| WagnerPaiva said: I find that fun is subjective also. I thouhgt Adventura Capitalist and Tropico 5 were super fun gamers, some people think they are stupid. I think Wolf among us is fun, some people say it is boring... |
Also @BraLoD
I think I presented my ideas badly in the OP. Every game has a fun factor. Some people get it, some people don't. Some people like Mario, some don't.
The argument is that some games downplay the fun factor in favor of what I'm labelling as a "cool" factor. The cool factor being a sort of generational trend that changes with time. "Coolness" in the mid-90s was Sonic, then Street Fighter, then Halo, then Uncharted, then whatever... It was all sorts of different things throughout history and that's the point.
I think games that make "cool" the dominant factor in their game are susceptible to having the game age badly since each generation defines it differently. This why I think Mario still succeeds today. It never tried to be cool, only fun - which all games are for the audiences that enjoy them.
