So my friend and I are having an "argument" over the importance of video game graphics and resolutions. He says that games like Skyward Sword and Portal aren't as good now because they don't have the 1080p/720p resolution or perfect graphics. He says that he won't buy a game if the graphics don't look like an XBOX360/PS3; I said I'd buy it either way. So what about you? Do graphics make the game?
Do Graphics Make the Game For You?
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As long as aesthetics are working together, aka the game doesn't look like a blender of different people/ bad artists work. Your friend is a dumb fanboy grasping at straws to hate on some of the best games of the year.
Might as well judge food purely on how it looks. I'd eat a bowl of brown mush if it was one of the best things I ever tasted. I suppose in this case though it isn't even just how good it looks though. If the best strawberries I ever had were extremely pixilated that wouldn't stop me from eating them once HD strawberries came out.
Might as well judge food purely on how it looks. I'd eat a bowl of brown mush if it was one of the best things I ever tasted. I suppose in this case though it isn't even just how good it looks though. If the best strawberries I ever had were extremely pixilated that wouldn't stop me from eating them once HD strawberries came out.
It's sad that some people actually judge games solely on their graphics, or worse, resolution. As long as the gameplay is good, why does it matter?! It's a shame that so many people nowadays refuse to play anything that isn't HD with a realistic art direction.
EDIT: What Sporge said.
EDIT: What Sporge said.
Colour Bandit
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Graphics can be an added bonus, but they're not always the sign of brilliant games, take Minecraft for instance, the game is made of pixelated cubes yet thousands, maybe millions, of people still manage to enjoy it!
JasonBurrows
Senior Member
I would personally say that graphics are only a small bonus that can help make a good game even better.
Some of the best games in my life were games without High Definition Graphics as all I really was bothered about mostly was gameplay and the storyline as if any games had a bad storyline or was difficult to play, I would just not play the game.
I still am only bothered about the gameplay and storyline to be perfectly honest with you all.
What I tend to do now is look at trailers and gameplay videos on YouTube as I have the Internet these days and read many reviews from people that do reviews such as IGN, Official Nintendo Magazine, NGamer Magazine and many many more before I decide whether or not I wanted the game.
When I was a lot younger, I didn't actually have the Internet and so it wasn't so easy to look at whether or not I should get a video game and if I wanted to see what was inside a collector's edition of a game, I would have to personally unbox it and now I have the Internet and YouTube, I can just watch someone unbox their copy (eg. Sonic Generations Collector's Edition) and leave mine boxed as new making my copy worth a lot more than their copy due to me not having to open mine.
In short, it is a lot easier to see what games I would like these days.
Some of the best games in my life were games without High Definition Graphics as all I really was bothered about mostly was gameplay and the storyline as if any games had a bad storyline or was difficult to play, I would just not play the game.
I still am only bothered about the gameplay and storyline to be perfectly honest with you all.
What I tend to do now is look at trailers and gameplay videos on YouTube as I have the Internet these days and read many reviews from people that do reviews such as IGN, Official Nintendo Magazine, NGamer Magazine and many many more before I decide whether or not I wanted the game.
When I was a lot younger, I didn't actually have the Internet and so it wasn't so easy to look at whether or not I should get a video game and if I wanted to see what was inside a collector's edition of a game, I would have to personally unbox it and now I have the Internet and YouTube, I can just watch someone unbox their copy (eg. Sonic Generations Collector's Edition) and leave mine boxed as new making my copy worth a lot more than their copy due to me not having to open mine.
In short, it is a lot easier to see what games I would like these days.
Trent the Paladin
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That guy sounds like my brother, he won't touch older games because he's above them/graphics suck. I think that as long as I can play the game without (many) errors and the story is good, I'm content.
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My friends think that the realisticness of the graphics determines how good the graphics are.
I hate explaining to them that each art style can be good or bad, and that you cannot compare two art styles without going into opinion.
And then they scoff at me and say that Nintendo needs more realistic graphics. I told them, "Twilight Princess". They said, "Is there guns?"
I have the urge to punch an old person and send them to the moon.
@Tom
Your brother is an idiot.
Just like my friends, who say that N64 games' graphics suck, simply because they have older graphics. I argue that they had the best graphics of their day. Oh, the stupidity of most pre-teens who think CoD is the best.
I hate explaining to them that each art style can be good or bad, and that you cannot compare two art styles without going into opinion.
And then they scoff at me and say that Nintendo needs more realistic graphics. I told them, "Twilight Princess". They said, "Is there guns?"
I have the urge to punch an old person and send them to the moon.
@Tom
Your brother is an idiot.
Just like my friends, who say that N64 games' graphics suck, simply because they have older graphics. I argue that they had the best graphics of their day. Oh, the stupidity of most pre-teens who think CoD is the best.
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Agreed.
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