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How much do graphics mean to you?

Absolutely nothing. 11 6.96%
 
Just make them decent &am... 22 13.92%
 
I notice graphics, but don't really care. 40 25.32%
 
It's a bonus, the better... 68 43.04%
 
My enjoyment is directly ... 17 10.76%
 
Total:158
Gilgamesh on 15 June 2012

Just picture moments in gaming like, like the CGI in most FF games, or when Aeris dies, Tidus dissapears, Snake kills The boss/ending of MGS3. Now pretend all those games looked like this:

It's just hard to take something like that serious. I seem to feel more emotion for FF games after FF6 then before (although 1 - 6 was just as fun). The more real a game looks the more immersed you can get in the enviroment and characters, they're like real people now not some pixelated mess on a screen.



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happydolphin on 15 June 2012
Gilgamesh said:

Just picture moments in gaming like, like the CGI in most FF games, or when Aeris dies, Tidus dissapears, Snake kills The boss/ending of MGS3. Now pretend all those games looked like this:

It's just hard to take something like that serious. I seem to feel more emotion for FF games after FF6 then before (although 1 - 6 was just as fun). The more real a game looks the more immersed you can get in the enviroment and characters, they're like real people now not some pixelated mess on a screen.

Imagine how bad it is when you're reading a book then hey? It's infinitely worse, right?



Gilgamesh on 15 June 2012
happydolphin said:
Gilgamesh said:

Just picture moments in gaming like, like the CGI in most FF games, or when Aeris dies, Tidus dissapears, Snake kills The boss/ending of MGS3. Now pretend all those games looked like this:

It's just hard to take something like that serious. I seem to feel more emotion for FF games after FF6 then before (although 1 - 6 was just as fun). The more real a game looks the more immersed you can get in the enviroment and characters, they're like real people now not some pixelated mess on a screen.

Imagine how bad it is when you're reading a book then hey? It's infinitely worse, right?

Exactly hence why i don't read them, my imaginations been fried for quite some time now.



happydolphin on 15 June 2012
Gilgamesh said:
happydolphin said:

Imagine how bad it is when you're reading a book then hey? It's infinitely worse, right?

Exactly hence why i don't read them, my imaginations been fried for quite some time now.

hehe



SvennoJ on 15 June 2012
pezus said:
SvennoJ said:
Panama said:
It's all dependent on the game. If a game is available on the HD Twins AND the PC, then clearly I go for the PC version. Why hinder myself right?

Too many variables with that question to be honest.

I wish it was that easy but it's not. I got Deus Ex HR for the pc to play in 1080p. Unfortunately the game tends to stutter while you're turning and since the mouse update is somehow hampered by the frame rate I would overshoot all the time. Solution disable v-sync, ugly.
The witcher 2 looked extremely good too, but in various scenes I had to go back into the graphic options to adjust things to keep it playable.

At least on console you're guaranteed some base level of performance. I rather have a more consistent experience then one with more bells and whistles. Unfortunately a lot of games try to put too much on screen nowadays and the experience becomes far from consistent. Less is more imo.

Turning off AA would be a good start if your computer isn't quite capable enough to run it smoothly.

Sure but that's not the point. With a pc game I always end up tinkering with the graphics options to find a nice balance between great looks and performance. Since performance varies wildly during the game I'm regularly revisiting the graphics options, that breaks immersion.
In console games all that balancing work has been done for you. Not always to the best result but you can simply enjoy the game instead of having to reload after changing certain graphics options.



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SvennoJ on 15 June 2012
pezus said:
SvennoJ said:

Sure but that's not the point. With a pc game I always end up tinkering with the graphics options to find a nice balance between great looks and performance. Since performance varies wildly during the game I'm regularly revisiting the graphics options, that breaks immersion.
In console games all that balancing work has been done for you. Not always to the best result but you can simply enjoy the game instead of having to reload after changing certain graphics options.

Seems to me like that is exactly the point. If you have a powerful enough PC you can run pretty much any game smoothly at max. It's not that hard with all of the console ports these days.

True, I need to upgrade my pc again. Last game that ran completely smooth in 1080p was Portal 2. However graphics don't matter enough to spend money on pc upgrades instead of more games :)



brendude13 on 15 June 2012

I like pretty graphics, but that doesn't mean technical graphics. For example, I think Gears of War is a bad looking game, but Tales of Vesperia looks stunning, the art matters more for me. Combing great technical graphics and art is the best though.



MrT-Tar on 16 June 2012

Graphics do not effect my enjoyment of a game, with the exception of major slowdown. I for one, never understand why people claim to be 'unable to' or that it 'hurts their eyes' to go from playing PC/PS3/360 to a game on Handhelds/Wii/Previous generations, I've never experienced it.

That said, I do believe developers should strive to push the console they are creating a game for to it's limit. Even though graphics don't affect my enjoyment of games, I would still mark down a game in a review if it was the bottom end of it's console's graphical capacity (I would have exceptions for ports and games where dated graphics are part of the visual style).




Turkish on 16 June 2012
Gilgamesh said:

Just picture moments in gaming like, like the CGI in most FF games, or when Aeris dies, Tidus dissapears, Snake kills The boss/ending of MGS3. Now pretend all those games looked like this:

It's just hard to take something like that serious. I seem to feel more emotion for FF games after FF6 then before (although 1 - 6 was just as fun). The more real a game looks the more immersed you can get in the enviroment and characters, they're like real people now not some pixelated mess on a screen.


I see what you did there and I agree with you to some extent. But I dont agree with you that games with sprites like the first 6 FF games cant evoke emotions.In fact FF6 and Chrono Trigger were one of the most emotional games I played.

Still gets me everytime lol



Gilgamesh on 16 June 2012
Turkish said:
Gilgamesh said:

Just picture moments in gaming like, like the CGI in most FF games, or when Aeris dies, Tidus dissapears, Snake kills The boss/ending of MGS3. Now pretend all those games looked like this:

It's just hard to take something like that serious. I seem to feel more emotion for FF games after FF6 then before (although 1 - 6 was just as fun). The more real a game looks the more immersed you can get in the enviroment and characters, they're like real people now not some pixelated mess on a screen.


I see what you did there and I agree with you to some extent. But I dont agree with you that games with sprites like the first 6 FF games cant evoke emotions.In fact FF6 and Chrono Trigger were one of the most emotional games I played.

Still gets me everytime lol


Not saying that they difinetely don't, but just imagine if those chracters looked looked as good as games today.