There’s a pervasive line of thought I encounter that has always been a bit of a pet peeve of mine. That is, saying that it’s ok for a video game (or piece of other media) to be average. And to a degree, I can see where this is coming from.

Of course, it’s ok when we end up getting into something, and at the end, it turns out that it wasn’t horrible. But that implies that we need to get into things almost at random without the possibility to select better media. Let me tell you a story from my childhood.