What do you like and is important about each genre?

[Torillian]

JRPG
Likes:

• Battle system that incorporates enough strategy that most fights I actually have to think (very little spamming the attack button to win the fight)
• Story is key, but it is difficult for me to quantify what makes a good one
• If you're going to do a random encounter system have a visual cue as to how close a random encounter is to happening, and make sure they don't happen too often
• Overwold map that I can explore (god I miss those)
• I really enjoy a system that lets characters permanently die, but it can't be too easy for them to die or it gets annoying
• Every character you use in a fight should have his own personality

Dislikes:

• saying the name of the attack whenever they do it along with any game that has battle chatter too often
• not having save points before bosses (yes I'm a pansy, screw you!)
• annoying voice overs (basically almost everyone from Eternal Sonata and the pig from Valkyria)