SpiderFan1217 wrote...
asaiasai wrote...
I think most of you are spoiled today, i remember playing Taipan on the trs-80, all text, what graphics there were were pretty low res, explosions consisted of some screen flicker, you want color do not worry about it we have 2, black and white.
It is a balancing act, content vs pretty that is the choice the company and the player makes. Look at ME2 it looks great on my PC but it is a weak game, the interface sucks among other things. Now look at DAO it does not look as good as ME2 did but DAO was a far superior game. I myself would rather the balance be more towards content as DAO was than towards pretty as ME2, but that is probably the old timer in me.
Asai
While I disagree with your comparison of DA and ME2. (I loved everything about that game.) I agree with the point you were trying to make. 
These teenage punks are spoiled.
I realize there is an age difference and i am somewhat of a minority ( a hard core gamer over 40) but as i have no kids, no bills, no wife, and i have no intention of making/collecting any of the listed, i can afford the high end computer components to make a serious game computer. My computers can handle anything the industry wants to throw at it, and when they can not we upgrade to more than is necessary. But even with that graphics IS NEVER the primary consideration as to whether i will purchase a game. There has to be a reason to buy a game, just because it is pretty (Crysis) is not enough of a reason to buy a game. Crysis looks great, runs great, and plays just fine but as it is a shooter (and as i have been shooting people in the face on the internet for 15 years now) Crysis just does not offer anything other than fancy graphics that is worth buying.
I look at ME2 and i see what was done from ME to ME2 and for all intensive purposes i am just going to spit it out, ME2 was an over hyped expansion pack for ME that took a step backwards. They minimized or removed important game play aspects, namely the interface, (seriously use, cover, sprint all taged to one key) no crouch key at all, removal of the character customization options by no inventory, the special armors have non removable helmets, the missions seem to be more of a time sink than anything else lest folks complain the game is even shorter than it was. All of the good stuff that made ME good was "streamlined" out of the game but in comparison to ME, IT REALLY LOOKED GOOD. I mean WTF is that? My point is that ME2 looks night and day better than ME but ME2 is so much less of a game than ME it seems a poor trade off to get good looks to attract the ADD crowd, at the expense of quality game play. I am not going to buy ME3 unless Bioware fixes those problems. I am on a PC, and an expensive one that i built, so if Bioware has to streamline and minimize ME3 because of the poor hardware of the consoles so be it just so long as the PC version is unaffected.
I am willing to give Bioware the benefit of the doubt with DA2, they earned it with DAO, they also earned pre order status for ME2 because ME was good, but if they ME2, DA2, the next Bioware game i buy if any will come from the bargain bin. There has to be a game there, there has to be a reason to double click the desktop icon, and i am saying fancy graphics are not enough, at least for me. I would much rather a game have depth in content and story than look pretty, pretty will get boring real quick with out substance. Do not get me wrong i do not hate ME2 but it is no ME and it is certainly no DAO, and that is where the **** up is.
Asai
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