Reviews - Should Graphics Effect The Score?

[Bodhesatva]

Kasz216 said:

Bodhesatva said:

I don't think they should, personally. I don't care. I get in fights with Naz all the time because I run all of my PC games at minimum settingss just so I can get 1-2 more FPS.

I'm running a quad core OCed to 3.0 GHz with 2x260GTs running in SLI, btw.

 

Naz doesn't?  I thought he was supposed to be a true PC gamer?!

 

 

He's a sissy casual imo.

 

On that point, I've wondered for some time why it's the "hardcore" who seem to care about graphics. I mean, we're supposed to be the elite, right? With sophisticated tastes. So why are we the ones who care about superficial things like graphics?

As a similar example, special effects and CGI in movies are considered the "pulp" fanservice, and rightly so: critics are more concerned with believable characters and well told story, not with superficial issues like how cool the CGI looks, who want "epic" movies a la Spiderman or 300. 

In some ways, the "hardcore" make sense -- I do generally believe they're more concerned than the layman with more complex mechanics, for example. But the graphics? That baffles me. It seems much more reasonable for the masses to be concerned with graphics and "epic" games.