what do you look for in a game?

[DistractedAussie69]

hey guys, as the title should suggest, im here to ask the community what it is that appeals to them in a game, what do you look for that screams, ADD TO CART!! if you have the time, please let me know coz im very interested/ curious what the people have to say.

[crunchyfrog]

failsafe eredeti hozzászólása:

I think we are talking about different scale. I've played a lot of games as well. I liked most of them. It is that I didn't fall in love with most of them. I don't believe you loved every one of your 1,4k games on steam. But if you did, then great thing, maybe you are still on the level I used to be long time ago. And I don't mean anything wrong, maybe you are just the guy that finds fun in every game and is capable of loving every game. Cool.

For me a game that is loved is a game which I play a lot. Really a lot. I guess it would be at least 50 hours+. On the other hand, it doesn't mean that I like only few games. I like most of the games I have.

The thing is - and I think we are also talking here about this - that we do have many good games, but we are somehow get burnt with all this gaming experience. I think several other guys here have also stated things like this, so it is not my idea.

Besides... really... investigating ALL games on the platform? Dude... I really don't want to spend my life just checking games that I don't intend to play. From my perspective it is easier and cheaper to buy all the games I consider interesting and THEN check which one is good and which one is great. You may say that I'm not right, that it is cheaper to spend hours on youtube, forums, metacrit ect to check other opinions first. From certain perspective you are right. Hey, some 15 years ago I used to write reviews for few portals - this was my secondary job, not aimed on earning money, but spending time on gaming... and getting new games for free ;-P. Now, from current perspective, I don't think spending too much time AROUND instead of INSIDE is worth it. But this is just my opinion.

One more thing - yes, I'm little tired with gaming, but I'm not unhappy. Honestly, it is not that bad to have too many games and not play them. It is little better at least than having no games to play ;-P

Ah I think we just have different tastes then.

For my Steam games, I view them diffreently as I've said I'm not a big PC gamer. I mostly get a lot of games in charity bundles so a lot I'll never touch most likely.

But in any case, on other platforms, yes, I do love and play every single one a lot or at least to completion. Often revisitng many times. I do have a lot of time though, so there's that, and I have a wide taste in games.

It's just that when I get burned out I recognise it quickly and go do something else, because it means when I return I dwell on the games "harder", I guess you could call it.

So, yeah I do indeed spdn a hell of a lot of time with every games from the ZX81 to the PS4.

[Xedhadeaus]

Customization, content, sale, bundle, replay value.

[DistractedAussie69]

Xedhadeaus eredeti hozzászólása:

Customization, content, sale, bundle, replay value.

Yes I was planning on making a fair bit of customisable content, not sure what you mean by sale, and I intend on making a survival/open world/ sci-fi game as a first one.. but I plan on big things for the future of it all

[crunchyfrog]

KApS SuS eredeti hozzászólása:

Hey everyone, was wondering if people would be willing to follow my new twitter account I made just for this sort of stuff. Discuss ideas and ♥♥♥♥ for game development and design.. and also so I can more easily talk to more people like you guys.

You're better off getting a doscord channel and getting people there. It offers you far better means to discuss, as Twitter will inhibit this.

Also, you need to get people as I said above, by having GOALS up fron.t NObody is going to pay attention to you without a carrot. You don't say "hey I'm open to any ideas, just tdiscuss" because that's like you asking for people to do your work and nobody's attracted by that.

You need to give some clear framewaork of your goals and make it different to other places, or you'll get nowhere.

If you can't then honestly don't bother.

[Mr C.Folt Scruff]

This question getting harder to answer these days .

I guess for story heavy game is atmosphere something to make me care about what happen to the character in the world but not the one that spoil the player with easy choice ( this dude is good that guy is evil and that's it) instead something that make the player left wondering "did i make the right choice ? hmm but still".

For game play is good pacing game not too easy not that hard doesn't need insane amount of grinding , a big plus if gameplay complement the story .

[DistractedAussie69]

crunchyfrog eredeti hozzászólása:

KApS SuS eredeti hozzászólása:

Hey everyone, was wondering if people would be willing to follow my new twitter account I made just for this sort of stuff. Discuss ideas and ♥♥♥♥ for game development and design.. and also so I can more easily talk to more people like you guys.

You're better off getting a doscord channel and getting people there. It offers you far better means to discuss, as Twitter will inhibit this.

Also, you need to get people as I said above, by having GOALS up fron.t NObody is going to pay attention to you without a carrot. You don't say "hey I'm open to any ideas, just tdiscuss" because that's like you asking for people to do your work and nobody's attracted by that.

You need to give some clear framewaork of your goals and make it different to other places, or you'll get nowhere.

