I go for the story
I am easily engrossed by an involving and well written story without lotsa nonsense
It was my only motivation when I played GTA 4 as the missions were well planned but tedious
And MSG2,I quit near the end because of the nonsense stuff it did
The story was well written and so were the scripts,the problem at first was the stupidity that almost every one pee-ed whenever I met them and I totally had it when I had to move through the facility....Naked
Graphics only cause minor problems to me(I can say that proudly because I am playing DF without a tileset),I can praise graphical effects but cannot praise the graphics as I dont know the difference between them but I am annoyed with clipping and some other graphical twitches and games that are unbelievably ugly.(morrowind human models,THEY SUCKED SO MUCH THAT EVEN DAGGERFALL WAS BETTER)
Fun factor is also a thing,I can take any amount of learning to have ultimate fun.
I believe I have summed everything up about games I like
Game machinicts (I know I spelled that that wrong) normaly is what impresses me. For example a Sega Dreamcast game, called Illbleed. It had stuff like active accitivty (Eyes, Smell, Sixth Sense, ect.), fear/adrelnen, Bleeding rate. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YmQI14Uyuo hears a vid of it, wacth it, seceresly.