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[Kadzar]

I was waxing nostalgic, thinking about Anarchy Online and how, even though that game has a lot of lore to it, they don't just throw it in your face. In fact, most of the lore in AO isn't in the quest text; it's in the item descriptions. Almost every single item in the game has a little tidbit about it's history. Not the history of the individual item, that would be absurd, but the history or general use of the item's production model. That junk gun you're using because you can't find/afford anything better didn't just spawn out of nowhere (even though it really did), it was made by somebody. I think that just made that world seem more alive.

So, yeah, what are things in games that you really like?

[Catastrophic lolcats]

Quick Save and Quick Load.
I hate games with a checkpoint saving system with a passon, almost ruined Metro 2033 for me.
 
Jumping/Couching in shooters.
I like the freedom to be able to jump over objects and crouch behind stuff in shooters. Shooters that take away those abilities just annoy me.

Health Packs.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. showed us the way to handle health packs by having you able to pick them up and placing them in your inventory. Hell, I don't even mind the old school style of just running over them. But regenerative health is just ... blah.

In short. Screw modern shooters. :<

[pilgrimboy]

I like some ramifications to my actions that actually change the game world in a significant way.

I like having an item shop for my loot. Only Elona does this, but I so wish I could have done this in Skyrim.

[Neyvn]

The only time I want Regen Health is when I earn it via alot of hard work or throwing money at a vendor, such as with Borderlands...

Things that I appreciated in any game is story, anything with story. If I want something thats all but something nice yet lacks story, I would go watch Porn. Seriously, thats all Graphics is these days, game devs making Computer Eye Dazing Porn. Prob why its the most sort after thing I think...

[Errol]

I like having an item shop for my loot. Only Elona does this, but I so wish I could have done this in Skyrim.

Well... try Recettear? That game is pretty much centered around that aspect.

I personally really like female main characters, player skill-based combat systems and customization opportunities. The more ways you can configure your party or your character, the more strategies there are waiting to be tested, the more ways your main character can look like, the happier I am.

[Fiskav]

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[Dutchling]

Being able to marry my cousin and get inbred children is something I can appreciate in games. Looking at the map before the game starts and discover nations you never heard about (Latin Empire, Sultanate of Rum) is fun as well.

[Dariush]

The absence of a specific plot and rigidly defined characters, since the games without them have a larger focus on gameplay and allow for higher degree of world randomization. Also insane difficulty, or at least an option to have such.

[amjh]

Complexity. Because if a game can be understood too well, it doesn't feel worth the effort to me. I enjoy when I need to use my intuition to make decisions and it annoys me when mechanical analysis is the best way of solving obstacles.

[Errol]

Being able to marry my cousin and get inbred children is something I can appreciate in games. Looking at the map before the game starts and discover nations you never heard about (Latin Empire, Sultanate of Rum) is fun as well.

So I take it you play CK2.

[IronyOwl]

Unit sound sets. It just adds so much character when units say stuff when you order them around or poke them a lot.


Randomization/procedural generation is also big for me, and in a more mechanical, practical sense. Editing tools of some sort are also very nice for similar reasons.

The ability to go off and do and make my own stuff is nice. Never liked tactical RPGs with preset characters, for instance; I don't want to carry around those mooks, I want to forge my own squad. Plotlines that are too rigid to let you play as anything other than what the game says you are is also bad for similar reasons.

In a somewhat related but more trivial sense, I've always liked the notion of being able to level up or otherwise improve something or someone well past what it's worth and was intended for. So for instance, leveling some peasant mook into a great general, or repeatedly improving some rusty dagger into the sword of ages, even if it's totally impractical, is something I like just as a physical possibility.

Being able to marry my cousin and get inbred children is something I can appreciate in games.

This sounds neat, but as I've never played CK, I wouldn't know about it in practice.

[pilgrimboy]

I like having an item shop for my loot. Only Elona does this, but I so wish I could have done this in Skyrim.

Well... try Recettear? That game is pretty much centered around that aspect.

Played it and thoroughly enjoyed it. Should probably run through it again.

[Dutchling]

Being able to marry my cousin and get inbred children is something I can appreciate in games. Looking at the map before the game starts and discover nations you never heard about (Latin Empire, Sultanate of Rum) is fun as well.

So I take it you play CK2.

Yup. Rakonas was actually the father, but he divorced me as I wasn't fertile enough.

[pilgrimboy]

But I should add that I am not looking for an item shop game. I just think an item shop element would be smart in any game. Take Skyrim for instance. If I was running around and looting caves, I would start my own shop, hire someone to work it, and make more money off of the loot.

[GlyphGryph]

I've actually seen one or two other games that do that item shop thing. One was an online game, and they eventually took it out because it was needlessly complex and threw off the economy. Most people would just rather immediately sell their stuff than wait for someone to buy it.