what I like is things that mess with you real bad, for example something that is incredably difficult to get past the first time round but when you know the trick it becomes easy, like coming face to face with a huge monster that you have to beat, and then having a secret switch on the back wall that frys its brains - all you have to is run to the switch. also I like thieving, pretending my character is an upstanding citizen, boobies, NPCs that try to fuck with me, fucking with NPCs, dual wielding, sneak attacks, assassinations, puzzles and duals just to name a few things off the top of my head.
Sounds like a level in one of the Tomb Raider games. I like open ended games, where there are a bagillion different ways you can go.
thats another thing I like, one game that rocked was way of the samurai, I must've played thru that about 50 times or more, so may paths - you could get diffferent results from siding with A, siding with B or just standing back and watching the fight.
what i like---definitely has to be swords and sorcery style, and turn based rather than finger twitch speed based (like the warcraft game was). being an old man of 36 now (26 or so when warcraft was first out) i got my ass kicked all the time by kids who grew up with the twitch games. i like games when thinking matters more than finger speed. games like warcraft dont let you get to the thinking stage if you cant break the finger twitch speed barrier.
I would love a game with the Role playing of Arcanum (Storyline, quests, big world, differing ways to do quests, etc) mixed with the tactical combat of TOEE. Perfect game right their for me.
