What gives a game "quality"?

What makes it irresistible? addictive? fun?

Or even a MASTERPIECE?

In your opinion.

Love and attention from the Devs. Not rehashes.

Solid controls, gameplay, and technical performance (frame-rate) are essential for any game.

Anything else is going to vary depending on genre.

Story, characters, variety, value for money, online features, and so on.

Oh, and not having Call of Duty in the title. Couldn't resist. :lol:

Valve give games quality.

Characters are really the most important thing to me. If I like them, feel like they're real people, with real personalities - because the writing and voice acting is top-notch, then I care about whatever it is they're trying to accomplish. That's the difference between feeling like I'm playing a game vs. taking part in an adventure.

i would say a deep immersive storyline, great characters, and music that fits the "feel" of the game...

anything else is just personal preference

What makes it irresistible? addictive? fun?

Or even a MASTERPIECE?

In your opinion.

GreekGameManiac

Just my personal opinion though.

Excellent gameplay mechanics, responsive controls, and brilliant level design. Everything else is just a bonus

Voice acting,If a game hasn't got great actors then for me the atmosphere of the game is ruined,and therefor just feels 'cheap'.

NOT being a generic first person shooter with gruff soldiers in it.Nismology

Characters are really the most important thing to me. If I like them, feel like they're real people, with real personalities - because the writing and voice acting is top-notch, then I care about whatever it is they're trying to accomplish. That's the difference between feeling like I'm playing a game vs. taking part in an adventure..Jackc8

This!!!

To me, a quality game is well written, has engaging gameplay, and is polished well. Essentially, you should be able to feel that the developers really cared about their game and worked hard to make it the best it could be.silentexistence

i would say a deep immersive storyline, great characters, and music that fits the "feel" of the game...

anything else is just personal preference

josephl64

What? No they aren't. You left out some of the most important things like gameplay mechanics and controls. These things are much more important than story-line and characters.

Presentation and solid game mechanics.

is what makes a game a quality game.

even if it is just another shooter with gruff soldiers. if it's executed well, the only people who are gonna decry it are the bias'd folks.

Take note - before someone jumps down my throat - that does not mean that your games are not quality games.

When you say "Quality" I think of how well was your execution in making the product. That's it.

So for instance, Battlefield 3, Batman Arkham, Skyward Sword, Catherine, and quite a few others can be termed as quality games.

That's a really tough question that I think really comes down to individual games. The greatest games I can think of off the top of my head are games that have fairly unique ideas or at least seem to be above similar games (things like Freelancer, Company of Heroes, Homeworld 2, STALKER, GTAIV, Team Fortress 2 before Mann Co). But good ideas don't always equal quality, sometimes it takes purposeful design (Red Orchestra 2 has really good weapons features), other games like (and I hate to say it) Modern Warfare are really polished when it comes to controls and movement. Ideally a "quality" game would have all of these things plus a great story, gameplay, voice acting and other bells and whistles but sometimes you can only look at a game and see what it does best or differently to discover its quality.

Depends. For a flight sim, accurate depiction of the aircraft. The ability to customize every aspect of a flight from aircraft type to clouds and weather conditions. The ability to import real world weather and use them in the game. Or, allow me to customize my own weather since I probably have a better feel for weather than the game programmers. Have an accurate rendering of the ground environment and landmarks relative to the technology being used by the game.

Flight Simulator X does these things. That's why it's my favorite game for now.

Quality + More Quality = Any Uncharted game

Variety.. of characters, weapons, enemies, places.

A game that doesn't yells repetitive.

I think the graphics have to be technically stunning at the time of its release. I think the controls have to be responsive & easy to use. There cannot be even one moment of me thinking "where the heck do I go next". The main single player mode has to be exciting & fun to play. There has to be something included in the package that gives the game tons of replay value (a survival mode, for example). The game should have an incredibly accessible difficulty level so that literally anyone can pick it up and play.

Having a great storyline and solid gameplay.

Love

Maddie_Larkin

Valve give games quality.

Am_Confucius

To me, games are all the same, regardless of how much enjoyment I can get out of them. They're all meaningless, just as everything in reality itself is of no meaning at all.

Besides, why take so much time and effort to grade each game with a score of its own or contemplating too much about it when life is too short? One can easily say the same thing about discussing whether the PC or any console is the best gaming platform.

agreed.

i'd say, if you feel like you can plow through the whole game, whether it's based on a presentation standpoint or just because the game is fun enough, it's a quality game. flaws inherent will degrade the game, but only if they obvious or glaring... like game breaking bugs like your dumb ferry man in Far Cry 2 getting stuck in all your new games and not being able to be "saved"! ARGH, then it's just annoying.

For me it would have to be characters,story and scenery not just graphics but the environments as well...... And of course framerate,controls and all that technical stuff.

Replayability
Unique gameplay
Good Story if it is game that has a plot/ story line

A story that has some love sprinkled all over it and the -insert core game mechanic here- is the cherry and chocolate syrup.

Gameplay mechanics

Storyline

control scheme

plot

narrative

voice acting

dialogue

sound design

soundtracks

boss battles

intro

ending.

cinematics.

And that is why Metal Gear Solid 4 has the highest quality of any game.

The gameplay and story. My favorite games have good gameplay and an excellent story imo.

Production value and attention to detail in all aspects, such as: gameplay, story, terrain etc.

for it to deliver upon what was promised from the dev TheGrudge13

*Cough*Fable Games*Cough* They broke so many promises I wasted my time playing Fable 1 & 3

Game design above all.

Variety in gameplay, minimal repetition, great replay value, a simple innovation and an amazing story.

Of course, that's stands for single player games. For MP games, it's a whole different world.