Fallout 4's graphics have been contentious since we saw the game's first trailer earlier this month. Now, the man in charge of the entire project has weighed in on the subject, stating that "graphics matter."
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"So we started with [the idea] that you want to be in your spaceship and to fly around a planet or fly smoothly over to that moon or whatever, right? It started there, then we're going to have this mode where you're going to go fast.’ Then it was, 'Well that needs to have some gameplay, what would players expect?' And that's where we got into all of the systems that Free Lanes has."
It's definitely a step in the right direction and I hope they keep improving on it. But honestly, that's the very least that should have been in the game from the start. He's saying it like they had an 'idea' that people would want to actually fly their ship around. That should have been obvious already from games like No Man's Sky and Elite Dangerous.
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"to a certain extent"
No.
Gameplay matters. Story matters. A lack of technical issues matters.
Graphics do not. They're a shiny coating to help sell a product and nothing more.
Edit: That I'm getting disagrees only goes to show how shallow gamers have become. I guess all games prior to PS3 just suck to everyone because characters aren't composed of millions of polygons. smh.
Graphics always matter, but not in the way that some people might think. I care about a game's graphical fidelity, but not whether said game's graphics are 'realistic' or not. I look for whether or not the graphics enhance the art style of the game, and if the game calls for realism, then the graphics should reflect that. A game like Cuphead certainly doesn't have realistic graphics, but it does look phenomenal.
As for Fallout 4, I think that the graphics look fine because they match the world. The environments look wonderful. I suppose the character models could be a little bit nicer, but mostly on the animations front (from what I've seen). Then again, Bethesda RPGs have never been known for their outstanding character models. Really looking forward to Fallout 4 for many reasons, graphical realism isn't topping that list.
Atleast he admits it. graphics do matter.
Graphics do matter, as different graphical styles can completely change the tone of a game, but I think there are other things more important, like gameplay.