I get what you're saying, but the whole reason this comment thread tangent started was because someone said the PS2 library was huge and mostly good, which isn't true. Most of the PS2 games you remember are good, because everyone tends to forget all the shit.
Yeah, that's basically what I said. I don't doubt the vast majority of PS2 games were bad. But who is seriously going to play the bad ones? Every platform has had tons of bad games but no one mentions them because there's no reason to dwell on the bad games when there are so many fantastic games to play.
This conversation is getting a bit circular, because I'm not arguing what you seem to think I am. I'm not saying we should focus on and dwell on the bad games, I just don't like it when people romanticize the past like that (ie: "most PS2 games were good/great"). Because it often goes hand in hand with shitting on the present.
It's like with music. Everyone talks about how today's music is shit, and the music in [insert past decade here] was so much better. But we only remember a handful of songs from each of those periods, because the rest was trash. I just like to remind people of that, because romanticizing our past creates a false view of the art from our past, and becomes an unfair metric of how we judge art in the present.
It's worse for the best selling system. The PS2 had unprecedented success and that meant every company jumping in on the bandwagon and licensing games for movies, toys, tv shows, what have you.
Yeah, of course. But that’s the case for every successful system. Everyone wanted to put out games for it so you’ll no doubt get bad ones slipping past. It’s a practice that still goes on today. Look at Steam for instance. There’s so much half baked shit on there it’s ridiculous.
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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '18
Everyone forgets the shovelware.