| ckmlb said: Tetris is a different kind of game altogether, the fact is most of the game genres could use nice graphics to enhance the experience. Even Tetris now looks better on the DS you gotta admit, look at Lumines for example a puzzle game that looks amazing(great music, great style). |
Different or not, Tetris is still a game, just like other "non-games" like Brain Age and the new "Coach" series, and sure, with nicer graphics it looks better, but it does not help the gameplay. Brain Age would not sell more or be a more compelling experience because whoever that scientist's name is at the beginning of the game had 3m shaded and raytraced polygons instead of 2k non-textured polygons.
Other games that rely on storytelling and that ever-famous "temporary suspension of disbelief" require good graphics, but even with HD graphics Tetris is still Tetris. I won't complain if it was the version on a mobile phone instead of the version on the 360.
Final Fantasy-type games are a different beast altogether, of course.
But that's not the point: You argued that FMV looked lousy. I think FMV looks as realistic as you can possibly get, but FMV itself sucks for games due to its lack of interactivity.
Taken another way, FMV = film = movies; looks real but is not suitable for gaming. That's why it failed, not because FMV was "crappy". If it could deliver the amount of interactivity that 3D graphics deliver today (and much much better scripts and actors, of course), I doubt we'd be having this constant 3D push.
