The Week That Was has posted an article, questioning whether graphics play too important a role in video games nowadays. The article states: "While these graphical capabilities arguably help to immerse us gamers into the experience more than ever before, a certain question remains: are graphics too important in this generation of consoles? It could be argued that many games are criticised harshly by gamers because of their graphics, ignoring what is seemingly more important: the gameplay. I don't feel as though this is necessarily the case amongst professional critics, as it's essentially their job to judge games in all aspects; not just in the graphics department. But from my experiences on various gaming forums, there's reason to suggest that too great an emphasis may be placed on graphics."
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Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.
But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.
They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.
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I think that some devs and gamers are concentrating too much looks and people instantly assume games are better because they look better which isn't always the case. It's why I prefer looking at Gameplay vids of upcoming games as opposed to trailers.
However graphics aren't bad things. If you can get better graphics without it being a detriment to other things that's awesome. Look how many people prefer San Andreas to GTAIV.
Always important, could you imagine playing SoTC without it looking the way it did back then, because I really can't.
Gameplay and graphics are not antagonists, they have an equivalent importance. A beautiful game with a broken gameplay is not pleasing to play (Fable 2, FarCry 2,...), and a game with a good gameplay and bad graphics is under-satisfying (Left4Dead, Warhawk,...).
I played many games where aliasing, clipping, blurry textures, low polygon models, etc... were legion, and disregard the gameplay, i'm pretty sure if games were more polished or had better visuals, my appreciation would significantly increase (without forgetting about the gameplay).
But great games are not only a matter of graphics and gameplay. Every criteria has its importance. Scenario, music, quality of online play / multiplayer, replay value, artistic quality,... This console generation made whiners focusing only on graphics (PS3), online (Xbox 360) and gameplay (Wii).
Sometimes I think graphics are no big deal but then I saw Crysis and Gan Turismo 5...could not avoid turning into a graphics whore after that.Still gameplay is still number one priority in all games
I do believe graphics play a crucial part in every game nowadays, and I know I don't buy games I think look too crappy on graphic.. Like Prototype which I think is an awesome concept - the graphics makes me wanna cry though which is stopping me from buying it.