HappySqurriel on 02 February 2008
| kingofwale said: >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. |
If you eliminate the games produced by game developers with a history if high quality videogames, you will see that there is no correlation between good graphics and good gameplay; it is (amazingly) common to see average or worse developers spend massive ammounts of money to produce very pretty games only to have them reviewed poorly. Simply look at the PS3's line-up and you will see that games like Genji, Lair, Clive Barkers Jerico, and Enchanted Arms all had very nice graphics, and huge budgets, and yet there was little focus on making a good game. Many/most of these games were heavily hyped before they were released ...
