The biggest thing for me is if the game runs smooth or not. I like a nice high framerate and to feel like my computer is under no strain when I'm playing a game. I feel a lot of developers overreach, try to do too much with the technology they have.
Look at left 4 dead, they toned down the graphics quality so that you're framerate wouldn't go to pot when there were a hundred zombies on screen, I think they got it just right, the perfect balance and it still looks great.
GTA IV would be the perfect example of a game that got it very very wrong. It looked like crap and it ran like crap :o God knows how they managed it.
PC is the only platform where you can push things forward and I welcome stuff like crysis with open arms, it's one of my favourite games of the last few years, but if you ever tried playing crysis online where high framerates and smooth gameplay really count, you'll know that it's just not as fun as something like cod4 where you get an almost constant 125fps maxed out.
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