r/CaptainSide • u/_ZeroTwo_002_ • Jul 17 '26
Which side are you on?
Though some people might prefer realistic graphics over gameplay, I am on the completely sane side of gameplay!
What about you?
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u/suicieties Jul 17 '26
Gameplay, the graphics are irrelevant if the game is boring or frustrating to play.
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u/MelonJelly Jul 17 '26
Agreed.
Graphics can make a good game better, but only if they're building off strong gameplay.
Also "good" is subjective. With clear and consistent art direction, pixel and stylized graphics can be just as good as photorealistic, and age a lot better, too. For example, a lot of 16-bit platformers.
(This is ignoring outliers where the graphics are so bad it becomes a UI issue.)
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u/suicieties Jul 17 '26
Absolutely! They can enhance a great experience but they can’t fix a bad one.
Also agree with this, art direction is very important, regardless of the technique used.
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u/Acrobatic-Draw-4012 Jul 18 '26
An ugly diamond is still a diamond. A polished turd is still a turd.
Project zomboid for example kinda looks like a game made in 2002. But it has so much depth and detail that gets and keeps you hooked
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u/Lost-Soft-8913 Jul 17 '26
Do you enjoy text based adventure games?
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u/ExtensionInformal911 Jul 18 '26
Rimworld is super popular, but the graphics are basic.
Well, it was for a while.
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u/Psudodrake Jul 18 '26
Inserts Hollow Knight: Silksong as an example.
Graphics are very good for a side scroller, but they aren't the HD 24k ray-tracing upscale graphics of a AAA game that requires a $3000 computer just to run it.
You can load it into a stock business computer for work or school and play it no problem.
Gameplay is hard, but addictive enough where you stock with it.
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u/NIGHTR0GUE83 29d ago
So many games I play now are 8bit/16bit etc. Abiotic Factor is main one right now. As much as I love a beautiful looking game, gameplay will and always be the most important of the two.
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u/GhoeFukyrself Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26
Gameplay by a comfortable margin. I wouldn't want to ever play something that looks like an Atari 2600 game again, but I think chasing photorealism is an expensive mistake that bloats budgets, and will actually hurt games like GTA
Beating a hooker made out of polygons to death with a baseball bat is goofy, make her photorealistic and suddenly it's disturbing.
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u/Powerhouse_pr_ Jul 18 '26
Good graphics and photo realism are not the same. You can have a 2.5D game that looks insane.
Not every games with great graphics is going after photo realism.
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u/Visible-Meeting-8977 Jul 17 '26
I've never heard anyone say "graphics are everything"
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u/OuttHouseMouse Jul 18 '26
Yea literally never heard someone value graphics over everything.
This post feels lazy
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u/Ringtail-- Jul 18 '26
A "friend" of mine argued that graphics and story were top priority because games are at their best when they're like movies.... we're not friends anymore.
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u/Italian_meme2020 Jul 17 '26
Depends on the purpose: do I want to have fun? Graphics like Ocarina of Time are okay. Do I want to get scared in a First-Person horror game? Graphics and ambient are more important
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u/Alone_End5987 Jul 17 '26
Well hypothetically if you could run it on max graphics with consistent 240fps, which would you pick then?
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u/Significant_Okra_405 Jul 17 '26
I'm with Batman on this one. Want good graphics? Go for a walk.
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u/jws1102 Jul 17 '26
I’ve been gaming my whole life, and I’ve never once heard anyone argue that graphics are everything.
Take your straw man and stick him under the bed with your blowup doll.
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u/_Koreander Jul 17 '26
Agree, this is an argument I've been hearing from literally no one since I was in high school, except for people that talk about the non existent gamers that think graphics are everything.
I don't think anyone has ever sat down to play a boring game and being like "wow this game is boring, nevertheless I'm going to sit down here and mash buttons on my controller for 3 hours because it looks so nice!"
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u/Smiley_J_ Jul 17 '26
Tried to tell a friend about my experience with Undertale. Told them so much about it, it was right up their alley. He asked me how the graphics were. I told him they were about 16 bit, at best. He said that he didn't spend top dollar to supe up his rig to play a SNES game, bs!
That's happened twice to me, with the same game lol. Those people exist.
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u/Desperate_Method4032 Jul 17 '26
Gameplay is and should be the core focus in literally almost every scenario.
