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RE: Overrated games
May 19, 2014 at 6:43 pm
(May 19, 2014 at 6:36 pm)Napoléon Wrote: (May 19, 2014 at 6:01 pm)Chad32 Wrote: That seems to be Playstation's big thing, from what I've heard, which is why I wouldn't personally switch to that.
I'm sorry but this is a stupid comment. Playstation as a system doesn't put any more emphasis into graphics over story/gameplay content than Xbox does. It's the developers of the individual games that are responsible for that. And Playstation 4 from the get go has actually had developers on side (compared to how developers hated the ps3 for developing).
I guess I heard wrong then.
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RE: Overrated games
May 19, 2014 at 6:47 pm
There was a great game, once...
The most colorful graphics for the time.
Gameplay was as fast as you could go.... level 9 was an intensive finger workout.
Everyone knows it. It's still played nowadays...
But it's a bit overrated! 
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RE: Overrated games
May 19, 2014 at 6:54 pm
(May 19, 2014 at 6:47 pm)pocaracas Wrote: There was a great game, once...
The most colorful graphics for the time.
Gameplay was as fast as you could go.... level 9 was an intensive finger workout.
Everyone knows it. It's still played nowadays...
But it's a bit overrated!
I fucking hate that game. Always have.
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RE: Overrated games
May 19, 2014 at 6:57 pm
Shoots and Ladders is highly overrated.
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RE: Overrated games
May 19, 2014 at 7:05 pm
(May 19, 2014 at 6:57 pm)Tea Earl Grey Hot Wrote: Shoots and Ladders is highly overrated.
Not if you're 4.
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RE: Overrated games
May 19, 2014 at 7:05 pm
(May 19, 2014 at 6:54 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: (May 19, 2014 at 6:47 pm)pocaracas Wrote: There was a great game, once...
The most colorful graphics for the time.
Gameplay was as fast as you could go.... level 9 was an intensive finger workout.
Everyone knows it. It's still played nowadays...
But it's a bit overrated!
I fucking hate that game. Always have. Some people just can't handle the no-win scenario... :p
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RE: Overrated games
May 19, 2014 at 8:14 pm
I see graphics as a more secondary concern. They can enhance one's experience of a game or detract from it, but they shouldn't be the determinator of a game's quality, unless they are just horrendous for the hardware it was designed for.
Of more importance to me is the art direction, which can override or undercut the quality of the models or sprites. For example, the models and environments in Okami weren't anything great, but the art style and color usage was quite brilliant, so the usually simplistic and unpolished models were of little concern to me.
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RE: Overrated games
May 19, 2014 at 8:17 pm
Halo is overrated.
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RE: Overrated games
May 19, 2014 at 8:34 pm
(May 19, 2014 at 6:47 pm)pocaracas Wrote: There was a great game, once...
The most colorful graphics for the time.
Gameplay was as fast as you could go.... level 9 was an intensive finger workout.
Everyone knows it. It's still played nowadays...
But it's a bit overrated!
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RE: Overrated games
May 19, 2014 at 8:51 pm
(May 19, 2014 at 8:14 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote: I see graphics as a more secondary concern. They can enhance one's experience of a game or detract from it, but they shouldn't be the determinator of a game's quality, unless they are just horrendous for the hardware it was designed for.
Of more importance to me is the art direction, which can override or undercut the quality of the models or sprites. For example, the models and environments in Okami weren't anything great, but the art style and color usage was quite brilliant, so the usually simplistic and unpolished models were of little concern to me.
Yes and no. Graphic are important but not in the why that people traditionally think they are. What is important in graphics isn't detail so much as fluidity and consistency.
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