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Phalanx on 27 July 2007
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IllegalPaladin said:
Phalanx said:
I'm seriously digging the art direction, but for a PS3 game, it doesn't look that good technologically. But as ssj12 pointed out, it's not done yet, so it will definitely get better.

The reason Wii fans are saying the graphics are mediocre is because that's the focal point of the system. Sony and developers have touted graphics as the be-all-and-end-all of gaming. Wii was designed around gameplay. If a Wii game has lousy gameplay, then we hate it. Likewise if a PS3 game comes out with mediocre graphics (for the ps3), then it should get criticized as well.

I disagree because of threads on this very website dissing the PS3 (and 360) in their quest for graphics and essentially claiming that the games with good graphics wont have good gameplay. Yet, here is a game with a lower level of graphics compared to other games and the graphics vs gameplay argument is suddenly forgotten even though people have tried to make it a hot button issue when comparing the consoles.

By saying good graphics will usually warrant bad gameplay, then wouldn't that mean we should all by totally hyped up for this game because it's gameplay is going to be amazing because it has lower graphics?


 I agree with you too an extent.  Personally I don't feel that just because a game has great graphics means the gameplay sucks (see LBP).  But I can see where some of the Wii fans are coming from.  Look at Doom3.  For it's time, it was absolutely stunning.  And then you played it.  id spent so much time on the engine to make the graphics look good that the gameplay suffered. 

I can't speak for everyone, but when I see a great looking game, I fear that the developer spent all their resources on making it look good that they forgot to make it play well.