Game graphic vs game design

i don't play DA2 yet, but i have watched it from You Tube and read some critics and comments, i don't want to discuss about bad or good the game is, but just about graphic quality vs design quality.

Most of the rants i read is about graphic, now that is in general in my opinion, when someone argue about the graphic, what actually he/she arguing about? The graphic set up or the game design?

For me, as far i watched on You Tube, DA2 graphic is fine compared with DA:O, and it is also okay compared with many other games out there. Yes it looks like Japanese manga a bit, but well we see 'manga culture" is acceptable culture in world wide, even Marvel Comic nowadays is manga-like. As far as i see, DA2 is not too manga-ish.

What concern me about game graphic is how well it will run in my computer, most modern game nowadays no matter how high their graphic are, i will always play the minimum graphic set up, or higher a bit to medium set up, like for DA;O my set up is all low except texture detail in which medium set up. So matter what, i will always play the lesser graphical experience of any modern game i play (except old games that does not need higher requirement)

Personally, i don't want to buy new hardwares and set up my computer as the whole just to play games, i use my computer for many reasons not just games, if meddling with the things i don't know about i fear i will ruin my computer, i have bad experience in set up-ing my computer, many times. I am just an end-user.  So i hope game developers make their games without high requirement for graphic,

It is a big different between graphic quality and graphic design quality, some may have high graphic quality but the graphic design is bad. For example, bad/ugly armor or weapon design, bad/ugly environment, bad/ugly characters design...so no matter if the graphic quality is high, the whole graphic experience in the game is bad/ugly because of the design.

Up to today i still see two handed sword in DA;O is ugly, the weapons and shields are ugly, some armor is good in design like Juggernaut Armor and Templar Armor, but other armors are so ugly, not to mention mages robes too. So even if i buy a new computer and set the graphic quality high, it will still look ugly to me.

So, there must be a balance between graphic quality and graphical design quality.

Modifié par Nizaris1, 16 février 2012 - 06:39 .