| spurgeonryan said:
What does a game have to have that would make you say it was worth the purchase and your time, besides being fun. How many Hours of game time? Visuals? Extras? Great Story What else? |
In my opinion, you've missed the most important aspect of video games. The gameplay. While there can be great games without having very good gameplay, and there has been, I feel gameplay should stand at the forefront of most every game.
Most games have storyline worse than the worst b rated movies, so with poor gameplay there's really no reason for me to bother with the game. At the same time, while I'd like a good story, if the game has little to no story, or if it has a story but it's just poor, great gameplay will still make it a good game. There's times where the story is way too intrusive and just ruins what good gameplay a game does have, but that's rare..
The worse the gameplay is, the shorter I'd like for the game to be. Sure the game might have good gameplay, but is it good or fun enough to play for 30-40 hours before it starts to get stale? This is where extras come in. If the games gameplay can keep you entertained for a long period of time, then having a lot of extra content is a huge bonus. I love playing games that have good extra content where I can continue playing the game long after I finished it.
Finally there's graphics. I like having better graphics, but a bad game with good graphics will always be a bad game.
Some games like Just Cause 2 are the exception. The story is horrible and the game has so many gameplay elements in the game that are done way better in other games, but Just Cause 2 is much more enjoyable than those same games with what you can do. It's not just shooting, or driving a vehicle, or grappling everywhere, it's shooting while driving a vehicle only to open your parachute and then grapple to another vehicle and through whoever out of it. It overall does a lot of things worse than other games, but the way you can easily just mix all this together makes it a great game.
