no but you are in front of this problem :Vault Dweller said:Well, I don't claim that the game is like totally awesome and surely one of the best role-playing games I've ever played, do I?
you basically developed this game in order to satisfy people like you (fed up with shiny grahics game without depth) so you insist on
1 : the storyboard
2 : the dialog
3 : the consequences
and you feel that if 1,2 and 3 are good (that is to say excellent compared to the "modern" standards") your game will rock for the elistist codexers because you think the graphics are not very important for your target audience.
But, I think (I may be wrong), you underestimate the underlying hidden graphic whores inside of each of us.
everyone mostly agree here that graphics are "just" good for the immersion, and if the dialogue, the choices&consequences and the storyboard are good, shiny graphics are not needed to have a good immersion, the proof : Fallout. Fallout has crappy graphics and remain an excellent game!
My point is : yes fallout has crappy graphics but these graphics were OK in the 90s, now with the time, we uncounciously raised our level of expectations about the graphics for a new game.
to sum-up : we enjoy fallout because it's an "old" game, but if it was a recent game I am pretty sure a lot of people would't do the effort to get used to the graphics because our level of "tolerance" (allowance?) isn't the same for an old or new game.
so to my mind, even if the graphics of AoD are not that bad and aren't horrible at all, but these graphics don't match the nowadays uncounscious level of tolerance even for all the elistist hardcore rpg player of this board.
of course, this isn't true for everybody, and every one on this board officially encourage you but don't expect too high future sales. don't forget that they will never admit they didn't want to buy the game because of the graphics they will use more subjective pretext, excuse like "we appreciate your effort but the dialogue eventually sucks/the combat system sucks/the storyboard is boring and repetitive)