Opinions

Yesterday, a friend and I were having an argument over what game would be the best game of 2009. He said Assassin's Creed 2 and I said it would be Modern Warfare 2. We kept on about it, disrespecting each other and our ideas. I thought a lot about that conversation since then, and realize that neither of us were right. Because we weren't dealing with facts. We were dealing with opinions.
First of all, it would be impossible to describe the perfect game, or any other object for that matter. Each person has different tastes, and to get angry at someone's alternative viewpoint is both foolish and pointless (no pun intended). I know this sounds obvious, but sometimes it doesn't always seem so. But I'm serious about this. You can't really compare any games together because they each do different things. Assassin's Creed is an action/adventure game while Modern Warfare is an FPS. They play out so differently that there really is nothing to compare them too, other than the obvious such as graphics, sound, and other things that either are objectively good or bad. One of the points I argued for was that MF 2 had multiplayer. I regret making this argument. Just because a game has multiplayer doesn't automatically make it better than another game, especially if the multiplayer isn't fun for some people. What I should have said was that I will enjoy the multiplayer as much as the single player. Its just difficult to judge a game, and therefore, we shouldn't throw out a rating with numbers to justify what we personally think.
Sorry for the short one today, but I've been rather swamped. Hopefully I can get another one out this weekend about the upcoming basketball season. Cheers! (P.S. I want and will love both AC and MF so stop ur bitchin, Mitchen!)