Originally posted by dadudemon
Okay...but that seems like a waste of money to me. If you only got 10 hours out of it, don't have the urge to replay it, you got ripped off, imo. I would change my mind if you got 30-40 hours of the game. Hell, I got 30-40 hours out of most SNES games on a single playthrough.👆
It is entertainment for which you pay a reasonable price (books). Smas asked about books and movies. I commented with stuff like Why buy a book if you're never going to read it, again? Why buy a movie if you'll only watch it once? Isn't that a waste of your money? So why would you pay for a game that you'll get no more than 10 hours from but never play it again after you beat it? With a book that you buy, you'll usually get more than 10 hours out of it and it costs MUCH less than $60. Though, the two are not directly comparable, imo. I wasn't the one that brought that comparison up but I had to address it because it was posed to me. But, back on point, you should just buy a digital copy of a book or rent it (yes, you can rent copies of books for like..3 or 6 months) rather than buying the whole thing. It will provide you more time entertainment than a 10 hour video game for which you paid $60. Same thing with a movie: if you only plan to watch it once, Netflix or Redbox it, don't buy it. Unless you find one of those "2 for $5" DVD bins...then it is a good price, imo.
You should have rented Uncharted 3. You could have saved $55 if you rented it (I assume you'd have a $15 a month rental cost from Gamefly or a $5 store rental).
My motto for buying a game for the console (PC is different due to Steam having good sales) is that if I want to play it and going to play it numerous times, I usually buy it.
Or I bought it if the game is going to take more than a week to play (so a longer game like RDR)
I rented when I wanted to try it out or I can beat it a few days.
But it's changed. Kids happened and I can't rent video games at the store so I either buy the game or not. Per month rental services are out the window because for 20 bucks a month, I would need to beat 3 games to make it worthwhile a month. Not going to happen.
On topic, I'm waiting to build a new computer before I get it. The beta was pretty good. Annoyed that it's on Origin but oh well.