Your gaming turn ons

[The Funslinger]

Good characterisation and development - especially in the case of Garrus Vakrarian.

I particularly find it interesting that they touch upon the fact that Garrus is actually hindered by his friendship with Shepherd. Really gave me pause to take a longer look at his character. And they're loyal to it, too. Each time you reencounter him, he's pretty much flourished on his own. Then it's back to weapon calibrations on the Normandy, and playing second fiddle to Shepherd.

It's funny you mention that because in the Lair of the Shadow Broker - what you just said gets mentioned almost entirely word for word should you decide to look up Garrus' dossier on the Shadow Broker's spaceship.

But given the end of Mass Effect 3 (which I haven't quite got to yet) - perhaps there will be room for a Garrus lead game in the future. It'd be interesting to play as someone with their own personality instead of a hero who needs a personality transplant via the player.

Yeah, I was aware of that. Having read the dossier, it caused me to look back over the games.

 

[Gunner 51]

Yeah, I was aware of that. Having read the dossier, it caused me to look back over the games.

I know what you mean, it seems like just yesterday Garrus was like a Turian version of Dirty Harry squabbling with his boss and nowadays, he's really come a long way in terms of believable character development.

 

[The_Lost_King]

-Fantasy or sci-fi
-great story(plot doesn't matter though)
-focused on story
-replayability(I love to play games again and again)
-player choice
-everything about da and mass effect(until the ending of 3)
-party members
-splitscreen
I love bioware pre-EA. I really need to try baldurs gate although i did not expect an isometric view(think that is what it is called. I expected something like da where it is over the shoulder and you can scroll into an isometric or just over the shoulder like KOTOR.

 

[Frizzle]

Wait wait wait wait wait

This FPS has LEAN?!?

*reaches for pants*

I'm sorry, but what's most hilarious to me about this post, is your creepy mustachiod avatar

I love to laugh in games, or just have my sense jerked in a way that they normally aren't. Suprise, or challenge me mentally with words. Man I love story....

 

[Easton Dark]

Wait wait wait wait wait

This FPS has LEAN?!?

*reaches for pants*

I'm sorry, but what's most hilarious to me about this post, is your creepy mustachiod avatar

Creepy? :< If manly is the new creepy, I suppose...

 

[Frizzle]

Wait wait wait wait wait

This FPS has LEAN?!?

*reaches for pants*

I'm sorry, but what's most hilarious to me about this post, is your creepy mustachiod avatar

Creepy? :< If manly is the new creepy, I suppose...

Forgive my cultural biases. But usually people with big thick mustaches are kind of creepy in their manner of action. Especially when the mustache looks out of place (like your avatar)

Full disclosure: I have full facial hair

Caveat: unless said mustache curls around back towards the middle. Then it's okay

 

[Easton Dark]

Forgive my cultural biases. But usually people with big thick mustaches are kind of creepy in their manner of action. Especially when the mustache looks out of place (like your avatar)

Full disclosure: I have full facial hair

Caveat: unless said mustache curls around back towards the middle. Then it's okay

I wish I could have a mustache like Spike... but being blonde, thick ones just don't look as good as ones that are as black as coal.

5 o'clock shadow for me. *sigh* I've always seen guys with thick mustaches as authority figures though (70's cop movies, the Soup Nazi, Saxton Hale).

 

[Frizzle]

Forgive my cultural biases. But usually people with big thick mustaches are kind of creepy in their manner of action. Especially when the mustache looks out of place (like your avatar)

Full disclosure: I have full facial hair

Caveat: unless said mustache curls around back towards the middle. Then it's okay

I wish I could have a mustache like Spike... but being blonde, thick ones just don't look as good as ones that are as black as coal.

5 o'clock shadow for me. *sigh* I've always seen guys with thick mustaches as authority figures though (70's cop movies, the Soup Nazi, Saxton Hale).

haha well you get to be blond! (a plus, right?)
Also, there's a reason people think 70's guys are weird.... or look like gross porn stars Some people can actually pull it off. Usually they are larger guys, like harley bikers etc. I won't say my comments are all inclusive, but i'm going to make sweeping generalizations until I learn to make weaker drinks

 

[Easton Dark]

haha well you get to be blond! (a plus, right?)
Also, there's a reason people think 70's guys are weird.... or look like gross porn stars Some people can actually pull it off. Usually they are larger guys, like harley bikers etc. I won't say my comments are all inclusive, but i'm going to make sweeping generalizations until I learn to make weaker drinks

I don't know... me, I could have any hair color, doesn't matter to me at all. It all depends on what the ladies like (or, erm, lady, but I think she likes blonde guys... I'll ask her).

Even Stalin had a great mustache, and I think we're all better people than Stalin, am I right? Does he win the mustache war?!?

Also: Drinking and talking about facial hair? You madman!

 

[Frizzle]

haha well you get to be blond! (a plus, right?)
Also, there's a reason people think 70's guys are weird.... or look like gross porn stars Some people can actually pull it off. Usually they are larger guys, like harley bikers etc. I won't say my comments are all inclusive, but i'm going to make sweeping generalizations until I learn to make weaker drinks

I don't know... me, I could have any hair color, doesn't matter to me at all. It all depends on what the ladies like (or, erm, lady, but I think she likes blonde guys... I'll ask her).


