What Is More Important To You?

[Q]

SE IV graphics and SE V combat engine and modding abilities would absolutely satisfy me.

[The Gnome]

Game play! By far! I still like a little eye candy mind you (and ear candy for that matter), but that is secondary to having fun.

[Suicide Junkie]

Kana said:
Santiago I dont know when you were born, but I remember before there were video games. One of my all time favorite games was one I played on the the Atari 800. It was a wargame sim of Midway, and the graphics were all ascii characters. I played that game for hours, it was nail bitting sending out your fighters to attack the carriers, and you wait patiently for the text report of how many you lost, and how many carriers you hit and or sunk.

Ah, I remember that thread... May 2004, good times.

Here is the compiled, colorized and speed-limited version of the game that we ended up with:
http://imagemodserver.mine.nu/nick/t...Midway_exe.zip

PS:
If I wanted graphics over gameplay, I'd visit a movie theater...

[StarJack]

Kana said:
I agree completely with you AT...

Santiago I dont know when you were born, but I remember before there were video games. One of my all time favorite games was one I played on the the Atari 800. It was a wargame sim of Midway, and the graphics were all ascii characters. I played that game for hours, it was nail bitting sending out your fighters to attack the carriers, and you wait patiently for the text report of how many you lost, and how many carriers you hit and or sunk.

Good example, I remember a port of that game or a knock off to the XT. I also remember hundreds of hours running contraband in Elite on the C64!

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I prefer gameplay to graphics, but sometimes I do want pretty graphics.

I think the real question is 'game quality'. For a 3D FPS, the graphics contribute quite a bit more to game quality than for a strategy game. For a roguelike, graphics contribute almost nothing and can detract, in my opinion. (I've noticed that graphical roguelikes seem to be simpler.)

[PsychoTechFreak]

Gameplay, to be more specific: AI !!!

[Saarud]

Gameplay is what makes or breaks the game in my point of view. And in regards of strategy I care zero about graphics however if I play an FPS (which I do occasionally) gameplay still is more important but graphics is really vital, together I call it immersion.

When it comes to graphical poor games with a loyal fan base take a look at Dwarf Fortress. It's a RPG/Strategy gfame being developed using only ascii graphics but with ALOT of content. I love the game and next to Dominions 3 it's the best game around.

Check it out if you don't beleive me.
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/

[Fyron]

narf poit chez BOOM said:
(I've noticed that graphical roguelikes seem to be simpler.)

I'd imagine that just has to do with the dedication of the programmers more than anything; roguelike graphical games usually just use tiles that don't take much time to make anyways.

[Possum]

There was no reason for an SE-style game to be 3D, none at all.

A First Person Shooter has to be 3D, and that's where 3D belongs.

That old game, are you guys talking "Carriers at War"? I had that for my Apple IIc, and it rocked, no doubt. Even on a monochrome monitor

Oh, and as far as graphics vs gameplay, welll.....

I'll take a game with boobies over no boobies any day

[Theonlystd]

id taken gameplay over this 3d stuff.


Sadly even EU3 is going the way of 3d =(

I hope it does better than this.