Portal 2 Face-Off by Digital Foundry

[Runa216]

Ajescent said:

Runa216 said:

why do people even care about performance?  the game runs fluidly, graphics DO NOT MATTER! 

in fact, when I installed the game on steam after getting it on PS3, I cranked down the graphics as low as they would go because I Wanted the best performance.  You people and your obsession with graphics....sheesh.  

Preach!!!!

Oh, I do.  I preach until my eyes pop out.  I'm just so sick of people going on and on and on about minor graphical differences as if it matters.  people are dedicating so much of their time to arguing about framerates, bump-mapping, shaders, anti-aliasing, and dozens of other things that don't matter when it comes to the game, it's no wonder games just aren't the classics they used to be.  

Protip:  when you need to chop a video up and edit it to show the same scene on two games side by side to notice a slight, subtle difference, guess what, it doesn't matter.  If you needed that direct comparison to tell the difference, then the difference is negligible.  If people spent more time focusing on making a game FUN instead of worrying about this trivial bullshit, then maybe we'd get more truly good and original games as opposed to a slew of cookie cutter FPS games.