So...people can't have a different opinion than yours? Got it.
[QUOTE="subrosian"]
[QUOTE="foxhound_fox"]
Being able to recognize quality is not an opinion. Your like/dislike of a game is your opinion. Your analysis of its quality is an objective assessment.
Reviews are a combination of the two.
DonPerian
Baloney. A singular human being cannot create an "objective" assessment of a game free of their own bias, personal viewpoints, perspective, life-experience, enjoyment, etc. Even if such a thing were possible, the result would be a completely detached review based upon some kind of "formula", one that would have no means of adjusting without invalidating its "human free" premise. - A person's "analysis of its quality" is an OPINION. Any attempt to escape this is MYSTICISM - which is anathema to any claim of "statistical soundness" or "scientific methodology". QED.Thaaaank you.
Complete objectivity lacks the human element. And as far as I'm concerned, we're all human beings on these boards (contrary to those silly animal names you guys call eachother).
A = A.
But to someone, A can = good.
And to another, A can = bad.
If we view things from a philosophical perspective, then there is no wrong or good opinion. Person A enjoys the smell of roses. Person B enjoys the smell of garbage. Neither are wrong or good. Taking a look at it from a objective standpoint would, we both know that the intention of the creator/designer of this existance intended roses to smell good, and garbage bad.
Taste is something subjective. But it requires experience, a developed and sophisticated taste in certain things such as music and movies. Opinions might never be completely wrong, but thats just logic of language, and not reality.
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