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Sup mindset of modern game developers.

Seriously, good graphics do not excuse terrible gameplay. The same can be said for HD and Blu-Ray movies: If it's not entertaining, why bother?

Oh what problems I almost got in when the little brats I had to service at the toystore were cracking down on graphics in certain games. I'm one that still loves playing on his Atari 2600, an age in which graphics were either clear or unclear not pretty or ugly. Where imagination was necessary to make that one little square be a ******** awesome tank and not just a square. People still play Pong, people still play galaga. Why? Because the gameplay is timeless. Not because over the years the graphics got prettier.

yes i agree holey((sp))
ill give a more recent example then the pong and atari games((never played it)) i think oblivion pales in comparision to morrowind in the elder scroll game series, why. becuase in morrowind it seemed more limitless in a lot more ways, more magic avaliable((mark and recal, awsome once you get good enough not to fail casting it)) more weapons to choose from((more then just swords, axes, and such in oblivion)) and more armor((you can for example get unarmored which means you get tougher skin and thus get bonuses when not wearing armor or something like that))
though oblivion looked better, morrowind had a better story to me, shure saving the world is nice, but having your character a reincarnated dunmer hero who got betrayed and his freind is wanting a reuinion((shame you couldnt unite with dagoth ur and went and controled the heart and became a mortal god like vivic))
also the weapons looked tons better in morrowind then in oblivion despite the lesser graphics((better designed))
all in all morrowind in my opinion had few problems, one beign some glitches that happen but what game doesnt have them. and even then it was minor

I don't know i liked morrowind but it was hard to play in my opinion it was to glitchy, but i agree it was limitless, and if its the graphics ((i don't care much for them)) if you have the CPU version there are Mods to fix the graphics to more oblivion style, and it makes the game play so much more absorbing, though i don't liek the storyline as well as Oblivion's, it was alot easier to mod than Oblivion ever could have been. I mean i build a freaking tunnel system that went under the whole continent!