What Makes a Good Game?

[Astral]

If it has zombies in it, it's a good game

and...

A game that gets you coming back to it time and time again. Doesn't have to be graphically or sonically superior to any other game - it has to be *playable*. And playable because of good programiing - good collision detection, accurate controls...and a game that gets the mind working...

Games like Sensitive on the Commodore 64. Games like Lemmings on the Amiga. Games like Tetris on the Gameboy.

[Astral]

This is a good question. But there are few universal answers. It largely depends on the type of the game.
Are we talking 3D shooters here ?

3D shooters aren't games

I can honestly say I have never played any 3D shooter that I have enjoyed. In fact, I find them downright boring. Maybe this is a bit of a melodramatic broad comment...but "they are all the same game with different graphics"!