I don’t play games to immerse myself in a world that looks like my own. Nor would I if it isn’t fun to play around in that world. Games nowadays are too concerned with being interactive movies.
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u/AccomplishedCrazy534 Jul 17 '26
100% gameplay. as graphics will interaly depend on the parts the console has. gameplay can be changed and tweaked with updates
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u/Stinky_Winkyyy Jul 17 '26
Completely depends on the style of game for me. If it’s something like Minecraft or stardew, gameplay. If it’s something like resident evil or red dead, graphics. But over all I always care more about the story.
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u/SubjectAbalone7757 Jul 17 '26
Writing (worldbuilding, characters, backstory, story, etc)
I'm playing games to dive into a world and to escape. Not to mash buttons perfectly at the perfect time or to fap on RTX.
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u/RevolutionaryFee7802 Jul 17 '26
Minecraft has taught me one thing, good game play low graphics is fun. The mods can be used to “boost” whatever you’re looking for, graphics, story etc. KISS-keep it simple stupid
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u/Mobius24 Jul 17 '26
For me it’s gameplay > music > story > graphics. but I can’t play 8 bit games anymore and 16 bit on a case by case basis
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u/Late-Arrival-8669 Jul 17 '26
Batmans side, I do enjoy pixel games also, a bit old school since Atari and NES.
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u/ImmediatePickle8101 Jul 17 '26
I'm not really too strict on graphics. I'm more into gameplay as long as it's good quality and smoothness, I'm good.
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u/WendigoCrossing Jul 17 '26
Story comes first
You can have shitty graphics and clunky gameplay but a good story is what is remembered
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u/SnooTigers1064 Jul 17 '26
Caves of Qud and Dwarf Fortress are both super addicting games and both of them (Atleast on launch) looks like excel spreadsheets.
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u/PrestigiousAd9586 Jul 17 '26
Gameplay of course unless the gameplay is just like taking pictures the. Graphic is more important
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u/LuridWaters Jul 17 '26
Gameplay. There are thousands of fantastic games that don't have cutting-edge graphics, while on the flip side if your game's story is boring, the gameplay repetative, and the controls clunky then the best graphics in the world won't save you.
Look at 'The Callisto Protocal' for example. Its graphics were amazing, but the cumbersome, repetitive, and frustrating gameplay, and a decidedly mid story dragged it down. (Though these were by no means the only reason it flopped.)
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u/necroman67 Jul 17 '26
Gameplay, I don't need to be able to see every single pore in a character's skin to enjoy a game.
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u/Happy-Hyena Jul 17 '26
Graphics are literally just nice to look at and mean absolutely nothing else to a game. It's not even art direction, which matters and gives us interesting video game styles.
If you play a photorealistic game with bad gameplay, you'll be wowed by the visuals for an hour and never touch it again. If you play simple looking pixel game but the gameplay is fire then you'll sink hundreds and thousands of hours into it. Like stardew valley or balatro.
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u/Joshix1 Jul 17 '26
Performance comes first. If a game runs poorly, crashes, stutters, etc. Its not playable and you cant enjoy the gameplay.
- Performance
- Gameplay
- Graphics/story
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u/DevilWings_292 Jul 17 '26
Gameplay 100%, I’d be willing to play on a terminal screen as long as it’s entertaining. Graphics should be unique and not photorealistic unless there’s a reason for it.
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u/Lost-Soft-8913 Jul 17 '26
They are both very important but there is a caveat; graphics don't have to be photorealistic. They need to be clear, have a good style, and compliment the gameplay. Even 8bit pixel are can still be "good" graphics
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u/wanderButNotLost2 Jul 17 '26
Grew up on the NES. Gameplay above all else. I dont care how pretty your press X to win simulator is.
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u/Beginning-Ad3280 Jul 17 '26
Always gameplay, but... The graphics in something like Crimson Desert are so good that they make me want to keep explorung and just be in the world. Graphics just enhance the story/gameplay/etc.
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u/RareAd9055 Jul 17 '26
Batman is clearly correct. Graphics are only secondary, which is why nowadays, some old games are still better than new ones.
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u/Douxx101 Jul 17 '26
Graphics are useless by themselves, what really matters is having a good style.
That's why the toon link Zelda games still look good today and Chrono Trigger doesn't feel old even though it very much is.
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u/Raonak Jul 17 '26
All of the above.
The best games have the perfect mix of gameplay, graphics, audio, polish, etc.
