What's the main thing you value games by (besides gameplay?)

[Don't make me beg]

IE, what secondary attribute do you use to attribute greatness to a game? Price, writing quality, playtime, etc. Maybe a limited question, but we'll see.

Personally I'm all about hour counts. Whenever I get a good game the first thing I usually cite is how many hours I've put into it so far. My favorite PC games have been RPGs like New Vegas / Skyrim / Borderlands / Mass Effect where you can easily rack up hundreds of hours.

[RafalRib]

Each game is judged by me in 3 Things:

-Gameplay
-Fun
-Music

Examples of games where every of these fit are the Little Big Planet series and the Mario & Luigi series

[GrandStarGalaxy]

Music and Whether it's fun or not.

[Zympherior]

-Music
-Dialogue and story (depends on the series)
-Fun
-Replay value (Again, depends by series / type of game)

[MattC]

typically it's how well the story is written, a lot of games can tell a great story regardless of genre.

ie a lot of people don't give a s*** about the storyline in the gta series but i thought gta iv's story was very well done. gta v's story was okay, but

Spoiler: do i really need a spoiler? it's been out for 3 years lmao (click to show/hide)

they kept added antagonists and kept writing the three main characters into bigger and bigger holes, and then at the end you got the option to either a) kill one of the people you play as or b) kill all the antagonists in one swoop, something that you feel like could've been done at literally any point in the game. so really

it felt like a cop out at the end.