I’ve always wondered that, too. I’ve always heard the suggestion that “objective” criticism means judging the game’s functionality as a program, but that just goes back to the “games are art vs games are fun software” fight, which even then still had a political edge to it.
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This is giving me flashbacks to Gone Home discourse and it’s terrifying.
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“The ones who agree with the opinion I have formed sight unseen are clearly objective”
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I wouldn’t waste too many brain cells on the hypothetical interiority of this mindset. Most of these arguments are in bad faith. The rest just want to be told how good and clever they were for buying the ‘content’
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I can't speak for these people, but I do feel they think there is an objectively good way to writ, frame shots, edit, etc due to previous recognition. I listen to a movie review podcast and one of the hosts is always quick to say "bad writing" when a character doesn't grow
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Well, I have things I think are "good writing" and "bad writing" too, my problem is not with voicing such opinions. It's more accurate to say that some prefer a cool, distanced evaluation with a false sheen of objectivity to deep, full-on personal engagement with a work.
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Oh it's VERY MUCH a thing in film criticism too, which is completely baffling because if, hypothetically speaking, we're all were to review things "objectively" then why would anyone read film reviews in the first place!? They'd all be the same.
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Yeah, I wonder that all the time. Many people seem to want every game review to arrive at the same conclusions about a given game. Then what's the point of having multiple reviews?! Just find the 1 person/algorithm/whatever that can write the One True Evaluation and call it a day
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