- Oh yeah, here we go. - Bowser gonna score.
- No! - Yeah.
Oh, what's up, you tiny now?
(laughing) What, what?
- Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo!
Should we go on a Worth It game adventure?
- Yeah, that's what we should do.
- What do you think the most expensive video game is?
(laughs) What's up?
You wanna come too?
- Let's do it! - Let's go!
- Yeah, come on, kitty! - Woo-hoo!
- Aw.
- He's not coming. - He doesn't want to go.
(static)
- Branden. - Yeah.
- Good old Branden.
- That's me.
- Today we are going to go on three video game
adventures at three drastically different price points
to find out which one is the most worth it at it's price.
- Worth It!
- A+. - Thanks, man.
What do you know about video games?
- I'm an expert on watching my big brother
play video games, okay?
Hours spent just watching away.
The first one, our cheap one, is a one-player game
and I'm gonna probably just watch you play 'cause...
- So we're like brothers then.
- Aw, we're brothers!
Except you're not Asian.
- No.
(spooky music)
- Hi, I'm Sean Krankle.
I am the co-founder of Night School Studio.
- I'm Adam Hines, I'm his cousin
and also a co-founder too.
And we're going to play Oxenfree today.
- Tell us about the game because I have no idea
what this game is.
- Oxenfree, it is a coming-of-age tale
about a girl who is about to graduate high school.
The first third of the game just feels more like
you're playing a teen adventure,
putting you in awkward situations.
So it's like, how do you impress a new person
and do you out your buddy who you know
has a crush on somebody else?
And then people are potentially dying
and it goes batshit crazy.
- Just like my senior year. (laughs)
- What was the inspiration for choosing
to make a choose your own adventure game?
- We just really liked the idea of having
a coming of age slash horror story
that you could control?
- Like, literally every line that your character says,
is 'cause you're saying it.
So the script is 18 hundred pages long
and it's not even- - [Steven] What?
just linear, right?
Yeah, that's because we wanted to let the player
choose what to say all the time.
It's not the kind of thing like every other game
where you watch your character talk and behave.
It just gives you the ability to sort of star
in your own movie, you know?
It's pretty cool.
- I think I'm ready to play.
And how much does it cost to play?
- So Oxenfree is $19.99 and it's also on iOS for $4.99.
- Alright, big bro, let's do this.
- Let's go.
(spooky music)
- Fire, man's great equalizer.
- So what's the like thing to do here?
- I feel like I'm watching a movie right now.
- The thing to do is lay on the beach and drink until
you can't remember where you are.
- I'm gonna throw this rock.
- And sometimes play Truth or Slap.
- You're weak, bro.
- Alright, Steven. - Throw the baby.
Stoke that fire.
- So you get first blood?
Slap him like he stole something.
- [Branden] Oh, I get to slap him?
- Alex, come on, what are you doing?
- Slap, slap, slap, slap, slap.
(oohing)
- [Branden] Damn. (laughing)
- Shoot.
- [Branden] Oh I got an achievement for that.
Here, do you wanna try? - Yeah.
- Mm, mm, mm, mm, dance, dance, dance.
- Alex, you wanna check out the caves or?
- Yeah we do.
- Eh, let's do it.
- Help me up, dawg.
I'm going over, baby!
Jump, jump!
- Didn't you hear me calling for you?
- Jesus, you scared me.
- Can we just like, go now?
(cave opening)
- See? - What the hell is that noise?
- Oh, I can just scream.
(screaming)
- [Steven] How do we breathe?
- [Braden] Are we dead?
(static)
- That game was amazing.
It felt so real.
And you know when something is so beautiful
that you only compare it to your significant other?
(laughing)
- Did you just compare your girlfriend to a video game?
- No, no! Video Game Fact!
Did you know that the average American gamer
plays about six point three hours of video games per week?
- That's it?
- What do you mean that's it?
- That doesn't seem like a lot.
- What?
Six point three hours a week I spent eating lunch.
Lunch is way more important than video games.
- Yeah, okay, I get, yeah.
- The next game is actually VR.
We're goin' to the future.
(singing incomprehensibly)
(upbeat jazzy music)
- Hi, my name's James.
I am the Chief Creative Officer of Survios.
You're now in our headquarters here in Los Angeles
and we're the makers of Raw Data.
Raw Data is an action-sci fi experience in VR.
We really wanted to nail down the rush of battle
and that excitement that comes from being
surrounded by enemies of a lot of different types.
