Originally posted by Armameteus:

Originally posted by Trakehner:

Apparently it does for today's entitled gamer masses.

What's sad is that many seem to think if a game doesn't have top notch graphics it's garbage.

Stylised visuals have their place and can look just as good or even better than photo-realism and age far more gracefully with time.

But, hey, to each their own. Everyone's a critic.

This remind me how the new generation used to Skyrim then Oblivion, could not play Morrowind, even with HD mods, as they found it ugly and unplayable. Even before, some players were fast at installing mods to have "better" faces (read: less stylized, more human-like, with "vibrant" colours and make-up) and "better" bodies (read; boobs for everyone, even catlike and snakelike people). It is as if some of us have difficulties to venture outside of their comfort zone, and immerse into an alien graphical universe, be it an excuse to save resources in open-world games, a lack in dev skil, or a genuine artistical design choice.