Poll: Which is more important to a good game? Music or Graphics?

[Pain_Inflictor]

I prefer music over graphics. A good example of this is Avatar: The game. The graphics are of ps2 quality but the music sets the mood of a lush tropical environment teeming with foreign life. Also, for those of you who know (like me) that all movie games suck, this one is actually very well done. If you saw and enjoyed the movie you will probably like the game.

 

[Sonofadiddly]

I think incredible soundtracks like the one found in FFVII are part of the reason why certain games are so popular, whether people realize it or not.

I actually own the FFVII soundtrack. I'm such a fan -_-.

 

[Kajt]

Music.

Best example: MORROWIND

Ah, you beat me to it. Music is far more important.

 

[Ham_authority95]

I couldn't give less of a crap about music.

I don't really care about graphics either so long as I can see wtf is happening

 

[Uncreative]

Graphics are far more important than Music.
You can't do anything about bad graphics, but bad music? Mute the TV, and put in a good CD or something.

 

[Indecizion]

meh depends on the game music is good for action games and horror games, but FPS will always benefit from graphics more than the music, though having said that the halo and crysis music are pretty bloody epic and are unmistakable when you hear them.

 

[Tommy T.]

Music. Dragon Age: Origins for example, immediately when I hear the title music my lust for darkspawn blood grows.

Hooah!

 

[Nannernade]

Graphics are good, I don't pay attention to the music, what I truly think is important is how the story of the game is told, how well they put together a plot. You can argue about music being the best all you want but without a decent plot there will be no need for music as there will be no game.

 

[Vianyte]

Music can often be the most memorable parts of a game

 

[Jasper Jeffs]

Graphics, if the graphics are bad on a game there isn't much I can do about it and it affects the experience a fuckload more than bad music, in which case I can just put on my own instead.

 

[Gir1yG4m3r]

I'm a musician, but I'm trying not to be biased.

I will also go to a movie, and while everyone else I know who saw it thought it was crap, I didn't. It's usually because the music in a movie/game will effect me so deeply that my opinion of it will be swayed if the music was good :/

 

[Misterian]

I can say this much:

Some games during the days of the NES were pretty good with music, while carrying perhaps generic graphics, I think Megaman was a prime example.

And the SNES Starfox game, it had shotty 3-D graphics that seem more at home in an arcade space-flight game, but it had some of the best music of the Super Nintendo's time, in my opinion at least.

 

[vxicepickxv]

With the evolution of gaming, comes a transference from music to being required to repeat and constantly play, but to a point where it can be used to help set up a game, playing when the developer needed it to, and being off when it needed to be off. Once again, I point at the original Resident Evil game as a point when music wasn't required all the time for a game. The silence is deafening in that game.

Music is good when it is used to suit the need of the game properly, when used improperly, it can have horrible results.

If you think music doesn't matter, the most successful movie franchises in history have theme music. Jaws, Superman, Star Wars, and Ghostbusters all have very memorable theme songs.

 

[Omikron009]

Graphics? A game can be forgiven for having shitty music, but it's hard to like a game with really shitty graphics.

 

[Harlemura]

I don't really care about either.
I suppose I prefer graphics. If the music sucks, you can just turn it off, but if the graphics suck you're stuck with 'em.

 

[delet]

It's quite simple really. You can get people to play music and convey messages of Epicness. You can set a mood in so many different ways and chill the the very hearts of your listener. Music can chill you to the bone or give you that extra little incentive to push on.

Graphics? While terrific graphics can work wonders for a game, they simply don't play as big a role as music. In a movie, CG MUST be up to date in order to trick the viewer into thinking the unreal is plausibly realistic, but for a game older graphics can look much more realistic because there's no comparison to actual humans.

Graphics are important to an extent, but music is overwhelmingly more useful.