What makes a game fun for you?

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For me, it's engaging, rich gameplay. I don't care about visuals at all.

Also, I don't need story, because, while it is a plus, that's not what I'm playing a video game for -- I can seek that experience elsewhere through other mediums of entertainment.
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If it's a single player thing, I generally enjoy immersion, and a very compelling story

if it's with friends, I like fun team work oriented games


 
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Gameplay is a priority, especially if there's multiple ways to play the game instead of just one. If the story is good then that's a bonus. Graphics are not necessary.


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If it has a story in any way (not COD multiplayer or whatever), then it has to be non-linear
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The graphics


 
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offers something unique in terms of gameplay beyond some gimmick


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His eyebrows sparkling, his white beard hangs down to his chest. The thatched mats, spread outside his chise, spread softly, his splendid attos. He polishes, cross-legged, his makiri, with his eyes completely absorbed.

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The god of Ainu Mosir, Ae-Oine Kamuy, descendant of Okiku-Rumi, He perishes, a living corpse. The summers day, the white sunlight, unabrushed, ends simply through his breath alone.
Polygon count and downsampling


 
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offers something unique in terms of gameplay beyond some gimmick
But what about the new wall running mechanic of the last CoD? REVOLUTIONARY I tell ya!


 
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You will find out who you are not a thousand times, before you ever discover who you are. I hope you find peace in yourself and learn to love instead of hate.
I'm mainly limited to RTS games so I like in depth gameplay with the freedom to play how I want. It's one reason why I can't play my child hood favourite any more Age of Empires because after playing games like Total War, Wargame, etc it just feels very shallow.


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uhhh...

- korrie
ripping

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oh, and blatant feminist influence

if the game was designed by jews, that really helps


 
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I'm mainly limited to RTS games so I like in depth gameplay with the freedom to play how I want. It's one reason why I can't play my child hood favourite any more Age of Empires because after playing games like Total War, Wargame, etc it just feels very shallow.
I've been playing Rome 2 again with mods. Is fun.


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Catharsis, good visuals (both in style and in technical details) and good stiry are stuff I look for.

For example, Titanfall 1 was just fun to run around the map because the movement was fun and you got a big giant robot, it had a great art style and was building an interesting world, even if the campaign was kinda crap.

I don't really care for all of the 1-50 l33t MlG PRo XXxzZsNiP3ZxX stuff that makes people just play super tryhardy. Having a big robot or a tank or something is enough for me.


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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
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offers something unique in terms of gameplay beyond some gimmick
But what about the new wall running mechanic of the last CoD? REVOLUTIONARY I tell ya!
not really a gimmick, it completely changes the flow and level design of the game

but keep hating on stuff for the sake of hating on it


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Interesting setting, interesting characters, interesting plot, gameplay that isn't boring as fuck.


 
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Good gameplay with great feedback(I love damage numbers...) or some other way to show I am doing good.

A story is good too


 
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You will find out who you are not a thousand times, before you ever discover who you are. I hope you find peace in yourself and learn to love instead of hate.
I'm mainly limited to RTS games so I like in depth gameplay with the freedom to play how I want. It's one reason why I can't play my child hood favourite any more Age of Empires because after playing games like Total War, Wargame, etc it just feels very shallow.
I've been playing Rome 2 again with mods. Is fun.
Any honourable mentions?


 
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A challenge.
If not that, an immersive universe.


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If I'm not here, I'm doing photography. Or I'm asleep. Or in lockdown. One of those three, anyway.

The current titlebar/avatar setup is just normal.
Immersion.

I can enjoy a good 20 minute match or even those 1 hour 2000 ticket servers of one BF4 map because of the sound, visuals, gameplay and the smoothness of things, but can't bear a 10 minute game of 2010's CoD nowadays because it hasn't changed since 2004 and you can see through the illusions clearly, not to mention the god-awful stories.

Backstory stuff that's completely irrelevant to gameplay, but adds character to the story and constructs the universe beyond just what little you see of it (Examples include Deus Ex's E-books and personal computer logs, Elder scrolls' books and letters, and Fallout's terminal entries, notes, pre-war books, and exhausting every dialogue option possible past the "Yes, I'll do that thing for you").

Favourable art direction and design is also a factor, but that's totally down to opinion. I liked Borderland's cell-shading,  Deus Ex's recent weird obsession with abstract polygonal installations... though not so much on the yellow tint, and GTA IV's "realistic (for the time) but grimy" approach, but it can be forgone in other games (Fallout 3/NV were far behind the graphical capabilities at the time and almost by release had aged badly, yet I consider them within my top 10 favourites).
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You will find out who you are not a thousand times, before you ever discover who you are. I hope you find peace in yourself and learn to love instead of hate.
I'm mainly limited to RTS games so I like in depth gameplay with the freedom to play how I want. It's one reason why I can't play my child hood favourite any more Age of Empires because after playing games like Total War, Wargame, etc it just feels very shallow.
I've been playing Rome 2 again with mods. Is fun.
Any honourable mentions?
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You will find out who you are not a thousand times, before you ever discover who you are. I hope you find peace in yourself and learn to love instead of hate.
I'm mainly limited to RTS games so I like in depth gameplay with the freedom to play how I want. It's one reason why I can't play my child hood favourite any more Age of Empires because after playing games like Total War, Wargame, etc it just feels very shallow.
I've been playing Rome 2 again with mods. Is fun.
Any honourable mentions?
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You live in London spell things the British way paki
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Gameplay, Maps, and competition.

Which is why Halo 2 will always be my favorite game. No game will ever top it.


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Gameplay and all that jazz is obviously the main aspect, but I think a fair bit of intuitiveness needs to go into a game as well as how well it flows. A part of why I struggled to get into competitive Melee for a little while is because of how the game plays.

Coming from Smash 4, simple input windows were a lot more strict, the movement felt less fluid and it was hard to enjoy during the 'getting gud' phase. Kind of like comparing an old school Arcade Racer to Forza Motorsport 6. Everything is slower in the later title but the handling is meatier (for lack of a better word), and is a lot easier to control compared to its classic counterpart.

On top of this, games need to feel like a complete package. It's no use having a fantastic art style and top tier soundtrack if the game feels empty to play after the first few hours or some aspect is completely unfinished (*cough* Roy).

I actually have a few benchmark games across some genres which I feel new releases should aim to be as good as or surpass.


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the one true God is Doctor Doom and we should all be worshiping him.
Cathartic gameplay.

World building.


 
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Fast-paced skill intensive multiplayer.


For Single players, a good story, clean gameplay and good characters


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Simple, engaging gameplay.