Guys, I don't think English is his first language. Even if it is, so what? When you meet a stupid person in real life who doesn't know have a very solid grasp of our glorious language, perhaps using double negatives and stuff, do you go hey, idiot, learn to talk?
Some people...
Anyway, I think a good game - I'm gonna go ahead and change that to great, by the way, lukewarm isn't my thing - needs these things:
End of list. There's lots of peripheral elemenents - story, character, dialogue, visuals, sound work, voice work,atmosphere, satisfaction, how thought-provoking it is, how engrossing it is... but what it all boils down to when you actually play a game, and how good it is, is how fun it is. There are certain times when I play games for things other than fun, but I think the sole defining element of a great game is that it's fun - and because you enjoy that fun, you want to play it.
I don't think a game needs a quality story, as an example, to be great. All else being equal, the game with the better story would be the better game, but I don't see it as some fundamental requirement of computer gaming quality. That's why I still play games dating back as far as 1993 - games with no story, terrible visuals, god awful sound. Games that have no idea how to immerse a gamer in an atmospheric environment. But games that are a hell of a lot of fun.
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