Thing's you LOVE in games.

[Erranty]

Um...Online play? Hello?

How many games have you played with online and without? 90% of RPGs don't have online play.

[Tuna]

Drama,Romance,Adventure,and plenty of WTF moments.

[Kazuhira]

black humor.

[zaseo]

Balance gameplay in general. No game is perfectly balance, but still. MW2 is so unbalance with those perks.

[Erranty]

Balance gameplay in general. No game is perfectly balance, but still. MW2 is so unbalance with those perks.

You mean balanced multiplayer, specifically, yeah?

[Kazuhira]

sweet dumb blondes:
Noel Vermillion(blazblue)
Atoli(.hack g.u)
Cosette Coalhearth(valkyria chronicles 2)
:3

[zaseo]

Balance gameplay in general. No game is perfectly balance, but still. MW2 is so unbalance with those perks.

You mean balanced multiplayer, specifically, yeah?

I was targeting multiplayer, but even in single player RPGs somethings can be overpowered. In KH2 limits, and some abilities are overpowered, and kills bosses too fast.

[hidora]

Balance gameplay in general. No game is perfectly balance, but still. MW2 is so unbalance with those perks.

You mean balanced multiplayer, specifically, yeah?

I was targeting multiplayer, but even in single player RPGs somethings can be overpowered. In KH2 limits, and some abilities are overpowered, and kills bosses too fast.

Ever heard of Wild ARMs 4? The main character is able to learn a skill called Assault Buster at Lv25~30 or so (with a little help of the GC Graph) that can one-hit kill EVERY boss you'll fight until the end of the game... including most bonus bosses O_o

[Kaori]

Video game companies that stick to their franchise rather than rebooting it.

[Kuukai]

Video game companies that stick to their franchise rather than rebooting it.

*Points at your avatar picture of Jam Baldhead*

[Kaori]

Video game companies that stick to their franchise rather than rebooting it.

*Points at your avatar picture of Jam Baldhead*

Well I used to play guilty gear but I preferred blazblue instead, I've heard about it being a reboot, blazblue may have less characters but I find it more appealing.

[Ryou]

I can talk about what I like about games for hours, but I'm going to make it short and dry.

1. Visuals - A game without beauty in it's world isn't a game at all.
2. Sound - I love a good punch sound effect as much as everyone else and I also like soundtracks that flows with the game.
3. Storyline - The biggest hump to get over. It's one of the main reasons why I play games, for a good story telling.
4. Co-Op Play - Gotta has someone at home to rival with, makes playing more interesting.
5. Multiplayer - If no one's home to challenge, challenge the world then.
6. Replay - Second most important meaning to games, if everything above complies, then I can replay it never ending.
7. Sequels - I love games that follow up on each other further expanding the story.

Hopefully when I'm done with college I can fulfill all this in games and maybe more.

[nobodyknows]

I forgot to add a few things to my list;

• Replay value - mostly as a bonus
• Extra gameplay once the main game is over
• A well thought out storyline that provides the gamer with information that's easy to digest, while also explaining the history of the land that is being played in - As long as this fact is fulfilled, then I don't care how generic the plot may be.
• Level Design - My main reason for loving Shadow of the Colossus; Not only the landscape itslef, but also the fact that the Colossi are - quite literally - moving parts of that very same environment.

If anything, I dream of creating a game set in a beautiful, ambient landscape, telling a gripping and emotional story, with an element of choice that's unlike anything that existed before it.
Creating characters that enhance that environment and invoke numerous strong feelings in the player - on par with that of an actual human - would also be a must for me.

The real challenge would be in trying to create a game environment in which existed not AIs with set speech patterns, but 'Human' AIs, capable of thinking and feeling and reacting within their environment in a way that an actual human would...
...Thank god I don't want to go into programming D;...

[Gemcrim]

Airships. This is just one of many reasons why Skies of Arcadia is one of the best JRPGs thanks tot he large focus on them actually being relevant at some points in the plot beyond "YAY THE ONE SHIP WE TRAVEL ON."

[Wan]

Jumping on shrooms lulz.

[Ranylyn]

Things every good game needs. This mostly applies to RPGs since I've never seen very many other genres pull off the first category:

A well told story with good character devellopment. I'm sorry, but the plot of a Final Fantasy game just doesn't cut it. I need something deeper. You don't go on a huge journey and fight countless battles just to return home the same person you always were. Also, main character be damned, I want the supporting cast to get just as much screentime and have just as large a plot relevance. As well, good voice acting helps get the emotions across.

