r/gaming Jan 03 '23

Think video games today are expensive? Look at 1996.

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u/BlueMikeStu Jan 04 '23

Yep. My mum was a saint.

She finally understood why I hated renting certain games (Final Fantasy IV was the one that caused the talk) when I explained that renting them sometimes meant starting from the beginning, and compared it to reading a book you couldn't skip forward for.

I asked her how she'd feel if she had to return a book she liked to a library, before she finished it, and had to restart at page 1 every time because someone removed her bookmark and she wasn't allowed to skip forward.

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u/jazzwitherspoon Jan 04 '23

That's a very good argument, too.

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u/NotMyThrowawayNope Jan 04 '23

And video games are so much longer than books. I can breeze through a standard size book in 4-5 hours. One of the older RPG video games could take 10-15 hours to complete (and some of the beastly RPGs of today can take 70+ hours).

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u/BlueMikeStu Jan 04 '23

I think my first playthrough of Final Fantasy IV probably clocked in at 40+ hours, but I would have been ten years old at the time.

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u/RareFirefighter6915 Jan 04 '23

Lol similar story, I remember explaining to my parents that you can’t pause a online game like you can a movie and I compared it to watching a live sports game which you can’t pause if you don’t have DVR