[QUOTE="_AbBaNdOn"]Yeah accum/collecting. My favorite thing in games is to just become more powerful. Whether thats my levels, stats, abilities, skills, or weapons and armor. Like it was really cool how NFS:Undercover had a Driver Skill page where you got upgrades to stuff by dominating races

Everything else should be complimentary to that. I also like creating my own gear for becoming more powerful. The games that let you kill stuff and get MATERIALS instead of default/random gear are pretty much most owns for me. Rune Factory(ds), Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicle games(any), Phantasy Star Universe(ps2), Dark Cloud 2(ps).

Basically I just want to feel like im not wasting my time and that I have a sense of progression. A game having offline splitscreen co-op is also huge. just_nonplussed

do you dislike playing shooters/FPS by any chance? that's a type of game where you're just constantly losing ammo.

raw materials are great. they make you create your items, and it all adds to the interactive depth. often there are rare items as well, and you have to actually make decisions about which bits to synth. FF11 was great for that feeling.. but getting items was a chore (you had to wait for 'drops' from monsters).

I don't understand. What did I say that had anything to do with shooters/fps?? losing ammo is the opposite of collecting?? I like FPS as a genre and love a bunch of specific games.