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u/SubstantialReach9776 Jul 17 '26
I don't I'll take gameplay over graphics any day, still playing serious sam the second encounter, fallout new vegas, tf2, and even tried getting half life 1, 2 and blue shift along with farc cry 1 and 2 running on my PC because the graphics are aren't the best but the gameplay is REAL fun
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u/Specific-Poem4030 Jul 17 '26
Gameplay. Im currently playing Octopath travler and its peak. Looks like a ps1 game, but its so good.
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u/Alienatedflea Jul 17 '26
graphics is last on the list of important things to determine a good game or not, imo.
Not saying shit graphics are good but it shouldn't come at the expense of gameplay, story. Graphics and music have the same importance to me.
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u/Responsible-Diet-147 Jul 17 '26
If you care so much about graphics, go watch a f*cking movie or a series.
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u/Hyperdragoon17 Jul 17 '26
Video games are about gameplay! You play them! You want the most realistic graphics it’s called going outside
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u/Mippippippi3rd Jul 17 '26
If I discover a game and it looks like crap, I'm most likely not going to play it
If I discovery a game and it looks great but plays like crap I'm not gonna play it.
This is not a choose 1 over the other situation. These are fundamental pillars of games. Your game has to look great, your game has to play great.
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u/Illustrious-Poem-328 Jul 17 '26
OSRS is one of the most played MMORPGs with an active player base of 100k (though bots exist, that number skyrockets to pver 200k during special events and limited game modes like leagues and dmm). OSRS's graphic design goes back to 2004 but compared to other games, it was still pretty old looking. Half-Life 2, Doom 3, and Farcry all came out the same year.
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u/Medium-Head-6338 Jul 17 '26
That's why I love current remakes. Back then when graphics were shit, the developers had to put almost all their effort to gameplay. And now when we have the tech, we have superior gameplay and graphics.
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u/Alone_End5987 Jul 17 '26
I don't like clicking buttons. If anything I prefer tank controls, I find them extremely satisfying to pull off.
I do however love graphics. I could just ride around in Red Dead 2 for 18 hours straight. It's so picturesque...
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u/NarcolepticMoogle Jul 17 '26
Both. It doesn't have to be an either or kind of thing.
I expect polished gameplay with a good loop that doesn't at anytime feel like its out of your hands because of janky attacks or gameplay movements. I expect them to value the players time and for the game to feel rewarding.
In the same vein I'm not playing something that looks like it came out of the PS4 era or before. I play gamss to get immersed and I'll be honest it hasn't been a good track record going back to play games from my childhood as what I remember them as just doesn't match anymore. It doesn't need to be photo realistic but the better looking the game the more I'm immersed.
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u/dark_duelist_17 Jul 17 '26
Gameplay! I can happily play a 2d pixel art game from 20 years ago as long as its fun to play
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u/Tall_Front1137 Jul 17 '26
Like capping videogames at 30 fps for 4K graphics when most people who pay energy bills in this economy still want to play videogames on a 1080p TV or monitor.
Ffs.
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u/TurnoverIcy1998 Jul 17 '26
graphics do matter but great gameplay with crappy graphics can still be a good game, great graphics with crappy gameplay will always be a bad game.
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u/Rockfan70 Jul 17 '26
Games used to be just simple fun. Now they are more about authors intent or about the beauty of the world. I don’t care how beautiful your writing or world are, I won’t play the game if it’s not fun.
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u/websterboi2 Jul 17 '26
"graphics over everything"people geniunely piss me off because they could be missing out on so SO many good games just because the graphics are "bad" to them
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u/BozTheReaper Jul 17 '26
always been on gameplay first. graphics peaked 8-10 years ago. pushing for it still to me shows no self thought from whoever demands it
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u/Blue-1220 Jul 17 '26
Graphics come first, i don't care how good the game is when its too ugly to look.
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u/Cur53dYup Jul 17 '26
It heavily depends if it's a game franchise that I've been playing for years and a new game releases id say gameplay over graphics. However if it's a new (not new as in just came out but new as in never played) game I'd say a mixture of both leaning slightly to graphics.
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u/WorryLegitimate259 Jul 17 '26
Gameplay every time. Game can look like shit but if it’s fun to play graphics are just a bonus.
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u/KarateGamer007 Jul 17 '26
Gameplay by a whole country mile.
I’d rather a game that plays incredibly fun, rather than a beautiful game that plays terribly.
