From 640x480 to 1600x1200: Some musings on graphics and gameplay‏

[Kenny]

1337 Gamer said:
Actually processing power wise ur pc should have been able to beat the wii lol. But anyways i do not think the Graphical threshold has been passed. I LOVE eye candy and the better graphics the more enjoyable the game. Of coure good graphics are not worth bad gameplay. But graphics definatly help a game get my interest.

 

Yeah, my PC might have been somewhere north of the Wii in power, but the specific processing power is beside the point.  I enjoyed eye candy when I wasn't in the middle of the fighting (there were a lot of places in Oblivion which came to mind; some specific examples include looking down from a mountaintop, and watching two guys spar at Cloud Ruler Temple as the run slowly rose behind them), but when I'm in the middle of the action, I find I don't really notice the graphics at all.