Yeah, obviously it would be great to have my cake and eat it too, but in my opinion it is better to have decent graphics but spend the lion's share of budget on other things than to have amazing state of the art graphics and skimp on other shit.
One of the reasons I like anime-stylized RPG games so much. Anime paperdolls are super-cheap to make, require minimal animation budget, and yet are also highly expressive and descriptive of how the character "should" look.
Cost-benefit-wise, they're such an obvious choice to make, that it makes you wonder about the games that choose to NOT do them. Why waste that much budget?
Yeah, obviously it would be great to have my cake and eat it too, but in my opinion it is better to have decent graphics but spend the lion's share of budget on other things than to have amazing state of the art graphics and skimp on other shit.
Yup. I love excellent graphics, but if the game is good, as long as the graphics aren't ass, that's better than a bland game with top notch graphics.
But imagine if the heart that went into older games was still going into modern AAA games. We really could be having our cake and eating it too.
One of the reasons I like anime-stylized RPG games so much. Anime paperdolls are super-cheap to make, require minimal animation budget, and yet are also highly expressive and descriptive of how the character "should" look.
Cost-benefit-wise, they're such an obvious choice to make, that it makes you wonder about the games that choose to NOT do them. Why waste that much budget?