Even Stalin had a great mustache, and I think we're all better people than Stalin, am I right? Does he win the mustache war?!?

Also: Drinking and talking about facial hair? You madman!

See, I think that if you're gonna go mustache, you have to go big or go home. Like hitler, he had the charlie chaplain mustache. So he wasn't as good. Stalin did have an epic 'stache though, so you gotta give him credit for the commitment.

I'm sure the lady likes the color. Real women also like facial hair, and if they want you baby smooth call them a cradle-robber and grow facial hair anyway! That's how I roll

And in order to keep this kind of thread topical.... women are turned on by men in games with facial hair... yeah. that.

Also: I love margaritas. Green for st. patty's day right?!

 

[Easton Dark]

I'm sure the lady likes the color. Real women also like facial hair, and if they want you baby smooth call them a cradle-robber and grow facial hair anyway! That's how I roll

And in order to keep this kind of thread topical.... women are turned on by men in games with facial hair... yeah. that.

Well, Nathan Drake has a pretty good 5'er going on and the ladies seem all over him.

And she *is* a cradle-robber. If they make a cradle larger than 6ft... eh, never mind, she isn't. She likes the hair I have.

Wow this is off topic.

 

[Frizzle]

I'm sure the lady likes the color. Real women also like facial hair, and if they want you baby smooth call them a cradle-robber and grow facial hair anyway! That's how I roll

And in order to keep this kind of thread topical.... women are turned on by men in games with facial hair... yeah. that.

Well, Nathan Drake has a pretty good 5'er going on and the ladies seem all over him.

And she *is* a cradle-robber. If they make a cradle larger than 6ft... eh, never mind, she isn't. She likes the hair I have.

Wow this is off topic.

It's okay, you mentioned Nathan Drake's hair. You're totally good. I think that there should be an option in forum threads to create a "flow thread" basically if something comes from a thread, that kind of takes it off topic, we should have the option to follow the conversation to a new thread where people can see what we're talking about, without having to derail the whole thread. Just a thought.

Also, in addition to the story, I like multiplayer in my games. Not so much for the fact that it's other people, but for the fact that it's unpredictable. Adds hours and hours of gameplay to the game.

Smooth fluid motions also turn me on.

 

[The]

-A world that changes due to my actions
-Good gameplay
-A story worth paying attention to
-Memorable

 

[Gorilla Gunk]

-Optional stealth
-Being able to read emails and messages as a way to gain more backstory
-Randomly generated loot à la Borderlands, Dead Island
-Class systems

 

[SajuukKhar]

-Skills that level up through use, like in Skyrim, rather then through some level up screen, like Fallout.
-Characters that are not bald/covering their heads with hats
-A good in-game story supplemented by outside game material.
-Health packs
-Being able to carry more then two weapons
-No multiplayer when it isn't needed

 

[Kahunaburger]

The ability to use strategy and/or tactics. Spamming the same tactic over and over doesn't count. Also good storytelling.

 

[5-0]

Great, immersive story
Modern or future settings
Innovation, or improvement of existing mechanics
Multiple gameplay approaches, including stealth
Freeroam exploration
Character customisation

Nothing gets me more excited than starting a game for the first time and the prospect of exploring the game world.

 

[backinthepresentfuture]

bloody gushing neck stumps and giblets.
i guess the big sisters from bioshock.
dragons.
xeno facehugger impregnation.
power armor.
big guns.

 

[dessertmonkeyjk]

I'm an action adventure, TPS, WRPG, platformer kind of guy so some of these won't surprise you.

-Open-ended solution to scenarios (level design, combap, and puzzles come to mind)
-Clever AI that you can rely on (rarely happens)
-Exploration (any kind is fine)
-Discoverable lore (and I don't just mean logbooks but locations, photos, history, etc. you can find and inturpret on your own)
-Natural boundreys (opposite of invisiable walls)
-Pointless life system (arcade techniques don't apply anymore so stop it)
-Dragons (...why not?)
-Sharp textures (If I see blood splatter as squares on a dying Quarian then there's something wrong)
-Forgivable level "gates" (aka rpgs that show some modesty to the player's time and not forcing them to grind)

I think that's most of it.

 

[BathorysGraveland]

For me, one of the biggest ones is a great environment. I've been playing some Two Worlds 2 lately, and the Tanzania-influenced Chapter One locations are simply brilliant. Nothing like running across the open space, between tree to tree, while the sun shines through the hills as a Cheetah jumps in the grass, hiding from you and you jump down into some rocks to avoid Baboons throwing shit.

There are many times in video games where I'll come across lovely little areas and I just think how amazing they are and how they feel. Games like Gothic 3, The Witcher and even Skyrim to a degree are others.

Something else I enjoy in games is a complete moral grey-area. The whole good vs. evil thing is pretty boring now. I prefer games where there is no clear cut black and white, where the antagonists do have good traits and maybe even good intentions and the protagonists have some lesser sides to themselves. Makes it much more interesting I think. I also prefer not so happy "And they lived happily ever after" endings. I like ones with a little ambiguity or even a little darkness to it.