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Gameplay

11 (40.7%)

Story

12 (44.4%)

Graphics

1 (3.7%)

Innovation

2 (7.4%)

Music

1 (3.7%)

Total Members Voted: 14

[Denn]

Ok. Since most of us here on the DE forums are VG fans, I thought this would be a proper place to know what true gamers look for in VGs. 2 votes per person. So without further delay, vote today!

I went gameplay and story. I believe if a game is to be good that it all boils down to how well the game is played. Hence my first choice, gameplay. And as big of an RPG freak I am, biggest at Grandia I, I constantly look for a story that is almost an award winning novel. I look for deep character development so that if a character is in love or if one dies, I feel for them and get attached to them. I want a story that flows well and explains things in one fluent manner. So in short my choices were story and gameplay.

[Oni no Ted]

Quoted from a recent Press release for a console title...

"For this title, we've decided to really focus on gameplay..."

Um...  isn't that what they are supposed to focus on?

<rant>
These are games right?  Not audio/video technology demonstrations!

If I'm gonna shell out my cash for a game be it a console or a PC game, I want to feel that I'm not being treated like a hyperactive spastic ferret.
I do NOT want something shiny and superficial with no substance!

Ohh! Flashy load screens that slow down the loading of the game! Unneed graphic effects that kill my FPS! (Dreamcatcher I'm talking to you!) Bloated code that sucks up drive space like a bloated leech!

And my personal favorite... Games companies that must use retarded monkeys for quality control and testing, because they never work without a patch released a day after product launch! (LucasArts)

</rant>

[Saint_Moko]

Ubisoft is my new god, after playing Ghost Recon 2.  That and Splinter Cell are the reasons I'm getting the Xbox 360.

God bless Tom Clancy, for where else can I shoot lots of communists?

[Dr. Steed]

I went with gameplay and story.

I just got three words for ya: Final. Fantasy. Seven.

By today's standards, the audio is laughable (no speaking voices!?), the graphics are childish (it's all chibi!), the music is *so* MIDI-synth, and it's hardly the first RPG ever released... but the story, the game-mechanics, and the re-playability make it the greatest title coded to date (IMO).

With the current break-up between Square-Enix and Sony... hell, if S-E re-released FF7 with FFX-style graphics and voices, I'd buy an Xbox-360 or a Nintendo Revolution *just* for that game. No changes to plot, story, or mechanics - just modernized graphics and audio. I'd buy a whole console just for that.

Metroid was/is the greatest series ever made, but FF7 is the best standalone title ever, and that's just on the strength of the plot and the game-mechanics.