>>719155002
Popularity bias isn't just some dumb herd behaviour. More people playing a game means more eyes on it, more people experiencing, analyzing, and critiquing it. Not every game wins the popularity contest, as much as we'd like to say that we all judge games on merit, and the best ones always rise to the top. Some games unfortunately go unnoticed undeservingly.

>In every other medium and art form it's basically accepted that the popular stuff is slop and it's never brought up in serious discussions
This is bullshit though. Only a snob or moron would tell you that Avengers Infnity War is a bad fil or slop because it was intended to be a summer blockbuster, not envelope-pushing "high art cinema".

Video games aren't "art" because they don't really concern themselves with a distinction between blockbusters and high art, and that makes the snobs seethe because they're not being represented.
This is just a Silksong bait thread isn't it?