Your Gaming Standards?

[thejboy88]

-Engaging story
-No serious plot holes
-Good voice acting
-Good control scheme
-Impressive art design
-Lost of little "extras" for doign things in the games (e.g. commentaries, deleted scenes, "making of" videos etc)
-No over-the-top violence or sexuality, just to keep the censors and protesters at bay
-Believable and likaple main protagonists
-Believable and compelling antagonists (not out-and-out "muahaha" villains)
-Reasonable Length (24 hours maybe)
-Replay value (e.g. choice systems with alternate endings and storylines)
-Beautiful and "tear-jerking" soundtrack
-No stereotypical female or racial characters (playable or otherwise).
-"Epic" boss fights

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

I don't really have "standards" but there are things I do often enough that they might as well count.

Unless I know that I will want a greater challenge, I always play a game on the default difficulty. Halo is an example of an exception as I will always play first on Heroic.

My first playthough is honest.

When given the opportunity to make decisions, I do so as though I was present in the world. In most games this equates to picking the "good" choice as the "evil" choice is rarely a sound move.

I do not really care about achievements. If one is "on the way" I will probably deviate to get it. In CoD 3 for example, because I left the game on the default difficulty (and it was painfully easy) I went for the level specific achievements like completing a certain mission using only melee and grenades or finishing another level using only salvaged German weaponry.

 

[Merkavar]

my standards are toplay on normal first time. hard always seems too hard. easy seems too easy.

normally make choices in game based on what id do in real life. except if it involves a heard of animals such as rhinos or deer. i will kill the adults and leave the babies to wander the plains, starving to death

 

[Toriver]

1. Play through Normal before touching any other difficulties.
2. Like Yahtzee, I believe that a game should be able to stand alone on its single-player merit, though if multiplayer is also exceptional, hey, that's a plus.
3. Unlock all unlockable game content. I don't have to be a total completionist and get 100% of everything, but I should at least earn all the stuff I can play with.
4. In games that offer such options, try at least one unconventional party combination, equipment setup, fighting game character, etc. and learn to use it effectively. They're available for a reason, why not see why? It also adds more challenge and depth to the game, IMO, and it's also something to show off some skill to my other gamer friends!