The drive for graphical performance is detrimental to the industry

[palou]

Lrdfancypants said:

palou said:

Sorry if this wasn't clear, but I would support developpement of technology for the purpose of gameplay. A text adventure game cannot offer the same gameplay possibilities as a 3d render.

The proposition is more against higher definition, more polygons than needed, etc... 

Modern games could be played just fine in 480 p...

Good graphics do not = bad gameplay. There are games with bad graphics that have awful gameplay  

I never said that. 

However, good graphics take up alot of ressources, that could be used to produce several games, or further unique concepts in the game being made.

What good graphics are is a completely relative term, we always fawn upon whatever currently is the highest standard, even if the same graphical performance could give us difficulty appreciating the game ten years later.

I believe, would progress stop in this partocular aspect of the industry, or simply develop more slowly, so that all companies would have no trouble catching up to the standards, more games would be considered to have «good graphics» by the current generation.