Ack wrote:Personally, I can live without the best graphics and online features, but while I wish story and gameplay were more important, I do like that music is considered important. You ever played a game with crappy music? It genuinely starts to hurt.
If you doubt me, try The Ring: Terror's Realm.
Oh I agree that music and sound effects can ruin a game somewhat, but even if there's no volume control for the music in game, you can at least turn the sound on your device off. Back when I was plying Project Entropia in the beta and 'post beta' *cough sputter* days, there were a few sounds that were terribly loud and annoying. I went and found the sound effect files for the sounds, loaded them into an editor and halved the volume which fixed them. Then I started spreading it around the friends I had in game. Most games that require sound queues to be playable do have good sound though.
You know, I've actually always considered music more important than graphics. Music creates emotion and sets a mood. Important for story based games and can really elevate the gameplay as well. An epic battle versus hordes of enemies is just you killing off a bunch of boring polygons without a suitably epic and memorable soundtrack, and it doesn't matter at all how pretty looking those polygons are. Graphics generally don't make much of an impression on me unless it is something really artistic like Okami or Rez. Though both of those games brilliantly incorporate the graphics into the gameplay and Rez is actually the best interplay of graphics, sound and gameplay I have ever seen
RyaNtheSlayA wrote:
Seriously. Screw you Shao Kahn I'm gonna play Animal Crossing.