Discussion What makes a videogame fun?

[Soygoy]

Looking for ideas for a new game project, ideally I'm thinking something simple, easy to make, but ultimately fun to play.
As of right now, I feel like I want to make a dark and mysterious yume-nikki styled exploration game with low poly ps1 graphics. The concept is not unique, but there could be potential for something.
Perhaps the mere idea of exploration itself is so simple, yet so fun at the same time that all I would need to focus on is writing a cryptic but interesting story and creating beautiful areas and scenery in the game for it to be fun.

But, regardless of that, what actually makes a videogame fun? How can I make a project that I can absolutely ensure would get people to play it and be happy with the experience? Why do people even play videogames? I myself have forgotten the answer to most of these questions.

 

[Soygoy]

Video games are gay now, get over itView attachment 40081

you might be right to be honest, probably why games fucking suck these days.

 

[SoytanEnthusiast]

???

You're a loser

Every good game looks like that

Every good game like muh trooncore classics troondertale and mario troony four

 

[Soygoy]

I'll end the discussion about graphics by saying that graphics doesn't make a game good or bad.
Unless it's high end graphics, in which case, I can't even run the fucking game because you expect me to buy a 1000 dollar graphics card or some shit.

Every good game like muh trooncore classics troondertale and mario troony four

>mario troony four
Nobody says this.

 

[SoytanEnthusiast]

Unless it's high end graphics, in which case, I can't even run the fucking game because you expect me to buy a 1000 dollar graphics card or some shit.

Broke ahh nigga stop yapping

 

[Soygoy]

Broke ahh nigga stop yapping

Enjoys playing 500 gigabyte hard drive space required games with highly unoptimized 10 billion polygons that simulate real shit coming from a hyper realistic virtual anus and spent 10 jewgillion dollars on the graphics card required to run it award

 

[SoytanEnthusiast]

Enjoys playing 500 gigabyte hard drive space required games with highly unoptimized 10 billion polygons that simulate real shit coming from a hyper realistic virtual anus and spent 10 jewgillion dollars on the graphics card required to run it award

Holy seethe I don't even play games I'm just talking shit

 

[Soygoy]

Holy seethe I don't even play games I'm just talking shit

I already know you don't play games you just like looking at them geg

 

[SoytanEnthusiast]

I already know you don't play games you just like looking at them geg

No? I don't look at games or play them

 

[NT]

no thats a fucking horrible thing
graphics are the worst, most inaccessible piece of shit of the modern era that's ruining gaming imo. they look like shit and they require you to own some fancy schmancy fucking 1000 dollar graphics card. yeah fuck that. i'm not buying a graphics card, kiss my ass. If you care about high end graphics you're just a loser, games don't need to look realistic, go outside geg.

ps3/xbox 360 graphics were peak albeit
perfect blend of realism and that "cgi" heckin aesthetic

 

[лисиця]

Looking for ideas for a new game project, ideally I'm thinking something simple, easy to make, but ultimately fun to play.
As of right now, I feel like I want to make a dark and mysterious yume-nikki styled exploration game with low poly ps1 graphics. The concept is not unique, but there could be potential for something.
Perhaps the mere idea of exploration itself is so simple, yet so fun at the same time that all I would need to focus on is writing a cryptic but interesting story and creating beautiful areas and scenery in the game for it to be fun.

But, regardless of that, what actually makes a videogame fun? How can I make a project that I can absolutely ensure would get people to play it and be happy with the experience? Why do people even play videogames? I myself have forgotten the answer to most of these questions.

You don't, hundreds of indie games go unplayed because devs don't have the budget or Microsoft or others to market their games. Targeting the soysphere however would automatically set you apart and give access to an untapped market of potentially thousands of fans.

 

[Sagehardt]

Replayability; games with a fuck ton of customization are fun to mess around with, be it making stuff which doesn't benefit you in the slightest or cancer-tier shit

 

[Spasoje's Revenge]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder or something along that sorts

 

[drcobson]

Replayability; games with a fuck ton of customization are fun to mess around with, be it making stuff which doesn't benefit you in the slightest or cancer-tier shit

Nigger.
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Good games are built on Immersion and Fun. A game that makes you feel like you're inside it whilst also bringing in stimulating gameplay and pathos will always prevail
Look at WW2 games focused on realism. Even if they do depart from the source material a little, they still capture the heart of hundreds of thousands of 'eens. This is why I don't like space-age games that much, most of the times the story presented is so outlandish I find myself not interacting with it much, and looking to only progress with the gameplay.

 

[Sagehardt]

Nigger.
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Good games are built on Immersion and Fun. A game that makes you feel like you're inside it whilst also bringing in stimulating gameplay and pathos will always prevail
Look at WW2 games focused on realism. Even if they do depart from the source material a little, they still capture the heart of hundreds of thousands of 'eens. This is why I don't like space-age games that much, most of the times the story presented is so outlandish I find myself not interacting with it much, and looking to only progress with the gameplay.

sandboxGODS won

 

[лисиця]

sandboxGODS won

sandboxGOYs lost because they are too busy perfecting their virtual life instead of irl, let the fpsGIGAs embrace you

 

[drcobson]

sandboxGODS won

They WOULD win if the community surrounding said games weren't so retarded. (Like you, faggot). I find it impossible to enjoy something like gmod when I've got a furfag brapmaster yelling in voice chat about how much he loves sucking cock.

 

[Sagehardt]

They WOULD win if the community surrounding said games weren't so retarded. (Like you, faggot). I find it impossible to enjoy something like gmod when I've got a furfag brapmaster yelling in voice chat about how much he loves sucking cock.

Leaking because xhe can't construct cocks

 

[drcobson]

Leaking because xhe can't construct cocks

Fucking imbecile. Mutts like you are a shame on the other races.
I have over 1k hours on this stupid game and I spent it exclusively on making structures. Your porn addicted, rotten mind is no match for my engineerGOD brain. I've built BBC before. I know you haven't. Invite me to your server. I bet you a million shekels I can build a BBC ten time BIGGER than yours you stupid FAGGOT

 

[Sagehardt]

Fucking imbecile. Mutts like you are a shame on the other races.
I have over 1k hours on this stupid game and I spent it exclusively on making structures. Your porn addicted, rotten mind is no match for my engineerGOD brain. I've built BBC before. I know you haven't. Invite me to your server. I bet you a million shekels I can build a BBC ten time BIGGER than yours you stupid FAGGOT

>1k
play moar, faggot

 

[drcobson]

>1k
play moar, faggot

Kill yourself nigger I'm not playing that retarded game no more