The main thing I need from a game now for me to enjoy it is a good involving story or narrative. Without these a generally feel no desire to complete a game and get bored of it quickly to the point where I stop playing it. For example, I know it's a modern cliche, but I just cant stand most FPS's nowadays because for me most of them have no hook or plot strong enough to grab me. I like Homefront mind but again from what I read mechanics/gameplay wise it was a average shooter but the plot/story/character situation kept me engaged to the end.

on the flipside Crysis 2 was a very well received shooter but to me the story didnt have that emotional hook. I know it tried with opening cinemetaics and such but I just lost interest not long after the first level. Same with Halo - I tried the anniversary edition oif the first one a few months ago to get me in to a great series but for me it was just shoot, move to the next location, shoot a few more and repeat and it was a game/series that I wanted to experience and enjoy like so many others do.

Then again I do love games like Total War(s), XCom, Tropico and games like it which probably don't fall in the interactive story element I have outlined but none the less they all feel grand in scale and absorb you in to anotehr world. Which Halo I suppose does but I don't know what the difference is. Perhaps it is a mix of gameplay and story that I require and perhaps Just don't like FPS's anymore.

I think what I am getting at is that I cannot just enjoy pure gameplay anymore which I regert and know I am missing out on alot of great games but I've trid and I can't even force myself.

PresidentLogan

I didn't read that wall of text, but to answer your question. It's simple. Look at where you're at right now. You're posting on a gaming website. To me, that's what makes someone a 'true gamer'. You're still a gamer and your location on the internet shows it. Normal people who play games don't end up here, especially in the forums. Everyone here is a gamer, everyone who isn't here is a casual person who just so happens to play games (not a gamer).

Black Ops 2 sucks, ha-ha. Why even try with this post?

Square Enix

I know what he's talking about, he wants a normal person to play as in a game AND to be considered a great character. Am I right?

Why do many gamers seem to only allow a very limited range of characteristic for the main character? It seem like if a character is not a piss off emo and/or a sarcastic then many games will call the character a bad character.

wiouds

That may have been a low blow to DMC, just calling it out.

It doesn't really matter to me, the developers will find jobs elsewhere under new publishers.

A 10 to me is a 5/5 meaning it's an amazing game with a lot of content and lives up to being an amazing game that you could spend years playing. Perfection though? Naw, you won't find that.

Gears of War: Judgment

Dead Space 3

State of Decay (XBLA)

Crysis 3

Bioshock Infinite

GTA V

Splinter Cell: Blacklist

It's cool seeing games i grew up playing that were the latest and greatest thing running on a damn phone lol like duke nukem 3d or doom but it's a shame you cant play em worth a crap because there's no traditional controls.

cryemocry

That's why I keep my phone games limited to games meant for the phone: Contre Jour, Plants vs. Zombies, Cut the Rope; all great games.

What platform do the pro-tablet people think will be used to create all their little apps? If you guessed desktop, give yourself a high-five.donalbane

That's cool and all, but I don't use my current desktop for gaming. It's just wasted space and stuck in the side of my room. I'm a console gamer so a tablet and a phone is all that I want/need to enjoy my entertainment.