i think what people are forgetting is that it is a video GAME a freakin game!! that means you play it, you don't whine about that it's not in 3d or has realistic graphics you play it! It's not a movie, where it needs a perfect story and out of this world graphics and realism, you actually play it and appreciate it's game mechanics. You don't keep bitching about how it doesn't have online you just play the game and have fun with it. Or keep complaining on how realistic things are better, in fact i play games to get away from reality why would you play something like sports on a console any way. If you want stuff like that to be better than just go do it in real life! You want realistic than go do it in real life where the douchebags were before they tainted the wonderful world of gaming.

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Uhm
Graphics ARE important. Not they need to be "good", but still. I mean, I preferred Persona graphics to FFXIII (not trying the bash FFXIII, I'm just showing that great graphics =/= good game graphically...or something. The graphics are still great, though). Why? Because the character art and design, the feeling, everything made me care. Heavy Rain is another example: Because of the great graphics, they were able to represent near perfect emotions, and you get attached to the characters.

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meh
Natal and PS move will suck
The Wii was still good, because their whole console was built around the motion controlling.

For PS3 and Xbawks, it's kinda like a peripheral, so it won't get much support (Fable III for 360 and Socom 4 for PS3)

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@hut
well i'm not trying to say graphics aren't important it's just that people put too much emphasis on them.

Sorry for any misunderstandings, sometimes i say stupid things when i'm raging

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Basically, what should be realized is that graphics are to enhance the experience.
If they're not to your liking, either don't play the game, or just don't rage about it online/give the game a bad rep for it.
I prefer very strange fantasy-type graphics.
If I wanted realism I'd, I don't know, live life?
Go outside?
Play some sports?
Watch reality TV?

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natal and ps move, i think personally their both gonna fail...most people when they want to play ps3/360 games. they dont want to be jumping around...

but whats also not helping the gaming industry now , is99% of reviewers are paid...this you can tell...if they dont paid for a game they give that game bad scores...

perfect example.....blazblue with gameinformer got a bad rating because "you couldnt learn one character and know the rest ex.ryu ken etc"

and "the story mode was strange"

yea those are legit reason to give a score a bad rating....

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You guys win with this thread. Seriously you are all awesome.

To add, I saw the review of BB in Game Informer and I thought it sounded pretty stupid to say the least. But then again, any fighter that isn't SF doesn't really get looked at all that much.

Now on the subject of graphics, it's relative. Some people like realistic, some like anime style(me! ). Some like cell shaded, some like sprites(Also me! ). Graphics don't make the game. I mean the graphics in Record of Agarest War for example are nothing special from a technical point of view. But I find the game to be beautiful. I love the character designs and the world as a whole. It really makes the experience that much better and really draws me into the world and the characters. But in the review that I read on ign(yeah I know) they called the graphics subpar and "animeish". I even had someone come over while I was playing it and proceed to ask me why I was playing a PSP game on my xbox.

I also hate how shooters have dominated the game industry. I mean I enjoy playing the occasional shooter with friends but other than that, I rarely even pop those discs in. But even when I go into a gamestop, the games I see people talking about or looking at are mostly shooters or sports games.(Ugh...I HATE sports games). It's also funny when I ask about an RPG or a fighter and they have no idea what I'm talking about. It's like when I was looking for Valkyrie Profile 2 and went to three different stores and had to spell the name of the game 3 different times and tell them what it was about.

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Sports games blow, big time.

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The ONLY sports game I ever liked was the Top Spin series, since it simulated tennis really well.
Everything else sucks.

Also, as Chain said, it's all relative: graphics aren't necessarily good because of the technical prowess of a company, but rather the art design. I mean, persona's graphics sucked on a technical level, but they raped on the art-direction level. Same goes for Demon's souls (seriously, it was one of the best looking games ever, even though the polish and polygons were poor-quality).

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