I'd say.. yes.

Not many people worry about gameplay.. i certainly do. I agree with it factoring into immersion.. but that could be at the cost of gameplay. Games like Rage, for example.. I got it, thinking it was going to be a nice twist of the post apocalyptic genre.. i was wrong. At the cost of the beautiful graphics.. was mediocre gameplay. Not a bad game.. but not the best.

I've seen recently some gameplay of Skyward Sword, and the comments on it were ridiculous.. "These graphics suck".. and i felt like i was the only person worried about how the game would play.

Yep like RAGE for example. It could have used a little more work in the gameplay department.

XperiaRay

It's games like Uncharted and Arkham City that bring a good combination of great visuals and great gameplay to the table. In my opinion all games should do this.

XperiaRay

There has been. This is historically a problem with games from every gen, though.

The good news is that we're at a point in this generation where everyone's engines are more than optimized for each platform, so developers can concentrate more on the game itself rather than concentrating on making it look good and fighting with unknown hardware.

I don't know if anyone's noticed, but almost every big release this year has been an 8.5+, meaning the actual GAMES are getting better, because the focus on graphics has been lessened. It's the same with the last gen, many of the later games were the best of the generation (GOW 1/2, SOTC, MGS 3, Halo 2, RE 4). We're seeing the same happen here with Uncharted 3, Gears 3, BF 3/MW 3, Batman: AC, Dark Souls, Skyrim, Skyward Sword etc.

yes they are, and for one main reason, people dont understand what graphics means. Graphical power is just the amount of triangles you can use for models and backgrounds. Its all to do with textures and the choice of colour range, and i dont care if its as photorealistic as possible, as long as it looks good and plays well, which is how games were, and how they should be now.

graphics are the least important important thing in making a good game

And this gen gameplay has suffered beyond repair

skyward sword is the most interesting game visually coming up.

the rest are just boring

@below

your completelty off base

a game with amazing gameplay and not great graphics can still be an amazing game

A game with great graphics but bad gameplay is broken and will always be terrible.

graphics are the least important part of immersion. Characters, story, ect are all far more important in that aspect.

i think there is too much emphasis on graphics.

Recent example - Uncharted 3.
90% of comparisons are graphical.
ive not seen not one new comparison of gameplay. i dont know what new things one can do in U3 that we cant in U2.

oh and 90% of the comparisons between GT5 and Forza4.

nevermind that, take BF3 for example. its all about the Graphics. not how gamplay differs between the PS3 and x360 given the different controllers.

Graphics are crucial. If devs kept pumping out their games with poop textures/lighting, people would cease to invest their time and money. I like to be seduced by BOTH gameplay and beauty.

Easy for a game with good graphics to flop. Hard for a good game with bad graphics to make it. Only a few pull it off.

Real life has poor graphics the jaggies ugggh.

I wouldnt say there is too much focus on it, but overall I think a lot of devs or some of their games lack in the polish department.

There is some games that run like shit, have problems like bugs glitches. And many games could have had better gameplay as well.

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It is future proof. I haven't played a game like Crysis since and probably never will. Wasn't the greatest FPS but certainly it was special

Crysis looked MINDBLOWING in 2007 (at least the few frames I could render on my PC did), still looks good today, which is an amazing feat. But has definitely aged when you consider the wow factor it once had. Braid is a game from 2007 that's future proof bc the graphical style is so simple. Looked good then, looks as good now.