Gameplay is everything to a game. It's what distinguishes the medium from everything else. Text with no choice is just a book, visuals without interaction is just a movie.
To be perfectly frank, the increased hardware capabilities have shifted the focus of games in a horrible way. I'm all for pretty visuals and good physics and particle effects and all the other bells and whistles that advanced hardware and software have brought us, but it has come at the expense of gameplay far too often. The great advances in gameplay have not come from triple A developers anymore, as creating innovative, truly engaging, gameplay is too risky an endeavour. It's much safer to rehash gameplay and pretty the game up and resell it. The big shifts in the genres and gameplay have come from indie developers and community creations, people who have an idea and aren't beholden to profits to create it.
I lament the fact that text-only games are not prevalent anymore, as they are the greatest example of why graphics are not what make the game. An entire generation has been seduced by visuals, and are now willing to pay full price for graphic upgrades to an identical game.
To be perfectly frank, the increased hardware capabilities have shifted the focus of games in a horrible way. I'm all for pretty visuals and good physics and particle effects and all the other bells and whistles that advanced hardware and software have brought us, but it has come at the expense of gameplay far too often. The great advances in gameplay have not come from triple A developers anymore, as creating innovative, truly engaging, gameplay is too risky an endeavour. It's much safer to rehash gameplay and pretty the game up and resell it. The big shifts in the genres and gameplay have come from indie developers and community creations, people who have an idea and aren't beholden to profits to create it.
I lament the fact that text-only games are not prevalent anymore, as they are the greatest example of why graphics are not what make the game. An entire generation has been seduced by visuals, and are now willing to pay full price for graphic upgrades to an identical game.
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Originally Posted by Kradel
Haha yeah, I was so eager to get GTA 4. Then the expansion pack came out and the almighty Gods had brought us the Buzzard! Now you compare GTA 4 graphics to GTA 5 and it's amazing how much they have improved. Same goes for Halo. If you have seen Halo 5 graphics they are so amazing! The graphics have improved greatly but it still looks like Halo, if you know what I mean.
There's a reason halo is dead, and why there was 4x the people playing halo 2 when it was new.
Halo 2 is an ugly ass game(now), but it was preferred (halo 2 visual remake) over halo 4 or reach because it's gameplay elements that made halo a good game wasn't fucked by armor abilities and bad maps.
Halo 2 even had problems with the game that made it play better, like BXR, tripleshotting, etc
I doubt they'll get rid of the awful things they put into h4. h5 can be pretty but not fun if you play competitively in gamebattles and tournaments like me
Originally Posted by Kaneki333
I'm Brazilian, i'm alredy fucked every day i wake up
Gameplay and graphics are inseperably connected. The graphics are part of the whole gameplay experience. I think that there's some kind of spectrum between games that focus mostly on gameplay, and games that focus on graphics
[Focuses more on gameplay]
Roguelikes
Most puzzlers (puzzlers are usually shit when too much time was spent on graphics)
voxel-based games
Toribash
- Middle ground
strategy games
MOBA's
shooters
adventure games, RPG's
stuff like sim city, rollercoaster tycoon, ...
[Graphics become more and more important, although gameplay still plays a great role. What you see is what's important about the game, not story, concept or your own imagination.]
The question you should ask is "would people still play this if the graphics consisted only of basic shapes (dots, squares, ...), numbers and letters?" In puzzle games, the answer is usually yes: you only need to get the point across. MOBA's, shooters, adventure games, ... not so much: the eyecandy, special effects, "plays", ... are part of what's fun about them.
[Focuses more on gameplay]
Roguelikes
Most puzzlers (puzzlers are usually shit when too much time was spent on graphics)
voxel-based games
Toribash
- Middle ground
strategy games
MOBA's
shooters
adventure games, RPG's
stuff like sim city, rollercoaster tycoon, ...
[Graphics become more and more important, although gameplay still plays a great role. What you see is what's important about the game, not story, concept or your own imagination.]
The question you should ask is "would people still play this if the graphics consisted only of basic shapes (dots, squares, ...), numbers and letters?" In puzzle games, the answer is usually yes: you only need to get the point across. MOBA's, shooters, adventure games, ... not so much: the eyecandy, special effects, "plays", ... are part of what's fun about them.
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