What makes a game good?

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#1 Licazinha
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From most to least important.

I'd say (this excludes sports games)

1. Gameplay Variety

2. Quality of Missions/Quests

3. Combat

4. Enviroments

5. Characters and Story

6. A. I.

7. Graphics

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#2 cheol
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total new genre.

your list is nicely put to make a perfect game.
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aliens or evil clowns
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good music
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From most to least important.

I'd say (this excludes sports games)

1. Gameplay Variety

2. Quality of Missions/Quests

3. Combat

4. Enviroments

5. Characters and Story

6. A. I.

7. Graphics

Licazinha

Reason why I like DW so much.

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There is only one thing that makes a game good. FUN

If your not having fun with a game, it wouldn't be a game. It would be some sort of weird simulation that only the demons of hell are able to produce.... Sorry, I got off track there. I'm just tired from playing GTA all night last night.

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#7 cheol
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good musicnyjetsfan5000

oh yes! dont forget the ost.
the whole reason why i fell deeply in love with FFX. hahaha.
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I think the most important things are length, controls, gameplay, atmosphere, story. Graphics need to be serviceable, but they dont need to be extremely awesome, thats why the GTA games are so popular. Most important thing is fun.
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From most to least important.

I'd say (this excludes sports games)

1. Gameplay Variety

2. Quality of Missions/Quests

3. Combat

4. Enviroments

5. Characters and Story

6. A. I.

7. Graphics

Licazinha

and gd online stuff after the game ends

EDIT spelling

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#10 zaphod_b
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All of those are important. Certain qualities stand out better in different genres. I think that AI is more important in shooters, characters and story are more important in RPG's and action-adventures, etc. I would have to make a list for every genre.
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#11 Licazinha
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[QUOTE="nyjetsfan5000"]good musiccheol

oh yes! dont forget the ost.
the whole reason why i fell deeply in love with FFX. hahaha.

MUSIC! yep, it comes right before graphics.

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#12 tgschmidt
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There is only one thing that makes a game good. FUN

If your not having fun with a game, it wouldn't be a game. It would be some sort of weird simulation that only the demons of hell are able to produce.... Sorry, I got off track there. I'm just tired from playing GTA all night last night.

yanks1112
i agree. there's just so many different things that can make a game fun for me. hell, everyone generally disliked the Conan game but i had fun playing it so for me, it was a good game.
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From most to least important.

I'd say (this excludes sports games)

1. Gameplay Variety

2. Quality of Missions/Quests

3. Combat

4. Enviroments

5. Characters and Story

6. A. I.

7. Graphics

Licazinha

In addition to music, yes, these things make a good game. But to me, they are all equally important, so I personally wouldn't number them in terms of importance.

I would have to say though, that story (to me, environment, A.I. and quality of quests/missions are part of the story), characters, gameplay (combat to me is gameplay as well) and music/sound would be my primary focus if I were to make a game. A very close second would be the design and graphics.

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#14 yanks1112
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[QUOTE="yanks1112"]

There is only one thing that makes a game good. FUN

If your not having fun with a game, it wouldn't be a game. It would be some sort of weird simulation that only the demons of hell are able to produce.... Sorry, I got off track there. I'm just tired from playing GTA all night last night.

tgschmidt

i agree. there's just so many different things that can make a game fun for me. hell, everyone generally disliked the Conan game but i had fun playing it so for me, it was a good game.

That's exactly what I've been saying for a long time. Who cares about review scores, as long as you like the game and have fun, that's all that matters.

I mean, does it matter if your favorite game got .5 points less than you expected? No

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#15 bezza2011
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i think we have got to the point that in tht list there all as equal, the funny thing is how come we can think of how its good but sdomew developers still pure out poorly made games, its a joke why not learn and i tell u what people missed out from the whole thing unless i missed it, is orginality, theres to many games out there wat r the same, fps's to many r based around one thing and the stories r all the same except different things replace certain bits,