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I personnaly think that the gameplay and storyline matter far more in a game then any fancy polished 3d engine; there are many exampls of games still enjoyed by people because of these two aspects even now in the 3d era(broken sword monkey island diablo 2 starcraft red alert 2 ... even counter strike if you like cuz those graphics really suck )

Just because gameplay and story line matter more, doesn't mean that graphics don't matter. I personally think that a lot of games wouldn't get recognized if they look like crap. You mention that Counter-Strike graphics suck. They suck compared to games of now, but when Half-Life came out, it was revolutionary. So 10 years from now, if you're still playing FEAR, or HL2, you'll think they suck too.

Actually, I often even think that good graphics make a game almost worse, cause they mean that a) they spend less time on gameplay and b) the system requirements are doubled
Well, Monkey Island 1 & 2 are almost a bit bad, but i still love those
Oh, and one of the problems with good 3d graphics is taht the gameplay gets adapted to 3d and i hate playing my good old adventures with stupid tomb raider controls... even more if someone gets the stupid idea to incorperate action stuff

The graphics dont need to be shiny for me, as long as they're clean. Games like Legend of Mana for PSX that are only 2D appease me visually by having clean, carefully created sprites and backgrounds. There are some games, though, especially older gen (N64 / psx era) that tried to do 3D a bit before it was really feasible due to hardware constraints, and it turns me off if I can't tell what's happening because the graphics are too sloppy, or if I can't control my character any better than if I were pushing a bathtub around. On the PC side, games can have graphic options and preferences, so high-end computer users can have all the pretty textures and flashing lights, while low-end pcs can turn it all off to get decent fps, since smooth gameplay in an fps is infinitely more important than how cool the explosion effect from a grenade is.

I like games with good grafic... but I count good grafic as good, if it is artistically good and not technically. Of course the story and gameplay is still the most important part of the game, so quality of art would be around the 3rd most important factor of game probably for me.

PS: of course technically grafic quality might improof the effect of the artistic quality. I mean a person with 200 polygones and a 128x128 pixel texture will still look cheap, even if the artistic is made well ^-^. But a person with 5000 polygons and multiple pixelshadered 2048x2048 textures will still look cheap, if the human propotions dont fit, the armor looks like made of plastic and all characters look like the others (example would be Oblivion, in which every person is as tall and as fat (or rather slim) as the other, just races might change a little).

Im happy to know that most people here consider graphics as not that important as gameplay and storyline.
Yes i agree that graphic cant be neglijeted but you cant just neglect a game because its still 2d and has apperared a couple of (or more) years ago.
I played half life at the time of its reliease and the graphics were still crappy to me The gameplay and storyline made me play it and enjoy it though

RTYUH R

absolutely agree. Gameplay is the important.

Like before i feel great that you agree with me
However isnt anybody around here that thinks differntly????? please state your opinion

you need both to be good, if theyre not then the games not worth playing imo

well...the graphic is important!!!if it sucks the game is not very attractive...so...

I think the replay value of a game has little to do with the graphics. I doubt people play games simply because of their graphics, but rather the gameplay. If you look at the sites telling their top 10 best video games ever, a lot of them are from the nintendo and super nintendo.

Graphics aren't that important at all. As already stated, gameplay is very important, so games without the best graphics, can be good (Tibia?).

-Krezarian

i'd have to say that grafics can be sacrificed to some extent, a good example would be everquest, if youve even seen this game you know, its massive, although the pictures might leave a little to be desired, and there is no blood, it makes up for it with sheer content.

Graphics aren't as important as the pure fun of a game- check out Oregon Trail II or A-10 Cuba! (really old...). They both were awesome but had horrendous "graphics" (if you can even call those textures such!).