Beauty is skin deep: Calling out the graphics pimps

[Bodhesatva]

First, I agree with WoW that this is a dead horse and has obvious console war implications that we've all been over a million times.

But I'll add one new note: I really do love how this generation has finally separated and outed the graphics whores. We called them "graphics whores" for a reason -- it was a pejorative, intended to indict those who were concerned with style over substance. Practically no one would admit to it. Gamers cared about gameplay.

But now, we have the Wii. We're at a point where we can really see who means it when they say that they aren't graphics whores, and who doesn't. Now the tag line has become, instead, "I know we all say that graphics don't matter and all that, but come on, it does matter. Let's be honest."

No, no, no. Some of us weren't faking. Some of us weren't lying to sound honorable or noble or some nonsense. You may have been lying, but I wasn't. I genuinely meant that I have practically no consideration for graphics (not none, mind you). It's like when men say that it's not very important how a girl looks, it's the inside that counts -- and then we're confronted with a smart, kind, but homely girl, and we see who actually means it and who doesn't.