Anyone likes gameplay&storyline before graphics?

Gameplay and story are the important bits.

Story and gameplay are all nice and dandy, but if it's ugly it's ugly. No need to do that to yourself just because they couldn't put the effort into it or team up with someone who could.

I don't care about graphics as long as it doesn't look muddy.
Morrowind is about the only game I can't play (un-modded anyways) because it's that unappealing to me visually, but I really have no problem playing other older games such as Starsiege or the original Half-Life (BM:Source can suck a chode).

I liked UnReal World when I played it last year. Should play it some more.

unrealworld developed since 1992......... lol

I'm mostly playing Grand Strategy, where Graphics are pretty much unimportant. Since I had to live with a netbook (a good one, but still a netbook) for four years, I kind of got used into giving gameplay higher priority... Which probably is why I never did and never will understand those people who complain about having only 30fps and 'ermahgeerd-so-muddy-textures-everywhere!!11'.

Recently discovered URW myself, I enjoyed it, but find it kind of hard to remember all the commands, and I'm really not into those photographs^^ If you haven't heard of it yet, you might want to check out Stranded II, bad graphics, but extrememely fun if you can look past that. (Which you obviously can)

Gameplay > Graphics > Story.

1.- So basically, if the game has shitty controls, or bad mechanics, even if its the most gorgeous game in the world, or the best story, i ditch it right away. If i can live with controls, well, check point 2.

2.- If the game has good graphics or at least decent, they compensate for the lack of good controls. I play it.

3.- And lastly. If the game has great graphics, i could get into the story. If is a good and epic story, better. On the other hand, if the game has shitty or limited graphics (indie games for example), i could care less about the story. In my view, i could read a great story from a book, because i can imagine an epic world/battle/whatever . Quite opposite with games, you actually see that world/battle/whatever, and although it can be very well executed, at the end, it is still at 8/16 bits/ or with shitty graphics, it was amazing when i played nes but not anymore.

everyone who lived and played during the 90s likes gameplay/storyline before graphics. people who play games for graphics are "summer children" . generally they dont know shit about games, bad mouths games for the graphics, plays the retro games dacades after the release just to feel hipster.

19 yo Joshua: "you prolly didnt know about it but there s a game called neverhood, its great. all the art, the stop motion technique so good maaan."

19 yo Joshua 10 mins later talking crap about an AAA game: "what a crappy game with crappy textures, its capped with 60 fps, crap, crap, crap, crappy shaders, crap, crap..."

Gameplay and Story are very important for me. But if my eyes hurts after 2 min of playing because it is so ugly its bad too.
Hotline Miami for example has no awesome graphic, but the combination of the graphic style, the music and the gameplay is soo awesome!!

I'd say Gameplay > Story > Graphic, If a game get boring (due to gameplay / graphic) in the first 30 min, I'd stop right away.
If gameplay doesn't bother me, story is the one that get me hooked to the game (except for those like Titanfall, it's the gameplay).
The Wolf Among Us / The Walking Dead, for ex. Great story and the graphic is enough to get the job done. Love it.

Gameplay and story are most important, graphics is a nice bonus. Why would anyone play a game that looks great but isn't any fun at all? It's a piece of entertainment so why people are like this is a mystery to me. They have the choice unless other situations like for example having to choose a boring job that pays well over a job they love but pays poorly.

I usually like Story and Gameplay before graphics.
But to be honest, the game must have a minimum of graphic quality or i won't be able to play.
For example, i can't play Max Payne 1 and 2.

The same happens to me with girls, i prefer girls with something special inside and a nice character previously, but she has to be pretty too at certain level. I don't need she got the perfect body or the prettiest face in the world, but at least to be cute and has a decent/normal body.
I don't like perfect bodies and pretty face girls if that girl is stupid or has a bad character.

Nothing in games is more interesting than gameplay and story. Graphics are nice, but are more of a nice extra bonus rather than the meat of the game.

I mean, seriously, why do most people play games? For fun, enjoyment, to waste time? In any case, if you have a bad story or gameplay, you'll get bored really fast. If you want eye candy, then go stare at some art piece or something.

This is how I rate the importance of diff elements in my game

1. Story / Plot + Game-play (They are equally important)
2. Repeatability / Replayability (basically getting your moneys worth of gameplay)
3. Mod-ability
4. Graphics (or in other words Eye candy)
5. Pricing
6. Whether my damn PC can play the game or do I need to wait until I upgrade it.

