What attracts you to a game?

Hey, guys. I just want to know what attracts you to a game. Is it the animation, characters, presentation, strategy, or something more personal.

For the the game must have a Devil May Cry 3, Devil May Cry 3, and Devil May Cry 3 B) Now for the serious part, I'm into fast-paced games. I like cool combo. I'll post more later my boss is calling on me... :ph43r:

EDIT: Sorry your boss had to call you away. Thread title changed.

This post has been edited by Robo-Ky on Apr 18 2006, 01:13 PM

Graphics/animation, music, characters, and, of course, gameplay. I don't care about story.

I don't like 3d one player versus horde of enemies (unless it's crap easy like Curse of Darkness), or first-person things. Or other stuff that requires good peripheral vision. Or real-time strategy. Or games where you can't get everything due to some stupid glitch/oversight (Wild Arms 4, Final Fantasy VI).

Surprisingly, I like racing, even though I think it's mindless crap.

racing is all about control and knowing exactly what your gamepad does to your car. i suck at racing.

i think what attracts me most is how much fun it is. gameplay above everything. i don't care about music as long as it isn't outright shitty (eg hip hop.) graphics mean pretty much nothing to me. balance is important, but not to the point that everything with a tier list would suck.

i love Xmen VS Street Fighter just because it's the riskiest game EVER. one hit and you're out.
i like SFA3, even though i don't know much about it, just because it's fun to play Gief in it. same goes for MVC1.
i like TTT because it's usually fun given character variety. (not true in Manila!) spacing wars are exciting.
i like Starcraft because it's so extremely huge. it's so deep, and there are about 500000 ways to play, and you can't treat every opponent the same way. it's balanced and it leaves nothing to leveling up and random damage.
i love Super Bomberman 2 on the SNES because it's crazy, fast, and very easy to learn.
i love Ninja Gaiden Black. great controls, good combo system, great level design, and very challenging.


OTOH i thought T5 was pretty good at first, but then the tier whores started coming out and it became more boring than Manila's TTT. and i haven't gotten into DR because i got too turned off.

games that are too heavily anime-inspired put me WAY off. GG, Melty Blood, etc are all on my ignore list just because of that. i don't know why, so don't ask.

also, time being as important than skill is shit in any game IMO.

Racing games are great!! GT4 and one of my all time fave, Thrill Drive. It sucks when I have to play it on pad or keyborad but im playing it nway.

I enjoy games that are fast and requires you to be quick with your wits. I love does mind games especially against human opponents.

Multiplayer games are also very nice. The essence of team work makes the game so much rewarding. Yup it's DOTA.

I don't like T5 very much but still plays from time to time. I just don't like the way some characters are played in Tekken. I feel like it's very much repetitive, whatever. but I admit I'm using Jin Kazama.

When it comes to anime-inspired games, I do enjoy some but I haven't enjoy one PS2 game like FullMetal Alchemist , Ophen, Inuyasha, not even Naruto. Dragon Ball Budokai is really sweet on some level.

Gameplay is all I care about. As long as it has great playability, I'll play it.

About graphics, I'll put it this way. I'll play Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo over Dead or Alive: *insert qulaifier here* anyday of the week. I still think it's an outrage that they picked DoA as the single fighting game in WCG.

I also like fast-paced action games. Or anything dynamic. This is why I'd rather play action RPGs than turn-based RPGs (though some of them I did like). Racing, hell yeah. Action platformers, you got it. Shooting, I'm there. Dancing, turn the music up. RTS, give me time to get back on my feet and let's play.

I'm really not into 3d fighters, so I can't say anything about that.

Music is just a minor addition in my book. Still, it's not bad to have an awesome soundtrack (3rd Strike, GG, etc).

i hate team play. i like games wherein you have TOTAL control of everything, and team play means i only have control of a fraction of my team's units. i especially hate it when people get mad at me cause i don't help (even when they don't tell me to.)

edit:
someone should change the thread title. it has almost nothing to do with the discussion.

I won't go as much as say that graphics don't really matter to me, because it does. For me, graphics work by drawing my attention and let's me say, "Hey, that's cool". Graphics go as far as that only.

Gameplay certainly forms the bulk of my decision in whether a game is good or not. I sure enough people have said something about gameplay so just6 pick something from teh above. Chances are, I feel the same way. For cosole RPG's, I choose story over gameplay.

Fave genres would probably be shmups (I suck though), beat 'em ups (I suck more though), 2d fighters (not very good though), shooting, rhythm games (guitar, drums, DDR, whatever), sRPG's (Nippon-Ichi mostly though).

Civilization IV : ... because ITS CIVILIZATION!!
Elder Scrolls IV : OBLIVION : because ITS ELDER SCROLLS!

and i think Robo-ky would come up wif the same answer as mine

Oh, and I hate multiplayer RPGs. If I get to have a party, I want full control of every single member. (Damn Lucia in Eternal Blue...)

You can go back and play T5 at the arcades now. Almost all the characters are being used. There are still Steve, Law and Paul scrubs but what can you do about them?

I'll elaborate on what keikun said:
No, I don't play Oblivion because it's a TES game. I sort of like free-roam non-linear exploring games like the The Elder Scrolls series and Grand Theft Auto 3+ series.

(That reminds me, buying a ship in TES:Daggerfall was very funny, you could teleport to it from anywhere, that makes it far more useful than a house.)

As for Civilization I play it because it's deep, strategic and addictive. Turns require a lot of planning and what the empire looks like 100 turns from now would be all my fault.

That being said, in any game (especially RPG's and Strategy games) I'd rather have control of all the characters / everything (except the fact that units auto-attack in say, Starcraft).

this?? sol&ky
LOL B)

re: starcraft

AFAIK, the combat units only auto attack when they're hit. except the peons, who ignore everything unless you Hold Position with them.

re: dickgirls in johnny's post.

first dickgirl link in PF
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i know, their organs aren't showing, but damn, those ARE DGs.

:lol:

Pacman and Red Ghost on their belts FTW.

Large rosters and variety (MvC2, CvS2, KOF '98, KOF 2002)

link pls...lols