What's a 10 game for you?

Dyne · 05-08-2008, 05:17 PM

I honestly don't have the time to post up my thoughts, only that a 10/10 pushes a generation to new heights while still remaining fun AND immersive. BaB seems to think there will NEVER be a 10 game.

What do you think?

BreakABone · 05-08-2008, 05:21 PM

O just throw it out there like I have no reason for there being a 10 game.

And I don't want to use the term "perfect" but in my opinion a 10 game is a game so damn refined and good that you can't imagine anything coming after it and improving it.

I know that sounds like it needs to be perfect, but it doesn't just special.

GameMaster · 05-08-2008, 05:58 PM

A perfect 10 for me would be entirely based on fun factor probably.

If the game is fun, if its made in a way that makes me want to power on the console again and again, then I think it can be considered successful.

Nowadays, for me personally, that would be based on the multiplayer experience. Cause I enjoy playing games more with other people than just by myself.

The level of artistic and technical detail put into GTA-4 to make Liberty City so alive and detailed deserves recognition. But if a player experiences even the most remote notion of repetitiveness in the missions as I've heard from some critics here, then that alone should automatically disqualify it from achieving a 10 score.

The fact is, a 10 has different criteria for everyone.

For example, I would probably give WarCraft 3 a 10 because of how much I enjoyed it. I loved playing online against other people and I probably did that for a good 2.5-3 years.

My friend at school feels the same about Call of Duty 4. He plays online every night. So he'd probably give the game a 10.

Angrist · 05-08-2008, 06:20 PM

It needs to innovate and be a very polished, fun game. Oh yeah, push the limits of what's possible.

Examples:
Zelda Twilight Princess is polished and fun, but it doesn't innovate enough. Could have been so much more. So it's a 9 game.
Brain Training is very innovative, but it's not that much fun. So an 8 or 9.
Super Mario Galaxy is very polished, incredibly fun, but it's not a very revolutionary game. 9.5
Mario 64 and Zelda Ocarina of Time were both very fun, beautiful games that innovated and pushed the limits of what was possible. Both 10 games.

Professor S · 05-08-2008, 06:27 PM

The prefection of design and programming with the technology available.

Thats a 10/10 to me? Is it attainable? Probably not, but I think thats a good thing.

Or to use a better word...

Flawless

DarkMaster · 05-08-2008, 07:01 PM

Zelda: Ocarina of Time

and probably Chrono Trigger.

Pinnacles of their respective genres. Most games that follow are merely upgrades of what was once a breakthrough in both design and technology.

Typhoid · 05-08-2008, 08:24 PM

Any game?

I'd say for me, personally, these games would get a perfect 10:

Grand Theft Auto 4
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Final Fantasy 7
Chrono Trigger
Any of the Mario Party games.
OoT.

I also don't think with gaming that a 10/10 is "perfect" or "flawless".
It's obviously subjective, and it always will be.
A 10/10 on a test is different because everyone gets the same questions and answers, but with gaming there are too many variables to even count.
Despite the fact that the entire rating system is a giant hand-job to every game company which is why no game really gets less than a 6.

BreakABone · 05-08-2008, 08:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Typhoid

Any game?

I'd say for me, personally, these games would get a perfect 10:

Grand Theft Auto 4
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Final Fantasy 7
Chrono Trigger
Any of the Mario Party games.
OoT.

I also don't think with gaming that a 10/10 is "perfect" or "flawless".
It's obviously subjective, and it always will be.
A 10/10 on a test is different because everyone gets the same questions and answers, but with gaming there are too many variables to even count.
Despite the fact that the entire rating system is a giant hand-job to every game company which is why no game really gets less than a 6.

I don't tend to fight people on their opinions much.

But Mario Party?

Typhoid · 05-08-2008, 08:30 PM

I just put that there to see how long it would take someone to point it out.

BreakABone · 05-08-2008, 08:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Typhoid

I just put that there to see how long it would take someone to point it out.

Sneaky little bastard.

The Germanator · 05-08-2008, 09:13 PM

Yeah, I mean, a 10 is simply the highest score you can give something, just because that's how most scoring systems work, but it doesn't mean the game is perfect...So I don't have a problem with giving games a 10, and any flaws are usually pointed out within the text of reviews anyway, and it's more important to look there than the number at the end anyway.

Aladuf · 05-08-2008, 10:43 PM

A "10" game for me is Gears of War... it's perfect

TheGame · 05-09-2008, 10:00 AM

I think a 10 game is not only defined by how fun it is, but its also defined by how much work the development teams put into them. And unlike BaB, I don't think the 10 has to be relitive to what someone may think will come out in the future, its only compared to what's currently out when it does release.

For me.. A perfect 10 is something that fits this description:
1) Even or better graphics/sound then anything released to date. (Might not like that one, but if something doesn't look like the developers worked hard on it I will dock them .1 or .2. If you want the highest score from me, everything has to be on point.)
2) An extra level of polish that goes beyond what people may have thought was possible. A level 10 game shouldn't just be a game, it should be an experience.
3) Of course, good gameplay.. but non repetitive gameplay that's complex enough to keep someone interested, but not so complex that its hard to understand.
4) A good story. (A lot of people may disagree with this too, but personally I think a "10" game needs to tell a good story. Now in the NES days when there was no such thing as telling a good one my criteria would be different, but its 2008.)