Or I can have a moment of zeitgeist which relies on a mass of people simultaneously experiencing novelty. I can go and read "Moby Dick" for free, and maybe I'll be able to find some dusty social-network where people endlessly discuss Herman Melville. I don't want to have to dodge spoilers, I want to understand the cryptic memes, I want to share the experiences with my friends. ROU TimOS 3.3 🇪🇺 🏴 December 22, 2019Īnd, I guess this is the real reason I see the new Star Wars movies on their opening day. The real gameplay was the memes we made along the way? So, reluctantly, I accept the Ludic Value argument. I've never played as a mischievous bird before. As my Untappd data shows, I've never met a new beer that I didn't want to try! I'd rather go to a new restaurant than eat in the same place twice. I see the $/hr argument, but the novelty of the game - how memorable and accessible it is, compared to so many other games - makes it worth the premium to me. There's another aspect - how much do you value original experiences. A second-hand copy of The Witcher, Spider-Man, or any other recent AAA game costs around £20 and offers literally hundreds of hours of gameplay. My wife plays a lot of open-world games on the PlayStation 4.
Many of them are just as fun and innovative.
#UNTITLED GOOSE GAME PLAY FREE#
Goose's £3.60/hour pales into comparison to any of the thousands of free games available on mobile. OK, but videogames are a different experience to other forms of entertainment. The average book I read tends to have a value of about £0.50-per-hour. It's cheaper than going out for cocktails, or a fancy meal.īut it's vastly more expensive than reading a book. £18 for 5 hours' of entertainment is about the same price-per-minute as a couple of cinema tickets to see the latest Star Wars movie. So, does the Goose experience represent value for money? £/minute 5 years ago, after seeing the Internet fawn over a cutesy puzzle game, I wrote " Is Monument Valley Overpriced? Yes." I don't learn my lesson, do I?) (If you think you've read this blog post before, you're right. I suppose the best thing I can say about it is that the whole thing is too short to be repetitive. It's not-quite innovative, the puzzles mostly consist of move Thing A to Place B.
The game is short, and pretty crappy value for money. I settled down to play it one afternoon, picked it up the next morning, and was staggered to discover I'd completed it! I am not good at video games. I baulked at the price - £18 - but figured since everyone else on Twitter enjoyed it, I would as well. So, after months of memes, I bought Untitled Goose Game on the Nintendo Switch to play over the Xmas break. Therefore, like any Homo Economicus, I have a rational desire to get the most value for money for my time-wasting distractions. I also have a limited amount of money to spend. I have a limited amount of time on this planet.
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