| Metallicube said: haha nice topic.. The problem with most mainstream game reviewers out there is that they mistakenly equate a good game to mean it must be art, rather than fun. Since Just Dance is not art, they mark it down, regardless of how fun it is. Many hardcore gamers are guilty of this mistake as well. |
Not really. I think as poorly of most reviewers as the next vgchartz forum dweller, but for the overwhelming part they are not into critique of games as art.
They review the games like other people reviews bikes or cars: as products. And just like in magazines and websites of cars' and bikes' geeks they are mostly self-referential in their assessment of design and values offered by the products, and often out of touch with what an "outsider" would find good in them. Just Dance was a game that was poorly reviewed, not because it was not art, but because these bike geeks found fatal flaws in it that marred its fun factor -flaws that were apparently immaterial to most bike users.
Still, this has zero to do with art vs fun, only with different frames of reference and value assessment.
