Graphics or game play?

[Guest Ursmooth]

Both are important, but if the gameplay sucks its no fun to play. I think gameplay is more important, but not by much.

[Guest pragster]

Hell yeah gameplay anydya look at games like minecraft and terraria - horribad graphics but fun as hell gameplay and the are doing amazing.

[Guest Burden]

Both, but mostly gameplay. I dont want to buy a 60 dollar game if it has 1992 graphics.

like jestersout said, gameplay is the reason keeping me on cs 1.6 and not on the css

[Guest harry P]

i play fifa 2011 :P it has both graphix & gameplay ! :D

[Guest WebWizard]

I grew up with the Original NES, so graphics are not as important. Plus why waste money on a game that is terrible at game play? That just doesn't make sense to me. My favorite console is the SNES. And even though I have all 3 of the new generation consoles, I would rather play a great game on the SNES, than a terrible one on the PS3.

[Guest Fresca]

Both are important to me. I love games with beautiful graphics (Heavy Rain is gorgeous, IMO), but I still play GTA: Vice City from time to time because it's so fun!

[Guest ansem]

both.but gameplay first

[ThePosterizer]

Graphics. Just because I have a pretty good PC and I like to enjoy the amazing graphics on games I dl instead.

[Guest AntiLopa]

Obvious answer - gameplay!

[Guest agentFBI]

I love gameplay

[Guest Theros]

well with the way BF3 Beta is turning out. We don't have to compromise and we get the best of both worlds especially if you've had a chance to play the Caspian Borders map.

-Theros

[Guest macdown]

Graphics

[Guest SoloEx]

10% graphics and 30% gameplay and 60% stroryline to me a great storyline is very important to me, as for graphics, anything that uses pixel shader 2.0 and above with direct x 8.0 and above is fine by me . For gameplay especially FPS and rpg as long as there is weapon reloading and a gameplay that allows for a dynamic range of movement such as crouching is more than enough to satisfy me, such as the original half life series. For an RTS as long as the game has a brilliant storyline I don't really mind the graphics such as the original starcraft and red alert series. As for side scrollers and top down games a 40% graphics and 30% gameplay and 30% storyline I just could not stand the old side scroller games like megamen 3 and below, x and above is ok by me; when it comes to gameboy games but for pc side scrollers and top down games, graphics is more important than gameplay or storyline.

[Guest harun]

gameplay

[Guest andrx471]

To me, visuals don't matter without fun gameplay.

[Guest junkerseed]

The most obvious thing to say is gameplay, but we should remember that saying "graphics" hopefully doesn't just mean the technology involved. I would easily argue that Super Mario World, or DOOM have better graphics that than the brown, boring, generic look Gears of War for example (A game that I think is lots of fun because of the great pacing of levels and cover mechanics, but has the most boring, cookie cutter 'buff soldier dudes in brown world' design I can think of). I would hope that "graphics" include the art direction and design for a game, and that it all comes together in support of how fun it is to play. Heavy Rain would be a great example of a game that uses it's graphics to tell the story, where gameplay takes kind of a back seat.

So, sure, I'd say gameplay, because there are probably some games with flawed or boring design and bad tech that still manage to be fun, but I can't think of a pretty game with neat art direction but god awful controls, level design, etc that would be fun to play.

[Guest Adiamon]

Gameplay. Still play cs 1.6

[Guest eroticbunneh]

both but graphics the most

[Proteus]

I love them both. Skyrim had not great graphics still loved the story though.

[Guest igoylytes]

first gameplay and storyline, then comes graphic next ...

[Guest blackdragon]

Gameplay and the story or setting are everything - the graphics are nice but remain a very distant second -

[Guest Ch1mera]

As an avid PC gamer I like to have both, I play all my games on maximum graphics settings, but that doesn't mean that I find the actual gameplay less significant than graphics :) I've recently being playing Skyrim and Modern Warfare 3 for PC, both are great games in my opinion, but personally I think I enjoy the actual gameplay to Modern Warfare more, whereas Skyrim has better graphics :D

[Guest Sonitus22]

gameplay of course!

i've just read an article about overviewing games since 1990 and wow! i've grown up on games like warcraft 1-2, diablo 1-2, dooms, duke nukem 3d, red alert 2(i'm still playing with that one), carmageddon and so on - with those games i really enjoyed playing, though they had a poor graphics.

[Guest RoyalTenenbaum]

Working in games for the past 15 years, I have to say that gameplay is more important. I've played some pretty terrible games that were gorgeous to look at. An old PS2 game called "The Bouncer" comes to mind. I think the best thing that you can ever experience is when someone gets both just right. Game series like Assassin's Creed, Bioshock, Uncharted and Gear of War make me happy that gaming has finally reached the HD era.

[Guest raymond6424]

graphics always is the last thing for me to consider