70% Gameplay.
20% Graphics
10% Everything else.

 

100% graphics, nothing else matters.

Not really. I'd say it depends on the game. Some games you can bear with awful graphics, awful soundtrack, even awful gameplay if that's not the overall experience. Look at Mass Effect. It honestly plays like shit and graphically, it looks pretty bland nowadays (not to mention texture pop ins and slowdowns). But the story is amazing, the musical score is great, and the voice acting is fantastic. It's the experience that makes the game, not the game.

 

As said before, it does depend on the game. Percentages are a hard thing to get right, as well, since all games are different. Even within a single genre, the percentages are never the same for each game. It's kind of like comparing the beauty between a velociraptor and a parrot.


For example:

• Games by thatgamecompany are very different from normal games and its their presentation that is most praised and not the gameplay, because the gameplay is just another aspect that adds to the graphics and sound.
• Good games on Nintendo consoles are praised for their gameplay and fun aspect, due to the fact that no Nintendo console has gone above and beyond in graphical/audio capabilities for current generation gaming.
• Call of Duty games are praised for how few 12-year-old kids are on the online services cussing and complaining about cheating when they're killed by legitimately skilled players. Which is usually never unless you're still playing the first Call of Duty game.
• Games based on movies, TV shows, or books are usually praised for how fun the game is and how much they stick to the source material the movie/show creators have set out for the developers to work with. Before you say anything, there HAVE been a few games to do it right enough to get some praise. Don't deny it. You know it's true.
• Sequels are praised for how they expand the story and define the ending that the prior game didn't get (usually because the game was setting up for a sequel or because the developers got lazy or something). Examples of unneeded sequels, so you can understand what I'm talking about: Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World. ToS got a perfectly good ending that didn't need expanding upon. Or that's what I hear, anyway. I'm still not done with Tales of Symphonia yet.
• Games about zombie apocalypses (or apocalypses that cause similar effects as a zombie one) are praised for how much fun it is to kill zombies (or not-zombies) for hours on end. Yes, even Resident Evil gets this. And yes, Silent Hill is also merged into this category, despite not having any zombies or not-zombies.

I hope my examples helped explain things a bit more.

 

The main thing for me would be the gameplay, you know, the enjoyment in playing the game, that buzz that makes you wanna return to it.

The graphical aspect would not bother me in the slightest, if the game had great graphics then all the better, but it would not be paramount for me.

The story, well that obviously depends on what genre of game you are playing, for an RPG then a good story would help to keep my interest in the game.

 

Depends what I feel like playing.

In general, i'd say 75% story, 24% OST/sounds in general, 1% gameplay, 0% graphics.
Graphics mean very, very little to me if the game has an amazing story. Good graphics DO help though, but they're not essential. I loved Corpse Party, and it uses a bit more of an oldschool approach to graphics (CG scenes aside).
Gameplay doesn't matter much either, i'll suffer through bad gameplay to progress a good story if I have to, but obviously decent gameplay and a great story is preferable.
I'd almost rank the importance of OSTs higher because music has a HUGE emotional impact on a game. That's part of the reason Nier is such an amazing game, the music adds a TON to it.

Doesn't mean I don't just play games for the fun of them, in which case i'm about 85% gameplay, 10% OST/sounds, 5% graphics.

But really, it's way too hard to put a percentage on it.

 

- 85% Gameplay
- 10% Graphics
- 5% Audio

I only give graphics 10%, because in a way they do matter. For example, a NES doesn't have enough power to run a game that's full 3D. I could carless about anything that looks better than a standard Gamecube game. If the gameplay is good enough, I won't even notice the graphics.

 

I agree with this.

Games draw you in with their game play, pull you in with their story, and mesmerize you with their graphics and sound.

At least that's how I see it.