Comments on: Whatever Happened to Colour?

By: PippinZ

PippinZ — Mon, 26 May 2008 05:04:13 +0000

It's a folly to polarise games between 'realism' and 'fun' when determining the reason people will buy a game. People will buy a game for any number of reasons. Besides, games can be both realistic and fun at the same time. :O

Wombat: It's not a matter of audience demographics when choosing the visual aesthetics of your game (except perhaps with childrens titles). It's a matter of what developers are trying to achieve with their final product. TF2 being a case in point.

By: Wombat

Wombat — Sun, 25 May 2008 23:50:25 +0000

Well, the answer is this. What audience are you addening to?

If you're going to by flight simluator because it's 'fun' you've obviously got no clue what you're getting into.
Just like if you're buying serious sam because you want a realistic gunning exprience.

Some older gamers what strict realism.
Many, many, younger gamers just want to have fun.

Outside that demographic it's just a crapshot.