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| Thread ID: 73211 | 2006-10-11 08:11:00 | Good Games: Gameplay or Graphics? | motorbyclist (188) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 490719 | 2006-10-12 01:53:00 | ^^ Couldnt have said it better!! :D | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 490720 | 2006-10-12 12:11:00 | i can see where you're all coming from when it comes to puting things on max, but i personally dont find to great a difference between slightly below and full max settings, the money gap is just too large (for a student anyway) and as for my FEAR example, i must say that i hated the single player. it was tedious and not scary as some people claimed it to be. most importantly it was just walk and shoot with some basic puzzles. and i think i remember music starting to warn you of trouble. dooo3 was good stuff, played between the hours of 11pm and 4am, with the lights off and no one around lol and for actual puzzles etc prey was quite good, and i loved the shifting gravity |
motorbyclist (188) | ||
| 490721 | 2006-10-13 04:03:00 | I have to agree totally with the original poster, and everyone who has voted since. Gameplay first and foremost, graphics is a secondary concern. My all-time most beloved game: Quake 3. Beautiful graphics, and just superb, bitching, heart pounding, full speed action. Plus room for thought, planning, cunning, learning, stalking. But hey - I've gone back to playing my 2nd all time favourite - the original Doom! It's a chunky square blocked pixellated image, but the action is fast, fun and doesn't demand that you can coordinate your fingers over a dozen keys at once. There's been a recent release of the classic Dooms with windows drivers (although you still need to download the mouse driver). Sadly it still won't work under WinXP, but it's a fine game on my old P3 500. No dedicated graphics card required! Hours of fun. As for the games where they've gone all out to max the graphics... like Doom3. What a washout. THe action suffered, the gameplay suffered, all because they were overdoing graphics and trying to create suspense. Sad game. I'd prefer that id games released a dozen Doom (1) style games in the time it takes them to do one Doom3 style game. I'd buy those dozen D1 games at $40 each!. I'll probably not buy the next big title from id though. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 490722 | 2006-10-13 04:08:00 | I've only played a lot of the games mentioned on other people's computers because they won't run on mine. Doom3 & Half Life 2 are probably the most modern games that will run on my computer. I thoroughly enjoyed Half Life 2, and I found Doom3 rather booring. I played a bit of Fear on other people's computers & didn't think much of that either. I've never played Prey |
Greven (91) | ||
| 490723 | 2006-10-13 04:15:00 | I did spend $1000 on a graphics card .... over 5 years ago, and that's still the card I'm using. I bought a 64Mb GF3 when they were first released, knowing that the hardware T&L would be sufficient for many years. It's still going strong and I have no plans to replace it. Mind you, the number of FPS's I play are few and far between, I'm much more a strategy man and it seems to me that it's the FPS market which is the one (usually) to try and push the graphics envelope. |
Antmannz (6583) | ||
| 490724 | 2006-10-13 04:38:00 | ...2nd all time favourite - the original Doom! ... lol i still have that lying around, but i still prefer DUKE NUKEM 3D :D that game ruled! now if only they would finish duke nuken forever... they (3d realms) seem to be on the graphics bandwagon, and as a result are yet to finish the game as they are trying to have everything as new as possible, but take so long re-doing everything the new version is not using the latest stuff again... shame really lol it's good to see no-one has voted for graphics yet |
motorbyclist (188) | ||
| 490725 | 2006-10-13 04:53:00 | It is obvious that gameplay is the most important aspect, but the real question is: how far can you tip the ballance either way before the tradeoff isn't worth it? | Greven (91) | ||
| 490726 | 2006-10-13 05:07:00 | It is obvious that gameplay is the most important aspect, but the real question is: how far can you tip the ballance either way before the tradeoff isn't worth it? if the gameplay is that good, there isn't one. notice how teamfortress2 has gone for a cartoonish look? it wont age like other games as the textures wont become crappy as we adjust to newer ones. but i am talking game design. in rig design, i do accept that having a high viewing distance (especially in the battlefield games and flight simulators) is important, and your rig should not lag on lower/lowest settings. that is a very good sign it's time for an upgrade lol. |
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| 490727 | 2006-10-13 10:57:00 | Look at my sig :) | Cornot (10386) | ||
| 490728 | 2006-10-13 11:04:00 | Look at my sig :) sonic the hedgehog was the coolest game ever! |
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