| What's most important to you in a video game? |
| Gameplay |
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55% |
[ 332 ] |
| Graphics |
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9% |
[ 57 ] |
| Sound |
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0% |
[ 1 ] |
| Storyline |
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8% |
[ 53 ] |
| Franchise tie-ins (either a series game or movie/book based) |
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0% |
[ 2 ] |
| Multiplayer/Internet gameplay |
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3% |
[ 20 ] |
| Downloadable content |
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0% |
[ 1 ] |
| Upgradeable characters/cars/vehicles |
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2% |
[ 12 ] |
| All of the above |
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9% |
[ 55 ] |
| I only play Star Wars games and everyone is always perfect in everyway!!!!! |
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3% |
[ 18 ] |
| write-in option |
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7% |
[ 42 ] |
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| Total Votes : 593 |
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yoda313
POLLSTER
Joined: 15 Jun 2004
Location: the real world
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So what features are most important to you in a video game? Graphics? Sound? Gameplay? Multiplayer features? Downloadable content?
For me I'd say gameplay still ranks number one. The crummiest of the old 8 bit games in terms of style points are still some of the best games becuase the controls are so fluid.
My personal ranking:
Gameplay
Sound
Graphics
Internet play
How about you????
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lumis
Member
Joined: 18 Jan 2005
Location: the remnants of pangea
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If the gameplay sucks, then nothing else matters.
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Nitemare
Throbbing Member
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: United States
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Gameplay-- every time. In fact, bigger, better, flashier graphics is one of my pet peeves. Who gives a hoot?
Starcraft-- still my favorite after all these years. 'nuff said
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Ai Haibara
VH Wanderer
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
Location: Here. Or... there?
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Yeah, gameplay. I even still pull out my old Infocom text-adventure games to play now and then. 
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mats.hogberg
Modded Morloc
Joined: 17 Jul 2002
Location: Sweden (PAL)
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Duchess
Member
Joined: 02 May 2003
Location: Woking, England
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That it goes away and leaves me alone. Sorry people but I just don't play computer games, so does that make me a sad person? 
BTW am I the only person who doesn't play pooter games? 
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gadgetguy
Contestant
Joined: 14 Feb 2002
Location: Michigan, USA
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| Duchess wrote: |
That it goes away and leaves me alone. Sorry people but I just don't play computer games, so does that make me a sad person?
BTW am I the only person who doesn't play pooter games? |
Right there with ya.
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GKar
Dunce with me
Joined: 15 Jul 2003
Location: In the corner, on a stool
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If it isn't first person perspective, the graphics, game play etc... don't matter.
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dphirschler
Ut
Joined: 29 Aug 2001
Location: Kennesaw, GA - USA
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Gameplay of course. It's also a bonus if it has two-player gameplay. I love sound too. That adds more to the game than graphics to me. But as someone already said, nothing else matter without good gameplay. I still love the classics from the late 70's and 80's.
Darryl
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INFRATOM
Member
Joined: 23 Mar 2005
Location: USA
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According to my son being the character you want is the most important, in many games you can't do that. I add this on my own have extensive cheats!!! for hard or dead end situations.
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anzimike
Member
Joined: 09 Mar 2004
Location: Southern California
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I'm with Duchess.
I Don't play games, I grew up (so to speak) before computers/games were around.
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Dv8ted2
The One
Joined: 26 Nov 2005
Location: OA
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I love to use game-enhancers to see what weird things the game can do.
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TheFamilyMan
illuminated
Joined: 09 Jan 2004
Location: south SF bay area, CA USA
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| lumis wrote: |
| If the gameplay sucks, then nothing else matters. |
What more can be said? To this I append "after the first 20 minutes". This is where the demo downloads rock: checkout the eye/ear-candy for free then ditch it.
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Xylob the Destroyer
Melkor
Joined: 18 Sep 2004
Location: Earth, for now
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| lumis wrote: |
| If the gameplay sucks, then nothing else matters. |
Hear hear!!!
Gameplay, hands down.
for those of you who voted "Graphics", you're a bunch of whores and YOU are why so many shitty games are constantly being dumped on the market.
thanks for nothing.
I'm sick of 'pretty' games with broken gameplay mechanics and a total gaming experience of 4 hours...
but as long as idiots keep buying them, developers and publishers will keep putting them out and expecting gamers to accept them as the norm.
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laspis59
Tool Addict
Joined: 26 Apr 2004
Location: England,UK
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As I am not 100% interested in video games it has to be how easy and addictive the game is.Graphics and sound dont matter much to me if the game is too painfully boring eg having to use nearly every button of the keyboard to even play it or a strategic game.
I still prefer Sonic The Hedgehog over some of the flashy games of today.Some of the games I used to play on my Spectrum in the 80's as a child I prefer to todays.
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coldheadaches
Member
Joined: 09 Nov 2006
Location: United States
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I think its all important to creat a well rounded game. LOL. It makes the playing experience better.
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Paul_G
Member
Joined: 30 Sep 2002
Location: United Kingdom
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Gameplay.
Take that away and the game is worthless, i personally prefer using emulators because the majority of current games focus more on graphics than gameplay.
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Xylob the Destroyer
Melkor
Joined: 18 Sep 2004
Location: Earth, for now
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yup.
except I use an actual NES, SNES, and N64. never really got into the Sega systems...
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