HOT TAKE! we should not critique games in a bad-good spectrum because its all subjective!
my opinion on the matter is that we humans made it all up and thats why its not correct to say things like "this game has great writing" the point is there is no objective truth and because of that we should change how we analyze games or even art in general like movies or drawings
there is also downsides of using the bad-good spectrum:
- there could be a mismatch between the expectation and reality causing you to waste money on games that are just simply not for you for example i heard really good things about disco elysium about how great the characters and the writing are and well what do you know i didnt like neither so i was just left out disappointed and with bad feeling which get me to my next point
- using this kind of language could make you feel bad like your taste is wrong or worse or shallow when it could have been avoided
if the discussion were more like for me-for you i would have found my kind of writing i like sooner like in the game "the forgotten city"
on the contrary you might say "well i believe there is an objective better games than other based on the fact that if i offer you to play 2 games one is breath of the wild and one is a no name new game without a budget you will most likely pick breath of the wild" but i would argue you mistake consensus with objectivity
in the end i think that if criticism was more focused on who is this for and why instead of why is this a masterpiece we would all find OUR games better and faster
thank you so much for reading all that, i would love to respectfully debate in the comments
