On Visuals : V - Skyrim

» Thu May 19, 2011 2:49 am

Exactly, "pretty good" does not equal great. You add to one aspect - you lose in the other since they are all interdependant. Besides, all AC games in the series were quite repetitive.

This is a bold claim. Or maybe i'm misinterpreting what you said, but

To me it's nonsense so i'm suggesting you bring some hard facts to back it up, otherwise it's just empty words.
Why on Earth does improving graphics necessarily lead up to worse gameplay?

Nonsense.

» Thu May 19, 2011 10:16 am

This is a bold claim.

To me it's nonsense so i'm suggesting you bring some hard facts to back it up, otherwise it's just empty words.
Why on Earth does improving graphics necessarily lead up to worse gameplay?

Nonsense.

See above @gpstr.

» Wed May 18, 2011 7:48 pm

Anyways you don't need really good graphics to make a good game. Im fine with the graphics as they are now all I hope for is an amazing story.

» Thu May 19, 2011 12:35 am

See above @gpstr.

Well that is just wild speculation from your part.
The problem you're obliged to overcome in your reasoning is this:
Graphical programmers usually do not double as Story writers nor gameplay designers. So what would be the rationale behind a developer just focusing on graphics and leaving gameplay unattended?

Some people do want great graphics and are not interested in complex gameplay. That's fine. Certain publishers cater to them.
There is no correlation between the two trends. It's just that, say, the FPS genre can accomodate simple gameplay. There's no identity crisis when that happens.

You really can't say that of a Bethesda RPG, can you?

» Thu May 19, 2011 7:26 am

Just because there are examples of terrible games with great graphics doesn't mean that having good graphics makes the game terrible. That's pretty much the point of this thread. If you want to show that it somehow does, you need to explain why.

That's just your opinion. Battlefield is an amazing game, as is halo. And Halo has an amazing story.

» Thu May 19, 2011 7:27 am

1: Different departments
2: no it doesnt take up more money look at PC indie games like Hawken...or small developer games with extremely small budgets in comparison...like idk the witcher 2..shogun 2 total war
3: new tech has also made high end graphical design far far far far easer than in the past; hell if the game was a DX11 game only it would be even easer just tesselating everything.
4: they probably spend most of there time and tech figuring out how to get Y,Z,V,C to work on the 360/ps3 without crashing anything

The modern problem with gameplay/graphics is getting those AAAA graphics to work on 6 year old hardware.

As long as it works on my 3 monitors @ 2560 x 1600, ill be happy.

» Thu May 19, 2011 12:10 am

The texture artists or modellers don't make the story, just like the storywriters dont make the textures and models.

Unless the entire game is made by one single man...

Spoiler

Personally I don't find Skyrim to be that impressive graphically.

Also, "Crysis" is apperantly a sentence starter here haha