No nuance

[–]RockleyBob 50 points 3 hours ago* 
This is Reddit in a nutshell.
For years all anyone talks about is, say, resolution.
Then someone says “hey, frame rates are important too.”
And this becomes the edgy thing to point out anytime someone mentions resolution, and it gets upvoted because everyone likes to feel like they’re a maverick and going against the grain, even though after a few months literally everyone is in agreement and there’s no one left to argue with except straw men.
Then someone says "Not every RPG needs to be open world."
And everyone is like “YAS QUEEN!!! Preach!”
And now that becomes everyone’s favorite contrarian cry until the halls are echoing with the same regurgitated opinion.
Now the new hot take is gameplay > graphical fidelity. Except pretty much everyone agreed with this anyway. But any mention of graphics and it’s like a sleeper-cell trigger phrase that awakens a redditor’s instinct to type “gRApHicS dOn'T matTeR tO mE”.
The problem with all this, of course, is that none of these things are inherently bad. More pixels, lifelike graphics, and open-world designs are all good things in the right balance. But the internet doesn’t do nuance, so it’s just one giant Sith convention in here.
I started playing video games on the Apple II, when the "graphics" were green and black squares. One of the biggest reasons I play video games is to marvel at how far the gaming industry has come in the last few decades. I also love splurging on powerful graphics cards now and keeping my system current. As a kid, my family's old Gateway 2000 struggled to run Warcraft. Now, I'm older, I work hard, and that's how I like to spend my free cash. It never gets old for me. I will never, ever get tired of being amazed at realistic 3D worlds and beautiful artwork and technical leaps in graphical fidelity.
It doesn't mean I prioritize realism over gameplay, or that good graphics can make a bad game playable.Popular opinion: Todays game developers should stop trying to create photorealistic graphics. But form memorable moments like this. : gaming (reddit.com)