Are you a gameplay person or a graphics person???

Im a huge video game fan like big, and im sure you guys are too. i love the fact how peoples opinions are so different, like some guy would prefer cod 4 and some would prefer cod 5, love to hear people justify there reasons, so on to more justification, properly a past topic, but i dont care i has properly not been seen for a while. but anyways im a gameplay fan, example bought doom 3 today played it thanks to compatability patch for my 360 graphics average , gameplay..amazing, there are so many reasons that gameplay is more important then graphics another example these big movie tie in games some of them sweet graphics and we all know the gameplay is going to be shocking lol.

so you a gameplay ]person

or

a graphic person?????????

Gameplay is easily more important than graphics. If a game has bad bameplay, but good graphics, how will you be able to enjoy the graphics when you're so frustrated? But, if a game has good gameplay, but bad graphics, you can still enjoy the gameplay and story without being frustrated so badly.

Graphics do not bother me if they are bad. its all about the Gameplay and Storyline

Gameplay.

otherwise Mega Man 9 wouldn't have been my GOTY for 2008.

Gameplay is easily more important than graphics. If a game has bad bameplay, but good graphics, how will you be able to enjoy the graphics when you're so frustrated? But, if a game has good gameplay, but bad graphics, you can still enjoy the gameplay and story without being frustrated so badly.

Phoenix534

I'm a gameplay person all the way! Graphics are nice and totally add to the experience, but if the gameplay sucks, I don't care how amazing a game looks. I will take a game that has great gameplay and decent graphics over a game that has amazing graphics and decent gameplay any day of the week.

Gameplay, but it is nice when the graphics complement it.

Gameplay.

Both are very important. I bought my 360 the first it came out and cost me $550 all in all and I think its fair to expect the most out of this things.

gameplay is a lot more important than graphics.

If it doesn't play good, it isn't a good game. This is the truth of it.

A game could look great, like Aion (An MMORPG from NCsoft)

But if it doesn't play good, like Guild Wars (Another MMORPG that NCsoft produced) it isn't as great a game.

The inner workings decide whether a game is fun or not. For instance, as silly as this sounds, anyone who played a Pokemon Gameboy Game as a kid (And had any form of determination) probably enjoyed themselves. Those games are simply sprites and dull colors, definitely not as graphically strong as say, Armored Core 4.

However, Pokemon was fun because of generally GREAT gameplay.

Armored core 4, despite a great look, boiled down to "Strap on the biggest gun, tap triggers, win."

I can enjoy graphics. I prioritize gameplay. All of us should. Games stop being games when they start being movies. (I'm lookin at you, MGS4)

Shadow Complex is an example of a Graphics enhanced twist on agreat genre BTW, anyone who ever liked a Metroid game will find it easy to enjoy Shadow Complex's gameplay, and the graphics are both nice AND even, in many places, used as part of the gameplay. (3d world, explored in 2d fashion, so enemies appear at times in the background, or even the foreground.)

Gameplay for me.

I think they are both equally important.solo4321

same here

Gameplay is more important. But i like a game with great graphics over the rest.

For me it has to be the gameplay. That's not to say I don't like nice graphics, but when I play a game the graphics tend to fade into the background after the first twenty minutes, so a game has to be engaging in other ways to keep my interest. A great looking game with poor or average gameplay won't impress me.

I love graphics but gameplay is most important because nice graphics are just that nice graphics.

gameplay>graphics every day of the week. Starcraft and Diablo 2 look terrible by todays standards, but they are still my favourite games of all timechaoscougar1

gameplay.. :P..

Gameplay is the most important, but if i was to chose between two games that have good gameplay like the conduit, and modern warfare i would chose modern warfare because of the better graphics. and thats why the wii is a bucket of fail.

Gameplay and story, as well as realistic characters, are the most important. Although if a game has good graphics, it puts a massive blob of icing on the cake (so to speak). And getting it to shelves in a finished state is important (NWN2, anyone?). As well as good patches.Ching_Fireball

BTW the cake is a lie.

with the tech 2day, you can have both but developers are either lazy or cheap, but many of them seem to balance that equation

Gameplay, which is why I can find a lot of enjoyment from the Wii.

I don't see how you can't be a gameplay person.

Game play has to be the thing in mop cause the 360 does have its limets far as graphincs go. Unlike the pc where you can upgrade the graphic card to the latest thing. The 360 can't so graphics will get better as time goes along but it can only go so far. There are some games that look great on the 360 like Halo 3 imo but others not so great like Halo 1 but yet I still play the game from time to time cause I like the game alot.blackleather223

Halo 1 is like 8 years old.

considering I played atari games as a child...graphics are secondary to me. gamers nowadays are graphic hors. They pop in a game and dont even give the game a chance just because of the graphics...you know your out there. prime example of gameplay over graphics for me {GTA: San Andreas over GTA 4}

Some of my most favorite games are for older consols like nes, atari, snes, etc.Graphics are not important, gameplay is.

Sorry, but I'm a graphics whore all the way.

i appreciate both, games nowadays are expected to have good graphics but games like prototype which arent amazing in the visuals department are incredibly fun because of the gameplay and free nature of them. so i can have a different opinion for other games. for example i like my racing games to have good graphics just for the immersion but other than that i appreciate gameplay a whole lot more

Gameplay.A game can look visually amazing...but if it's as boring as watching paint dry; why would you even bother to play it?

I think many completely new gameplays require better hardware and graphics. E.g. I could not imagine GTA IV or Crysis running on low graphics. i would totally destroy the gaming atmosphere.

So I am not one of these Wiignorants who say that you do not need good graphics to have a great gameplay. I say graphics is an important feature of any 3d game. It is art. The better the hardware the more the developers can use their potential.:)

if only gameplay was important to me, i'd own a wii but its not!

I think 360 has the best of both worlds from what i've been playin'...