The creativity x techniques achievement discussion.

[Intrinsic]

F0X said:

Intrinsic said:
There is a loooooot of spin happening in this thread. To the point where I am reading that it makes no sense splitting graphics from gameplay as one is designed to serve the other?????? Wow.......

What's wrong? There's no implication that graphics are unimportant. In fact, my claim implies that graphics are important, but for the sake of gameplay primarily.

I'd like to hear your philosophy of game design and find out whether I'd play any games designed with it in mind.

ok, thats where I dont agree with you. Graphics has nothing to do with gameplay. Gameplay has everything to do with gameplay, and if you hop around a bit and look at games you will find tons of games that aren't even remotely the best looking things but live entirely off their gameplay. We don't even have to go too far, just look at wii sports. Or look at minecraft. Both games that look like crap but play beautifully. Some games are even designed with low poly counts/2d sprites as an art style.... everyday shooter, braid.

You can have the best looking agme in the world, and if it plays like crap no one will play it for longer than 5mins. The funny thing is, nintendo basically thrives on this; its the mantra so to speak. Cause time and time again they have seen that an awesome game will sell itself, no matter how it looks.