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I'm tired of hearing about the same Pikmin 3 news over and over again. Just let the game release, and let players discover some features on their own. 

Hmmm... I've seen those luscious lips elsewhere before.

Majora's Mask is just amazing. My favorite Zelda game of all time, and my favorite game of all time.

I agree, but I also think that they are all amazing in their own ways, though none of the mobile ones lived up to Link's Awakening for me.  That one is my favorite mobile game of all time.

yes, look at those lovely low poly models that are more prominent now with this texture pack lol

He has certainly gone insane.  No one, and I mean no one, pays a modicum of attention to the damn grass blades in Crysis.  Sure the game looks great, but its the mechanic that gets people to buy into it.  Graphics are important, but photorealistic graphics are not important at all, so long as it the art direction helps to create the same immersion he is referring to.

Also, production values have absolutely zilch to do with whether a game will be fun to play or not.  Absolutely none.  There are several examples of fun games with extremely low production value, and absolutely horrendous games with AAA production value.

The most important thing about a video game is it's gameplay, graphics should never take priority over that. If the gameplay blows, the game blows, and graphics aren't going to be able to make the game better.

They don't even bother with gameplay anymore, they look at what else is popular on the market, ape the mechanic, spend $$$ on making it look cool and photorealistic, then hype the game based on the visuals alone.

This is what all of them are doing most of the time.  Uncharted is pretty popular, lets take that gameplay mechanic, swap in Lara Croft as the lead, hire a script writer to come up with some over-dramatic plot line, spend all our money on visuals, then sell it.  Then complain that 3M in sales in one week isn't enough because the production values were so high we can't break even.