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PlagueOfLocust on 29 July 2007

@rolstoppable - Agreed. We only allow good games in here. Any mention of Superman 64 being your favorite game and you shall be exiled post-haste.

It's a tricky question. First you have to define "good," and everyone will have their own opinions of that. Some games are good in one way but lacking in others, such as good graphics but poor gameplay, good gameplay but poor graphics or music or any number of things. If someone really loves good graphics, the good gameplay may not be enough to qualify the game as good for them if it has bad graphics.

I'd say that in a general sense, developers don't put enough effort into many aspects of their games, especially where franchises are involved. Tight schedules, publishers making decisions that developers should really be making, etc, are some of the things to blame. If you want better games, it'll probably take a major restructuring of the industry. Good luck.

And if you ask me, the potential of video games has hardly had its surface scratched yet, so by that standard very few games have been good.



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akuma587 on 29 July 2007

There are a ton of bad, mediocre games out there, far more than good games. Go through a complete emulator list of older systems and play through each individual title (which I have done on my friends old Xbox). A lot of games just plain suck.



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steven787 on 29 July 2007

For me, it depends on my attitude. If I feel like having fun, the game could be alomst anything, especially if it is one-screen multiplayer. If I am in a bad mood either the game has to be really good or really relaxing.

I think the reason why companies don't care is it is less risky to make a game, say about dragons, and then people will buy it because they want to pretend they have a pet dragon on the battle field. Or a movie license. Then most of the buyers are moderately happy with their purchase because the game did the job... they got to ride around on a dragon. I know I wanted a overhead-shooter with lots of Aliens, Alien Syndrome is doing the job for me.

Unlike movies or TV though, staying power and big releases don't just come from the theme or noteriety. The games that sell really really well tend to be good (except sports games, some just sell because of the sport).

In case any one cares about my opinion: Mario Galaxy, BioShock, and Haze are going to be "the" good games of the year for each system.



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elprincipe on 29 July 2007
super_etecoon said:
Every game has its share of flaws, some more than others. But if you had to choose between reading a book and playing a bad game I'm sure most of the people on here would be going for 100% in Superman 64.

Sorry, I don't think you're right on this one.  I (and many others I would assume) would much, much rather read a good book than play uber-crap like Superman 64, or even a moderately bad game for that matter.



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a.l.e.x59 on 29 July 2007

Same here.



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Segata Sanshiro on 29 July 2007

100% of games with my name on them are good.



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Desroko on 29 July 2007
elprincipe said:
super_etecoon said:
Every game has its share of flaws, some more than others. But if you had to choose between reading a book and playing a bad game I'm sure most of the people on here would be going for 100% in Superman 64.

Sorry, I don't think you're right on this one.  I (and many others I would assume) would much, much rather read a good book than play uber-crap like Superman 64, or even a moderately bad game for that matter.


Amen.

And no, most games are bad.