12-06-2015, 10:07 AM
honestly, seriously giving score to games is really dumb.
as if developers will see these scores and say "oh man, we got 7/10 this year, let's make a better game using its parameters and aim for 10/10"
While developers will indeed use their past experiences to build a better game in the future, it's dumb to give actual numerical value to that.
The modern society is highly dependant on numbers. Okay, numbers are important in our lives and I'm not saying "abandon math". But, math is often used for things that shouldn't be much of an issue. I think this is ingrained to our heads because of the majority of us playing games and having to rate characters' health and stats via numbers. Of course, numbered/graded exams also take part in this.
But this is not the truth when a subjective point of view is taken. You can't rate a game a number out of a number, because it's subjective. There are many nuances to why you like a game or not, and It's useless, if not impossible, to go and give random numbers to every single factor that makes up a game (especially because when you play a game, you aren't enjoying the sprites, gameplay or music alone: you're enjoying the whole piece).
This being said, perfect games don't exist because perfect is a concept. It's not a thing that really exists, like infinity and Pitcairn Islands.
as if developers will see these scores and say "oh man, we got 7/10 this year, let's make a better game using its parameters and aim for 10/10"
While developers will indeed use their past experiences to build a better game in the future, it's dumb to give actual numerical value to that.
The modern society is highly dependant on numbers. Okay, numbers are important in our lives and I'm not saying "abandon math". But, math is often used for things that shouldn't be much of an issue. I think this is ingrained to our heads because of the majority of us playing games and having to rate characters' health and stats via numbers. Of course, numbered/graded exams also take part in this.
But this is not the truth when a subjective point of view is taken. You can't rate a game a number out of a number, because it's subjective. There are many nuances to why you like a game or not, and It's useless, if not impossible, to go and give random numbers to every single factor that makes up a game (especially because when you play a game, you aren't enjoying the sprites, gameplay or music alone: you're enjoying the whole piece).
This being said, perfect games don't exist because perfect is a concept. It's not a thing that really exists, like infinity and Pitcairn Islands.
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