How does one objectively measure the quality of a videogame?

When you’re critiquing something that is ostensibly art, isn’t there a strong implication that “best” means “favourite?”

When a game comes with a solid character creator, I'll spend a good 40 minutes to an hour in the character creator at the beginning of my playthrough. I'm probably not the only person like this. Anything that makes character creators better is a good thing and worth caring about.

Honestly, the way people are reacting you’d think the list contained things like ET The Atari Game and Superman 64. They’re not all my personal favourites, but I can’t see any one of those selections which is out of place on a ‘best of’ list.

These are overall all pretty great games. It’s still highly subjective though.

Best video game lists are just like best albums or best movie lists. There are so many examples in so many genre that everyone’s list is different

My “best of all time” list would contain shit like Dynamite Headdy and Space Station Silicon Valley while also containing very few of the last decade’s “Game of the Year” candidates.

I can’t stand Zelda games. It’s always been one of the franchises where I am having the least fun. Breath Of The Wild is the one I had the most fun in — right up to where I got into the grind of having to replace my weapons by fighting an enemy that would destroy even more of my weapons — and I never played it again.

Beware that a few of them are existing/coming “free” PSPlus titles, if you’re a subscriber.

Thank you for the heads up on the sale!! Snagged Demon's Souls for PS5, $30 is a great price! 

His comment kind of captures the perspective of those kinds of guys. real women repulse them, because they see women as faceless objects meant exclusively to get them off. 

Yeah, out of morbid curiosity, I’ve been looking at the Steam forums for several new/upcoming ‘big’ games, and among all the “woke is killing games!” idiocy, there’s a recurring thread of “the evil feminist/leftist/woke/etc movement is making all the videogame women ugly!” One dude going on about how he refuses to buy…

This isn’t related to the main troubling point of the article and I know that the internet is filled with dumb things, but that feminity praise tweet from Poliwar is so stupid that I can’t stop lauhing about it. Like if I read a parody account stating something like, I would shrug it off trying too hard. That is art.

You’re likely underestimating just how major a change it is to add an open world and mount to the Dark Souls formula. With Dark Souls games while players are able to choose where they’re going, most of the level design is fairly linear. So when players come across an obstacle, you don’t have much choice except beating…

Live service games will always have higher potential profit than single-player games. 20 million units sold within a year is great but Fortnite has been making millions of dollars a day for like 5 years. Big publishers will always focus on maximizing profit so they will always chase the live service dream.

After finding 12th set of armor in this game, i was like

Love that these crazy motherfuckers made a goddamn billion dollars without having to cannibalize their clients.  Just the opposite, really.  From’s next game is probably also gonna be a banger and it will probably also sell like crazy, which is exactly correct.

because it wasn’t cutesie enough in a Zelda sort of way

I’m on my second play through and almost near  the end. Level 201 and I rarely replay games. It has to be real good for me to play new game+

While I'm never really one to go "whoo" to any large company winning a lawsuit. I am happy that this sets legal precedent that hack and aimbot creators do damage to the game by giving people an unfair advantage so it will now be easier for other developers to come after aimbot and hack makers