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MTZehvor on 25 August 2016
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KLXVER said:
MTZehvor said:

A game's quality is entirely an almost entirely subjective assessment. It all depends on what you, the player, think of it. You may think GTAV is a quality game, and others can disagree. Saying that something is a "bad" game is just a quicker way of saying "in my opinion, it is a bad game," because any measure of quality (with the exception of a few things like glitches and perhaps graphics quality) is entirely subjective and depends on both what the user is looking for in a game and how they evaluate things.

Maybe if you have no idea what a quality game is. Sure some can say that Wii Music is the best game ever made, but youre not really being very objective then. Some can say that Super Mario Bros. 3 is shit and badly made if you have no idea what makes a game good.

Again, it all depends on what you think makes a good game. If you enjoy...whatever the heck it is that Wii Music does...then Wii Music may very well be the best game to you. Maybe some person who enjoys music but hasn't played video games much before enjoys it for its (I'm assuming a bit here) simplicity, and as a result, considers it the best video game ever made.

The point is, everything we assess a game on is subjective. Even attempts to be "objective" about things are, in and of themselves, based on what the video game community has subjectively decided is good or bad in the past. We praise Dark Souls for its exploration and lack of hand holding because the majority of us in the community think that is good. We degrade Skyward Sword for its hand holding because the (rather large) majority of us in the community think that is bad. Any attempt at objectively invetiably finds itself based in a subjective assessment that someone or some people made in the past. You can call that "having no idea what a quality game is," but that's based on your notions of what a quality game is (which, in turn, may be based on the larger community's notions of what a quality game is). Or to bring this back down to a more practical level; the original Halo was, by and large, considered a mediocre game at best in Japan. And yet, in the West, it was praised universally. The very notion of what does and doesn't make a good game shifts drastically if we simply cross an ocean; trying to make an objective assessment for games is a futile notion at best.