WHAT A RIP OFF!! A Mcdonald happy meal costs 28 rupees in Hyrule. - Off-Topic

#1 Posted by Masha2932 (1232 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

The folks over at Game Informer have put-up a nice article detailing currency conversion in video game worlds. http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/11/03/currency-converter-calculating-video-game-exchange-rates.aspx





It's an interesting concept and it would be nice to know what you guys would buy in the real world based on your experience points and levels in the above games?

Please state your countries currency and its relation to the American dollar to make it easier to understand.

For example I live in Australia and-

1 Australian Dollar= 1.05 US Dollars

According to Game Informer 1 US Dollar = 8.93 rupees

A happy Meal in Australia costs $4.95 which is $5.15 US dollars

Since 1 US dollar is 8.93 rupees then a happy meal in Australia costs 49 rupees.



Also I was wondering If we could do something similar with other games. For example what is the real world cost of

1. The bolts in Ratchet and Clank

2. Souls in Demon's/Dark souls

3.  Sonic's rings

4. Other games

#2 Posted by Agent47 (1889 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

Wow....uuhhhh I don't know what to say....

#3 Posted by Inkerman (1335 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

This is pretty neat, although I think the Fallout comparison is misleading, given it's post-apocalyptic and so resources are worth more than in the real world. Perhaps a better comparison would be to the Depression, or in Somalia or post-Soviet Russia.

#4 Posted by Twitchey (865 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

Considering I have 20,000+ caps in Fallout New Vegas I'd say I'm okay.

#5 Posted by CornBREDX (3420 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

considering currency in games is so much easier to get 49 rupees isn't really that much so that's not that bad.

#6 Posted by Jack268 (3386 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

That's million bucks.

#7 Posted by RobertOrri (964 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

Hyrule's economy is broken. Rupees can be found lying in the grass.

#8 Posted by Patman99 (1295 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

Wow that's a pretty cool article. People in the fallout universe must carry around a shit ton of bottle caps....

#9 Posted by Vinny_Says (5157 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

I stole every single one of those 36 gold bars from the casino in Fallout dead money....guess they weren't worth that much

#10 Posted by Slag (1835 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

Clearly Princess Zelda has a hyper inflation problem. She should tell the King to fire that Agahnim chief advisor guy he seems kind suspicious.

#11 Posted by MooseyMcMan (8549 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

Cool.

But how does it compare to Brad Bucks?

#12 Posted by RollingZeppelin (1364 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

Hmmm, so in Starcraft, for a 90% chance you're going to die as a marine, they pay you $500,000. It's a risk/reward issue I suppose.

#13 Posted by themangalist (1442 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

@RobertOrri said:

Hyrule's economy is broken. Rupees can be found lying in the grass.

Sonic's gold rings would be worth SHIT then.

#14 Edited by Guided_By_Tigers (8020 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

Man Pokemon dollars are almost worth less than the Vietnamese đồng....cool article thanks for posting

#15 Posted by Video_Game_King (29266 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

@RobertOrri said:

Hyrule's economy is broken. Rupees can be found lying in the grass.

To be fair, that's how most economies functioned under metal/mineral-based currencies. You found an abandoned mine, and EVERYBODY WAS RICH!

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#16 Posted by Guided_By_Tigers (8020 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

@RobertOrri said:

Hyrule's economy is broken. Rupees can be found lying in the grass.

They also regenerate meaning they really should be worth next to nothing.

#17 Posted by prestonhedges (1965 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

Pretty sure Lon Lon Ranch milk is high-end milk, not regular-ass department store brand

we're talking five dollars, not one

#18 Posted by Crabs_on_the_beach (42 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

@Unknown_Pleasures said:

Man Pokemon dollars are almost worth less than the Vietnamese đồng....cool article thanks for posting

Only I could take that sentence and make a visualization of everyone in the Pok'emon world passing penis around like currency. Also Mexicans must make a pretty good living in the Hyrule universe.

#19 Posted by Guided_By_Tigers (8020 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

@__Ab4iFuRu18__: Well Vietnam's currency situation is a joke, so no wonder there currency is called the đồng.

#20 Posted by GreggD (3323 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

Isn't a goddamned glass jar in Hyrule like 100 rupees?

#21 Posted by MasturbatingestBear (1137 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

Lon Lon Milk isn't just some regular-ass milk. Thats quality. Also Rupees can be found all over Hyrule. In Ocarina of Time there are shooting galleries where the targets are rupees!

#22 Posted by Video_Game_King (29266 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

@MasturbatingestBear:

Everybody knows that the King of Hyrule is a far right conservative. There aren't as many huge mountains as you think; the King just built a huge wall to keep the Mexicans out. (Because apparently, Hyrule borders Mexico.)

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#23 Posted by project343 (2652 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

Whoa. My brain. :X

#24 Posted by the_OFFICIAL_jAPanese_teaBAG (4267 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

Goddamn...

#25 Posted by iam3green (14380 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

pretty interesting stuff.

i figured that's how they find how much everything is. i use to do things like that when i thought of that.

#26 Posted by FlyingRat (1444 posts) - 1 year, 6 months ago

Isn't the symbol next to the pokemon dollars the symbol for simoleons? As in the currency of the sims?