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mirgro on 06 June 2010
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naznatips said:


Saying a game is only good if it's better than all similar games before it is ridiuclous. That would mean there are only a few actually good games in existence by your definition and everything else sucks. A good game is enjoyable to play. A bad game is not.


Actually, that was the case up until the early/mid 2000s. Games to get praise had to be better than their predecessors, otherwise they were labeled as clones, and then their value was automatically lowered. I don't know what happened 2004/05/06 on, but things apparently changed. All I know is that there is indeed less than 25 games on all platforms and PC since then that have actually not been boring and just bad games. If you count indie games, then 40.

I also do enjoy playing even the suckier games, however I don't let that determine if it's a good game or not. A good game will top previous experiences, a bad game will not. You don't see anyone who enjoys movies the way you enjoy games saying that Avatar was a good movie solely becuse it was enjoyable to watch, do you? Everyone like that generally agrees that it was an enjoyable, but trashy, movie.