Alright since I am studying game design and soon I will become a video game developer...

[Daniel Fischler]

Alright since I am studying game design and soon I will become a video game developer I wanted to ask you folks what do you think is the most important factor about a video game? Graphics/Gameplay/Audio/Story?

 

[Alex Zamora]

All of it is pretty important but it also depends on what kind of game it is

 

[Brandon Larren]

Gameplay

 

[Ben Cawdron]

Depends on the overall style of the game.
If you're gping for something top notch, all of these need to be as good as you can manage.
I think repeatability is a key thing to any games success though.
Don't want to run out of content too quickly.

 

[Aaron Milne]

1. Gameplay
2. Story
3. Audio
4. Time I can afk to take a shit
5. Community/fanbase
6. ???
10. Graphics

In that order

 

[Mike Kim-Nguyen Hang]

Depends on the game and the audience you want to target. I will always say Gameplay and story. It brings the most attraction.

 

[Martin Shagoth]

Gameplay
Story
Graphics/audio
Than the fan base will come

 

[Luke Schirmer]

Gameplay is the most important. Unless you want to run a studio like Telltale. But you definitely need to specialize. What kinds of games do you enjoy the most?

 

[Mihnea Gogu]

gameplay

 

[Aaron Milne]

Improving graphics is cool and all, but nobody complained about them not being good enough in cod 4 or Halo 3. I remember people saying Gran Turismo 3 was revolutionary.

If you focus on graphics, the rest of your game will suffer.

 

[Liam Braidner]

Gameplay. Soulsborne and Zelda are my favourite series'.

 

[Peter Whitmore]

The biggest strength a game has over all other media is that it makes the consumer an active participant rather than a passive observer. Any game that doesn't play to this strength might as well be a movie or a book or a soundtrack instead.

 

[Connor Glasby]

I'm also studying game development and I have to say that gameplay is most important however, don't work too hard on gameplay and leave the rest out as you will still end up with a bad game.

 

[Callie Goodwin]

Replay value as well which factors into game play.

 

[Jim Shelton]

Gameplay

 

[Tony Ellis]

In order:
Gameplay (can't play a clunky game)
Graphics (won't play an ugly game)
Audio (a good foley artist will immerse you in the game)
Story (I play games for online purposes so that's why it's last)

 

[Jim Shelton]

Gameplay/story actually

 

[Napsta Blook]

Try undertale,hiveswap,sally face then u will know

 

[Kevin P Huffmaster]

Gameplay, story, audio, and then graphics

 

[Nolan Speed]

Gamplay, Audio, Graphics, story