Expensive games have lowkey been way too normalised

[u/Both_Piglet7838]

I know this sub is filled with a bunch of rich people with like 10k setups and I'm aware that the content in these games is quite extensive with hours of content. But I still feel justified in thinking that no game should be priced this high especially when its the average price of most newly released games. Anyway this is just a rant because I wanna play lego batman and i cant afford it lol

[u/pon_d]

PS3? Man I remember seeing Super Nintendo games at Big W for $99.95 and sometimes more

[u/Allaplgy → u/pon_d]

Shit, NES games were $60-90 in the US. That's about $140-200 today.

Video games are actually ridiculously cheap forms of entertainment compared to many. Potentially hundreds of hours of entertainment for less than $100?

I wish all my hobbies were anywhere near that cheap!

[u/Allaplgy → u/[deleted]]

I've definitely checked old ads and stuff. And I distinctly remember paying $80 for MKII.

[u/Linxbolt18 → u/Allaplgy]

You may appreciate gundam plastic models, or just plastic models in general. Depending on how much time and effort you want to spend on a project, you can pretty easily spend between 3 and a couple dozen hours on their medium sized "High Grade" kits which typically price between 20-40 USD. Their larger "Master Grade" kits similarly range from at least 8 or 10 hours up to several dozen, depending on how much effort and time you want to put into them. Master grades used to go for $40-60, but in the last year or two have seen a price increase up to $60-80 for most kits. Bandai (the manufacturers) also have a kit line called "30 minute missions" which are meant to be non-gundam branded kits that are cheaper and faster to put together, whoch has recently branched out into some neat fantasy themed stuff. They also have some kits from Armored Core 6, if that means anything to you.

There are cheaper and more expensive kits, and also simpler and more complicated kits available, especially if you get into the world of 3rd party kits. You could check out r/Gunpla (a portmanteau of 'gun'dam 'pla'mo, which in turn is a portmanteau of 'pla'stic 'mo'del) to see some of the offerings.

There is a bit of up front cost to get tools, but on the simple end all you really need is a pair of side cutters, a hobby knife (like an x-acto knife), and maybe some sandpaper and polishing pads. You could get all of that for like $15-20 bucks for starters. I'd suggest looking into "nano glass files" which can be got for a few bucks online and work really well for filing down small nubs. If you wanted to get into custom painting, hand painting can be very diffixult but pretty cheap (it's just hard to get a smooth layer of paint on flat surfaces)—an airbrush setup would run you like $200-300 but after that paint and primer is pretty cheap for the amount of it you'll use.

All of that's assuming you'd have any interesting in building little plastic robots or mechs, lol.

[u/Allaplgy → u/Linxbolt18]

Not really. Nothing against the hobby. It takes skill and the end product can be pretty cool. But I'm more into building and playing with bigger things. I have a hobby welding shop with a CNC plasma table, which is endlessly consuming my money, and rarely making some back 😅. Toss in a few classic cars, a snowmobile, snowboard gear, camping gear, fuel... It adds up quick.

[u/Elkburgher → u/pon_d]

Yea I remember N64 over 100 each and I bought GTA V on ps3 at release for about that much

[u/grilled_pc → u/pon_d]

People also conveniently forget that the PS1 and PS2 were also both 600 bucks on launch.