So that was the initial premise and then we drew
all these inspirations from all these different movies,
from RoboCop and Terminator, that give you the sensation
of being in a sci fi action flick.
And a big part of it is the co-op experience as well.
So having players work together to achieve a common goal
is really how human bonds are formed.
- How do you have a game play that mimicked real life
as much as possible?
- It's an interesting balance.
Because part of it is wish fulfillment and fantasy
and part of it is realism.
We did for Raw Data, it's an action combat game.
You're gonna have guns.
And so we had to go to the gun range to figure it out.
- That's like a company outing here?
- Yeah, it was actually a Christmas outing.
We had some people wearing Christmas hats.
It was a good time.
- If I wanted to play VR, do you know about how much
that would cost for a user?
And then in terms of your game, how much is the game?
- Yeah, so the prices are constantly going down.
The oculus is around six hundred bucks,
touch controllers for an extra two hundred dollars,
and then Raw Data is $40.
- [Branden] Alright, cool, let's check out the game.
(upbeat music)
- My name's Xavier Thomas and you're at
the IMAX VR center in Fairfax.
So the controls are pretty simple.
Trigger to shoot.
To reload, dip your hands down and up.
Aim anywhere on the ground and when you let go of it,
you'll teleport there.
It gets harder each time, so definitely help each other out
and offense defense.
- Yeah, I'm sure he's glad he's on my team
because I smoked him in Mario Kart earlier.
- Nice. - Yeah.
(laughs) - Alright.
I don't know about smoked. (laughs)
- Alright, here we go.
(intense music)
- Well, hello. Hi friend.
- Oh my god. (laughs)
- What's wrong with your arm?
(guns shooting) (laughing)
- Stop shooting at me!
Stop shooting!
(guns shooting) (laughing)
Stop it man, I can feel it!
- [Branden] Alright, alright, alright, truce, truce!
- Alright, okay, you ready?
- [Branden] Do I hit launched?
- Yeah, you are ugly.
- [Branden] You're ugly!
- [Both] Woo-hoo!
- What does this thing do?
(gears whooshing)
- [Video Game] Nice job, the data is downloading.
- Alright, here we go, okay.
(intense music) (guns shooting)
Dude!
Alright, here we go. (guns shooting)
- Alright, I'm going to look left.
(guns shooting) (yelling)
- [Steven] Ow, ow! - Ohh!
Shoot, shoot. - I saved you there!
- Aw, thanks man. (laughing)
- [Both] Whoaa! (guns shooting)
- Whoa!
My god!
- Who is this guy?
He's not dying!
- You go- - [Steven] He's gonna die!
Quite the noob!
- Ohhhh!
Shoot!
Dude, I'm dead.
- [Steven] You're dead?
- Oh, no no, I'm fine. - [Steven] Why are you dead?
- I'm fine, nah, no big deal.
- Oh my god, there you are. - Hello.
- Give me a hug. - Dude, that was crazy.
- Whoaaaa. (guns shooting)
- No, no no.
Who's that?
- I don't know, I don't like it.
Get out here.
(screaming) (laughing)
(guns shooting)
- No, no no no no!
- Ah, what is it! - Ugh!
What!
Oh drones!
(guns shooting)
Yeahhhhh.
- Oh, oh. - Yeahhh.
- Yeahhh.
- Do a little dance.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
(screaming) (guns shooting)
- No, no, no! (screaming)
- Woo! (laughing)
- Wait. - Woo!!
(dramatic music)
- That was the most fun I've ever had.
In my life.
- Yeah?
Wow.
And you got married last year.
- Well, okay.
Second most fun.
- Now we finish the journey.
We're going to Nashville.
- Nashville. (whooshing)
- Beep. (static)
- Alrighty.
We just landed here in Nashville.
- Nashville.
- Through the power of teleportation
because you know when we cut out of the last scene
and then now we're here in the car.
- Yeah, we turned into fuzz and then-
- And then Evan popped out of nowhere.
What's up?
- What's up.
- You know what time it is.
- Video Game Fact!
- In 2005, the video gamer by the name of
"Little Poison" was named the youngest gamer of all time.
- Uh-huh. - Guess how old he was?
- Like, 12? - That's reasonable, right?
Four years old.
- Can kids even talk at-?
They can talk at four, right? - I don't-
- I don't know how babies work.
How do babies work?
- There is a video game arcade called Game Galaxy.
They have a game that is 70 thousand big ones.
- $70,000!
