Neb on 20/11/2010 at 05:36
I'm always looking for games that can offer well executed suspense, especially if it's emergent rather than hard-coded into level design. Mechanics that encourage you to feed into the anticipation of what is going to happen based on your actions are a magical thing.
Shakey-Lo on 22/11/2010 at 14:28
The primary thing I look for is a game that gives me a unique set of experiences whenever I play. What I mean is that when I play, new and different things happen compared to when you play, or compared to the other times I play. This to me is the big defining feature of games compared to other media, and I am obsessed with the notion that any use of any medium is obligated to make full use of that medium's unique features. This is why I detest games that could be movies, or movies that could be plays, or plays that could be novels, or novels that could be games, and so on.
Another major defining feature of gaming is that it requires non-trivial effort to consume. This is another reason why I dislike linear games, related to the first. If I put effort into a game (which I must, in order to progress) I do not want to be given a pre-scripted sequence that everybody else has seen, I want the effort that I put into the game reflected somehow in the game setting. Why would I put 15 hours of effort into a game to receive a canned narrative, when I could lay back on my couch for a tenth of that time and experience a film that will affect me much more? Even the worst films and novels have a much higher art-to-effort ratio than even the best games.
I play games to do things, not consume them. The less developers treat me as an audience and more as a player, the more I like their games. Play being defined as experimentation and self-expression within a given ruleset.
Sulphur on 23/11/2010 at 09:52
That's better! :thumb: Now all I have to do is see if the game can play on my card and how to get that uncensored boobage in.
Ostriig on 23/11/2010 at 16:45
Quote Posted by Sulphur
TITS
someone had to say it
Well there goes my contribution to the thread.
PeeperStorm on 29/11/2010 at 02:19
I look for absolute maximum replay value in a game. If I it doesn't sound like I'll spend at least a couple of hundred hours playing and replaying it, I'm not interested.
Sulphur on 29/11/2010 at 14:46
Pretty much explains the whole Almalexia thread right there, you're some sort of long-term commitment junkie. You freak.
Though, Almalexia did have those spiral tits of hers, so I guess it isn't all that bad.
MorbusG on 29/11/2010 at 19:27
Depth.
june gloom on 29/11/2010 at 20:33
Fun.
ZymeAddict on 30/11/2010 at 18:09
Deus Ex.
