CymTyr: I started off playing Mass Effect Andromeda with high hopes. But my character quickly became "The One" and I got bored. How many BioWare games can I play before I get sick of it? Apparently Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age Inquisition were the final straws for me.

I can look past bad gameplay if the story's solid, but if the story is bad, it makes it hard to look past that if the gameplay is good. I don't know if I'm in the minority or majority but guessing that since we're on GOG, I'd think at least a simple majority of my fellow gamers on here would like the same? idk.

I also tend to be one and done with games. Very very few games do I replay, with exception being games like Abzu and Flower, which are just beautiful in every way and pure bliss in their simplicity. I generally value my time too much to sit through 10-30 hours of a game I've already completed, again.

dtgreene: I can't look past bad gameplay. The way I see it, the whole point of a game is gameplay, so if it's bad, the game as a whole is bad. The only time I can look past gameplay is if the "game" (if that's the right term) doesn't have any, and doesn't pretend to have any, and if I know about this before going in. (For example, a visual/kinetic novel is OK; a game that is advertised as an RPG, but has hours of unskippable cutscenes, is not.)

I like to replay games mainly because there's always something new to discover, and it can be fun to try different approaches. With that said, I actually like it when games are short; one reason I like the original SaGa (Final Fantasy Legend) is that the game is short and easily replayable. (With that said, the final boss has too much dialog before the final battle.)

Leroux: Since I was a huge fan of that approach in Planescape: Torment where it made perfectly sense, was tightly interwoven with the plot and added a lot to the excitement of discovery (and was in fact a refreshing break from the usual boring farmer-becomes-hero-and-is-destined-to-save-the world trope), I'm quite fond of this plot device and always a bit biased when I hear others complaining about it. On the other hand, off the top of my head I couldn't list any other game that did it right - can't remember that many games making use of it in the first place - but I can totally see how this could be really lame if it's used too frequently and is implemented in lazy ways. Can you list a few games where it bothered you?

Telika:

Fairfox: has thar evah ...snip...