graphics don't make the game, id rather have an enjoyable game with a good storyline and high replay value over something that is pretty but when its over its over. =\

Graphics are like steak sauce, the sauce gives the steak (the game) an extra kick, but its the steak itself that matters. You could have the best steak sauce in the world, but it wouldnt matter if the steak itself tasted like shit.

When you start comparing games like Far Cry on the PC and Far Cry on the Wii...you start to realize how important graphics are becoming.

I really wish this whole 'debate' would be put to sleep. Its annoying now. Anyone with a working brain knows that a game does not have to have award winning graphics to be fun. However, great graphics can exponentially enhance the gameplay experience if it fits the game itself. While I have no interest in the Wii, apparently many people find its games to be very fun. If the PS3 and the 360 didn't exist, then the Wii's graphical prowess would be regarded as the best ever, as far as consoles go. Yet anyone with a brain in working order will also tell you that the Wii is simply not capable of the gfx that its competitors are. The difference is, the Wii does not need to have a powerful gfx card. Its doesn't have these large, life-like, immersive games that we see on the 360 and/or PS3. If games like Assassin's Creed, Splinter Cell, Lair, Uncharted, Alan Wake, Bioshock, and Rainbow 6 Vegas didn't have the high-end graphics that they do, then they would lose much of the immersion that the large, realistic world creates for the gamer. Would these games be just as fun on the Wii? Maybe, maybe not, but in my opinion, graphics certainly do not make a game. They just are as important as any other aspect of the develpment process and this topic really needs to be put to rest.

Seeker X is right. Graphics are important, but game play and the storyline is much more important than graphics.

Seeker and Sten your right, however this is where Final fantasy plays a big role. FF13 will have incredible graphics and Gameplay, since we know FF or RPG's for that matter have all three, and its cause of those game genre's that makes it a perfected game. Graphics, Storyline, gameplay. The 3 sides of the pyramid or triangle of gaming.

I can see the point he's getting at. Great graphics can greatly enhance Gameplay. It can be fun seeing everything in extreme detail, and can make the overall gaming experience more enjoyable.

But as many people have said, graphics alone don't make a great game.

I didn't know that the examples he is giving all comes down to graphics. I agree what he is saying is correct, however I think of graphics being how nice something looks, not how things such as trees are able to react.

Great Graphics, is important to me. I'd love having all of my games looking great. It definitely adds to the game play. Physics play a major role in the games as well. The Graphics are the detail of things, while physics and the laws of gravity makes the game feel like you're actually there, same with the weather and the environments.

Better Graphics are much better gameplay, but yeah, its not the only thing im looking for.

actually i only love games with good graphics like re and a good story line