10 Amazing Video Games With TERRIBLE Graphics

4. Mount & Blade Warband

Mount & Blade: Warband is a good example for two sides of the theme we’re going with in this list. First off, it does not look great, but most players who love it don’t mind, and are happy with the graphical sacrifice that’s serving the gameplay. Secondly, it’s yet another instance where you could improve things with mods if you’re so inclined.

The graphics for this 2010 strategy RPG were already dated when the game launched, it was just so fantastic that players really didn’t care.

While processing power for most home PCs is better than it was a few years back, players reported as recently as 2017 that they’d opted to turn their graphics settings down even further in order to run mods that enable more combatants in the field.

This one is firmly in the Minecraft realm of games where questionable art styles or flat out garbage visual fidelity mean nothing in the face of excellent gameplay systems. The developers made a choice to focus on the combat, RPG features, and engaging multiplayer even if that meant letting interesting environmental design or character models go by the wayside.

Of course, gamers voted with their wallets proving that was a clever gamble and it’s still being played and updated a decade later.