Final fantasy 13 and its 'sequels' (prequels?) come to mind, it feels like they spent so much time on the eye candy that they forgot to add the flavors of story and gameplay. I remember the final boss being called crap as well. The graphics were the favorite, the gameplay was the red headed step child, and the story was uummmm.... Orphaned.

I wonder what FF15 will be like?

I wouldn't care if my game looked like a geometry puzzle, I still play titles like EQ, EQ2, Dungeon Siege, TES3 Morrowing, and so forth. I also play DS games on my New 3DS (backwards compatibility, long live history.) If they offered a platform on the PC where I could legally buy old games and run them with no issue, emulator or not, I'd check it out. I still pine for warcraft RTS even though WoW is out now, probably even more so now than ever. =P

It bothers me that some people still don't realize that even with graphics, effects, and visuals less can be more. I know there are plenty of examples of gameplay over graphics, quite a few indie titles take advantage of this. I want to see more of it from AAA developers, Don't rush titles with pretty graphics out the door to make quick money,Rift, certain WoW expansions, and Skyrim come to mind. Beautifful visuals, rushed and botched launch, and buggy games FTW!

I kind of miss 1990s gaming now...

Sega home consoles, Rare, Cavedog, crassy humor, and offline living room gaming RIP...

It feels more like in order to sell games devs are focusing on graphics, effects, and whatnot. It feels like they sacrifice other parts of games to get the best visual quality, whether it's control, gameplay, or story. I get that if that dragster looks beautiful and shiny your going to be looking at that one more than other dragsters that look even slightly drabbier, but what happens if in order to look amazing it has to make sacrifices in other design areas. Handling, gas mileage, safety, comfort, etc. That somewhat how I feel where gaming is now, what's the point of buying a nice looking game if it's not enjoyable or near unplayable? I'd rather have a more interactive, 'intuitive', lively and massive world with at least a fun storyline rather than one with 20 Terrabyte, 2160 ultra realistic 3D 120 FPS graphics and visuals.

Warcraft RTS, that is 1-3 including expansions!

Startopia

Freelancer

Monkey Island

Neverwinter Nights RPG series and expansions

Populous franchise

Total Annihilation series!

If those were revived somehow, I would buy them! I'd stay holed up at home for at least a year playing those games if they were good too, probably should get a comb or some thing for when I grow out my beard! =P

I like boss fights with: good music, changing and/or sequencing behaviors in either the boss or the environment, a way to fight the boss either by using something obtained from or relating to the dungeon/area, overall vibe of this particular baddie being a boss.

Doesn't need to be a giant like from god war franchise or whatever, doesn't need have a deep booming voice that you'd have to be deaf on another planet to not hear, hell the boss could be a rabbit and it might just work with all my favorite features! :)

Some Examples...

Bosses I love: Stallord from The Legend of Zelda Twilight princess, The Great mighty poo from conkers bad fur day, All of the Metroid Prime series final bosses, Ghot (Snowhead Temple) from The Legend of Zelda Majoras Mask,.... I'll add more if I can remember some names...

Bosses that are good: All the Nintnedo hand and face shooty bosses (I know their overused but they're still addicting and could be built upon as a concept for future bosses! They also have an interesting history according to some of Nintendos execs and developers =P). barinade from the legend of zelda ocarina of time, Majoras incarnations from the legend of Zelda Majoras mask, the Zodiak summons from final fantasy 12, I'll try to remember some names for here too.

Bosses that I hate: half of the 'bosses' that appear in mmo's (the list is long but many of them are from JRPGs and other oriental mmos), Ganondorf from the legend of zelda twilight princess (hey Ganon, ya wanna go fishing?), all Goomba bosses from the Mario franchises (I doubt even a helmet would help these stepping stools),... I'll try to remember more here as well.

About set to fall asleep, I'll post more later... maybe.

Ack! Sorry, that thought didn't occur. I'll have to bear that in mind for future posts and threads.

Just found this thread, gonna make an obscure suggestion... Freelancer.

It's an open world, sci-fi, starfighter kind of game. Think of a kind of blend between The elder scrolls series, starfox (the shooter titles and not the adventure ones), and a tiny bit of mass effect (no sex sadly, sorry) and you might come close. This game has a single player and multiplayer mode as well as an interesting storyline.

I don't know what the price is now but I'm willing to bet that if you come across it you can get freelancer for a bargain, think about 2000 to 2006 for release. Just for forewarning, the graphics aren't very good and the voiceacting is laughable... I still enjoyed the gameplay though. :)

Microsoft with the Xbox ones pre-launch and post launch fiasco....

Sony with it's lacking of recent backwards compatibility on recent consoles, and the rumored failure of the PS VITA.....

Nintendo with its bad rap from 'hardcore gamers' on motion controls and the WIIU in general...

The PC with its cornucopia of MMOs, buggy launches on online titles, copyright battles, bloat of MMO titles, DLC shenanigans, disagreements between modders and developers, and mess of currently running MMOs.....

those are all just the ones of the top of my head, it feels like the video game industry is slipping in regards to quality, content, and service. I wonder why they don't just go all portable (Xbox or Playstation on the go) and start scaling down on the home consoles. With the way technology has been sallying forth I doubt we'll miss those extra frames... isn't the human eye unable to notice a difference on any thing beyond 60 fps anyways?

It also seems like it would be more convenient as well, multiplayer anywhere Ala portable consoles. I only feels like the game console developers are just gonna end up making their home consoles more gimmicky to attract players...

OOOooooooooohhhhh..... Xbox kinect, WiiU pad, eye cam, why do you think I should be the control interface! Playstation move, Wiimote, Wii board, ooohhhhh the horror.... sorry that was bad :P

anyone wanna add?

=) I'm gonna update my wall with 3DS games I'm playing...

Markiplier!!!

Hello.... :3