[THE BIG WEEKLY QUESTION] Textures are for wimps, right?

[Fez]

Yo

I got Far cry 2, landed early yesterday - I guess GAME loves the new place I've moved to 'ey? But anyways, next week I'll be slaving away over a big giant article on... well I can't say just yet - but it'll be the Big Yearly Debate, except I'm gonna debate with myself.

Anyway, since FC2 is out today - thought this would make a good question - would you take realism over 'fun factor'?

Sometimes the realism can get you immersed in the action, and even make it more fun - after playing Far Cry 2 for a few yours - you start to really get into it: only then you can enjoy it as it is. But a game such as Team Fortress 2 with a abstract art style - can be more... funner...

[J0SH]

As real as it is it's funner

[mangle]

I pick fun over real, both preferably.

Btw hows FC2?

[J0SH]

Pretty amazing, I was playing online and it's so crazy and fun

[Fez]

I pick fun over real, both preferably.

Btw hows FC2?

A bit shallower than expected, but the multiplayer is better than I expected.

[Coheed&Cambria]

A bit shallower than expected, but the multiplayer is better than I expected.

Ive heard of LOADS of people that after the first few hours/days of playing it, it gets better.

[Hated]

Don't care about realism really since my fav game atm is super metroid lol.
Anyway i don't like the big weekly question it's anoying.

[Supersam]

Always fun!

The more realistic a game is the more I am wowed by it... but some of my favourite games have been the ones that not many people had but were humungous fun to play and no where near real.

[Josh-H]

I've been playing FC2 and the realism gets almost annoying at points, your gun jamming halfway through a fight or having to get out and fix your car halfway through a journey... and their definition of real fixing is pressing y and watching a boring animation.
For a FPS, there's a lot of unneccessary non-shooting stuff in it.

I'll take fun over realism thanks, but really I'd have a nice balance.
In the end though these are games, if they aren't fun then what's the point?

[Minstrels]

I'd rather have both however if not, fun.