What nouns and adjectives in online game reviews can tell us about player experience?

This paper presents a study attempting to investigate player experience by examining nouns and adjectives used in online game reviews. Built on our previous lexical analysis of adjectives in online game reviews, we argue that nouns together with adjectives will likely provide richer information than adjectives alone. We adopted a revised lexical approach and analyzed nouns and adjectives from 821,122 structured reviews provided by different stakeholders in the game community (e.g., players, developers, and producer etc.) 97 factors were identified and ranked from 5,130 unique terms. Results were presented and discussed.