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<blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 3688096" data-attributes="member: 32536">I think you are making a lot of mistakes with your logic here...Primarily, why are you assigning reviewers and other posters in this thread to be the same as groups of people who arbitrarily assign the title of &quot;bad&quot; to popular things for elitist reasons? The two groups are very different, in methods and intentions.Regardless, I completely disagree with your main conclusion in many respects. Useful judgements can be made about the quality of something, independant of variables that are determined solely by personal preference and opinion.To take this discussion outside the realm of gaming for a moment, try comparing two imaginary cars. In most respects, the two cars are mostly identical, except one is much safer to drive, has better gas mileage, and is cheaper for the manufacturer to make. By your argument, I would be foolish to say that the safer and cheaper car is better, because that is an &quot;opinion&quot; and &quot;not objective&quot; because it is a quality judgement, and that is equally valid for a car to be expensive and unsafe. Yet, I think it is plain that saying &quot;a cheaper and safer car is better&quot; is perfectly reasonable.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TwinBahamut, post: 3688096, member: 32536"] I think you are making a lot of mistakes with your logic here... Primarily, why are you assigning reviewers and other posters in this thread to be the same as groups of people who arbitrarily assign the title of "bad" to popular things for elitist reasons? The two groups are very different, in methods and intentions. Regardless, I completely disagree with your main conclusion in many respects. Useful judgements can be made about the quality of something, independant of variables that are determined solely by personal preference and opinion. To take this discussion outside the realm of gaming for a moment, try comparing two imaginary cars. In most respects, the two cars are mostly identical, except one is much safer to drive, has better gas mileage, and is cheaper for the manufacturer to make. By your argument, I would be foolish to say that the safer and cheaper car is better, because that is an "opinion" and "not objective" because it is a quality judgement, and that is equally valid for a car to be expensive and unsafe. Yet, I think it is plain that saying "a cheaper and safer car is better" is perfectly reasonable. [/QUOTE]

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