Cave has Return to Monkey Island

Oct 1, 2022 @ 9:38am

Funny enough the original game was $49.99 on release in 1989. With inflation that would be $119.40 in 2022 dollars. Almost $120. This game is $25 in 2022, which in 1989 dollars would be the equivalent of $12.

People are complaining about videogames decreasing in value, while so many essential goods like energy and food are skyrocketing. So pretend that this is a budget indie title you can grab for $15 while in line at Babbages in 1989. That's the real world value given inflation.

I got 10 hours out of it in the first playthrough. I plan on playing it again because outside of the ending and a few story groaners it was enjoyable.

Plus it was worth it to find out that Ron Gilbert never had some grand story stashed away for MI3, that was always a tease.

It's funny because he always held this mythical follow up to MI2 over the heads of people making the sequel games. It's the only reason I disliked CMI, which plays way better going back to it now. They explain the end of MI2 as if Big Whoop and the theme park are another voodoo trick. Ron said his MI3 was way better than that. But it wasn't.

It makes you wonder if he ever had anything planned, or that was just talk. If Ron had come up with some cool new characters and story arc, you think we would have seen any of that. He literally repeated what he did decades ago and then sat back and basked in his brilliance.

But still, when you are getting the band back together, it is worth a revisit. It's why Twin Peaks season 3 was always going to be worth it just to see those actors working together again, some, for the last time in their lives. Another opportunity to be creative.

Getting voice actors and writers and musicians that all previously collaborated to revisit material is great but also it's going to be hit or miss. It's why I can't be that upset about it. It just revealed Ron for who he really is.

Plus if nothing else, you get a new full soundtrack by Michael Land.

Last edited by Hazy_Maze_Cave; Oct 1, 2022 @ 9:43am

n3mes1s Oct 1, 2022 @ 9:45am

Originally posted by Hazy_Maze_Cave:
People are complaining about videogames decreasing in value,

Videogames are expensive as hell, specially today. The quality and support of the product you buy is no way near what you are actually buying lol. The fact is that ive been playing videogames since 1985 and im amazed how videogaming industry has gotten worst year by year after 2000 but specially after 2008-2009 (the auge of steam and the final straw where everything started). Today? videogaming industry is a pure joke, as simple as that. And if people were smart, they will refuse to pay more than 15$-20$ for ANY videogame and will stop giving companies reasons to keep increasing the lack of quality in videogames without decreasing the prices, year after year. But well, that is a fantasy world, unfortunately.

Last edited by n3mes1s; Oct 1, 2022 @ 9:47am

Ap2000

Oct 1, 2022 @ 10:37am

Originally posted by Exú Marabô:
Yup. Hear the man and don't buy this, the game is really lacking and the ending is "meh" to bad.

20$ back in 1990 is 45$ now.
So I think 23$ is a fair price, even if I don't particularly like the character artstyle.

FhqwhTODD

Oct 1, 2022 @ 11:52am

20$ is 20$. Sure it feels like less now but it's still 20$. The value of videogames has gone down because there are more of them now.

Ap2000

Oct 1, 2022 @ 12:30pm

Originally posted by Gottkaiser Fhqwhgod:
20$ is 20$. Sure it feels like less now but it's still 20$. The value of videogames has gone down because there are more of them now.

No that is not how inflation or money or video games work.

misc

Oct 1, 2022 @ 1:36pm

I was happy to pay $25, until they went into my computer and applied a "patch" that broke the game. Now I will wait for it to be under $20.

Originally posted by Hazy_Maze_Cave:
It makes you wonder if he ever had anything planned.

He didn't. He has said as much. At least, there was no grand plan. Anything you came up with over the decades was probably better than what they had planned at the time..

Originally posted by Ap2000:
Originally posted by Gottkaiser Fhqwhgod:
20$ is 20$. Sure it feels like less now but it's still 20$. The value of videogames has gone down because there are more of them now.

No that is not how inflation or money or video games work.

Say you have a backlog of games to play. How much are you willing to pay to add a game to that backlog? Probably not very much. When you a surplus of something, the value of one more of those things goes down. (Not all games are equal so this is not always true, but it's true enough.)

Ap2000

Oct 1, 2022 @ 1:48pm

Originally posted by misc:
Say you have a backlog of games to play. How much are you willing to pay to add a game to that backlog?

My backlog is relatively huge and I only just bought Return to MI (have played it for 3h so far).
A new game that will entertain me at least 10h is worth 20h if it's a) new and b) for the most part really well made.

How much I am willing to pay also depends on who I give my money to. E.g. I haven't bought anything by Activision Blizzard, EA or Ubisoft in many years.

GAMING_Alligator has Return to Monkey Island

Oct 1, 2022 @ 2:35pm

Originally posted by Gottkaiser Fhqwhgod:
20$ is 20$. Sure it feels like less now but it's still 20$. The value of videogames has gone down because there are more of them now.

Well no, because of this little thing called inflation. May want to look that up on Wikipedia.

Even then it was a joke in the first place. The original cost a lot more than $20.

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n3mes1s Oct 1, 2022 @ 7:45pm

Originally posted by Gottkaiser Fhqwhgod:
20$ is 20$. Sure it feels like less now but it's still 20$. The value of videogames has gone down because there are more of them now.

Erm, 20$ videogames are games that are supossed to be "small" and not considered "AAA" (if that even exists nowadays). The problem here is that steam allows every single piece of "·$"· to be published, because they get profit with every "hit" and sell. So right now, the industry is filled with thousands of trashy games that are not even finished, buggy as hell, but yeah you paid 20$ fo them. For a broken and unpolished product. And most of the times, with terrible support. So no, 20$ today for these games is still expensive as hell.

And dont let me start talking about supossed AAA games that are selling for numbers like 50-60-70 and in some cases even more. Thats insane.

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FhqwhTODD

Oct 1, 2022 @ 10:25pm

Originally posted by misc:
Say you have a backlog of games to play. How much are you willing to pay to add a game to that backlog? Probably not very much. When you a surplus of something, the value of one more of those things goes down. (Not all games are equal so this is not always true, but it's true enough.)

You got it!

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