MTZehvor said:
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. |
No, the quality of a game isnt just in the eye of the beholder. It comes down to the talent of the developer. Games like GTAV, The Last Of Us, Super Mario Galaxy etc...are quality games because they are made by talented people who knows what makes a fun game. Halo may not be popular in Japan, but that can be said about most FPS games. Just because they are not popular there, doesnt mean they are of bad quality.
Quality comes down to great gameplay, design and how well the game runs.
Sure you can argue how fun a game is, but you cant really argue quality.
