IGN Editorial: Blinded by MARIO

[Torillian]

Rath said:

Torillian said:

O-D-C said:
somwhere along the line, this guy forgot what gaming is all about

fun

if you can have playing a game then it's done its job

That's fine when you're talking about whether or not to buy a game, but both NSMBWii and Splosion Man were fun, so obviously you have to base GotY off more than "which game is fun"

 

I do disagree with him on his points other than originality.  From what I've heard Splosion Man's online coop is a nightmare of lag, and comparing 100 levels to 77 does not take into account the length of the levels whatsoever.

Fun isn't a switch. A fun game can be more fun than another fun game.

Fun isn't a quantifiable property in and of itself.  What's fun for you might not be fun for me.  I enjoy Games with stories and others abhor it.  Some care about graphics for their fun and others don't.  The reason fun doesn't show up in components is because reviewers try to get at all the things that can make a game fun for longer.