Would be fun to play , but still expensive even with the discount .

It really doesn't look fun to play.

I plays similar to Mario games or Banjo-Kazooie (the Devs made Banjo-Kazooie, hence the similar title)

So, if you like those kind of games...

Vastly expensive game (discount included), manual and soundtrack sold separately, again vastly over priced.

It's called the Capital Cashino.

I remember when digital distribution was getting off the ground everyone kept telling me "now that the middlemen are getting cut out, we will be able to get our games cheaper", and yet here we get to pay the full retail price of a PC game and to add insult to injury the manual is a 10€ DLC. I really have to wonder whether those people were just fanboys or viral marketers.

Theoretically it makes sense since there's no longer a need to press CDs/DVDs or print manuals.
Unfortunately greed won out as usual.

... you'd be better off playing a good one.

this game it's less than $30 on GOG, NEW retail games are usually $60 or $40 when indie or remake, i don't see your point

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In your country . But not in everywhere .

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You mean when I was telling everyone that once physical distribution won't exist anymore, there won't be any reason for developers not to sell stuff completely overpriced just because they can?

The first Mario titles I think of when Mario is mentioned play very differently to Banjo-Kazooie.

Mario games consist of short stages with only one (*maybe* two) goals, have two dimentions of movement, have power-ups that last until you get hit, and without power-ups, you don't get any attack other than jumping on an enemy.

In Banjo-Kazooie, the game consists of large stages with many goals (each one has 10 Jiggys, for example). The game has three dimensions of movement (making the strategy for fighting enemies very different), a health meter that depletes when you get hit (complete with knockback, which you don't see in Mario), and you can attack with bear punches and Kazooie's beak (but jumping on an enemy will likely hurt you).

In other words, Banjo-Kazooie is not like a Mario game, or at least not what I think of when I hear Mario. (I note that Super Mario 64 is so different from previous entries in the series that it doesn't *feel* like a Mario game.)

Games are still ridiculously cheap though. Compare the price of a game to the price of a book, when considering the number of man-hours that go into each on average. Or compare the price of a game to the price of a movie, considering how long they tend to entertain you.

With the argument that games should've become cheaper since digital distribution, most people blank out the fact of how much more expensive game development has become since the 90s. Detailed 3D worlds, orchestrally recorded soundtracks and voice acting are many times more expensive than low-res 2D art, MIDI soundtracks and text-only dialogues. The number of people on development teams, and the duration of projects, have both exploded over the past 20 years, yet games have still become very noticeably cheaper compared to when I was buying them as a kid. For a new, big-budget game, I now pay maybe a third of what I would've considered normal in '95.

That's one of the reasons why, as I can tell you from an industry perspective, only very few games ever break even. I don't believe there's many industries where such an absurd percentage of products end up being a loss. We're burning through studios and publishers, and almost the only ones that manage to survive are those either big enough to hedge their investments and offset their many flops with a few big hits, or those small enough that not too many people's livelihoods depend on them.

It's not a healthy business, in my opinion. So seeing things from both sides of the divide, I can't really agree when people consider $40 too expensive for a game that two dozen people worked on for two years. Anyone who's been buying games for more than 10 years will know that they've never been both this cheap to buy and this expensive to produce.