So how important is the game's graphics to you?

[zuhane]

The only thing I don't like is where they're trying to make the graphics look better than they are. Pixel graphics and RPG Maker
and stuff doesn't bother me at all, because it looks sharp in a sense. The Wii's resolution really annoys me though, so I don't really
like playing anything in standard definition.

[Prpl_Mage]

The Wii's resolution really annoys me though, so I don't really like playing anything in standard definition.

Now that you mention it. A lot of Wii's game got the unsharp thing going on, skyward sword for instance.

[Archem]

I think that Skyward Sword is trying to go for a blot style on distant masses. The textures look very similar to... Some... Artist. I forgot the guy's name, dammit. Anyway, they said early in development that they wanted to try and make the game look like a painting, and in some respects, they've succeeded. It seems like a good way to make things look better while keeping the processing cost low.

[fruckert]

Skyward Sword is supposed to look like an Impressionist painting, as I recall.

But yeah.
I heavily prefer stylized graphics as opposed to realism.
It's a lot harder to **** up a cartoon than it is to fall in the uncanny valley.

[Prpl_Mage]

Valkyria chronicles had a good art-looking style going on as well. Cell shading ain't so bad.

[fruckert]

i love cel shading so much
But, I'm a total cartoon geek.

After I get money I think I'm going to buy dvd sets of all of the old Cartoon Network shows.
Because total ****ing nerd.
Having a complete set of Courage the Cowardly Dog and Powerpuff Girls would be so worth it.

[Archem]

Courage? Yes. PPG? Honestly, I got my fill back when it was still airing new episodes. I dunno, it ran dry after a while.

[Moosetroop11]

Do you remember that episode that was a reprise of the one where Mojo Jojo turned everyone into dogs, and this time he did the same plan but didn't turn the powerpuff girls into dogs so they wouldn't bite him in the butt and he wouldn't drop the statue thing and lose, and how he's wearing a metal plate on his rear as a "speeecial precaution!", and he spends the whole episode explaining this plan, and when he's finished they just beat him up?

Man I loved that episode.

[fruckert]

Yeah, that was a great one.

[Rikushinblade]

Graphics are important because they represent game play and art. I mean you can have the best story in the world but the graphics could be crappy (aka rpgmaker games).

[Archem]

That's not fair, he's actually good at that ****.

[Moosetroop11]

I argue that a game with rm2k3 graphics can be just as fun as a game that's on the shelves, MIC's maps aside.  Bluhman's Alpha Team, for instance, was a work of genius.  I wasn't looking at that and going 'if only there was 3D...'