"Good graphics don't make a good game"

[Magnadeus]

What are your thoughts on this quote?

Personally to me, graphics don't mean a damn thing as long as the game i'm playing is enjoyable.

[Azza ☠]

Yes and no...

Game play is a key factor before graphics. Even the story line, etc.

Graphics come in afterwards as a way to greatly increase the gamer's immersion into that virtual world. It's what makes a good game great.

[Edelweiss]

I agree too this

[Xero_Daxter]

This is why I play all of my games in 2x4 resolution.

[Azza ☠]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Xero_Daxter:

This is why I play all of my games in 2x4 resolution.

I see you are playing Doom on cells!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DnoOOgYxck

[Phirestar]

Horror games absolutely benefit from higher graphical fidelity. What game’s environments do you fond more terrifying: the original Silent Hill 1, or Amnesia: The Dark Descent?

Artstyle is also of key importance for certain types of games, too. How many people do you think would buy Animal Crossing: New Horizons if it looked like an ASCII roguelike?

Many games can get by while lacking in these areas, but not all of them do. To say that graphics don’t matter at all is a broad generalization and very dismissive of the role of visuals in a video game.

[Supersquid]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Phirestar:

Horror games absolutely benefit from higher graphical fidelity. What game’s environments do you fond more terrifying: the original Silent Hill 1, or Amnesia: The Dark Descent?

Artstyle is also of key importance for certain types of games, too. How many people do you think would buy Animal Crossing: New Horizons if it looked like an ASCII roguelike?

Many games can get by while lacking in these areas, but not all of them do. To say that graphics don’t matter at all is a broad generalization and very dismissive of the role of visuals in a video game.

Yet 90% of new horror games have awful graphics!

[Crystal Sharrd]

I think the quote is common sense.

[vkobe]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Phirestar:

Horror games absolutely benefit from higher graphical fidelity. What game’s environments do you fond more terrifying: the original Silent Hill 1, or Amnesia: The Dark Descent?

Artstyle is also of key importance for certain types of games, too. How many people do you think would buy Animal Crossing: New Horizons if it looked like an ASCII roguelike?

Many games can get by while lacking in these areas, but not all of them do. To say that graphics don’t matter at all is a broad generalization and very dismissive of the role of visuals in a video game.

because sometime nice graphic ruin the beautiful part of game

example nice graphic often made forest to be very ugly place or cave place, tunnel place, city ruin, slumb

so sometime thoses places look better in cartonish graphic than realistic graphic

[L1qu1dator]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Hirenaga:

Graphics make a good game better.

[Computer]

There's a wave of bad games with good graphics every major upgrade wave.

[Pierce Dalton]

True. Some PS1 games are better than certain PS5 games, for instance.

[Original Cast Recording]

Depends.

[Thadeus]

Somewhat agree.

Bad graphics + good gameplay don't make a good game either.

For example, I have no intention to engage with those indie games with bit graphics.

[De Hollandse Ezel]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Zubovnikov:

'Gamers' declaring that graphics don't matter until someone confesses that they set the graphics options to low and the resolution to 960x720 to improve performance on their toaster (not affording a $3000 gaming PC is an obvious skill issue).

it has NOTHING to do with your pc..

you can have that 3000 gaming pc and STILL prefer gameplay over photorealism or such..
that game developers spend more programming time is making a well thought and balanced strategy game.. that plays well..
with a lot of budget going into writers.... and engine development.. to give good AI opponent as you prefer single player..

pc gaming never was about fps...
it WAS about features.. some of these features were indeed grafical.. it was why we had games like the rts game cossacs where we could control 10000 units... while consoles still had 2d street fighter crap...

thats not so much about "looks" as utilising the better features of the latest gen hardware in a way that actually improves gameplay.. compared to that.. just having "more fps" or "look those grafics" is rather lazy.. and dull.,.
a blinged up console game.. remains a turd.

and think a game like kerbal space program.. who CARES if version 2 looks better thats POINTLESS if they programmed the grafic calculations in that game so crappy that it suffers from crashes when you time accelerate... and wil slug to an total standstill when more than 1400 parts are in 1 frame even on 20000 euro computers.. being able to render millions of parts... and having a universe with hundreds of stars would matter for such a game a LOT more than "make it look nicer" and if it actually would have to decrease pixel density and realism a bit to get there that would be preferable..