What do you get out of games?

[adrianextrabold]

I'm just curious, what is the one thing you most enjoy about games? What is the one thing in game content that, if they do it well, you'll overlook other flaws for?

I absolutely love environment design. Finding the most isolated track of forest seemed like a perfectly reasonable way to spend time in WoW. I adored Bioshock almost solely because of the deco styling. If you can pull off a believable, engrossing environment you have me sold.

What about you?

 

[Cherry Cola]

A FPS with split-screen and bots.

I would've praised Killzone 2 as the best FPS this gen if it had that.

But why wouldn't it copy the thing that made the first Killzone one of the best FPS's on the last gen?

 

[e2density]

One thing I enjoy about games is that rare moment when you do something so amazing, so impossibly hard, when you have no time to do it.

That moment when you pull off four clutch kills in CS:S, or when you perform that very first aerial stab in TF2 as Spy. Moments like those make hours and hours of failure all the more important.

 

[DoctorNick]

Solid art direction, good story and well developed characters.

Tis' why Orzamar in Dragon Age: Origins is so bad ass.

EDIT:

I also love little 'What the fuck!?' moments in games, like when I'm playing Mass Effect II and there's a Human, a Salarian, and a Turian at a table with an Asari stripper on it and we get these little bits of conversation gems:

Spoiler: I laughed for a good twenty seconds at dog years.

 

[Jaranja]

A FPS with split-screen and bots.

I would've praised Killzone 2 as the best FPS this gen if it had that.

But why wouldn't it copy the thing that made the first Killzone one of the best FPS's on the last gen?

Because, apparently, it's "outdated". Biggest load of crap I've heard.

I love a good atmosphere. Any game has to have a good atmosphere to keep the immersion going. Fallout 3, Bioshock (although the Vita-Chambers were very immersion-breaking) and Dead Space achieve this.

 

[Cherry Cola]

A FPS with split-screen and bots.

I would've praised Killzone 2 as the best FPS this gen if it had that.

But why wouldn't it copy the thing that made the first Killzone one of the best FPS's on the last gen?

Because, apparently, it's "outdated". Biggest load of crap I've heard.

I love a good atmosphere. Any game has to have a good atmosphere to keep the immersion going. Fallout 3, Bioshock (although the Vita-Chambers were very immersion-breaking) and Dead Space achieve this.

WHAAAAAAAAT?

How can that be outdated!?

 

[Jaranja]

A FPS with split-screen and bots.

I would've praised Killzone 2 as the best FPS this gen if it had that.

But why wouldn't it copy the thing that made the first Killzone one of the best FPS's on the last gen?

Because, apparently, it's "outdated". Biggest load of crap I've heard.

I love a good atmosphere. Any game has to have a good atmosphere to keep the immersion going. Fallout 3, Bioshock (although the Vita-Chambers were very immersion-breaking) and Dead Space achieve this.

WHAAAAAAAAT?

How can that be outdated!?

Precisely my thoughts, Hub.

 

[Sibbo]

Good story, gameplay and most importantly immersion. I play games to relax so I game I can really get into is definitely an important factor.

 

[adrianextrabold]

Bioshock (although the Vita-Chambers were very immersion-breaking)

Possibly the only reason for waiting for the Mac port, turn-offable Chambers. I'm a design student, give me a break.

 

[SimuLord]

Give me good pacing in a builder-type game and I'll overlook a lot. Can you freeze space at a given level of progression without the entire enterprise falling apart for lack of growth? Can you experiment with different build orders and patterns (in a city-builder or an RTS) without getting smacked for not "following the best way" (a main reason I never really liked Blizzard RTS games)?

Do that and everything else is gravy.

 

[Pimppeter2]

A burning sensation when I pee.

 

[burgbrand22]

I'm just curious, what is the one thing you most enjoy about games? What is the one thing in game content that, if they do it well, you'll overlook other flaws for?

I absolutely love environment design. Finding the most isolated track of forest seemed like a perfectly reasonable way to spend time in WoW. I adored Bioshock almost solely because of the deco styling. If you can pull off a believable, engrossing environment you have me sold.

What about you?

If I need to enjoy something with alot of action, then I go to games rather than movies. Some movies are fine, but with games like Bayonetta, GOW, Bioshock, and others, my preference for something with action falls on games.