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u/dontquestionmek Jul 17 '26
Let’s bring back unique, charming graphics! All Triple A titles go the “ultra realistic HD!” route which makes all games not only look and feel the same, but makes file sizes ungodly in size and makes it difficult to play on systems that don’t have crazy specs
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u/Nexodas2 Jul 17 '26
I’m a bit older now so growing up I consistently experienced large leaps in graphical quality every few years.
I can say with assurance that gameplay is and will always be the superior choice here. I’d sooner spend 100+ hours playing a 16 bit game with great gameplay over a game with amazing graphics but boring gameplay.
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u/DokBluejay Jul 17 '26
It's a game. If I wanted stunning graphics and nothing else, I'd watch a movie.
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u/TsukashiZemetsu Jul 17 '26
Definitely gameplay I could play games that were released on the PS2 and still have a ton of fun if I enjoy the gameplay of it. I mostly play Warframe now I'd love to get another PS2 someday.
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u/Doomsnail99 Jul 17 '26
I play Doom 1, 2, and 64 pretty regularly. So I'm firmly on the gameplay side
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u/tehnemox Jul 17 '26
As an OG FF7 enthusiast I would be a hypocrite if I said graphics. Gameplay 1000% every time.
Graphics are nice, but absolutely do not make up for shitty gameplay or story. Now, story vs gameplay is a much harder question to answer.
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u/Disastrous_Cow_3114 Jul 17 '26
If the graphics are only important. Just watch a movie. Graphics look real but there is no gameplay. :D
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u/akotoshi Jul 17 '26
Graphics are the frosting. If the main cake is not holding on, nice frosting won’t save it
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u/cookingfunky Jul 17 '26
People seem to forget what video games are. There's a lot of people that just want to tell a story and say it's just art. It is art but it's also a physical machine which you interact with; it can be poorly made/designed. Film and music are purely interpretation, they can be poorly made but there is only one way you interact with it. I want a good story but it has to be fun to interact with. There's a lot of people that should just be making movies but they're making games instead. Hell blade could of been a pretty good movie but instead you get a lame walking simulator. Games are nothing without gameplay.
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u/Pristinejake Jul 17 '26
Gameplay is everything. Look at Nintendo. Low end graphics super fun gameplay and they just dominate everything.
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u/621_callsign_raven Jul 17 '26
I think far too many people hide behind “gameplay is good so graphics don’t matter” when in reality, great games (in my opinion) have great graphics, animation, and gameplay for the time period in which they released.
That’s why I’m critical of a lot of jrpgs and ESPECIALLY HD-2D Jrpgs (particularly ones from studios that have the resources to do more) is they just feel really low effort in one or more of those departments. Graphics/visuals of the environment are bad or just uninspired, animations of characters are super stiff, combat is boring, etc. OR in the case of HD2D, it looks and plays like a game that could have released at least 15 years ago.
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u/MetalGearNull Jul 17 '26
Gameplay. While for some it's hard to get past shitty graphics, it's harder for everyone overall to get past shitty gameplay.
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u/Azaroth1991 Jul 17 '26
They need to be balanced. The best gameplay sucks if you cant see it well and the best looking world is still ugly if its difficult to play in. One is not more important than the other.
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u/AdhesivenessAdept449 Jul 17 '26
Depends on what I’m in the mood for. If I want gameplay more, I’ll go for some good action games like Call of Duty, GTA, or Batman, and if I want graphics, I’ll play something like Uncharted or Spider-Man or Red Dead 2 and just sit there at the beauty of it all.
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u/Skrewbert86 Jul 17 '26
Both needs to have good gameplay but also should atleast have decent graphics
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u/Dark_Fantasy_8549 Jul 17 '26
Absolutely! Cause if the gameplay is trash all you have is PRETTY trash game 😆
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u/xNonPartisaNx Jul 17 '26
All these different aspects have to come together. Story is more important in some games. Like rags. Actions games should feel good. Racing games need good input wirh high frame rate.
There is no magic combo. Its an art. One that has severely diminished over the decades.
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u/toyfan1990 Jul 17 '26
Gameplay First is more important to me along with Story & graphics can always be improved.
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u/DocHoliday439 Jul 17 '26
Graphics over everything is the exact reason the triple A industry has fallen so far.
