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Topic	What are some old bad games that are only bad in execution?
adjl 09/15/25 4:06:05 PM #14:	man101 posted... Oh how I wish I had never developed a critical perspective on games and I could still just enjoy almost everything as simple entertainment. I envy the people who can buy the yearly installment of whatever derivative AAA franchise and genuinely feel in their hearts that it's a 10/10 game. :/ It kind of just comes with experience. As much as it was (and still is, in some ways) fun to brainlessly exploit poor balance, experiencing games with better balance (or at least that offer the imbalance in a better-designed way, like something like Binding of Isaac where you can break the game wide open and have your way with it and that's what makes it fun) has led us to realize that they're actually more fun. Personally, at least, I don't think it's limited my ability to enjoy games. Yes, I'm very guilty of optimizing the fun out from time to time (my efforts to get through SMT Devil Survivor are being stymied by this as I get bogged down trying to min-max but don't actually know the game well enough to do so effectively), but I have no shortage of games to play and the vast majority of the things I've chosen to buy for myself have ended up being fun enough that I don't regret the purchase. I also just enjoy the act of critiquing media. Thinking about and discussing what I do/don't like is itself an enjoyable enough process that even a game I wasn't big on can offer me something of value. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. <cite>adjl posted [p:986423664] in What are s... [t:81041238]...</cite> <quote>man101 posted... </cite><quote>Oh how I wish I had never developed a critical perspective on games and I could still just enjoy almost everything as simple entertainment. I envy the people who can buy the yearly installment of whatever derivative AAA franchise and genuinely feel in their hearts that it's a 10/10 game. :/</quote>It kind of just comes with experience. As much as it was (and still is, in some ways) fun to brainlessly exploit poor balance, experiencing games with better balance (or at least that offer the imbalance in a better-designed way, like something like Binding of Isaac where you can break the game wide open and have your way with it and that's what makes it fun) has led us to realize that they're actually more fun.Personally, at least, I don't think it's limited my ability to enjoy games. Yes, I'm very guilty of optimizing the fun out from time to time (my efforts to get through SMT Devil Survivor are being stymied by this as I get bogged down trying to min-max but don't actually know the game well enough to do so effectively), but I have no shortage of games to play and the vast majority of the things I've chosen to buy for myself have ended up being fun enough that I don't regret the purchase. I also just enjoy the act of critiquing media. Thinking about and discussing what I do/don't like is itself an enjoyable enough process that even a game I wasn't big on can offer me something of value. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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