What is the most important aspect of graphics?

Whats the most important? like textures, lighting etc.

For me it has to be Lighting.

textures.

lighting just covers up the ugly spots of textures:p

lighting. If half life 2 didnt have such great lighting it wouldnt look nearly as good. Same goes for crysis and killzone 2.Sully28

I don't remember half life 2 ever haveing fantastic lighting. Mainly back then HDR wasen't really in games at the time.

The gameplay.........am i doing it right?Fawlcon_Pawnch

Hehehe. You are in my book! :lol:

[QUOTE="Sully28"]lighting. If half life 2 didnt have such great lighting it wouldnt look nearly as good. Same goes for crysis and killzone 2.JangoWuzHere

I don't remember half life 2 ever haveing fantastic lighting. Mainly back then HDR wasen't really in games at the time.

HDR can be considered an effect. Half-life 2 had good enviromental lighting, but not animated lighting, for example Doom 3 had really great animated lighting.

[QUOTE="Sully28"]lighting. If half life 2 didnt have such great lighting it wouldnt look nearly as good. Same goes for crysis and killzone 2.JangoWuzHere

I don't remember half life 2 ever haveing fantastic lighting. Mainly back then HDR wasen't really in games at the time.

This:

[QUOTE="JangoWuzHere"]

[QUOTE="Sully28"]lighting. If half life 2 didnt have such great lighting it wouldnt look nearly as good. Same goes for crysis and killzone 2.dream431ca

I don't remember half life 2 ever haveing fantastic lighting. Mainly back then HDR wasen't really in games at the time.

HDR can be considered an effect. Half-life 2 had good enviromental lighting, but not animated lighting, for example Doom 3 had really great animated lighting.

If you mean technically i suppose it would be textures and poly's as they're the foundation.

Overall, i'd say artstyle and performance, as the greatest graphics in the world are useless if the game runs like crap.

Framerate and artistic design.foxhound_fox

Framerate and artistic design.foxhound_fox

I agree.

I don't care how real it looks unless it's Gran Turismo.

I agree.

I don't care how real it looks unless it's Gran Turismo.

Rikusaki

[QUOTE="Rikusaki"]I agree.

I don't care how real it looks unless it's Gran Turismo.

foxhound_fox

Yep.

Motion blur, without a doubt.

(and yes, there is meant to be immense sarcasim in that)

Other than artistic style. Technically it's the textures for me how detailed they are and small details thrown here and there for everything overall, character models, environments, weapons, fire, water etc...

Blur

Killzone 2 FTW

JK, I will say textures

I don't know any of the technical terms but I'll just list games that really do the job for me;

Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy Versus XIII, Banjo 3, Prince of Persia, Killzone 2, Heavy Rain, MGS4, Heavenly Sword, Uncharted, Half Life 2, Valkyria Chronicles, Mirror's Edge (almost a flawless presentation), Star Ocean 4, Resident Evil 5, and a few others. Lol :P

it has to be ligthing, atmosphere and great art style

a game may have the best textures ever!!!! but without the lighting and atmosphere and art to compliment it, its as good having no textures at all!

this is the reason so many fanboy arguements about a game having superior textures fail cos that dont mean squat without the rest of the packagae

Framerate

Polygons >>>>>>>>> everything else

Where's the old school polygon love? :( I need a game with 9999 enemies on screen or a tree with infinite leaves. I don't care in video games are in black and white, but without polygons, there's no 3D world to venture in. I need a game to render so many poly counts that we can have grounds that are not flat or even better with movable dust laying all over the ground.

texture is inferior to polygons, if you can have different colour for each polygons, then you can leave the rest to lighting

(assume the frame rate is stable and above 24) For graphic it goes like this Polygon > physics > draw distance (depends on the game) > lighting > texture

As for art style... think sega saturn era. How I missed all those quirky and lovable, yet weird and funny looking things. I need more of those!!

Its not just one thing.Its all good things put together !

To NOt have vaseline filter as in KZ2 or GTA4 for PS3 and no ultra low-res shadows like MGS4.IgorVitaly

Are you kidding me ? Do you know what youre talking about ?

[QUOTE="IgorVitaly"]To NOt have vaseline filter as in KZ2 or GTA4 for PS3 and no ultra low-res shadows like MGS4.lesner87

Are you kidding me ? Do you know what youre talking about ?

yes i am but you are implying that you are half-blind that never noticed these issues with those games.

Hmmm the most important aspect of graphics, well its something I like to call prettyness...Philmon

That, if you mean prettiness as in happy looking places, I'm all for it. OutRun> Grand Turismo or MotorSport anyone? There're just too many diablos now adays.

Silky Smooth in motion with superior lighting & textures.

In other words; easy on the eyes.