Blog: "When focusing on fun fails"

[Thomas]

Regarding fun as a bad thing:

Is the movie Schindlers List "fun"?

What I mean is that fun is often associated with a feeling of bliss and of pleasant emotions. Since this does not encompass all emotions that one wants to express with a media, striving for ultimate fun can ruin some experiences. I think words like interesting and engaging are better use and are more better to have as goals. So instead of making sure players has fun all the time, they should be engaged / interested throughout the experience.

Not saying games should not be fun, just saying that some games should not have fun as goal.