Oh man, come on dude, move on from Graphics already now. This thread should be dead. Talk something new guys!! We all are going round and round, giving same examples.
Product is not fully done yet! You don’t know what type of settings are in the game!! So save your energy until you see more of the product!
Universally (at least according to this poll here https://www.debate.org/opinions/do-graphics-matter-in-video-games) graphics don’t play a major roll in the game. I am pretty amazed Graphics here is at 4 8%, still a minority though, so good luck convincing the rest of gamers why AOE should have a “realistic” graphic. Heck we don’t even know how much of AOE fanbase uses this forum.
Here is a thing, people who make games are way smarter than us. They bloody ■■■■ know their stuff. They have all kinds of data, logistics and market down…they know when the game should release, how it should release and with what kind of expectation people have.
Fact is, they don’t know you exist, they don’t know I exist. For them, there is only one entity that matter : MAJORITY! Majority likes the graphics, likes the setting, like the mechanics they see in that trailer so for them they matter. Even if they lose your and mine business, they know somewhere, someone just want to play a good game.
Let me ask you this, please rank these for me: Graphics (whatever you like it be), Audio, Gameplay, Performance, Modularity/Engine. Rank it, find a game you like, and play that for a while. Then look at this game after it shows more stuff.
All those games you mentioned have pretty poor performance. Some of those games you mentioned are also Console games, including Iron Harvest and CC3 & Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars. Of course, Total War can’t be ported to consoles, for obvious reasons (but they have mobiles ports, like CoH and Total Wars are already in ipad), but with those “graphical” fidelity comes cost. Most of the times that cost get put on us, via dlcs & micro transaction. Then you will complain “AHhh! I paid $60 for the game, game is half done.”
Let’s stop (or minimize) complaining and start appreciating. Not the publishers (even though they are the risk takers), but the people behind it. If you or guys like you can’t understand this, then I don’t what else to tell you besides just move on, really… you’re wasting your time. Nothing you or I say will change unless we are the majority.
Another last question…if Microsoft do (which I doubt) wants to make a game that can be played with a dad and son/daughter…then what’s wrong with it? If game sells more, and we get more games in the future, then what’s wrong with it? If not-so-dope graphics make this game run of many machines so many people can access it, then what’s wrong with it?
