Comment on 'Friendslop' dominated 2025 by proving time and time again that graphics are overrated
artyom@piefed.social 1 day ago
Don’t agree at all. If you’re limited on resources, you can certainly make an excellent game without intense graphics. But sophisticated graphics also can make a game. I often find myself in these types of games just wondering around and taking in the view and appreciating the artwork in it.
Of course a good game will also be efficient and not require a fucking $2k GPU to run properly. And with hardware prices going through the fucking roof it’s also good to ensure that your game will run at all on low end hardware.
sophisticated graphics also can make a game
I agree to an extent, but good graphics can’t save a game with bad gameplay.
I bet you’ve never heard “the game isn’t fun but I put hundreds of hours into it because it’s beautiful!”
In contrast, good gameplay can save a game with abysmal graphics.
I’m willing to bet money you’ve heard something around the lines of “it doesn’t look great but I just can’t stop playing!”
Right but that’s not what it says. It says “the pursuit of fancy graphics doesn’t make sense anymore”.
This is the case for most of the original NES games.
Yeah to say they dominated seems a bit extreme. Some people are mostly looking for a virtual activity to do with their friends, and for those people quality of the game itself is secondary in a lot of ways to the ability to play it with their chosen people.
Agreed, couch co-op games are doing well in general because they’re an easy hangout activity and only require one console/computer. Couch co-op has been out of vogue amongst the big publishers (I’m sure a fortnite player is more valuable to them) so people are using what’s available. The few by big publishers with nice graphics have been popular as well (split fiction, it takes two).
mohab@piefed.social 1 day ago
It all comes down to personal preference.
This is not the case for any of my favorite games, for example.
artyom@piefed.social 1 day ago
It was not presented as personal preference. It was presented as “the pursuit of fancy graphics just doesn’t make sense anymore”.
mohab@piefed.social 1 day ago
Yeah, I am saying I think it comes down to personal preference, not arguing against your point.