BaB Presents: Where'd Wii go Wrong

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Angrist

People just care too much about graphics.

Well, like most things, it depends.

My favorite wrestling game of all time is Wrestlemania 2000 (or better yet, my import of Virtual pro Wrestling 2) for the N64. I still play that game to this day, and I love it for one reason: Gameplay. To this day I believe it is the single greatest fighting engine ever created. I picked it up after about 5 years of not playing it once, I intuitively knew how to play the game.

But keep in mind, the entire point of that game is gameplay. There is no real story, beyond fighting enough matches to earn money and unlock moves, hidden characters and skins. So poor graphics don't take anything away from that game because there is nothing for those graphics to augment.

Now try tanslating that to a game such as Devil May Cry, SOTC, Oni, Doom 3, The Condemned or Resident Evil... Those games depend on graphics to create a mood and help tell the story. If you have pathetic graphics in those types of games, it would kill what those games are trying to accomplish.