If you are not new to the world of the internet and the gaming community, you have surely stumbled upon more than a few individuals who claim that graphics are not important in videogames. Well I disagree, they are important. Graphics influences the overall immersion in the world (to what extend they do so is debetable), developers need to strive for better graphics in all games. However no other element should be sacrificied for it, for example, it would utmost ridiculous if developers sacrificed gameplay for graphics. I am by no means a ''graphics whore'', I really enjoy playing older videogames whose looks have not aged that well, and still enjoy them a lot and manage to immerse myself in them, but I would be a fool to think that if those games had today's graphics they would not be more immersing. And you know what, even if we seperate the ''immersion'' bracket from the rest of the games paramaters, and dissect into several different parts, such as voice acting, atmosphere, writing, art etc, graphics would still be the least ''important'' thing in that section, at least in my opinioin. Yet they should still matter, because no matter how small it's contribution may seem if we dissect it, the overall clockwork needs to have all pieces working in harmony.
But what do you think of this issue ? Are graphics completely irrelevant to you ? Or are they one of the more important parts that immerse you in video game world ?
(I'd love to create a poll but it seems that I can't have both)
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