(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.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
