Hardcore: Stop having fun! Games are supposed to be serious!

[Kantor]

Avinash_Tyagi said:

theRepublic said:

Kantor said:

Not boring, of course. No good game is boring. But it doesn't have to be fun. The Godfather wasn't fun. Lord of the Rings wasn't fun. The Dark Knight wasn't fun.

Shadow of the Colossus wasn't fun, MGS4 wasn't fun, Killzone 2 wasn't fun, Heavy Rain won't be fun.

They're all still awesome, though.

I would sooner whack myself on the head with a hammer than be forced to play Frisbee Catch for any extended length of time. Of course fun games can be good- Mario Kart, LittleBigPlanet, Ratchet and Clank, light hearted games like that. But not all games that Mr. Malstrom considers "fun" are good. If the mainstream thinks they are, good for them.

I must use fun differently than most people here.  I never saw the Godfather, but the Lord of the Rings and the Dark Knight were both fun, enjoyable movies to me.

I know seriously, he must have a very skewed understanding of what fun is

The Dark Knight was certainly not a fun movie. Big Momma's House 2 was a fun movie. Up was a fun movie. Monty Python and the Holy Grail was a fun movie. All of them are awesome, in my opinion (even if I am the one person in the world who liked Big Momma's House).

The Godfather was not fun in the slightest. It was awesome, because it was gripping, told an excellent story, and had fantastic acting. But it wasn't light hearted. It wasn't funny. And that's how I think of the word "fun". Not that a fun game can't be good. I would consider LBP fun. I would not consider Killzone 2 fun- it was a game about invading a planet and killing people who only wanted freedom in violent ways. The opposite of "fun" in this case isn't "boring", it's "serious".

Another thing which makes a game fun for me would be the ability to do wacky things, like kung fu kicking a helicopter, or picking up somebody and chucking them into the ocean. This way, I would consider Prototype and Black and White to be fun. There's no real opposite here, because a lack of this kind of fun isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Certainly, if you use "fun" as "enjoyable", every game I have ever liked has been "fun". No game I have ever disliked has been "fun".