Does Improving Video Game Graphics Stunt the Quality of Games?
Throughout the years in the video game industry, consumers have expected the graphics to always improve. Does having the best graphics which takes considerable time and money take away from more important features of the game like story and game play value? As technology has got considerably better so have graphics in video games. Since the late 1970’s till now every few years there have been advances in graphics and the way games look. Each new console or video card that has come out the average person has expected better and better graphics. Has this desire to see better graphics each year stunted the release of games? Most of the time when reading reviews for an upcoming game, it seems that about nine of every ten reviews focuses on the graphics of the game. They are either awesome or they completely suck according to reviewers. Much of the other aspects of the game like sound, controls, storyline, and game play are completely left out of the conversation because graphics seem to be
