Apparently the graphics only have to be as good as Castle Wolfenstein to satisfy my brain. That's the first game that caused me to bob my head to see around a corner on my monitor. Compared to today's games, Castle Wolfenstein is about like Pokemon, though I've never played Pokemon so I'm guessing.
On the other hand, I get a different kind of enjoyment out of the graphics when they succeed in bringing distant objects into the field of vision and paint things with actual photos of things.
I agree the game play is the most important. Nobody wants to spend hours overcoming the same challenge in slightly different circumstances over and over again. I get a bigger kick out of a good physics engine and amusingly good AI than the graphics. I was highly impressed when I was the subject of vehicular hot pursuit in Far Cry and when I turned around to try a head-on confrontation with the pursuers, they veered off the road and crashed into a boulder, blowing up themselves and their vehicle. It may have been a random binary accident but I was very impressed.
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Apparently the graphics only have to be as good as Castle Wolfenstein to satisfy my brain. That's the first game that caused me to bob my head to see around a corner on my monitor. Compared to today's games, Castle Wolfenstein is about like Pokemon, though I've never played Pokemon so I'm guessing. On the other hand, I get a different kind of enjoyment out of the graphics when they succeed in bringing distant objects into the field of vision and paint things with actual photos of things. I agree the game play is the most important. Nobody wants to spend hours overcoming the same challenge in slightly different circumstances over and over again. I get a bigger kick out of a good physics engine and amusingly good AI than the graphics. I was highly impressed when I was the subject of vehicular hot pursuit in Far Cry and when I turned around to try a head-on confrontation with the pursuers, they veered off the road and crashed into a boulder, blowing up themselves and their vehicle. It may have been a random binary accident but I was very impressed.