On 18/06/2012, at 7:18 PM, KZK wrote: > > David Brin: > >> Seriously. (May I? For just a moment?) Next time you contemplate a >> book’s retail price, try dividing it by the number of hours of >> pleasure you’ll get, reading it. Then tell me of any other pastime >> with a better minutes per pennies ratio of sheer joy! > > Video games. It's easy to see that Good Quality video games gives a much > better ratio (I'm not talking about all these first person shooter games > which are basically 100% interchangable and are basically Doom clones).
…apart from shooters with an online component - look at the hours (some) people spend playing CoD or Battlefield or Counterstrike. Or with a story like Deus Ex or STALKER or Fallout 3… (so your conception is wrong ;-) ). > > Lets see, you probably get 3-5 times (average) from high quality games--Ico, > Shadow of the Colossus, etc, You probably get 4-10 times from any given Zelda > game (including handheld), 2-20 times from High quality fighter Games--Soul > Caliber, Tekken, etc. Possibly 100's of times from open ended games--Tetris, > Angband, Darklands, Minesweeper, etc. Agree Minecraft has given me a lot of pleasure for awful small change. I know I've also spent around 270 hours in the Mass Effect universe, and probably similar in the Assassin's Creed universe. > > I know I spent more time playing Betray at Krondor than I did reading > Magician (Apprentice & Master). > > Then we get to TV shows/Movies. The average person probably rewatches their > favorite TV shows & Movies over and over again, so your conception is wrong. Plus the better one is at reading, the worse value for money it is… Reading is a very expensive habit! Glad I can afford it. Charlie. _______________________________________________ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
