Without having played other games, how can you possibly know what is "quality"?
Someone who's never heard any music ever before might find the beginning music student's earnest but unskilled attempts at playing their instrument very good, until they hear a high school student who's had years of training... and then that's great until they hear a symphony orchestra, etc.
Without some previous experience with a thing, or something to compare it to, there is no way to evaluate it.
Is this pencil long or short? Your answer will most likely be based on what you perceive as the "standard" length for a pencil. Without that knowledge, how can you judge if it is long or short?
How do you know if a game is good or bad if you've have no other game experience to compare it with?
You need points of reference, otherwise any evaluation you try to make is meaningless.
You can take into account your own experiences with other games, obviously, to look at a game. But it only can help you so much. After a certain point, when the thing you are comparing it to is so much different from the product you are currently looking at it ceases to be a coherent reference point, and then you have to evaluate the game on its individual merits.
You could look at the ten inch long pencil, with no point of reference to other pencils in your memory or at hand, and think "ten inches isn't that much, a ruler is twelve inches, I'll say it's short" (note still comparing it a system of measurement AND a measuring device there), or you could think "ten inches, wow, a toothpick is like two inches, so five times that is quite long!"
Is this pencil long or short? Your answer will most likely be based on what you perceive as the "standard" length for a pencil. Without that knowledge, how can you judge if it is long or short?
Your comparisons/analogies do not apply to these products though. A pencil has a very defined purpose its imperfections/issues are much easier to point out. A game does not have a defined purpose and its sole job is to entertain(well at least the type of video games we are talking about).
Someone who's never heard any music ever before might find the beginning music student's earnest but unskilled attempts at playing their instrument very good, until they hear a high school student who's had years of training... and then that's great until they hear a symphony orchestra, etc.
And here is where you are starting to show your bias, or maybe tipping your hat, by using this analogy, unless I am just over analyzing it.
This is not a comparison of a elementary band vs high school band. The closest comparison would be comparing many orchestras against each other. Not everyone is going to like the same orchestra, but that does not make the ones you like, better then the others, it just means you liked a different orchestra more.
Modifié par Meltemph, 19 novembre 2010 - 05:50 .
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