What are you looking for in Video Games. And what you like in them

[Slidell]

What I like.

Writing - I don't demand a quality plot when playing a game. Those are hard enough to come up with for a movie or book, let alone something as interactive video game. But I do enjoy quality writing. Snappy dialogue, a bit of humor, a bit of emotion

 

Characters - I find myself being drawn back to games like DAO and Mass Effect, for one reason characters. I like that about games you can really get to know someone, well a fake someone. I can't get the same sort of feeling from a movie or a book. I think character development is the one thing that games can do better than movies. That's not to say they always do, but they can.

 

Visual Design - Shallow, perhaps, but here you have it: I like a strong, consistent, polished visual design in my games. Unique weapons, believable landscapes, and interesting features.

 

Storybook Gaming - I prefer singleplayer games, and I prefer my singleplayer games to be like interactive stories, me pushing the action onwards as I discover the world and complete the game. Because of this, I do not like having to repeat sections eight times. When I'm reading a book or watching a movie I don't have to reread a page or rewatch a scene eight times.

 

A bit of hand-holding - Easy-to-understand menus. Maps that clearly show where I have to go. Objectives that tell me how to complete them. This is partly related to the point above, but there's a big different between exploring a world and stumbling around in blind frustration.

 

Open world/Sandbox - I like these games because they're what I grew up with. I like the open world go any where do anything... thing. I like exploring finding new things. I think the first game that really mad me realize this was morrowind. I felt my gaming horizons open with that, get up on top of hill and look out and say you can go there and see what that is. If you wanted to live as a hermit you could, if you wanted to collect all the calipers you could, if you wanted to make a fort out of pillows you could (which I did shit was soooo cash) if you wanted to murder that first wood elf in that first village (the one who's ring you find) and live in his house and pretend to be him talk to his friends do his routine you could.

 

What I don't like.

 

Online Multiplayer - I occasionally play online. But I generally cannot stand playing online. It's not that I don't enjoy it at all, it's the ****** bag homophobic racist alpha males, that seem dominate the online gaming community. Of course I could write an entire book on what I hate about the gaming community, no one would read it. It'd have to be self published.

 

Fluff IE stupid mini games. I hate this, but company's seem to think that if a game is longer it will sell better. So they add in stupid mini games, like in Mass 2 the planet scanning. You have to spend around two hours mining just to get enough resources so you don't get blown back to the stone age. And I know it's two hours because I timed it. Why? Why not?

 

JRPGs If you were to look up stagnate in a dictionary I'm around 98% sure JRPG would be the definition, and vies verse. Don't get me wrong, I like them so of my best gaming memory's are in them. I'd like to see some innovation though. Everyone of them is the same. They all have the same characters, The stoic swordsman the quirky sidekick ect ect. And when they do innovate they do it poorly, usually not all the time. I haven't even bothered to pick up FFXIII.

 

Racing Games One I'm not good at them, or at least I wasn't. And they have little appeal to me, I assume for the same reason Nas Car doesn't appeal to me.

 

 

After making this I decided to go over and check out my games. To see if what I wrote matched up to what I, practice I guess would be the right word. And sure enough, I have no JRPGs, one multiplayer game (BFBC2) and no racing games.

 

So, that's it. I doubt any of you little shits read that but, feel free to add your own list. Or don't and let this thread die. You have free will don't you? Even though we're all atoms working in a predetermined manner. So free will might not exist at all.

Edited May 17, 2010 by Slidell

[lostmodz26]

Gameplay, Story, and Multiplayer.

 

I don't care about the graphics as long as they aren't as bad as MW2's.

[Lockon]

Music....Its all about the music. The music creates a atmosphere for the gamer the either scare them or to get the blood going.

[Randomrocket]

I like games the introduce a new element to the type of game.

 

Such as halo had forge.

 

I am really good at racing games, like no joke, no one can beat me at need for speed most wanted.

Split Second is going to be a really good racing game because in a way, it is adding to the type of game. I don't know of another racing game where you can destroy half the track and kill your opponents. lol

 

I also mostly like games that have great multiplayer because that's what most people play. You don't spend days on campaign (or you shouldnt) you spend days killing your friends in multiplayer. If a game doesnt have good multiplayer, it doesnt turn out that well.

[miinaturvat]

I like determinism. Clearly someone else does, too

 

But not the christian part of it. Determinism minus the god part FTW

[Slidell]

I like determinism. Clearly someone else does, too

 

But not the christian part of it. Determinism minus the god part FTW

 

Yip

[test10]

-Good music (Marty music )

-Replay value (like super smash)

-quick mute (halo 3)

-ranking system that doesn't reward playing nonstop (stupid cod)

-no lag online (every ******* game of gears 2 lags)

-a game with short boot up (stupid games make me watch 1 min intros, cod let's me skip everything)

[gruntmods]

A good RPG and any game that is highly re-playable.

[Lockon]

A good RPG and any game that is highly re-playable.

 

Turn towards ero gaming grunts you can play through 3000 times and not get board.

[gruntmods]

Turn towards ero gaming grunts you can play through 3000 times and not get board.

ero? Mass effect and KOTOR do a good job, so does Halo