- Oh wait, we're here.
(oohing)
I like it! - Oh, yeah.
- Retro Arcade, pinball, buy, sell, trade.
This place looks legit.
(high-pitched piano music)
- My name's Cody. - And my name's George.
- And we run Game Galaxy Arcade.
- [George] Game Galaxy has been around
for about eight to nine years.
- [Cody] And we're one of the nation's largest,
if not the largest, free play arcade.
Meaning you pay just your entry fee
and no quarters, no tokens, just play what you want.
- When we walked in, his eyes just lit up immediately.
- [George] That's the standard.
- But we're here for one thing
and that is Stadium Events.
- [George] We are selling Stadium Events for $70,000.
- It's one of the rarest if not the most rare NES game.
The initial run only had 200 units total.
After that, the 200 units did a full on recall
of everything that was on shelves
and rebranded as a first-party Nintendo title.
So if you possibly had one of those original 200 copies
and it's still in good condition,
then there's your money.
- And what was it renamed to?
- World Class Track Meet.
- Do you know how much that sells for?
- Five bucks? (laughing)
- Can we play it?
(regal music)
(breathing)
I'm a little scared.
- You wanna touch it first? - To be honest.
Okay. (laughing)
Is that a five dollar charge?
Uh, can we open it?
Or maybe you could open it. - Sure?
Yeah, I'll open it for you. - You open, okay please.
- Okay, so it's in this protective case.
As you can see, the original price tag was $25.
(laughing)
This is my first time taking it out of the box.
- [Steven] Really?
- [George] Yeah, so I'm trying to be really careful with it.
- [Steven] Wow, so you haven't
seen this out of the box either?
(laughs) Okay, can I hold it?
- So it's a surprise to me.
(triumphant music)
- Really incredible
- Only 200 were made and who knows
how many are still in circulation.
Probably less than what, 50?
- I would say less than 20. - Yeah.
- Wow.
It's silly but really cool.
- I don't know if it is silly.
We're one of probably just a couple thousand people
that have ever touched this game.
- [Cody] Should we play it?
Yeah?
- Yeah, let's play it.
- [Branden] Oh! I just had to touch it.
- We got tournament, hundred meter dash, long jump, hurdle.
What do you wanna do?
Dash?
Cool, now how do you actually play this game though?
- You just run in place.
- [Branden] Do you wanna be player one?
- [Steven] I'm player one.
- Alright, we're select.
- Ohhh, nope. - Okay.
- You just hit start a couple times.
- Oh my. - And okay, here we go.
- Ohhh, okay okay okay.
You're going down bro!
(beeping)
(gun firing)
- Oh huh huh huh!
Oh my god, you're so fast!
What?
My thighs are so! - Grrrrr!
- Going down! - Nope!
- You're goin' down! (screaming)
- Oh yeah! - What?
Wow. - Yeahhhh.
- Nine seconds.
Dude, that's Usain Bolt.
(static)
That lived up to the hype.
So, Branden, which video game was the most worth it
at its given price?
- This game like-
- You are not going to choose this one!
Do not!
- I'm not saying it's my favorite.
- [Steven] I can't let you!
- I'm just saying, there is something to turning on an NES
and you get that eight bit music, you know?
- Yes. - The overall though?
Raw Data. - [Steven] Ding ding ding.
- Pow, pow, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew.
What was your favorite game?
- Stadium Events, super cool.
Worth 70 grand?
Yes, to somebody.
I'd rather have a car.
But it was awesome to just touch the game
and to be a part of that experience.
But five dollars for Oxenfree and the story
can be played hundreds of times
and you can have different outcomes every time.
So for me, my Worth It winner is Oxenfree.
I am really busy these days.
But I know I can play Oxenfree on my phone
on a plane for hours.
Which is actually what I was doing on the way here.
- Damn. - I know, right?
- Are you a gamer now? (laughing)
- I'm a gamer, bro.
- Alright, high five. (hands clapping)
- We did it. - Yeah.
- Alex, what's your Worth It winner?
Do you have a winner?
What, no!
You'll, ugh come on.
(static)
- [Branden] But I dunno man, Pokemon Go.
I spent a lot of money on that game.
- [Steven] Did you? (laughing)
- [Branden] I probably put at least a hundred dollars
in that game.
- [Steven] Noooo. - [Branden] Yeah.
And then two weeks later I stopped playing.
- You regret it though.
- I do. - Oh really?
(laughing) (swooshing)