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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."

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LOGICWINS4565d ago

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.

princejb1344565d ago

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

BiggCMan4565d ago

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

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

TheFirstClassic4565d ago

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

Pintheshadows4565d ago (Edited 4565d ago )

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.

AWBrawler4565d ago

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

CloseSecond4565d ago

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

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

Yodagamer4564d ago

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

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Kur04565d ago

I find Megan Fox completely unattractive...

knifefight4565d ago

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

Tanir4565d ago

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

princejb1344565d ago

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

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BrightFalls764565d ago

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.

starcb264565d ago

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

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P_Bomb4565d ago

@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.

Laxman4565d ago

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

MGO_Count4565d ago

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

naughtyngga2424565d ago

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

floetry1014565d ago

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.

Canary4565d ago

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.

Olly4565d ago (Edited 4565d ago )

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.

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Players claim Fortnite ruined Call of Duty by letting in more corporate greed

Do you remember what gaming was like before Fortnite entered the gaming space? One of the biggest arguments was about loot boxes. Now we have conversations about crossovers, battle passes, and community outreach.

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GoodGuy0911d ago (Edited 11d ago )

Idk. Loot boxes did disappear and battle passes and in game purchases are all cosmetic. We get free weapons and maps post launch, any gameplay affecting content. I could care less about all the cosmetics.
I absolutely hated the days where weapons were locked behind a less than 1% chance lootbox pull where it'd take 5+ hours to have enough tokens to do a single pull and lazy remastered/remake maps cost you $15 each wave or $50 for the season pass that you didn't know what you'd get and these maps were only available to those that bought it so you get a smaller pool of players match with.

Tacoboto10d ago

The "good ole days" are actually what drove me away from COD and Halo 3/Reach. Halo 4 becoming a COD-like drove me away from that only a week or so after it launched and I beat its campaign.

It sucked way back then, going a month or two without playing online-shooter-of-the-moment, and then needing to buy a $15 map pack to play with the majority of the population or your favorite playlist. The "community" rejecting Spartan Points in MCC killed that game's support, too. No revenue = no support, plain and simple.

Cacabunga9d ago

That headline could easily be something Spencer could have said 😅 I had to check if it was really an opinion piece

KyRo9d ago

As times gone on, the COD battle pass has got ALOT worse so they can push people to buy the more premium battle pass which itself is a huge rip off and nearly half the price of the base game.

The cosmetics can be fine but they've taken it to far to the point of no return. Why make a military themed game then have rabbits, dinosaurs, cats, rats & z list rappers as skins? You wouldn't add a Lamborghini to a fantasy RPG to replace a horse and you would never see Mario have limb dismemberment because they know what they are. COD is having identity crisis but kids and streamer but then all

franwex10d ago (Edited 10d ago )

Call of duty can simply not copy the bad aspects of Fortnite? Or is that too out of this world? Like COD, a realistic shooter-just HAD to have Nicki Minaj running around? Or super heroes?

Inverno10d ago (Edited 10d ago )

Exactly! Trends don't all need to be followed. Plus where Fortnite got somewhat better with it's monetization, Acti got worse. Or at least Fortnite has lended itself more to the wacky stuff, and has put more effort and quality into that stuff.

jjb198110d ago

I prefer the battle passes with free maps than the $50 season pass that divided the community. I definitely feel that Fortnite had some influence on CoD having loot boxes with Blackout being introduced in 2018 with Black Ops 4.

PRIMORDUS10d ago (Edited 10d ago )

Actually Fortnite bullshit ruined Unreal Tournament. Epic are sellouts and I will never have that shitty store on my PC, fuck them and that shit bag Tim Sweeney. At least the community keeps the games alive, I still play UT2004.

StoneTitan9d ago

I mean cant really blame them for supporting the game that made them the most money and the most people player...ever?

Psychonaut8510d ago

Call of Duty ruined Call of Duty. They needed no outside assistance.

Ra30309d ago

100% correct! The makers of Call of Duty ran out of ideas long, long ago so they take ideas from other games like Ghost Recon, Fortnite and any other FPS game hat had success hell CoD remasters maps that they've remastered several times already then charge you again for it. Call of Duty is simply a cut, copy and paste and then put the $70 price on it every year. Activision and now Microsoft has been essentially remastering Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare every year since it was released in 2007 its to the point it's worse than the sports game like the Madden, NBA and others yearly sports franchises.
@Psychonaut85 is spot on "Call of Duty ruined Call of Duty. They needed no outside assistance"!

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Massive new COD Black Ops Gulf War leak lifts the lid on loadouts

The Black Ops Gulf War leaks continue with a list of weapon descriptions giving more info on what you can expect from new and returning weapons.

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Call of Duty Players Disappointed by $80 B.E.A.S.T. Glove Bundle Deal

Recently, players of Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone were met with a new bundle featuring the B.E.A.S.T. Glove, inspired by King Kong's armament in the Godzilla x Kong movie. However, the $80 price tag attached to this themed accessory left many Call of Duty fans feeling underwhelmed.

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Kaii17d ago

Morons that allow themselves to be milked continuously by this company is the definition of irony.
Spend more $$ and you'll end up In easier lobbies so you win both ways when ya spend that cash

melons17d ago

Controversy in the COD community feels like it happens within an alternate timeline. Activision will take the piss with something, there will be a momentary fuss about it, and then they will forget about it and carry on anyway. Repeat this cycle literally every year for the rest of time.

Gridknac17d ago

They call that a crack head! Thats what this is really about, its an addiction. People who dont smoke cigarettes look and laugh at the addicts that spend $8-$10 a pack, but they cant help themselves, they are addicted. That same analogy applies perfectly to the whole MT industry. Only an addict that was not thinking clearly would spend this kind of money on something so frivolous. A round of multiplayer provides the same high a person gets from scratching a lotto ticket, or putting money on a sports bet. MT in general need to really be regulated because you have a generation of kids becoming adults who grew up only knowing the MT era of gaming. Its normal to them and they will in turn teach their kids the same by just being a gaming parent and getting their kids involved with them in gaming. Thats why no matter how ridiculous the headlines keep getting out of the MT industry, it never seems to fade or go away.

X-2316d ago

I'm so tired of hearing about what they're doing with this game, its never going to change and it's never going to value the consumer over money, furthermore the people who engage so heavily in the microtransactions I guess allegedly are having a blast and can't wait to do it some more this year when the new version of the game drops.