What's the point of photorealism?

[d2wi]

Goatseye said:

HoloDust said:

 

Or you might not have that and the gameplay may still suck. So what's your point?

Game immersion is mostly if not all about gameplay.

Not really, graphics, music, storyline all have huge impacts when it comes to immersion.

The original Super Mario Bros. has awesome gameplay but it is totally unimmersive compared to Super Mario 3D World.