What Do You Consider the Most Important Aspect of a Video Game?

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hey now lets not fill the diaper with feces just yet.

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[Fredulus]

gameplay is extremely vague and broad.

[Dnitro]

A good storyline
Also cool stuff like easter eggs or intel in CoD 4.

[rooster767]

I'm going to have to say that it has to have nothing stolen, it has to be a new concept.
For example, the Half-Life series. They had some very nice, game enhancing stuff in there that you had to figure out for yourself.
It also gives me a slight feeling of strangeness, and how a lot of things were homemade.
Like the gravity gun, airboat. Also, I have not forgotten of Portal. The turrets, the portal gun, etc. were a totally new concept. I just love it when a game has new, strange content.

[HerpaDerp]

Graphics and gameplay. Also story.

[Shell]

Graphics and gameplay. Also story.

die

[Chrono]

Graphics

[Cybersix]

it needs to have a disc

No it doesn't, it could be on a cartridge.

[Lil Robot]

The Characters Don't Go Like This.

it's a title damn it

anyway, i'd have to go with gameplay.

[Cybersix]

Both story and gameplay.

[Roknrollwill]

I don't have a clue, I'd simply pick individual aspects and work the clay.  Can't have too much or too little, you have to get it just right (According to what type of game it is)

[iJoeRookey]

hey now lets not fill the diaper with feces just yet.

lolwut? Why do you hate disk-less games?

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Whoa, didn't see the second page...

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I look for multiple of the options in the poll, like replayability, gameplay, and originality.

[fred da kiko]

Replay value goes hand in hand with gameplay, good gameplay=replay value, unless it's a game where everything derives fun from simplicity, like a quick flash game.

[Chrono]

Replay value goes hand in hand with gameplay, good gameplay=replay value, unless it's a game where everything derives fun from simplicity, like a quick flash game.

Exactly. Gameplay should be a higher priority over replay value. Who the hell would replay a game that sucked?

[Vegetarian Zombie]

Graphics a close second, but Gameplay. If you can't play it, do magnificent graphics, presentation etc. matter?