If you can't then honestly don't bother.

i do actually have a discord. so if you or anyone would like to join it then please do.. i can provide a link for it but just send me a message or something to let me know (:

[DistractedAussie69]

Mr Scruff eredeti hozzászólása:

This question getting harder to answer these days .

I guess for story heavy game is atmosphere something to make me care about what happen to the character in the world but not the one that spoil the player with easy choice ( this dude is good that guy is evil and that's it) instead something that make the player left wondering "did i make the right choice ? hmm but still".

For game play is good pacing game not too easy not that hard doesn't need insane amount of grinding , a big plus if gameplay complement the story .

that actually helps a lot... thank you! i will use that for my story line processes (:

[crunchyfrog]

KApS SuS eredeti hozzászólása:

crunchyfrog eredeti hozzászólása:

You're better off getting a doscord channel and getting people there. It offers you far better means to discuss, as Twitter will inhibit this.

Also, you need to get people as I said above, by having GOALS up fron.t NObody is going to pay attention to you without a carrot. You don't say "hey I'm open to any ideas, just tdiscuss" because that's like you asking for people to do your work and nobody's attracted by that.

You need to give some clear framewaork of your goals and make it different to other places, or you'll get nowhere.

If you can't then honestly don't bother.

i do actually have a discord. so if you or anyone would like to join it then please do.. i can provide a link for it but just send me a message or something to let me know (:

Here's the thing though, you're not going to get anyone join or have any use there unless as I said you lay out some clear goals that others are going to be interested in. And just a vague "oh I'm into anything" and laying off the work onto others just is going to get you nowhere.

I can absolutely tell you how it will go if you take that route. Depending on how lucky you are speaking about it on the internet, you will get a number of people join. They will post a couple of things, maybe ask a couple of questions. Then it will go quiet and it will fade out within weeks.

YOU NEED to offer something, and something others do not.

[DistractedAussie69]

crunchyfrog eredeti hozzászólása:

KApS SuS eredeti hozzászólása:

i do actually have a discord. so if you or anyone would like to join it then please do.. i can provide a link for it but just send me a message or something to let me know (:

Here's the thing though, you're not going to get anyone join or have any use there unless as I said you lay out some clear goals that others are going to be interested in. And just a vague "oh I'm into anything" and laying off the work onto others just is going to get you nowhere.

I can absolutely tell you how it will go if you take that route. Depending on how lucky you are speaking about it on the internet, you will get a number of people join. They will post a couple of things, maybe ask a couple of questions. Then it will go quiet and it will fade out within weeks.

YOU NEED to offer something, and something others do not.

very good point. i will work on that because i have not got much to offer... im not sure what you meant entirely about laying off the work, but from my understanding you meant like i tell everyone what to do and do nothing myself... but i just want to add that that is the complete opposite of what i am/intend to do, im doing everything myself so far haha. and i do need a lot of help with the whole thing but i cant afford to pay anyone anything, so ittl just have to be a very slow process until i have something to show people to get them excited about any projects im working on or whatever.

[crunchyfrog]

KApS SuS eredeti hozzászólása:

crunchyfrog eredeti hozzászólása:

Here's the thing though, you're not going to get anyone join or have any use there unless as I said you lay out some clear goals that others are going to be interested in. And just a vague "oh I'm into anything" and laying off the work onto others just is going to get you nowhere.

I can absolutely tell you how it will go if you take that route. Depending on how lucky you are speaking about it on the internet, you will get a number of people join. They will post a couple of things, maybe ask a couple of questions. Then it will go quiet and it will fade out within weeks.

YOU NEED to offer something, and something others do not.

very good point. i will work on that because i have not got much to offer... im not sure what you meant entirely about laying off the work, but from my understanding you meant like i tell everyone what to do and do nothing myself... but i just want to add that that is the complete opposite of what i am/intend to do, im doing everything myself so far haha. and i do need a lot of help with the whole thing but i cant afford to pay anyone anything, so ittl just have to be a very slow process until i have something to show people to get them excited about any projects im working on or whatever.

Yeah pretty much that.

What I do mean about getting others to do the work is by you pushing the goals off onto them. You see it a lot. The kind of "hey guys, I want this channel to be whatever YOU want. Just tell us what you want and I'll accommodate it".

First of all, that's never going to work because as I said you're just aimless and that won't go anywhere, but you never get concensus from people anyway./ It's prone to arguments.

So your best bet is to sit down and ONLY tackle making the group when you DO have something to offer.

The best way to look at it is like this - empathy. Put yourself in the position of someone WANTING to join a group. What would YOU look for and what would YOU avoid?

You'd probably avoid generic, lack of goals or meaning etfc.

[AdoreFish]

good art style, freedom and exploration, not too expensive, randomly-generated(not always, i just prefer it), and not sports. oh also not too high reqs bc i only have a medium-range laptop.