Graphics killed video games

Graphics killed video games.

Video killed the radio star

Unless you mean *any graphics*, then no, you're wrong.

Even if you mean any graphics, period, leaving only text games - you'd still be wrong.

I disagree, however I will say that games like Dwarf Fortress do benefit from having very simplistic graphics.

fonts are a kind of graphic. for a game to truly have no graphics it has to be sound only.

sound can be graphic, so it'd have to be PG or under too.

touche

Nah, consoles did.

Wether or not a game is good is mostly un-dependant on the quality of the graphics. I've played Crysis, and it was fun. But i've also played games with hand-drawned graphics, and games without graphics (text-based), and games like Rogue that use ASCII characters for "graphics" and i enjoyed those games greatly. Basically, graphics are not a factor in the games quality, it's just a tacked-on thing that you can enjoy separately. Most new games that have amazing graphics are horribly boring compared to classics that have worse graphics.

The age rating logo is a graphic. It'd have to come in a blank box.

>un-dependant

Whatever you wrote after that, didn't read.
Opinion discarded.

Videogames aren't dead, in fact we're living the golden age of gaming. Only if you own a PS4 though. I pity those of you that don't own one.

it was corporations

Voice-acting killed RPGs

Incorrect

The pursuit of high end graphics instead of game quality itself killed video games. When you focus to much on pushing the graphics to its limits while sacrificing stability during gameplay. That is what is killing games. I remember game developers worked within the limits, without wanting it to effect the game itself. Mastering the system's architecture allows you to push it graphics.

Yeah, pretty much. Today, in the age of corporate vidya, all that matters is that your game looks good at a first glance. Only the first impression matters, because all the companies care about is sales. So graphics are a big focus. Back in the day (or today, in the realm if indie game development) the focus was on making the whole game enjoyable, so graphics, story, setting, gameplay were all equally tended to.
I'm convinced that we're about to see a new videogame crash. As all the good game companies get bought up by big corporations, the focus is shifted from making good games to making money, which has given as hellspawn such as for example Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, the shittiest cash-in ever witnessed. And people are playing it, but i don't think that matters for very long. I think vidya will crash, and then Indie will be the new video game industry, and the cycle will repeat.

blame pcfags for that

I killed videogames.

Graphics and aesthetic can be a good part of the appeal of a game, it's just that it also needs to have good gameplay to back it up.

True. A good game needs to have good gameplay, but it does not need to have good graphics.

Good graphics, but no gameplay = It's a movie.
Good gameplay, but no graphics = It's a good game.

Close but no cigar.
Mainstreaming killed video games.
Splinter Cell Chaos Theory came out 12 years ago., name a modern stealth game that came close