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[troop18546]

My valid point about graphics (sit back, cause this can take a while... None of this material is meant to be insulting or flaming or rulebreaking.):

Many people go around saying that graphics are the reason to buy and respect a game. Good graphics or superb graphics do not a good game make. First of all, the game is comprised firstly from the:

Story (if it ain't interesting - why play it?).
Controls (if they're unable to redefine as in old games - the game is worthless, unless it uses 2 buttons max. Who wants to have to look at a manual every sec to find out which button does what???).

Only the do we go to the graphics part. To some ppl graphics is all in a game, but if a game doesn't have the two mentioned above - it's a heap of cr4p. Needless to say...

To some of us, graphics mean less. As you stated, EoF, graphics aren't all THAT. Yes, they don't mean that much, but don't you think you would better play the same game with ENHANCED graphics? You'd probably say: "oh, no I like the old sh*tty graphics, cause they make my eyes bleed after playing my game for a few hrs". Maybe not, but some would definately say this.
Technology is enhancing and making better stuff, so that we wouldn't have to use the same sh*t over and over again or downgrade to primitive DOS or smth.
Sure, it takes a better PC for every next game to run, but do you want to spend you're whole life playing the SAME games or different games with the same graphics? Umm... NO.

So what if the game uses more HDD space for a game because of graphics, but if it saves (yes SAVES) your health - why not go for it?
You mentioned 1GB much... Pfff. Much is 5GB (F.E.A.R. uses that much diskspace). 1GB was much in 1996, but in 10 years, haven't you noticed a bit of a change in game space?