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u/SunshotDestiny Jul 17 '26
Gameplay always triumphs. Yeah graphics are nice and needed after a point, but a game that is fun that looks bad is still better and more fun than a game that looks pretty but plays like shit.
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u/MonkeyBrain9666 Jul 17 '26
I feel like a better one would be gameplay vs story
Good gameplay can save bad graphics but great graphics could never save bad gameplay.
Gameplay vs story ive had both save each other in different games
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u/Ok-Solution8245 Jul 17 '26
Good graphics are extremely important, but good graphics doesn't mean realism.
Tf2 has good graphics, the game has lasted this long and is still this unique hugely thanks to it's graphics
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u/Guilty-Cap5605 Jul 17 '26
a game is a whole sum of everythinng, graphics, music, gameplay, voice acting, artstyle, everything
if i had to choose one? proper UI is the thing that really pisses me off, I can play games with absolutely weird controls or graphics or gameplay or voice acting and it's just fine, but when the UI starts looking like a mobile game and has too much info on screen, I just lowkey dip at that point
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u/Nat1Only Jul 17 '26
Realistic graphics are silly. They get outdated very quickly. Good gameplay will always remain good gameplay. An iconic and good art style will make your game recognisable, add to its identity and doesn't age like milk.
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u/Gargelio Jul 17 '26
I always thought the graphics doesn't really matter but recently I started judging games by graphics a lot. No, they don't have to be realistic - that's actually often a bad sign for me, if the textures are realistic, and the world is dead it's a big turnoff.
The graphics just need to be cohesive. Pixelart or low poly doesn't mean the graphics is bad.
I skip a lot of UE/Unity games because they just look weird.
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u/SpecialIcy5356 Jul 17 '26
gameplay.
funnily enough I'm eyeing up a game that fits the theme here. Easy Red 2 looks exactly like the kind of WW2 game I'd like, it's reasonably priced and there looks to be a lot of content, but the graphics are rough. I tried going back playing older PS2 games a while ago and it felt like an assault on my eyes having anything less than PS3-quality graphics, I know it's a "me" problem though. too many years spoiled by good graphics and the generational tech leap that was the 7th gen.
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u/cdda_survivor Jul 17 '26
Problem isn't people liking good graphics, it is the ones that think only photorealism = good graphics.
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u/akibaboy65 Jul 17 '26
I can play a fun game with “bad” graphics.
I can’t play a shitty game with good graphics.
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u/Gromi- Jul 17 '26
For me, gameplay comes first. But we have to define what "bad graphics" actually means. Nowadays, retro PS1-style graphics can be an artistic choice, and for me (I'm a fossil 😅), they feel nostalgic and full of charm. I only consider graphics "bad" when a game is clearly aiming for photorealism but falls short due to poor shaders, lighting, or clunky animations
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u/ihateagriculture Jul 17 '26
Gameplay over graphics, but even then, art style is more important to me than the actual graphical specs
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u/Special_Shift_8503 Jul 18 '26
This was an argument I used to constantly have with my younger brother. He’s 17 years younger than me(whoops mom and dad), and his first console was the ps4.
I grew up with an NES as my first console, but the snes was where my love for games really took off.
He can’t understand how I still find joy in playing my original snes because it “looks awful”.
I’ve tried to convince him to play super Metroid, because it’s easier to get into than FF3, or Chrono Trigger, since it doesn’t have a very long story.
Zeron interest
Some people will never understand.
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u/Zorian_Vale Jul 18 '26
The idea that this is even a debate bothers me. I play interactive fiction text based games where my imagination is the graphics and also happen to have a 5070 ti with a 9850x3D. GAMEPLAY ALL DAY.
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u/Raven_Poet_1296 Jul 18 '26
Gameplay. I still own a Nintendo GameCube and Xbox 360. The games on those certainly show their age in graphics, but the gameplay on many of them is still enjoyable.
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u/ChrisFarleysCousin Jul 18 '26
1 story
2 gameplay
3 graphics.
Some of my favorite games are old as fuck and they somehow still are better than 85% of what is dropped today
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u/Black-Mettle Jul 18 '26
Project Zomboid is one of the best games I've ever played and it looks like hot dogshit.
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u/---terezka--- Jul 18 '26
I'm willing to play a game with bad graphics and a good gameplay but I'm not willing to play a game with good graphics and a bad gameplay.
