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Khuutra on 13 October 2009
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papflesje said:
Khuutra said:

Bearing in mind that I am someone for whom positive qualities can transcend the problems created by flaws, you will understand if I am less worried than you about the blemishes marring the face of something whose other features I find immaculate. There is no objective measure of total quality: I will bear this discussion in mind for future conversations, but I will judge, for myself, whether or not the game is a 9.

Subjectively, of course.

Hell, Psychonauts was a 9, no reason this can't be that good...

So, if the gameplay is flawed, you would still consider it a 9 or above, just because schafer's name is attached to it? Or am I reading this wrong?

Not precisely that, no.

The writing would need to be good enough that I do not care about the flawed gameplay, which was the case with Psychonauts. It's not the fact of Tim Schafer's name that would do it, it would be the quality of the project - one aspect can be good enough that I don't particularly care about the flaws. This also happened with KotOR2, which is one of my favorite games.