# The basic building blocks of the awesomest game ever

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-basic-building-blocks-of-the-awesomest-game-ever/562102>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [November 27, 2010, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-basic-building-blocks-of-the-awesomest-game-ever/562102 "2010-11-27T21:33:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2010, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-basic-building-blocks-of-the-awesomest-game-ever/562102/21 "2010-11-28T04:54:50Z")

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> [@MichaelEmouse](#):
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> Can you think of elements these games have in common? When I say “elements”, I don’t only mean items like shotguns or rocket launchers but anything, up to the highest levels of abstraction.

I guess thats what I mean, everything you listed in your OP is pretty irrelevant to what makes a game good much less great. If flamethrowers = great game then so does the shiny box it comes in…so what else is there to talk about then.

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**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2010, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-basic-building-blocks-of-the-awesomest-game-ever/562102/22 "2010-11-28T04:59:40Z")

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> [@Sitnam](#):
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> . If flamethrowers = great game .

That’s not the way I meant it. I meant in the sense of what you tend to most like in games and what would be in your ideal game. It can be a flamethrower, a gameplay mechanic, a way of telling the story etc. I took the most concrete elements but feel free to elaborate on more abstract ones.

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**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2010, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-basic-building-blocks-of-the-awesomest-game-ever/562102/23 "2010-11-28T18:00:02Z")

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Far Cry 2 made a lot of use of flamethrowers and flame weapons. The game wasn’t that awesome though.  
Add scoped sniper rifles. Especially the Barrett Firearms series of .50 cal rifles.

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