Just as there’s no universal definition of a great game, there’s no universal definition of a pretty good game. They’re the video game equivalent of pizza: good, satisfying fare that doesn’t challenge your tastes in any way, but also almost never leaves you disappointed. You don’t have to think deeply about them while the controller is in your hand. No one uses them to justify a pointless console war. They’re not a huge part of the critical discourse, and fans don’t argue endlessly over whether they’re true masterpieces or overrated fad fodder. Pretty good games, he argued, don’t have any expectations to live up to. ![]() He replied that I’d chosen a pretty good game, and that those were often the best kind of games. It wasn’t the best game available at the time heck, it wasn’t even the best Dragon Ball game. No, I replied sheepishly I was playing Dragon Ball Xenoverse, another lightweight action/RPG that exists primarily for fanservice purposes. Was I playing God of War? Or Read Dead Redemption 2? Or Spider-Man? Or Assassin’s Creed Odyssey? Or Shadow of the Tomb Raider? ![]() This was late in the year, so we had an absolute glut of amazing titles to choose from. (Image credit: Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.)īack in 2018, I found myself talking with a friend of mine about what games we were playing.
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