Psychotic said:
Music and to lesser extent movies lack objective quality indicators. What doesn a "good song" sound like? I can't tell you, because it's subjective as butt. What does a good game look like? That I can tell you. And people can tell you with their wallets. But yes, a lot of times even music and movies can be sustained on nostalgia value alone. It's actually pretty easy to measure: do people who were born WAY after the movie/music had been created still like it? No? Then it's nostalgia value only. |
That's where your reasoning is deeply flawed. You can tell me what a good game looks like? Compare the graphics in Haze to the graphics in Tetris. Does that make Haze a better game? Certainly not according to people's wallets...
Face it: There are reasons that some things are remembered as classics and some are remembered as dated junk. Claiming that anything that is looked back fondly on is due only to "nostalgia value" is as silly of a blanket statement as what Review Tech is saying.
