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<blockquote data-quote="malraux" data-source="post: 4596472" data-attributes="member: 24352">Some feelings have pretty uniform definitions though.&nbsp; If I were to describe a game as boring, you might not subjectively agree with my assessment, but you'd at least know what I was saying.When a person starts complaining about 4e feeling video-gamey, I don't know what they mean.&nbsp; Moreover, its clear that having some similarity with some game somewhere isn't a problem for people, as almost every game has hp, levels, etc.&nbsp; From reading the videogamey complaints, it seems to me that the real problem is just whatever the person is claiming is similar to video games.&nbsp; That is, would Kamikaze Midget find the focus on minis and positioning a bad thing if it weren't in video games?&nbsp; Or shark find the classes acceptably similar if WoW were not popular?&nbsp; Both of those complaints I can see and understand, even if I don't agree.&nbsp; But there's really not a common thread between them, so I don't see the utility in using the same word to describe the sensation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="malraux, post: 4596472, member: 24352"] Some feelings have pretty uniform definitions though. If I were to describe a game as boring, you might not subjectively agree with my assessment, but you'd at least know what I was saying. When a person starts complaining about 4e feeling video-gamey, I don't know what they mean. Moreover, its clear that having some similarity with some game somewhere isn't a problem for people, as almost every game has hp, levels, etc. From reading the videogamey complaints, it seems to me that the real problem is just whatever the person is claiming is similar to video games. That is, would Kamikaze Midget find the focus on minis and positioning a bad thing if it weren't in video games? Or shark find the classes acceptably similar if WoW were not popular? Both of those complaints I can see and understand, even if I don't agree. But there's really not a common thread between them, so I don't see the utility in using the same word to describe the sensation. [/QUOTE]

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