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>Taste (and hence design) is completely arbitrary in videogames. Taste is definitely not completely arbitrary in video games. What makes a video game good is
by emiljbs 14y ago
>Taste (and hence design) is completely arbitrary in videogames.
Taste is definitely not completely arbitrary in video games.
What makes a video game good is however harder to operationalize - as it always is with mediums of art. Ask the average person why they like some song, an example of an answer would be something like "It's got a catchy hook", which the video game equivalent would be "It's got good controls and explosions."
I do not know what actually makes a game good, but I also have a very hard time believing that taste is completely arbitrary in video games and that video game design is useless.
>But the reason League of Legends and Temple Run reign supreme over the DoTA WarCraft 3 scenario and Canabalt is not superior design or balance.
Sure WC3 DOTA is less popular than LoL, but you'd be insane to say that people do not notice imbalanced stuff.
You seem to hold the view that the more popular a game is, the better. This is probably not true considering how popular Farmville is (or at least used to be) while not being a very good game at all.
Hm, I have a lot more to say overall but I think it's just gonna end with me ranting to a straw man, so I 'm gonna stop here.
- emddudley 14y ago> What makes a video game good is however harder to operationalize - as it always is with mediums of art. Ask the average person why they like some song, an example of an answer would be something like "It's got a catchy hook", which the video game equivalent would be "It's got good controls and explosions." While an individual's taste may be particular to him or her, it is possible to group and classify visual art styles. This is applicable to other aspects of game design as well, like genre and specific game mechanics. I hate to link to Quora, but there was a great question about video game art styles at: http://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-taxonomy-of-names-of-videogame-art-graphical-styles http://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-taxonomy-of-names-of-videoga...
- codezero 14y agoFYI, when you link to Quora if you add ?share=1 then people won't be prompted to create an account. http://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-taxonomy-of-names-of-videogame-art-graphical-styles?share=1 http://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-taxonomy-of-names-of-videoga...