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."
They don't make games like this anymore.
Too dated in my book. The AI is way too unpredictable to be acceptable today. It's definitely a game of its time.
I had a good time with the game. It is a product of its time. But when it came out it was a must have game for a lot of people. I wish Ubisoft would make another game in the series or at least a reboot.
Due to the lack of modern stealth games, and me constantly playing the MGS series, I've been looking for alternative stealth games to play, and went back and re-played the SC series recently. I wouldn't call SC1 or SC:PT masterpieces, there are AI issues, they're very much trial-and-error games, and that can lead to a lot of frustration. I also found the stories in this series to be boring, uninteresting, and just sloppily told. Cinematics are also of poor quality for both in-game scenes and CG cut-scenes, the soundtrack didn't leave any impression on me either.
Chaos Theory is better, but there was still a lot of room for improvement, and Double Agent (old gen ver.) was a sloppy mess that ended up a regression from CT. But still, at least they tried back then, these days Ubi-junk doesn't even try to make good games!
Skewed and Reviewed have written an Opinion Piece covering issues in the gaming industry, how current issues were issues years ago, and what can be done to help restore consumer trust.
Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
Marie Dealessandri speaks to Borislav Slavov and Gustavo Santaolalla about “the new golden age of games music”.
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.