A Game is Only as Good as You Make It

John of GAMElitist.com - "There are a lot of great games out there. Now, more than ever. But these games aren’t always played to their potential. Our preferences, which dictate how we have come to enjoy games, get in the way of the full experience."

[TheFinalEpisode]

A lot of people don't get that how good a game is, just like everything else, is subjective. How you play it and how you look at it will drastically change the experience.

[Hufandpuf]

hypothetically, what if I hated FF7?

[Wintersun616]

The world would come to an end.

[TheFinalEpisode]

@Hufandpuf
I wouldn't be surprised a lot of people don't like RPGs, everyone has their own opinion. For example I don't like Mass Effect(I know that's gonna get me alot of disagrees) everybody else seems to love it. Does it make me wrong? I don't think so

[h311rais3r]

Not liking something is different then spreading hate for something cuz u don't like it.

[Summons75]

would make sense seeing it is one of the weakest in the series. Wasn't bad but the story completely fell apart after the first disc. The chars. are not likable at all either. I know all the FF7 fanboys will rain hell down on me but oh well they can't change a thing.

[Greyslash]

Exactly, I love a lot of games people consider "shit" its all subjective.

[SnipeySnake]

Very VERY good article. I hate it when people critize things they barely even tried.

[Outside_ofthe_Box]

I completed the entire game of FF13 and still thought it was trash. I don't get this "it's good after x amount hours" nonsense that people keep bringing up.

But yeah, when it comes to any type of entertainment, whether it's good or not is subjective. A game being good is never a fact in a technical sense.

[dredgewalker]

It's only as good as the person in charge of developing it. That's why we have superstar devs cause they are able to churn out really good games.

[edonus]

Very good article and i do agree, games are what we make them but this is a very complicated concept because it can take different roads. The enjoyment of a game is subjective.... I could play Uncharted and not like it but that doesnt mean its a bad game. It could just not be the game I was looking to play. But if based on my experience i told people Uncharted was a bad game I would be wrong even though its an opinion. The problem is you are giving a definitive value (good or bad, 2.5-9.5, C+ to a A-) to something without definitive guidelines. This is the current problem with reviews these days. I think over the years in the gaming culture we we have began to talk too casually and matter of factly about games not really looking at everything that goes in to them. Doing this has made gamers kind of polarized to and drawn only to very limited forms of games. This in turn has decimated the amount of creative and new gaming concepts that are created. This is because devs dont want to spend Killzone 2 money on a project just for it to be completely ignored, overlooked or bashed because its something the gaming world cant grasp and arent willing to try and grasp it. These days you really have to play things for yourself.