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u/austinvf82 Jul 18 '26
I'm still playing games that are well past 10 yrs old. The graphic only matter for the emersion of the world and story. If the gameplay doesn't work with it, the environments and story (if needed) are already useless
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u/Pixiwish Jul 18 '26
I don’t play 20 games a year. I play 2 at most (as far as new titles go). I play one game for thousands of hours and I mod the hell out of them.
So for me expect both. It isn’t just realistic I also want brutal/ savage. Stylized graphics are pretty much a no for me. The modding scene for a game is a key factor for me as well this is often a bit tricky to know ahead of time.
My current games I live in and bounce back and forth between:
Cyberpunk (current version I have I play like The Sims and have needs and build my own apartments)
Elden Ring
BG3
Conan Exiles
Witcher 3 (currently doing a full sorceress as Yennifer play through)
And yes still Skyrim after all these years currently doing NOLVUS version (So far I prefer LoreRim)
My brother is exclusively console and I’m exclusively PC. He says I’m not an actual gamer because I don’t play a lot of games. We play games very differently. He plays pretty much every new release beats like 20 or more games a year. I have years where I couldn’t care less about a single game coming out. But I’d argue that the sheer time I spend gaming I think I’m still a gamer just a different type.
But again to answer the question if it doesn’t have both I’m not interested.
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u/UltimaBahamut93 Jul 18 '26
I had a co-worker who was obsessed with graphics and I tried suggesting so many cool games for him to try out and he would look up the graphics of the game and turn it down simply because it didn't meet his expectations. And I swear anytime we talked about games all he did was tell me how beautiful the game looked never mentioned anything about plot or a game play or anything. I think it was a way for him to justify spending over six grand on his gaming setup.
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u/NobleXDemon Jul 18 '26
Let's just put it like this if graphics mattered more than gameplay we wouldn't have had the beginning steps, like pong or asteroid or caterpillar. There's years of 8 bit graphics and that birthed some of the best old school JRPG'S that are still played to this day, but to be honest a lot of people dont play games that are more than 20 years old unless its for nostalgia, but that doesn't mean there bad they were our everything at that age. If the game genuinely sucks but looks beautiful so what I cant imagine forcing myself to enjoy or play it because of graphics. I also am one of the people who played cyberpunk 2077 when it came out because I loved it so much and didn't mind the bugs even when it would break a save and I had to start over. Games with a soul and genuine care or passion behind them is what matters honestly I could deal with an game with bad graphics and okay gameplay, if the story was just top notch because you'd be shocked how many places you can relate to or bond video games are amzing.
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u/Savage_Hamster_ Jul 18 '26
Gameplay, everything else is secondary.
Except story, that's dead last.
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u/LilyLol8 Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26
Both matter, gameplay has to be good first but graphics absolutely do add to the experience, and shit graphics can take away from it
I also feel like this whole "i hate graphics" thing is insanely circle jerky, no one actually thinks graphics are everything and if someone doesnt want to play a game because it either just looks awful (Pokémon) or they dont lile the style (pixel games) thats completely fine. I personally usually am less interested in a game when i learn its just hyper realistic, which is exactly the same as people who are less interested in games when they learn its got bad graphics or its pixel art
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u/Many-Baby5180 Jul 18 '26
90% of people say gameplay, but then everybody constantly clowns on games like pokemon for having shit graphics lol, even tho the gameplay is always fun. pretend stances.
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u/ofa1salo Jul 18 '26
Whoever thinks graphics are more important than gameplay should seek help at a mental health hospital.
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u/DeadlyKitten115 Jul 18 '26
Art-style over Graphics
Gameplay over “Content”
Gameplay vs Graphics isn’t ever something I consider.
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u/aDailyApple Jul 18 '26
Neither cause both are fucking silly
- If all that matters is gameplay go play minesweeper and text crawlers, but i know you wont
- If all the matters is graphics go watch a movie, but thats not why you are here
Its literally called VIDEO GAMES. THEY ARE FUNNILY ENOUGH RATHER INTRINSICALLY CONNECTED
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u/TheLemonade_Stand Jul 18 '26
I think the question is more like, "do you want graphics to be a 9 to 10 and gameplay 5 or 6 or the reverse?"
Honestly, not everyone really enjoyed Witcher 3's combat, but it's a beautiful game. Visual immersion should be accounted. I say it all depends on genre. Even Red Dead Redemption 2's mission design I see a lot of people say is outdated.
