Well... I agree with Reactor: games are all about entertainment.
As far as personal fun, I like high-end graphics, but they still don't make up for a crappy game. A lot of companies now are just relying solely on graphics, and quite frankly, I think Portal has been the only really original game by a large developer for some time now. It's the small, privately-developed (indie? not sure about that term) games that tend to have the real originality these days.
Honestly, I spend as much time playing modern (well, PS2 modern) games as I do playing Phantasy Star IV or Super Hang-On on my Genesis. They're pixelated, they're 16-bit color, they're quite obviously dated, yet they're still plain and simply FUN.
As far as personal fun, I like high-end graphics, but they still don't make up for a crappy game. A lot of companies now are just relying solely on graphics, and quite frankly, I think Portal has been the only really original game by a large developer for some time now. It's the small, privately-developed (indie? not sure about that term) games that tend to have the real originality these days.
Honestly, I spend as much time playing modern (well, PS2 modern) games as I do playing Phantasy Star IV or Super Hang-On on my Genesis. They're pixelated, they're 16-bit color, they're quite obviously dated, yet they're still plain and simply FUN.