Good music: One of the things that turns me off some games is their musical scores. Even amazing games with overall great scores can have the odd bad piece of music. If I may use the example of Tales of the Abyss for a moment: Its good songs were great, had awesome gameplay, good story, but I found myself muing the game at some parts simply since the music was annoying.

Balanced Gameplay: Let me use a little example of a game I dislike for a moment: Final Fantasy VII is just one example of a game with an overpowered main character. I'm sorry, but the main character shouldn't have 2x the HP, hit 5x harder (At level 50, Cloud was hitting for 5000 while the rest of my tea was hitting 800) and still be a better mage than most of the remaining party members! Many gamers are obsessed with making their main character some kind of god among men, and honest to god, it sickens me that it's not about planning on how to win as a team but just about keeping the main character healed. Ugh.



Things we can do without:

Graphics: Modern gamers care way too much for graphics, which game develloppers know and pump out bad games that look nice, which gamers lap up. This mentality of "I won't play it if it doesn't have the best graphics" needs to burn along with some of the bad games this has spawned. If graphics don't hurt my eyes, I can play the game, and hey, I grew up with the NES through the N64, I know all about bad graphics, but those games are still often more fun than some newer games.

[hidora]

A well told story with good character devellopment. I'm sorry, but the plot of a Final Fantasy game just doesn't cut it. I need something deeper. You don't go on a huge journey and fight countless battles just to return home the same person you always were. Also, main character be damned, I want the supporting cast to get just as much screentime and have just as large a plot relevance. As well, good voice acting helps get the emotions across.

And that's why I stopped playing FF games after I discovered megaten and .hack ._.

I can live without voice acting, though. Also, poor voice acting is worse than none at all x_x

Good music: One of the things that turns me off some games is their musical scores. Even amazing games with overall great scores can have the odd bad piece of music. If I may use the example of Tales of the Abyss for a moment: Its good songs were great, had awesome gameplay, good story, but I found myself muing the game at some parts simply since the music was annoying.

I never really got in games for the music till some time ago. I only started to pay atention to the music when playing Digital Devil Saga (in which the music rocks on most of the game). And really, Tales of the Abyss has too little parts with bad music to be used as an example.

Balanced Gameplay: Let me use a little example of a game I dislike for a moment: Final Fantasy VII is just one example of a game with an overpowered main character. I'm sorry, but the main character shouldn't have 2x the HP, hit 5x harder (At level 50, Cloud was hitting for 5000 while the rest of my tea was hitting 800) and still be a better mage than most of the remaining party members! Many gamers are obsessed with making their main character some kind of god among men, and honest to god, it sickens me that it's not about planning on how to win as a team but just about keeping the main character healed. Ugh.

Have you read the example I gave for Wild ARMs 4 about a week ago on this same topic? The only character that can deal something near as that with damage is Raquel with a 4 Intrude combo and a good weapon, but it's still not near enough to the 500000+ damage of Jude's Assault Buster x_x

Things we can do without:

Graphics: Modern gamers care way too much for graphics, which game develloppers know and pump out bad games that look nice, which gamers lap up. This mentality of "I won't play it if it doesn't have the best graphics" needs to burn along with some of the bad games this has spawned. If graphics don't hurt my eyes, I can play the game, and hey, I grew up with the NES through the N64, I know all about bad graphics, but those games are still often more fun than some newer games.

Yeah, it sucks how people go "the graphics suck so it sucks" nowadays. This makes lots and lots of people to miss lots of good games just cuz they dont have the "best grafix evar".

[Ranylyn]

Well, I've never played Wild Arms myself, and there was one piece of music in TotA I absolutely hated (It was a town theme... Belkend maybe?) hence why I used it as an example, because using an example from something I like is less likely to get me flamed than something I don't.

Besides that, high five for the rest of your post, hidora!

[Serenity_Xth]

I'm surprised no one's said this before.

Cinematic quick time events.

[Kuukai]

I'm surprised no one's said this before.

Cinematic quick time events.

Maybe because they're highly controversial? I like them, though. One of my favorite games is this old Evangelion N64 game that's pretty much all QTE...