What makes a quality gaming experience for you? Criteria-

[Sal.Paradise]

happydolphin said:

Sal.Paradise said:

 

I hesitate to categorise specific things that must make a quality video game; most of the best games I've played go beyond the sum of their parts and so breaking them down into pieces doesn't capture the whole picture, or do the game justice. 

I also find my appreciation for the things people list in these threads to vary wildly from game to game, making it impossible to rank them in any order either. 

 

The thing is though, for me personally, I find myself being enamored often by the same things, even if the games were made for different purposes, those criteria usually stand out to make me feel "oh, I am in love with this game".

I was thinking about this as I wrote my response! Long-time gamers like yourself are more likely to be sure of what they want in a game and can identify it. But I think that, just because of the breadth of experiences out there now, and the very few criteria we can apply to games to judge them (graphics sound gameplay etc) there are at least a couple of games out there that could challenge everyone's ideas of what they think they want in a game/makes a quality game.