>Why do games produced by mediocre developers get hyped when the only thing we know about the game is it has pretty graphics?
Why ask such obvious question?
Let me list 3 of the probably a million reasons.
1. It's MUCH easier to advertise an item if it looks pretty, Same reason you see pretty people in commercials, you don't see butt-ugly freaks on tv as often as you do in real life. no? Deep down, we are all shallow.
2. expectation, it's thought that people that if a developer has the time and money to work on graphics, then they probably have the time and money to work on the gameplay
3.. play the ratio game, Most good looking games do indeed have good gameplay mechanics (sure, there are odd ones, like Lair), and you compare that with bad games with crappy graphics.
You will see that it's not hard to associate bad graphics with bad games.
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