Graphical Fidelity vs Visual Style

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Originally Posted by Professor S

BaB... They rendered Sherperd's stubble and skin blemishes. That is realism regardless of whether or not the scars glowed due to powerful implants/reconstruction. The subject matter may have been fantasy, but the art style definitely was not.

But to use "realism" in reference to a game that has imaginary alien races and planets and weapons and gears and powers.

And claiming the game needed it, seems odd to me.

Mass Effect doesn't scream realism and could have worked with a stylized graphical style as well.