Eurogamer: Mario Kart 8 "best looking console game of the year"

[Talal]

Game_God said:

Talal said:
It's really ironic seeing some people criticize people who dislike cartoony/colorful games then seeing them do the same thing to realistic games calling them grey/brown/boring.

Because there is a violent, stupid & very alive dogma that only "grey/brown/boring" realistic games are valid & "true" valid adult games. Nintendo are for the kiddies right? I play anything from CS, Battlefield, Flight Simulator, rFactor, Soulcalibur, Mariokart, Zelda, King of Fighters, Gran Turismo, Half Life, Tetris, Chrono Trigger & the list goes on, don't bullshit me saying that only graphically realistic games are worth playing & better than those wich aren't!!!

There are multiple angles from wich any subject has to be scrutinized, the only argument that ignorant "hardlycore" gamers bring is " the realistic graphic mature game I defend is better because it has more polycount, shaders etc.  & looks more realistic than A, B or C game".

Trying to  reduce a game to its technical aspects is quite an insult to gamers & people who make games (despite both the said gaming & game-making comunities being plagged with that kind of persons).

I don't believe that at all. I find that view on games very annoying. I enjoy both the colorful games like Super Mario 3d World and Zelda Windwaker and the less colorful more realistic games like Uncharted and Gran Turismo. I think both can be very beautiful.

What I'm trying to say here in this thread is that yes people who dismiss games for not being realistic are very annoying, but the people who dismiss games for being realistic are equally annoying and are hypocrites.