What matters to you in a game?

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#1 gamerguy845
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Hey, I just wanted to see what fellow Gamespotters thought were the most key aspects ina game following this format. ( Scale of 1-10, 10 being Critical)

Story : 6

Graphics: 6

Characters/Dialogue: 5

Gameplay: 8

Fun Factor: 9

EDIT: Some people don't like using ratings, if you want, list these factors in order from most essential to least essential

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#2 citizen-zero
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story : 8 graphics (technical) : 5 graphics (style) : 8 Characters /Dialogue :8 Gameplay: 10 Fun: 10
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#3 herzalot
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[QUOTE="gamerguy845"]

Hey, I just wanted to see what fellow Gamespotters thought were the most key aspects ina game following this format. ( Scale of 1-10, 10 being Critical)

Story : 6

Graphics: 4.5

Characters/Dialogue: 4.5

Gameplay: 8

Fun Factor: 7.5

key aspects will completely change depending on what genre you are playing. for example, dialogues and story are really important for adventure games, but they are not very important for FPS games. but for the the most of the games, the key aspect you wrote up there is true. but fun factor is not 7.5. it's 10. because bringing fun is the first and the most important mission of video games.
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#4 citizen-zero
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It also depends on the game. In crysis for example, you're too busy drooling over the graphics to notice anything else.
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#5 zerosaber456
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Story 10: Graphics 8 Characters/dialogue: 9 Gameplay: 9 Fun Factor: 9
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#6 DanielDust
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RPG/Adventure/TPS-RPG hybrids:

Story: 8-10

Graphics: 5-6

Characters/Dialogue: 8-9

Gameplay: 6-10

Fun Factor: 7-10

FPS:

Story: 4

Graphics: 7-8

Characters/Dialogue: 5

Gameplay: 7-10

Fun Factor: 8

RTS/TBS:

Story: 6

Graphics: 7-8

Gameplay: 8

Fun Factor: 9

Racing games:

Graphics: 8-10

Gameplay: 7-9

Fun Factor: 9-10

I didn't put specific numbers in some places since that depends on the type of game.

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#7 bogaty
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I like games that require thought to play over games that require reflexes.

Has to be focussed on the single-player experience, be mentally challenging, have a lot of depth, and offer up a lot of replayability.

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#8 2uneek4u
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RPG

Gameplay 10

Story 10

Graphics 8

Fun Factor 9

Characters/Dialogue 8

RTS

Gameplay 10

Story 7

Graphics 9

Fun Factor 10

Characters/Dialogue 6

FPS singleplayer/multiplayer

Gameplay 8/8

Story 8/0

Graphics 9/9

Fun Factor 10/10

Characters/Dialogue 6/6

Overall most important to least important (gameplay and fun factor rating as a 10 or 9 ALWAYS! the others depends on the genre)

Fun Factor

Gameplay

Story

Graphics

Characters/dialogue

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#9 2uneek4u
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[QUOTE="gamerguy845"]

Hey, I just wanted to see what fellow Gamespotters thought were the most key aspects ina game following this format. ( Scale of 1-10, 10 being Critical)

Story : 6

Graphics: 4.5

Characters/Dialogue: 4.5

Gameplay: 8

Fun Factor: 7.5

herzalot

key aspects will completely change depending on what genre you are playing. for example, dialogues and story are really important for adventure games, but they are not very important for FPS games. but for the the most of the games, the key aspect you wrote up there is true. but fun factor is not 7.5. it's 10. because bringing fun is the first and the most important mission of video games.

totally agree. i can play rts games without knowing the story to it and still enjoy the game

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#10 gamerguy845
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[QUOTE="DanielDust"]

RPG/Adventure/TPS-RPG hybrids:

Story: 8-10

Graphics: 5-6

Characters/Dialogue: 8-9

Gameplay: 6-10

Fun Factor: 7-10

FPS:

Story: 4

Graphics: 7-8

Characters/Dialogue: 5

Gameplay: 7-10

Fun Factor: 8

RTS/TBS:

Story: 6

Graphics: 7-8

Gameplay: 8

Fun Factor: 9

Racing games:

Graphics: 8-10

Gameplay: 7-9

Fun Factor: 9-10

I didn't put specific numbers in some places since that depends on the type of game.

If you're scared to put exact numbers on a generalization, use this format =p
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Story:7

Graphics:8

Characters/Dialog:5

Gameplay:9

Fun factor:8.5

mostly:P

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Hey, I just wanted to see what fellow Gamespotters thought were the most key aspects ina game following this format. ( Scale of 1-10, 10 being Critical)

Story : 6

Graphics: 6

Characters/Dialogue: 5

Gameplay: 8

Fun Factor: 9

EDIT: Changed my own scores

gamerguy845


Story: Depends
Graphics: Depends
Characters: Depends
Gameplay: 10
Fun: 10

Civilization 4 didn't need the first 3 monocle

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#13 punisher0309
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Fun Factor: 9 Story : 9 Graphics: 9 Characters/Dialogue: 7 Gameplay: 8 to me everything is essencial but the FUN FACTOR
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#14 punisher0309
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Fun Factor: 9 Story : 9 Graphics: 9 Characters/Dialogue: 7 Gameplay: 8 to me everything is essencial but the FUN FACTOR is the most important. It may be a point and click game with no breakthrough on graphics or anything else.... .......... but if its fun, I'll definitely play it.
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#15 Jd1680a
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Rating each of the categories without showing any kind of relation to each other is harder to understand. I could put 10s on story, graphics, characters, gameplay, and fun factor, yet it wouldnt mean as much as organizing it into an order form. In order from top being most important and bottom least. Gameplay Fun Factor Story Graphics Character/Dialogue
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#16 dakan45
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story levels gameplay weapons characters -dialogues extra unnesasary non generic crap ....fun factor? well the last few years the fun factor has gone away for me... so enjoy far cry 2 and sof 3 more than crysis and stalker and l4d and mass effect , is there is something wrong with that? no its just that fun factor may very, for some weird reason my braind did get any fun from those games..so lets not discuss the fun factor.
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#17 Steameffekt
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Story - 10

Graphics - 7(minimum)

Gameplay - 10

REPLAY - 10

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Story : 4

Graphics: 8

Characters/Dialogue: 6

Gameplay: 10

Fun Factor: 10

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#19 dmcguk
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Story :10

Graphics: 7

Characters/Dialogue: 8

Gameplay: 10

Fun Factor: 8

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#20 herezjarchus
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Story: 9

Graphics: 4

Characters/Dialogues: 8

Gameplay: 7

Fun Factor: 8

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#21 gamerguy845
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Wow, intresting results. It seems a lot more people then what I would have thought put Story in high marks