F0X said:
However, I agree with you that people who are saying that Nintendo has the best-looking games of this generation... probably haven't even played enough games to fairly reach that conclusion. Yet, I think you're going about your argument in the wrong way. The whole Harry Potter/Ulyssees analogy is so extreme that I'm not sure it's even applicable to a Flappy Bird vs. Crysis discussion! Literature isn't even a visual art form and the line between technical ability is creativity is more blurry since it's depedant on a rather malleable ruleset, not physical technology with more well-understood and evolving capabilities and limitations. |
Well you called both games to say Mario Kart trump over Infamous because of framerate making it not clear cut the discussion of graphic prowess. But yes I do accept that for most gameplay (and its needs, framerate or other aspects) is more important than graphic. This is the reason I said that I was just discussing graphics not aestethic or gameplay (and besides refining the code to hit 60 fps it isn't exactly a graphic measure, just a "speed measure").
As I said before as well if someone says Nintendo X or Y game is the most pleasant he ever seen I wouldn't discuss because that is a taste/opinion thing (as I said I wouldn't discuss the prefference of art direction), but to say that it tops a PS4/X1 graphic is just plain silly and the arguments are usually weak. I don't think the analogy is extreme, it's just that both books have value and HP can please a lot of people (as Nintendo games do) but it isn't a better book than Ulysses even if less people like it (And in this case, most PS4/X1 games are graphically more impressive than any Nintendo game, but a lot of them wouldn't be pretty or pleasant).
Literature is a visual art form in the subjective part, a well written book (like Machado the Assis and other "realistic era" books) make you really see the ambient, clothes, face and everything else described with plenty of details - and for me that is one of the downfall of books after that time... most authors don't even invest much time on describing because they think tv does it better. I do agree that we can't say HP is more creative than Ulysses, but we can't deny that Ulysses have a better technical achievement than HP.
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