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I've noticed a wide range of gamers here on WSGF ranging from the classic RPG'ers to twitch gamers. I was talking to a co-worker about game preferences and thought it would be a good idea to open the discussion/poll about it...enjoy!

Keep in mind, this is more of what you primarily look for in a game, even if you have been left unsatisfied by the gaming industry. I might have missed some and if so, I'll update the poll if it isn't already there. Naming convention is totally my fault :)

You know you make it extremely difficult to choose because I like all of those...

Examples (in order of response to poll):
Battlefield 2
Assassin's Creed
Neverwinter Nights
FEAR/Crysis
WarCraft III: The Frozen Throne
Rise Of Nations/Metropolis (FB game)
Burnout Paradise/Need For Speeds

And those are all games I have played and or still currently play.

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Hrm, you are right... but the poll didn't have an option to like "pick 3" or something. So I just phrased it up as primarily. Which to me, in my definition, would say "I get the most satisfaction from..."

But that is how I would see it. I did like most of those games as well, but if I had to say what I enjoyed the most was Battlefield 2 as I played online with my friends and dominated :) I enjoyed NWN and some of those others, but I couldn't say I enjoyed them as much as BF2.


Does that help any ? (and apparently I can't edit a poll once I've made it. Including typo's)

I like building shining cities/countries and then ruthlessly oppressing my people, launching wars, etc. So far not one company has made a city/country builder detailed enough to really satisfy me.


:D

a good tip for making polls
try to always include the alternative : "other" or "don't know" ... otherwise you "force" people to choose something which may not be that accurate to their taste and therefore bias the poll

I always have fun when I see a poll from a random company
"do you like our new product?" 1. yes 2. no
and so what ? "I don't even know what that product is you fucking moron !"
(sentence to be placed in context of course ;) )

so now my answer is :
I like them all you just have to get me hooked with a nice gameplay and/or a nice atmosphere ...

a good tip for making polls
try to always include the alternative : "other" or "don't know" ... otherwise you "force" people to choose something which may not be that accurate to their taste and therefore bias the poll

Ugh, I aways forget that one!! Sorry about that :(

Cynagen has a point. I feel it's not so much how the game is styled, it's the quality of the content, replayability, effectiveness of AI, choices in weapon upgrades or types, various ways you can take out a target, solve a puzzle, etc. It's nice to be able to play a game that plays differently each time too. More and more devs are trying to pull that off.

It's hard to have a sensible story to follow if you divert from an intended path too much, so making things unpredictable in other ways is needed. That being said, I've yet to see too many games pull off the FPS/RPG hybrid theme well.

Nowadays all you can hope for are games that play without bugs and crashes, esp on the PC platform. Asking for better gameplay has taken a back seat to patch requests. It's as if it's not even a concern anymore. There's just not enough quality beta testing anymore.

Nowadays all you can hope for are games that play without bugs and crashes, esp on the PC platform. Asking for better gameplay has taken a back seat to patch requests. It's as if it's not even a concern anymore. There's just not enough quality beta testing anymore.

You know it's pathetic when you can sum up the status of the industry in one paragraph that just highlights almost all the worst qualities. The reason there isn't any half-decent beta testing, is for two reasons. Number one, they don't want to pay for beta testers to come in and play the game and tell them they have more work to do, thus adding to the mounting costs of writing these huge and ever more complex games. And number two, they don't want to beta with the public (even though that would be free and would net a substantial amount of bugs,) because they're afraid that people will just continue to use the beta if it's stable enough, and not pay for the game, or use the beta to figure out a way to patch the final version of the game for pirating. They don't want to give out too much of the core code in order to prevent early piracy.

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Options "None", "All", and "Some (explain below)" were added (thanks ibrin)

"All of the above". Nice option.

The storyis teh last thing i want in a game. Sure,it's nice to have a solid one with good voice-0acting, but if it has fun gameplay and nice eye-candy, that's enough for me.

Hey, whyisnt; proper WS support in there? That's somethign i look for as well.