There’s No Such Thing As A Good Game

Joseph of GAMElitist.com - "To show you my perspective, let’s look at LittleBigPlanet. LittleBigPlanet is a great game. It provides a fun and innovative take on the 2D platforming genre and it lets you slaps stickers all over your friends. This game is loads of fun but it’s not. For many people, it is a pointless waste of time."

[LOGICWINS]

Yeah, because its all opinion. Same concept applies to attractive women. Most American men in their 20s would rail Megan Fox given the opportunity, but several tribes in Africa would consider this women "sick" because shes too thin.

[princejb134]

well my opinion is every game is good as long as you the player/gamer enjoys it, regardless of what other people think of it

[BiggCMan]

Agreed, HOWEVER! There are few games that are literally, NOT good. Case in point, Big Rigs.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[TheFirstClassic]

lol that game is just broken this was the review I first watched, loved this guy's voice.

[Pintheshadows]

Like bad movies I gain enjoyment from some bad games. As long as they are not fundamentally broken. It's why I never buy based on reviews. i buy what interests me. And why i'd never write reviews myself.

X men Destiny is awful though. As is Mindjack. I'm a pretty liberal gamer (I liked C and C Renegade) but don't buy those games. Even for a tenner. As BiggCman said some games are just plain bad.

[AWBrawler]

somebody somewhere loves that game, heck i know a kid who loved superman64

[CloseSecond]

I don't know. I think E.T. may still top the list for worst game ever made.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[Yodagamer]

i actually found big rigs funny, but in the its so bad it is funny way

[Kur0]

I find Megan Fox completely unattractive...

[knifefight]

While I agree, it's important to not that this is not the point of the example at all.

[Tanir]

well if the game has a crap ton of glitches to the point its unplayable its a bad game, if a dev didnt even try when they made the game and just published some garbage to get money, its a bad game.

there are definatly a ton of bad games, then there are games that push the genres, games that you can see a ton of effort and polish was put into, the game is a good game. whether you like it or not is opinion, but to say there is no good or bad games is like saying that a person who murders children, lets their bodies decay and than has sex with the rotting corpse isn't evil and its just an opinion, well then sir/ma'm your wrong

[princejb134]

haha bigg i just saw the video hilarious never heard of that game till now
thats the type of game a person with no computer skills like me would make

[BrightFalls76]

Little Big Planet is a series I've really tried to like. Amazing art direction but the premise of a game built around collecting stickers just doesn't do it for me. It's funny because I think about collecting coins in Mario and I can't get enough of it.

[starcb26]

It's not really about collecting stickers. It's about figuring out the levels, and puzzles.

[P_Bomb]

@Brightfalls
If you think the premise of LBP is built around collecting stickers, then it makes me wonder if you've even read the box. It's okay to not like something, but that's quite the claim. You didn't notice all the unlockable create tools and UGC online?

Mario's coins are akin to the bubbles in LBP btw, not the stickers. I've built endless bubble spawns that fill the screen. That's the point system, not stickers, and either way the score is not the goal. That'd be like saying the premise of Mario is a game built around jumping on a flag pole and how many fireworks you can get.

@Lemmi
I'd like to think that the main objective is to beat the levels like any other game, then take your unlocks to build your own games online which is in turn *unlike* any other game. It ain't sticker big planet. If you just wanna collect costumes or keys, that works. Getting 100% stickers isn't needed to make your own levels.

The article claiming it's just a Sony ripoff of Mario is rather kneejerk, just proves he hasn't really thought it through before he started writing. You can't play as Simon Belmont, Link, Samus and Mario in a single Mario game yet you ironically can in Sony's LBP. Perfect avatars sans copyright police. So how is that a copy of a series that doesn't even have UGC in the first place? LBP2 has first person shooters and a music creator. Author picked a bad example.

[Laxman]

Yeah, and Oblivion's premise is to just collect all the Nirnroots.

[MGO_Count]

And this is why we don't need Game reviewers either.

[naughtyngga242]

everyone has different taste in games so when i mite think something is absolut crap someone else will love it. and its the same with clothes, movies, etc

[floetry101]

This article is all over the place and doesn't really have a specific focus. If there is one thing to agree on though, it's that if you own just one console, that'll be your only talking point.

I literally have no preference when it comes to owning both consoles and a gaming PC. I was into playstation when it first dropped in '95 and didn't break from that path until '10, when I bought a 360 to go along with my PS3. I can safely say that I don't give a crap about the console war. In owning both, you come to release just how versatile each one is in fitting a specific need.

That's why nobody will ever learn, and it will continue well into the future.

[Canary]

Maybe. I used to own every console, but ended up getting rid of one of them that wasn't very versatile, that didn't fit a very specific need, that was--in a nutshell--superfluous.

Rather, multi-console owners ought to have a preference one way or another, because each console DOES offer different hardware functionality, versatility and reliability, and each has its own diverse library of titles. Owning everything and not having an opinion doesn't make you enlightened--it makes you blithely ignorant.

[Olly]

Well yes, see my comment on the article (posted as Olly), I tried to answer what I thought the article was about but I looked at how people were answering here, and ended up realising he just meandered and didn't particularly make his point.

But yes, this whole concept applies to a multitude of things, it's a decision-confirmation bias. That is to say, 'I've invested in it, it must be better than the alternative or I wouldn't have bought it'. And yet it's surprising how many people don't know they do it.
This kind of basic psychology should be mandatory in schools, it gives you the tools to realise when yourself and others are basically being an illogical asshat XD.

[ignorantsonsof_]

PS3 taking publicity away from the 3DS? Does this guy have a time machine?

[arcsoft]

He meant to say DS. It's been edited. Thanks for catching that though!

[ignorantsonsof_]

Haha yeah I know it was just funny.

[Laxman]

Headline: There is no such thing as a good game.

Second line in third paragraph: Little Big Planet is a great game.

[AWBrawler]

a game is only truly bad if it has so many glitches its unplayable. heck somebody buys cabella every time it's released.

[Hicken]

This author is someone I will never take advice from. That's the conclusion I've come to.

[Venoxn4g]

yes, if you are a troll :)

[klecser]

"Just thought I’d invite you along to a better way of looking at games."

Thanks for enlightening me oh mighty teacher! Wow, if this person isn't the classic "I'm a super genius gamer stereotype and the only reason you don't understand games it is because you haven't approached them at the unnecessary 30 levels of analyses that I have!"

My guess is a college philosophy major.

[Deadman_Senji]

A derp derp derp!

[GirlyGamer]

Point : Because little big planet is mainly a side scroller doesn't make it a copy of mario. IMO the only similarity is that unoriginal people can make mario based levels and mario customes.

I think that everybody's opinions are different. Some might like a game that others don't. Some might preview a console and decide they like one over the other. These console wars start because one d#ck bashes another console and another person feels the need to defend it and then the cycle goes on.

[jack_burt0n]

But there are good articles on N4G, and this is NOT one of them.