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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MoogleEmpMog" data-source="post: 2103943" data-attributes="member: 22882">I have to disagree with (some of) this.Both console and PC-style RPGs average about 30-40 hours of solid play for $30-40 US.  I've put well over 200 hours into Xenogears and Might and Magic: World of Xeen, 300 into Final Fantasy 6.  Turn-based strategy game Heroes of Might and Magic III probably cost my family less than $0.10 per hour, even though we've had to buy several copies.Provided that you enjoy them, these games are likely to provide you with the most hours of entertainment per dollar.A pen-n-paper RPG book, assuming it was vital to every hour of every session and that your sessions lasted 6 hours, would have to last you about 70 sessions to equal that value.  I suppose a core book would qualify, but would a supplement?  A campaign setting?Even so, RPG books are probably one of the cheaper entertainment options.  A novel, even if you read it twice and are a slow reader, will probably keep you entertained for about 18 hours tops - you can still get paperbacks for less, but hardcovers?  Forget it.At the show, movies are hideously expensive (probably worse than sporting events, see below).  On DVD, however, they're now relatively cheap.  You can get a 2 hour movie for under 10 dollars, and it's not out of the question that you'll watch it at least five times.Sporting events are objectively the worst per-hour entertainment discussed, but there's a difference between sporting events and movies, books and electronic games - each one is unqiue and, although probably recorded somewhere, somewhat fleeting.  You can't skip it and get the same experience a day later, or two days later, or a year later.  This increases demand and thus cost.</blockquote>

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