General Game Gabbin'

[Exeres]

Can you tell me what a near-perfect/ perfect game is?

Portal.

Fans.

[Fatehehhhh]

Can you tell me what a near-perfect/ perfect game is?

Team Fortress 2.

[Liraxus]

Hattuhattuhattu

[hotb]

Can you tell me what a near-perfect/ perfect game is?

Portal.

Fans.

this is not a factor

Portal is not affecting the market by flooding it with Portal clones

[Blitz Walrus]

CoD is great, but this is Activision we're talking about. Anybody remember Guitar Hero? What about Tony Hawk's Pro Skater? Sooner or later CoD's gonna end up a generic mess.

Random Question, anybody know if Classic Iori is DLC or what for KoF 13?

[Shad]

'98 Iori is gonna be DLC, yeah.

[Blitz Walrus]

Like a day one, hold-up-lemme-get-some-points-on-my-way-out kinda deal or like a preorder exclusive thing?

[Shad]

No idea.

[Syobon]

I don't see how being part of a game genre is bad.

I must have misworded that badly, because that is about the opposite of what I meant. Let me try again:

A great game is one that can be enjoyed by almost everyone, it's a classic, you have to try it out etc. Of course some people just don't like a certain genre, so I said that a great game is one that can be recommended to anyone with at least a remote interest in the genre, or perhaps even used to introduce someone to a certain genre.

Now I must add that there are some games who only cater to the hardcore fans and exceed at that, and those are exceptional games in their own right, but I think we can agree CoD isn't one of those? I'd say it's main audience is the "casual" FPS player.

Now I wouldn't give MW3 a near-perfect score, since I wouldn't recommend it to a friend interested in FPS's, unless they hadn't played MW2 before. Because in my opinion, MW3 does not have such a vastly different experience from MW2 that it warrants another 60$ purchase.

A game that rehashes another game, whether it's made by the same developers or not, shouldn't be rewarded with a (near)perfect score. We should reserve critical acclaim for games that innovate, since innovation will drive the game industry forward, rather than let it stagnate.

Of course, the above is all just my opinion, and I'm nothing more than an amateur on the subject. My original post was intended more as an inquiry than a blame.

[Galaxy Man]

Can you tell me what a near-perfect/ perfect game is?

Portal 2.

you hit OK a bit too soon there

you missed a number

[Odyssey]

Can you tell me what a near-perfect/ perfect game is?
Like, describe it.

Yoshi's Island. It did everything it set out to do flawlessly and had no discernible glitches.

[Galaxy Man]

Can you tell me what a near-perfect/ perfect game is?
Like, describe it.

Yoshi's Island. It did everything it set out to do flawlessly and had no discernible glitches.

no

not now

not ever

[Syobon]

Keep in mind while searching your perfect game, that there is such a thing as a subjectivity. While a game maybe perfect for you, it may be lacking for others.

[Gryewolf]

That's absolutely right Syo. I honestly can't stand it when people say something is "The greatest thing ever."
Because taste is subjective.

[Galaxy Man]

portal 1 and 2 are the greatest games ever made and i dare someone to try and argue that point, because it's very hard to think of what they did wrong