Your gaming turn ons

[RaffB]

Character Creation that doesn't suck...

Filled up all the slots available in both Soul Calibur 4 and 5 with custom characters.

 

[janjotat]

Story and lots of it. Preferably without cut scenes. I appreciate it if the main story is told with cut scenes, but side stories are everywhere and told with a few objects. (Valve is awesome with this) I fell in love with Skyrim when I stumbled upon a house with two burnt corpses inside. There was a note from a journal saying how the couple was leaving because of the dragons.

Little unnecessary touches always make the game better, like easter eggs.

Besides story the game mechanics have to be good(hook shot in Just Cause 2 made the game infinitely more fun)

 

[synobal]

Absurdly awesome story and dialog, I treasure the Legacy of Kain series. So good.

 

[Thoric485]

-Being able to change graphic options from inside the game, without restarting
-Looking down and seeing my character's torso, arms and legs
-Armor that doesn't look like crap
-Axes, hammers, shields

 

[NathLines]

Hmm...
-Really nice, atmospheric music.
-Grand scale(either so I feel really small or really big or something along those lines)
-Third person combat

 

[Angelblaze]

Action fighting (Vindictus, C9), A wide selection of classes to pick from, alot of monsters to fight and the ability to but people on ignore.

The last one is a must since playing League of Legends.

 

[Easton Dark]

Wait wait wait wait wait

This FPS has LEAN?!?

*reaches for pants*

 

[Shoggoth2588]

*Primary colors (not necessarily pastels but, those can be nice too)
*Memorable characters
*2D/2.5D side-scrolling
*Humor (or the potential for said)
*replay-ability (single player)
*Strange things (Eggplant Wizards, Pigs in Space [no, not a Muppet reference], Evil Pig Overlords)
*More gameplay than cutscenes (QTE's don't count as gameplay)
*Ninjas
*Robots
*Variety (such as the enemies of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night)

 

[Chanel Tompkins]

Call me easy to please, but the biggest things that make me favorably disposed toward a game is when the story is good and gameplay uses the features of the system well. Which is probably why I despise both the Wii and the 3DS despite otherwise being a Nintendo fangirl-the 'features' are gimmicky well beyond my tolerance for crap, and thus can never really be 'used well', and most of their 'stories' are ones I've read before.

 

[EmperorSubcutaneous]

-An interesting stylized aesthetic.
-Memorable, haunting music.
-Stuff that looks like it's glowing without being bloomy (Botanicula, Journey...Actually, things looking like they're made out of light seems to be a popular trend in electronics. I like it.)
-An atmospheric setting. It's hard to define, but it has to feel lonely, sad, and mysterious.
-Exploration rather than combat being the central focus of the game.
-Very little in the way of dialogue or GUI.
-An imaginative fantasy setting that doesn't follow the elf/dwarf/etc. themes of standard Tolkeinesque fantasy (Yahtzee has talked about this a lot, and I've always felt the same way).
-Symbolism is always a plus.
-Ideally a story that involves some personal interpretation.

Yes, I played Journey today. Can you tell?

 

[Storm Dragon]

-Story focused
-Stealth
-Deep character customization
-Nonlinear levels with multiple paths to the objective
-Variety

 

[pilouuuu]

- Humour like in Monkey Island
- Good and interesting characters
- A good story
- Innovation and uniqueness
- When you're suprised in a good sense in a game, be it a new feature, some amazing scene or entertaining gameplay
- Consequences for your decisions
- Multiple paths and endings
- Good A.I.
- Colours! A larger pallete than browns and greys
- Leaning in FPS games
- Epic and/or existencialist stories that make you think about life itself and the world we live in. Bioshock and Half-Life 2 could be examples of this.
- Weather and day/night cycles. You can add moon phases too

 

[Arina Love]

J-RPG. if it's J-RPG i'm turned on and ready to go!

 

[targren]

Unless it comes from a company on my "No-Buy" list, or is an RTS, I'll grab just about any PC game with a mod/creation kit.

 

[RaikuFA]

Religion in games(espesially with both sides being presented in a fair way)
Mystery games(a la AA)
Character development

thats all I can think of ATM.

 

[Thyunda]

Ya space is a big thing for me but there hasn't really been much Scifi recently beyond Mass Effect. There are others but they always focus more on space combat than exploration, sex with freaky alien chicks, and other great tropes of the original star trek.

I think X2 focussed a lot on exploration and economy. A little too much, if you ask me. It lauded the fact that in order to get so much as a new thruster, you needed to invest at least six hours into doing fuck all. But, space was big and it was relatively safe to explore.

 

[Dosbilliam]

Cellshading/cartoonish graphics/heavy stylization in general. Whenever I see a stylized game I immediately want to buy it, badly. I only can resist if the gameplay is too much of a turn off for me.

Have you tried Chantelise or Recettear yet?

 

[TophatEmperor]

I'm afraid I'm a sucker for anything with character customization, be it completely your own character (Fallout, Skyrim, ME series) or even just dress em ups (Red Dead)

Argeed!, i just love making myself in a game...all the time

 

[Dosbilliam]

Other than that question, the ingame radio of Fallout 3/New Vegas really added to the immersion, which is why I've spent just over 300 hours total playing both...
Along with that, if I have the ability to level up multiple skills, like in FFX-2 or even the MW3 multiplayer, that really makes me happy.^_^
I don't have a preference between first- or third-person, it really just depends on the game. ME works as a TPS/RPG, and the aforementioned Fallout games work both ways, although aiming from third-person feels weird.

 

[TIMESWORDSMAN]

-Over The Top action (a la No More Heroes)
-Cell Shading
-Satire
-In game collectibles that are useful
-Leveling systems
-Spectacle