[General Discussion] Are developers afraid to make 2D games on Consoles now?

Originally Posted by Lord Jaroh

I honestly wish that more 2D games would come out. Right now people have such a hardon for graphics that something gets forgetten in the process: Actual gameplay and enjoyment. When 2D games were in their heyday, that's what developers had to focus on when making the game, since 2D graphics would only take them so far. It became up to the game itself to determine if it were good or not, rather than the pretty screenshots put up to sell the game in advance.

This argument must be printed on the backside of every cereal box or something for it to get recycled so often.

The problem is that this argument is flawed. You see in the conditional you've used the consequent doesn't follow from the antecedent.

We can break this into 2 seperate arguments:

If a game has good graphics
Then it is not the case it has good gameplay
(P > ~Q)

If it is not the case a game has good graphics
Then it has good gameplay
(~P > Q)


P Q |(P > ~ Q) > (~ P > Q)
T T | T F F T| T |F T T T
T F | T T T F| T |F T T F
F T | F T T T| T |T F T T
F F | F T T F| F |T F F F

Using this truth table shows that there is at least one interpretation which is false which means this is not a truth-functionally true argument. That means to make the claim that games presently being released have non-existent gameplay because they have good graphics is false. You need to revise your argument.

Back in 1994 there was this gem of a game called Flashback: The Quest for Identity. Apart from having a very engaging plot and great gameplay it was also an absolute technical showpiece. It used motion captured animation along with animated cinematics and the graphics were stunning! Truly a game ahead of its time. To say this game’s graphics back in the ‘heyday’ were limited is rather meaningless because 10 years from now it’s quite conceivable that we’ll be saying the same thing about HALO and <insert game here.>

Jam it back in, in the dark.