Rank what's most important in video games.

[Povuholo]

Story and Gameplay are both pretty important, in their own ways. I can enjoy a game a mediocre story if the gameplay is very good (STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl), but if a game has mediocre gameplay it needs to have a great story for me to enjoy it.

 

Like Planescape Torment. Great story, great dialogue, great characters. But the combat system isn't very good. Of course the game is focused on dialogue so much that the dialogue, more than the combat, defines 'gameplay' here. If PS:T's story was boring on the other hand I would never have finished it.

[ub3rman123]

1. Gameplay - If it's no fun, it's not a good game even if Tolkien himself wrote the story.

2. Story - Not always necessary, but adds a lot to the game.

3. Graphics - Well, not always. If it's a really well designed game, it can stand on its own looking like its from the 80's.

4. Music - The only time you ever really hear it is on the main menu, or when you're in the middle of something. It can do a lot for a game, but not as much as the rest.