First of all I tend to play a lot of games and do this mostly on a pc. Before buying new games I try to read some reviews in the hopes of learning peoples main issues with the game. Don't get me wrong, I even tend to buy games with bad reviews, the reviews are educational :p

Now what I'm noticing is that todays reviewers tend to value graphics a lot, and that was fine back in 2006 when the ps3 arrived, and heck it was even fine till 2010. but now it just gets plain silly. you see a review of a AC1 and they love the AMAZING GRAPHICS, you got the AC2 and they say the gfx improved, ACB improves again until we get to ACR and now AC3.

anyone get the silly part? they keep talking about amazing graphics for games that are made for, let's be honest, dated hardware. back in 2006, smartphones, tablets didn't exist. touchscreens where a rare sight and an average vidcard hat 256-512 mb memory. single core processors could still be awesome on gaming PC and if you told somebody that a black dude could become president of the US they would say you where crazy.

I mean technology evolved a lot, why didn't the graphics do the same, and worse, why do the reviewers keep telling they still are improving? Look at dishonored, that game could have been made in 2007 by the looks of it. Look at the AC3 trailer, polygons and pointy bits everywhere and the ships explosions are ridiculously weird to look at. Skyrim gained tons of texture packs on a PC and it still can't take a modern day PC graphics card to it's knees.

I know a decent gaming PC can be expensive (around 650$ for a decent one (decent being beating a console by a small margin), good and great ones cost more) but it can do anything and people tend to spend an equal amount of money on their phones nowadays.

Now I don't really care about graphics myself, but find it just stupid that reviewers praise them unnecessarily. For a PC, yes, for a console; nowadays that's a no.

Sorry for the ranting people but it annoys me that gaming websites don't even want to talk about it, I haven't seen a single article on this. So, what do you guys thin?