Do graphics add gameplay?

[vlad321]

xeroxm3 said:

vlad321 said:

xeroxm3 said:

bardicverse said:

nitekrawler1285 said:

 

 

Your argument only works in the development process. The final product, the videogame, cannot have these things seperated really. Sure the gun can look like a box, but if it's a box wouldn't you wonder why it shoots? Graphics and gameplay go hand in hand because gameplay can't be represented without the graphics and likewise graphics aren't a game until you can play them. Trying to seperated the two is a little foolish when they rely on each other so heavily.

 

I don't want to jump in the argument but I here are my 2 pennies anyways. Let's put it like this, even if the graphics and everything in BioShock was just compromised of boxes, it would still be 10 times the game Crysis is. There's no real dependence on graphics at all. They simply don't affect the gameplay outside of several games, and a genre (horror has to have decent shadows).  Sure BioShock is absolutely stunning in trems of graphics and everything, but if it played like Crysis it would still be considered as a mediocre game, not a great game. Yet if it was pulled off with Quake II graphics but retained its gameplay, it would still be one of the best games out there.

Are you serious? The atmosphere and feeling that Rapture gives off made that game! You just lost all credibility.

 

I don't know about you, but I was spending most of my time electrecuting/flaming/siccing bees/ shooting, than looking at the water effects. Yeah it looks good, but the gameplay was absolutely great. It was just like System Shock 2, absolutely perfect. System Shock 2 has a very identical gameplay and general layout as BioShock and it was released '99 and it's better than any Halo, Gears, Crysis, and from the looks of it than any of the "HUGE" shooter titles that are coming in soon (maybe with the exception for L4D but that remains to be seen). I'd even rate SS2 better than BioShock since SS2 was the original and BioShock wass just the spiritual successor.