What is more important to you: Action or Adventure?

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Nautilus said:
Its a really hard question to answer because as you said, both complement each other.When you are in an adventure, you want to explore, and have that sensation that you are going through uncharted areas, finding secrets long forgotten.But at the same time, you need action sprinkled through so that you feel its the real thing, that you ar trully going into something dangerous, to give your adventure a meaning and that it is not something futile.

Having said that, if it is a game about being immersed and having the story as an important part, I would say that the adventure part is more important, because it keeps me pushing foward to know everything, be it the enviroment and the story, especially in longer games.

Well said.

@OP: There's a reason action-adventure is my favorite sub-genre. It combines the immediate thrill of combat and movement with the slower burn of exploration and puzzle-solving.

I guess I'd give a slight edge to adventure, although, as Nautilus writes, the excitement comes from the merger of these two elements.