Pics from Wii version of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

[Bodhesatva]

DMeisterJ said:

Bodhesatva said:

DMeisterJ said:
@ SNES boy

Yes, we all know that you don't play graphics, but you have to look at them for a few hours a day, and would you rather look at something good or bad.

It's like if there was a hot girl you liked and an ugly girl you liked, who both liked you back, and both of them were exactly the same. You wouldn't go with the ugly girl would you? You'd want the best.

Absolutely, looks do matter.

However, it matters more to some than to others. Some people are very superficial, and would pick an attractive but vapid woman over a more plain but sophisticated one. Others are less superficial, and would only pick the more attractive girl if they really were exactly identical, which obviously doesn't happen in the real world.

Similarly, for those who are less superficial, graphics matter less -- it isn't that they do not matter at all, they just matter less. For such people, it's a small, nice perk to have great graphics, but way down the list of priorities. Personally, I'd put graphics below gameplay, multiplayer functionality, story (or lack thereof), and skill curve. I still play CS 1.6, Natural Selection, and TFC, all HL1 Engine games that are a decade old. My most played game is easily WoW, which is approximately PS2-level graphics. I play my (very old) PC games more than my Wii more than my PS3. That's just me, though, and you're welcome to disagree.

Oh. I do disagree, but you worded your response so well that I just had to reply. I don't think that graphics are the only reason to play a game, obviously, I do put gameplay above that. But it looked like SNESboy wanted to give the game a free pass because it could play well, when no one knows how the game will play since it isn't out yet. So when he said you can't play graphics, you also can't play a crappy game also. So until the game comes out, I will reserve judgement on the graphics as I do think that the better the gameplay, the more you can get by on graphics.

I'm not at all defending this game in particular (I hadn't heard anything about it, and wouldn't buy it unless the reviews are phenomenal because I don't like Star Wars very much), but was talking more generally. 

Your post was more general, as was my response. If we're going to change the discussion back to this specific game, then obviously we can't say anything until the game has been released about the quality of the gameplay. Or the controls. 

So we agree on that front!