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| What criteria do you use to determine the greatness of a video game? | |
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| Zoom | May 2 2015, 12:47 AM Post #1 |
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What criteria do you use to determine the greatness of a video game for it's generation or decade? I don't trust reviews and sales any more because of GTA 4. |
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| + Pelador | May 2 2015, 01:02 AM Post #2 |
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First and foremost I play it. If I don't enjoy the gameplay then that really affects what I think of it. For instance I really didn't like how The Last of Us felt to play. Sure the story and graphics were top par but the gameplay felt really average in comparison. Second I rate the music. If a game doesn't have good music then the experience of playing it is greyed. Plus it can also make a mediocre game more enjoyable. Like Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Next comes how the game looks. Not necessarily graphics but instead visual style. For instance you can have top graphics but the game can still look ugly and drab. How is the game presented to me visually? Very important and something I think people get mixed up with graphics. How much will I feel like playing the game again once I've beaten it? Is it something I can keep going back to year after year? That's how I judge a game's merits. |
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| Zoom | May 2 2015, 01:07 AM Post #3 |
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Then how would you compare different games from different hardware? |
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| + Pelador | May 2 2015, 01:09 AM Post #4 |
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Just like how I said. Gameplay Music Presentation Replay value. Hardware doesn't make much of a difference to me since I love many 8 bit, 16 bit and 3D games just the same. |
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| Goddess Ultimecia | May 2 2015, 01:17 AM Post #5 |
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Basically what Pelador's said already. I've had a bit of an odd taste in videogames, alot of people hail FF7 as the best thing since sliced bread. But I've found FF8 to be more enjoyable overall. I LOVE Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion because of its visual style, it's like visual ecstasy. |
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| + Steve | May 2 2015, 01:39 AM Post #6 |
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Basically what Pel said. FF13 has some beautiful graphics in cutscenes you can see the freaking pores on Lightnings skin as though it's real. But all that just feels wasted because the story is meh, the gameplay is meh and the graphics are good for just no reason really. 4 out of 10 for me and only so much because it gets points for being from a series I like plus the MC has a bitchin' name. Graphics are the thing I care about least really so long as I'm not forking out £40-60 for "next gen" game that barely looks better than a PS2 game they're never really an issue. Most of the time I just feel the many hours programming some grass to look and move like real life in one part of a level just feels like a stupid waste of time to me. That's not the focus of the game at all a game shouldn't be so uninteresting that you want to stop and look at pointless details you should want to drive along forwards in the story and have a blast while doing so. Of course sometimes you do have to stop and take in the scenery because just WOW in some games. Often though graphics just feel like they're there to distract you from the lazy story and gameplay of a game. The Order 1886 is a perfect example. Gameplay and story are highest priority in deciding the quality of a game, bonus points for a nifty art style. |
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| FutureProtagonist | May 2 2015, 01:44 AM Post #7 |
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I judge it based on how fun it is to play. If the plot sucks, I just ignore it. I don't mark things down for a bad plot. I do mark things up for a good plot, though. I'm so good at ignoring the plot that I enjoy FFXIII-3. Unfortunately, on an Xbox, the game looks bad and has big old framerate drops, which are a lot worse than a bad plot IMO. Edited by FutureProtagonist, May 2 2015, 01:45 AM.
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| + Clearin | May 2 2015, 01:51 AM Post #8 |
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How much I enjoy playing it. I don't have any criteria. Some things like music, plot, or whatever might affect if I enjoy it, but I don't have any minimum standards to expect from a game. If I enjoy it then I enjoy it. |
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| lucrowe | May 2 2015, 02:04 AM Post #9 |
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Great games have a way of standing out in your mind. It's a game that as soon as you've finished it, you wanna play it again straight away. They have to be more than fun. They have to be engaging. They have to be difficult, but present great reward for completing those levels that make you wanna pull your face off. When a game gives you rewards for your efforts, it's as if all your hard work is starting to pay off, it makes you excited for what you may get next and keeps you engaged. A game needs to rely on its gameplay just as much as (if not, more than) the story to keep you interested. They have to make you feel as though you are in the game, like it's you who's doing all these great things. Factor all this in with fluid and comfortable gameplay, along with a sound track that gets stuck in your head for days and you've got a great game! Not everybody has to agree, that's the great thing about great games. They're personal. You have your own reasons why you think they're great! It doesn't have to make top 10 lists all over the Internet for it to be great. As long as you had fun, and you want to play it again, you've found yourself something great! |
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| tOMMY pICKLES | May 2 2015, 02:20 PM Post #10 |
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gameplay soundtrack visuals plot/storyline replay ability those are my main things in a game. two games that nail all of those are last of us and chrono trigger. |
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| + Pelador | May 2 2015, 02:29 PM Post #11 |
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How does The Last of Us nail all of those? Does it even have a soundtrack? |
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| tOMMY pICKLES | May 2 2015, 02:51 PM Post #12 |
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yes. a very good one that fits the game perfectly |
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| + Steve | May 2 2015, 02:59 PM Post #13 |
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Greetings. I will be your waifu this season.
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I'm not sure I'd give TLOU re-playability. Depends on the person of course but for me once I'd done it it was just done, finished. Like a great movie you'll always remember and don't need to watch again. I have a few favouroite games but I'm yet to find an ultimate game that scores perfectly in all categories, some day... The Fallout games are among faves but they don't really nail the story that well most of what you do feels inconsequential but they have great re-playability for sure. |
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| + Pelador | May 2 2015, 03:02 PM Post #14 |
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Ok I give it that. Reminds me of Slipknot's early stuff. I still maintain that the gameplay was kind of average, a bit clunky and stiff. |
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| tOMMY pICKLES | May 2 2015, 03:08 PM Post #15 |
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tlou is replayable in my view from all the notes and other collectibles around the world that no way in hell I would collect in my first playthrough. plus the 2 or 3 harder settings they give you after the normal playthrough mode which is already hard enough to begin with. |
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