Halo 2 vs. Halo 3 comparison

[albionus]

windbane said:

Legend11 said:

albionus said:
As a side note it is great to watch Xbots now suddenly say "well the graphics aren't great but the gameplay will be awesome". Not yet quite recognizing the secret of the Wii's success but one small step at a time.

I'm not an Xbot but I thought I'd comment on this anyways, I believe great graphics and great gameplay don't have to be mutually exclusive but what I found rather ironic were a few Nintendo fans coming in and slamming the graphics when the entire concept of Wii is gameplay with graphics seeming to be secondary. Don't get me wrong I'm not insulting the Wii or Nintendo just that I found some of the replies here ironic.

That is a great point.  Wii fanboys have no room to insult graphics.  It will still look better than any Wii game.

Not picking on you or your testy nerves of late windbane but your quote has both I will respond to.  Maybe if you read what I said you would see that I didn't insult Halo 3's graphics, I defended them.   My point is simply that it's funny to watch xbots who've been waxing idiotic for the last 6 years about how graphics are everything and the Wii is unplayable because of bad graphics now suddenly decide graphics aren't everything when their holy grail of gaming doesn't max out the 360's capabilities.  The last part is my hope that rather than spend the next 4 years crying and railing at the world because "10 year old" graphics are selling better than "next gen" graphics xbots would instead realize the fact that gameplay is hugely important to games. 

I agree with you legend, I'm not a fanboy but I have seen Nintendo fanboys do the reverse shuffle from it's all about graphics + gameplay to it's all about gameplay.  However, I wasn't on forums to poke fun at them when they were doing it.  Unlike some people I can tell you aren't insulting the Wii just as I'm not insulting Halo 3's graphics.