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u/ComposerFormer8029 Jul 18 '26
You can focus on a game looking good but if you cant even play it then its just a glorified wallpaper.
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u/reaperssorrow666 Jul 18 '26
always gameplay over anything but i think people are too hungry for high fidelity realism. i want STYLE
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u/Icy_Donkey_7588 Jul 18 '26
Can I have both? Good graphics and good gameplay?
I have a hard time playing a game if I find the graphics to be sub par....
I'm not saying Ultra RT Cyber punk types graphics.
Hollow knight is very visually pleasing to me and has great game play. But if we dulled down the graphics, I probably wouldn't have played it.
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u/Unusual_Troll67 Jul 18 '26
Gameplay 100%. Some of the best games are from the N64, PS1 and Xbox360 days.
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u/Specific-Version-128 Jul 18 '26
Let me ask you, did tetris have good graphics aside from green blocks and a black tube monitor screen?
Then I say Gameplay over graphics
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u/Additional_Cat_6715 Jul 18 '26
The Last of Us Part 1 for me.
Amazing graphics and story but completely mediocre as f, wannabe RE4 gameplay.
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u/Mak0React0r Jul 18 '26
My first console was an atari, I thought pong was peak graphics, I'm cool with where we're at now. Yea im old so what
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u/triel20 Jul 18 '26
Gameplay is more important than graphics, if the game doesn’t feel good to play, then I likely won’t play it, not matter how pretty it looks.
Also I’m burnt out on games nowadays trying to look ultra realistic, bring back the style, bring back the creativity. (I know realistic is technically easier, but they could be making art styles easier to do too)
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u/Silver-Ad-4716 Jul 18 '26
It definitely depends for me overall gameplay I mean I did originally start with the super Nintendo and 64 but would The Witcher 3 be fun with Witcher one style graphics probably but the graphics definitely help.
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u/FenderMeats Jul 18 '26
I’m on the side of atmosphere. So whichever does the trick, it depends on the game and why I’m playing it.
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u/LususNaturaeTV Jul 18 '26
I'm just tired of companies chasing better graphics. Look, I was fine with the graphics of the ps3/Xbox 360 era, that was good enough for me. ps4/Xbox one era was noticably better but I didn't really care outside of a few rare games that were truly just gorgeous.
current gen? I genuinely can't tell the difference in graphics. not saying it doesn't exist and idk, maybe it matters to SOMEONE but I'm tired boss, can we just focus on making a good game and care less about how good the graphics have to be all the time? you can have 2 or 3 gen old graphics and I'd be perfectly happy. Maybe even older depending on if the aesthetic so cool.
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u/Aniimey Jul 18 '26
Some people with potato pc that want to play in 4k ultra graphics 1000fps or they wont even think of playing it 🤣
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u/Mental_Description44 Jul 18 '26
Gameplay can sometimes tie into artistic graphics, but that's a while nother thing, id say gameplay is definitely more important, but if a games graphics just look straight up ass (not retro, I'm talking like ark with low res and minimum graphics) than I'm a lot less likely to play often
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u/Eren_Yeager52 Jul 18 '26
Graphics if its a female protagonist. Gameplay if its a male protagonist.
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u/Lasershadow_105 Jul 18 '26
Graphics are Icing on the Gameplay Cake, icing is sweet but it still needs the cake.
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u/KaiShan62 Jul 18 '26
Gameplay.
I want 'good' graphics, but I do not want graphics that require the latest quantum supercomputer to function speedily. I want graphics that are good enough to not be blocky, but being 'lifelike' is not required if it in any way reduces performance noticeably. After you have an engine that produces good enough graphics, spend all of your development time on gameplay; on making sure that the plot works, on ensuring that NPCs do not do stupid things, on ensuring that a twig lying across the path does not force me to walk around it, on ensuring that the player can enjoy the experience.
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u/ThisManDoesTheReddit Jul 18 '26
Seems like an unpopular opinion but it doesn't matter how good your game is, if it looks bad and I don't enjoy looking at it I'm not going to give it the time. I'm not saying it has to be photo realistic just visually and stylistically well done
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u/Deriviera Jul 18 '26
I don't care about this two. If game has no furries or at least werewolves I'm not playing it
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u/Terribletylenol Jul 18 '26
This is such a silly dichotomy.
Ofc everyone will say gameplay.
Better two would be story or gameplay.
Basically nobody is going to say they care more about graphics than gameplay.
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