Oh my God.
Play Call Of Duty 4. Thats photo realistic graphics.
Play Halo 3 notice the colurs used, The Texture and art decor used. It's been called by the 8 million plus Halo fans as Halo art. Have you by any chance got the Legendary edition? If you havent borrow the extra discs and watch them. Period.

GT5 is photorealistic. Madden is photorealistic. CoD4 is photorealistic. NBA games are photorealistic.

BioShock, Halo, etc. are blended realistic games. They have a fair dose of art style and mix in somewhat realistic graphics to go with it.

Besides, basing "artistic" and "realistic" on photorealism alone is an asinine way of judging a game. It completely ignores additional art style that can be put into a game while maintaining some level of realism. 

I like both but prefer artistic unless the game really needs to evoke a more 'realistic feel' to suit its aims.

Just like films though all games require artistic design (not to be confused with being 'Art') so its more about making the right choice. I think comparing the look of say Team Fortress with Day of Defeat gives a nice view on how the appropriate style works wonders for a game.

I also love games like Ico and Okami which really use their art design as part of the game rather than a backdrop - for example Gears of Wars looks great and the 'destroyed beauty' concept is neat but its more of a backdrop than anything else.

I like both. :)

I think both have they're proper places, but generally I like non-realistic games. Well maybe non-realistic environments. If the game is too cartoonish it can loose alot of feel also, but generally I like games that follow a distinct art direction. Fable is a great example, the character models are not too kid-ish, yet the environments are colorful and creative. But I also like games like Mass Effect which try for realistic character models, and sci-fi worlds.

I usually tend to artistic

but IMO FF and Zelda TP and stuff like that is sorta a mix since it has an anime style and I love those also.

 I like some reaslisticstuff also  but yeah most my games tend to the more style and artistic side.

Both appeal to me...

Like you can't say no to Super SMash nor can you
say no to Call of duty

but usually i'll go w. the artistic. ones

I love both.

Artistic, because it looks more beautiful. WW is an excelent example.