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Graphics vs Gameplay
Blurry.Face
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Which matters more? Stellar graphics, or stellar gameplay?
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Please do not respond to me, even if I ask you a question, its rhetorical.
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This is why good old games like AO and UO are still around and kicking, they have fantastic gameplay. Even WoW isnt that great in the graphics department but holy crap can Blizzard tell a great story. The lore behind WoW is fantastic.
- Albert Einstein
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But that said, graphics matters as well. A great game with 15 years old graphics will still fail badly if we are talking about MMOs. You might get off a turned based strategy game or something minecrafty with that crappy graphics but a new successful MMO can't look older then a regular game from 2010 or so.
Gameplay70:30 Graphics
As to the graphics... i think for me its more about "artstyle". I have seen games with great graphics that did not appeal to me and i love some games that have not top-of-all-things graphics, but an art style that totally draws me into their world.
So gameplay >artstyle > graphics for me.
What's more important, eating or food taste? Duh!
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"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
The question can push the intellect to the limits sometimes. Can you try to work out a better answer?
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https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos?&sort=-downloads&page=1
Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you playing an MMORPG?"
And wow ... overwhelming votes for Game play ... Devs pay attention ...........
It's too bad graphic quality depends on how much money you have rather than how far we've come.
I will be waiting for your game to be released..
The question wasn't about some imagine how it is in the land of fairies and rainbows type of question. I felt we were asking what is important to each of us not what do we imagine is important to the industry. But it is great you got to toot your own horn!
Epic Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAigCvelkhQ&list=PLo9FRw1AkDuQLEz7Gvvaz3ideB2NpFtT1
https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos?&sort=-downloads&page=1
Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you playing an MMORPG?"