[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Tartan 118 I feel inclined to make a new thread about this, given how ignorant some people are being on the matter. I'll give it a while.[/quote]Make another post here. Don't make a new thread in hopes of stardom. [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Tartan 118 Hipsters will claim graphics aren't important. Unfortunately (for them), they're wrong; like it or not, graphics are the first thing that you experience of a game, and, for the vast majority of games, the main means of experiencing them. If the game is difficult to understand, or looks so bad that you feel ill, or if there are aesthetic clashes and things that just don't look good in the art style, it's going to ruin your enjoyment of the game. Maybe not completely, depending on how bad it is, but your opinion will be affected nevertheless.[/quote]Graphics are the first thing any consumer sees, and that's why the industry puts such effort into them; they're the main selling tool. It's like the cover of a book - it draws you in, feeds your interest, but you didn't buy the book to gawk at the cover. You brought it to read. Graphics can enhance the user's experience, like how the cover of a book can give clarity to a thing being described, but it doesn't make the whole experience. Like I expressed in my prior post, graphics that clearly depict what they're meant to are far better than graphics that strive for photo-realism in this console generation, because the technology to accommodate such a feat isn't there. Even when it is, photo-realism isn't required; it's just an artistic choice. [Edited on 09.16.2012 8:08 AM PDT]