CommonMan on 24 April 2010
Graphics can be really cool, but it's much more important to have great gameplay first. If you can do both, that's awesome, but if you just make a game shiny and don't worry so much about a compelling narrative or tight, FUN gameplay, you have a failed game.
They're GAMES people, not movies. To illustrate further, I would say Monopoly (the board game) is more fun than 90% of the games on the HD systems (I'm leaving the Wii out because I don't think anyone would argue that it is "all about the graphics"). I believe that video games have the capability of trouncing board games for fun, the fact that 9 out of 10 games don't shows that there is major problem with the design philosophy. IMO of course.
