Graphics vs Aesthetics

[Abriael]

Your opinion on aesthetics is heavily influenced by graphical power from what you have said, you are apparently a person who prefers high graphics to artistic direction, This is fine, you represent the opposite side, but your opinion is just an opinion, one of many dont assume that your opinion is fact.

Nope. I'm stating that graphical power needs to be balanced and coherent with art direction. That's not really an opinion, as that' what's conductive to actual quality in a game.

The ones advocating that art direction can stand on it's own without caring crap about the graphics supporting it, normally do so just to look "artsy", but that standpoint is hardly conductive to quality. Quite the contrary.

I am proberly as a disadvantage, be cause the only thing of Killzone 2 I playied was the Demo. I didn't go for the game, because I felt like I had seen it before. The armor designs and art direction reminded me a lot of Fallout.
To me it didn't feel orginal. With a lot of games conforming to the gray/metalic world, perhaps I got too used to it and missed something.

Fallout 1&2 != Fallout 3, especially in art direction and graphics. Fallout 3 was released way, way after Killzone. So, if you see a similarity (that I don't see, by the way, Fallout 3's art direction isn't nearly as dark, gloomy and oppressive as Killzone's. Fallout's armors aren't designed to be nearly as terrifying as the Helghast's) then you might wonder if Fallout 3 copied from Killzone, not the other way around.

Mind you, Originality is by no means a necessary factor for a good or even exceptional art direction, even because at this point complete originality in videogame art is pretty much impossible. Influences are inevitable.

Original != Good
Not original != Bad.