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What's the worst video game you've ever played? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, can a game even be bad if it's excellent at what it intends to be?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This reminds me of a method of trying to evaluate art in an objective way. Basically you ask yourself 3 questions:

What is this trying to do?
Does it succeed in what it's trying to do?
Is what it's trying to do worth doing?

If the answers to 2 and 3 are "yes", then it's probably a good work of art. This helps remove the subjectivity of "do I enjoy it?" when evaluating a work.

I would say the answers for Desert Bus indicate that it is indeed a good work of art. It succeeds in being a monotonous parody of a video game which makes a political statement about what games would be if they lacked any fictional elements or conflict. And I think the statement P&T were trying to make with this game was definitely worth making. Plus, we know from the amount of people who play it as a streamed challenge game that there is some desire for a game like that to exist.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

The fact that it is talked about and marathoned decades after release mean it's good art

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I agree with you completely, and I'm glad the game exists. It's just objectively the worst video game I've ever played.