The PS2 has taught me something about the HD era.Rant.

[DonFerrari]

ps3-sales! said:
I agree and disagree.

I understand your point about focusing more on visuals than gameplay. Part of that is due to visuals constantly increasing; partly due to visuals selling more to the public.

The ps2/Xbox/GameCube era did seem to be the perfect mix of great satisfying gameplay and upgraded visuals that weren't too heavily focussed on.

Obviously with the move to high definition televisions around 2005 we were in for a change.

However, that does not mean that games cease to be fun. If anything that's entitely your opinion, not a fact. The 7th gen for me was much superior to the 6th gen in terms of games. Part due to my age (not being a small child) but the games were amazing.

The mass effect trilogy, bioshock, halo, assassin's creed 2, cod4, Prince of Persia 2008, last of us, I could go on and on. I had an amazing time with games that focused just as much on visuals and storytelling as they did with gameplay.

So basically, just your opinion. There are fun games out there if you know where to look. If you aren't happy, I guess you could just replay ps2 games all day.

But trust me, your refusal to move on and accept the change is isolating you from the industry. And you're really missing out on some great games.

Besides the fact that artists that work on the graphics and people working on gameplay aren't the same... so it's a little hard to say the focus was on visuals  only because the graphics progrided more than gameplay during that time.. it's like saying humanity focused on airplanes instead of cars because aircrafts gone from like 30-50mph to over 2000mph while cars evolved from like 20mph to 200mph in the same timeframe.