What makes a game good? Â Is it gameplay, graphics, fun, controls, story? Â It’s hard to say, but Skyrim developer, Bethesda, says that one thing is a certainty: graphics definitely matter. Â And if you say that they don’t, you’re a liar. Â Not my words, those came from Pete Hines at Bethesda in OXM’s latest podcast.
“There’s a lot of people who say graphics don’t matter. To them I usually say ‘you’re lying’,” said the developer on the latest OXM Podcast. “People will look at a screenshot and make a snap decision: ‘that looks awesome’, or ‘I’m not interested’. So if you can make something look amazing just at first glance, it’s so much easier to get them.”
There’s a bunch of games that hold their own simply on the merits of their gameplay. Â But having a well rounded experience is the most important thing. Â It’s just as easy for a developer to overlook gameplay, focus on graphics and ultimately make an average game. Â Ultimately this is strange coming from Bethesda, their last few games haven’t exactly been the pinnacles of gaming. Â That is, unless you are into plastic faces . Â Which understandably, many are.
I do understand though, I’d be saying this too if my next game looked like Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
