Func_Msgboard: How Can You Define A Game?

Posted by R.P.G. on 2005/03/30 09:49:10

This is one of the semi-irrelevant questions I've asked myself a few times--how can you define a game? What is a game, and what is not a game? Why?

Related to this, what makes a word processor different from a game? Or, how is an operating system different from a game? Hypothetically, if an operating system becomes pleasurable to use, has it become a game?

And taking it even further: are boring, cookie-cutter games (like Enter the Matrix) actually still games? Are they still games because the developers and publishers have defined them as being games?--or are they just useless graphical applications with no entertainment value and therfore not a game?

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Hmm

#26 posted by Zwiffle on 2005/04/05 20:30:11

Games aren't defined by winning or losing imo. That is often used to reinforce certain goals set forth by whatever concept the game carries with it. Games are meant to have fun.

You can never win at MMORPGS, but you can die repeatedly. Doesn't seem fair.

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