Gameplay and storyline is what makes Pokemon games get played by grownup.

I can't play games that look rusty, unless i played that game in the past or like the series. For example i played Max Payne 3, but not 1 and 2, same with Bioshock. I couldn't play Mass Effect 1 because of how rusty it looked (Yes, i played for about 5 hours with the graphics mod but then i lost my save when i formatted and i didn't feel like starting over and re-downloading that huge mod), so i moved onto 2. I don't have a preference on which is better between graphics or story.

Of course they are more important. Unless it's intended to be a artistic game with minimal gameplay, but I don't play those.

Story and Gameplay really comes first.
This depends a bit on the genre of the game. Many adventure games works on their humor, their puzzles an dialogs, other
games are more forced by atmosphere maybe even fear ...and those need a better graphics.

another point is imprinting...if you are 20 and grown up with good graphics you may always have problems with bad gfx. Older frogs like me that celebrated a different cga palette with no cyan, might tend to get more from the story and suffer less form bad gfx.

(in bavarian i could explain it better)

All of them are equally important to me. If I'm spending the money, I want a full product.

since games with great story released recently like Bioshock infinity ...The Last of Us ...TWD...The wolf among us ...beyond...etc...

i expect a real good story from games releasing after them (except if its a multiplayer only[Not mmo] like Titanfall [titanfall has a story line too] or warface or rust or dayZ or....) for example now for me first and second uncharted story is not very interesting those two has a good story line for their time but now things changed....

i expect a good story even from titles like Call of duty ....(BO1&2 has a great one also MW 2)......

anyway my opinion:

story >>> gameplay >> graphics ..........(if there is a really great story you can handle gameplay[it maybe too hard but worth it])....

Best example for me is The Legend of Zelda: OoT. Fantastic story, on the N64 so not the best graphics but who cares? The story was the focal point and delivered.

Gameplay is naturally the most important, because after all you're playing a game. Kind of silly to even discuss it. Graphics and story, all depends on the game. I don't need a great story in shmups, puzzle, racing games etc. Functional graphics can also be perfectly fine, like in Defender's Quest. That said, I really hate the low res pixel art (8-bit) style. 320x200 graphics should die IMO.

I consider story very important normally for me is story>gameplay>graphics, but sometimes gameplay goes over the story in a lot of games, for example in Thomas was Alone I couldn't play this game more than 5 min even if ppl said story is amazing, I simply can't play as a "rectangle than jumps through platforms" it feels extremely stupid to me, but I can play 99 Spirits for example(another game with storyline on the first place)and I'm enjoying it a lot, I played tons of console games before never cared about graphics, and still play other games on my Gaming PC, but not always games have good stories even if they supposed, but can have good gameplay, depends on each game really.
Graphics never go to the first place even if game is bad optimized or it runs "in HD(aka 720p) graphics"(which is shit) but has strong gameplay and/or story, not all developers can make all these elements correctly mixed together also.
Look at The Walking Dead with just some 720p graphics, not best rendered, but one the best games with awesome story and gameplay. In some games like Skyrim you install tons of mods to have good graphics, but still in this game gameplay is the strongest part.

On some pixel art games like Cave Story+ you can't say it has "bad graphics", graphics is not ≠ run game on the CryENGINE or another intensive Game Engine, pixel art graphics can be good graphics too, even non intensive 3D games like Bastion have good beautiful graphics(not 1080p textures though), but seems some ppl tend to think that graphics = running on good Game Engine.

I notice stories are quite generic in most games. I do enjoy the created universe & lore more so than the actual story. Like an interesting book it's much more fun to learn about the world you get thrown in than any plot. But storyline probably is an all accommodating term and accompanies lore/setting/universe the game takes place in.

I do like a good synergy in a game though. Good graphics + story + gameplay make a game out of this world. Oblivion when it came out comes to mind. Half Life 2 also when it came out. Fallout 3. Mass Effect series. All had a great atmosphere thanks to a great story/universe, fun gameplay and excellent graphics.

As Scrap said, stories are generic in most games. When they're not, the story is more important. However, atmosphere is a relevant part of the experience, and more than often, good graphics help to create it. A good game consists of alot of different things, and almost any bad part could ruin the whole game. For example, even with a great story, graphics and gameplay, if the voice acting is terrible, it's pretty much ruined.