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Originally Posted by OutOfTheCube
"Best video game ever" for me though is something that plays really well too and is really engaging, addicting, and interesting just to play. Something where if you stripped away all the tech and graphics and cut scenes, you'd still be left with something you really want to [I]play.
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Which is fine, but yes I'm specifically talking about the video game as a medium for a piece of art rather than as a fun diversion. Artistic merit is obviously somewhat subjective in itself, but there are also standards of criticism that can be applied across more or less across the board.
For gameplay, it's almost too subjective to
have standards besides basic mob rule - i.e., do lots of people seem to find it fun. There are things that work
within genres obviously - you can establish standards about what makes good first person shooter gameplay, for example. But you can't say that person X is right or wrong because they don't happen to find first person shooters fun to play, or that person Y is right or wrong because they do. Apply that to city builders, or rhythm games, or metroidvanias, and so on
ad infinitum.
So in that more gameplay-focused context I don't even think it's worth arguing about what the best video game ever is, or even a list of the top 100.