Say a simple (hours enjoyed playing)/(price of game) equation. How many hours (you enjoyed) per $ do you think is reasonable/expected? Or is there other criteria for you?

I feel like I’m on the upper end here. But to be fair I also tend to play things that has a lot of replayability. So I usually reach 100+ hours on my favorites eventually.

Eager to hear how others reason about it.

Edit: Added the enjoyed part. I agree with the comments that frustrating hours shouldn’t be included in the measure :)

  • @tal@lemmy.today
    6•1 year ago

    I am often willing to take a punt on a game that tries to do something creative and interesting.

    take a punt on

    scratches head

    This has to be one of those cases where British English and American English mean essentially opposite things for the same phrase.

    googles

    Yup. Well, this goes on the list with “moot”.

    Apparently in British English, this is “take a risk on doing something” and in the US it means to skip doing that thing.

    https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/punt-on

    to risk money by buying or supporting something, in the hope of making or winning more money

    US informal

    If you punt on something, you decide not to do or include it:

    We punted on a motion that makes no sense.

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/punt

    (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, UK) To stake against the bank, to back a horse, to gamble or take a chance more generally

    TIL. I guess it makes sense with the British English term “punter”.

    • ElectricMachmanEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      I’d argue that it’s ‘punt’ in the sense of to lightly kick something. I’ll give it a punt = I’ll give it its day in court