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Default 07-04-2005, 09:38 AM

good gameplay with bad graphics > bad gameplay with good graphics


That said, yes graphics are extremely important to me.


  
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Default 07-04-2005, 09:42 AM

^ Exactly my view on this.

I want a game to look good, but gameplay will trump graphics every time.


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Default 07-04-2005, 10:21 AM

interesting post, but for some games I actually prefer the old graphics, I prefer the old style Monkey Island to the new one.

[img]http://www.jeuxvideo.fr/html/tests/dossiers/divers/Screenshots/Screens/Pointclick/MonkeyIsland/MonkeyIsland_Secret-03.gif[/img]

flight of the amazon queen
[img]http://www.linux-user.de/ausgabe/2005/01/046-scummvm/pics/amazon_flight.png[/img]

I personally think the above is better than this crap they called monkey island 4

[img]http://www.tentakelvilla.de/news/aug19/screen6.jpg[/img]
  
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Default 07-04-2005, 10:43 AM

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in my considered opinion gameplay matters overall. You could do what doom 3 did and have cutting edge graphics but completely miss on the gameplay.

Well doom 3 was never meant to be anything more than doom on a new engine with more of a slow approach to it, it acheived that.


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that would explain why it was one of the most pirated games of all time. Who wants to shell out fifty bucks for virtually the same game from 1995?
  
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Default 07-04-2005, 11:09 AM

Graphics matter just like everything else, I wont spend money on a game that looks like garbage even if it has the best gameplay becuase I want my moneys worth on everything. That being said if the game looks amazing, but it plays like nonsense I wont buy it either. It's a delcate balancing act of not going overboard on graphics but have no gameplay or have gameplay but no graphics. Games like Half-Life 2 and Battlefield 2 pull off this balance with an amazing combination of the two.
  
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Default 07-04-2005, 11:53 AM

Gameplay 100%

Graphics will only factor when they add to gameplay, which they usually do to some point, but by no means will I buy a game because of great graphics.


  
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Default 07-04-2005, 12:39 PM

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Default 07-04-2005, 02:04 PM

Most important aspect? Not even fucking close...

Like shit when the games came out a decade ago we didn't not play them because of the graphics...the fact it looked like that didn't mean the game didn't kick fucking ass...and trust me back then fun in games were a lot more apparent than they are now.

Gameplay and Story as for the funf actor should be taken into consideration for the quality of the game way more than graphics.


  
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Default 07-04-2005, 02:14 PM

Story is way more important than graphics to me! My favorite game of all time though is Tecmo Super Bowl. By far the best football game I have ever played.
  
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Default 07-04-2005, 02:15 PM

I think graphics depend on peoples ideals in a game. If they couldn't care less about realism then a game like Serious Sam will entertain them for days. If they do care then they'd drop that piece of shit in two seconds. People like Gonzo rag on me for taking graphics as more important than other things like how big a world is and how much shit you can do. I'm an FPS guy, so there's only one thing you do, you kill shit. In the future I want to be killing lifelike demons and killing near-real people (It helps me to vent...). If you like big huge worlds and shit like that like SWG and WoW, then you probably don't care about graphics. w/e, all opinion.
  
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Default 07-04-2005, 02:20 PM

[quote="Duke_of_Ray":08d68]Story is way more important than graphics to me! My favorite game of all time though is Tecmo Super Bowl. By far the best football game I have ever played.[/quote:08d68]

Tecmo Super Bowl is gangsta and I agree it is definally one of the best if not the best.


  
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Default 07-04-2005, 02:22 PM

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Story is way more important than graphics to me! My favorite game of all time though is Tecmo Super Bowl. By far the best football game I have ever played.
Tecmo Super Bowl is gangsta and I agree it is definally one of the best if not the best.[/quote:cbaca]

I should come up to Canada and we should play Tecmo Super Bowl until one of us passes out.
  
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Default 07-04-2005, 02:42 PM

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Most important aspect? Not even fucking close...

Like shit when the games came out a decade ago we didn't not play them because of the graphics
Back then to us 2d graphics looked really good because proper 3d games had yet to appear. 2d was good but very limited in what you could do with it.




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Default 07-04-2005, 02:57 PM

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Most important aspect? Not even fucking close...

Like shit when the games came out a decade ago we didn't not play them because of the graphics
Back then to us 2d graphics looked really good because proper 3d games had yet to appear. 2d was good but very limited in what you could do with it.
It seems the more we do, the more we fuck it up.


  
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Default 07-04-2005, 03:25 PM

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Most important aspect? Not even fucking close...

Like shit when the games came out a decade ago we didn't not play them because of the graphics
Back then to us 2d graphics looked really good because proper 3d games had yet to appear. 2d was good but very limited in what you could do with it.
It seems the more we do, the more we fuck it up.
That's what it seems to you.
  
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