Filling in the visual details
I think my mind fills in visual details of an object or person based on my idea of it.
Case in point: I recently saw a picture in which I was like, "That looks like the xkcd girl." Despite no xkcd characters having faces at all, I somehow abstracted a sense from Munroe's drawings of the dark-haired girl, and made some sort of mental pattern data of it, and this picture I saw seemed to match it. Of course, the hair matched, but the face had a set of features that I somehow "expected" would go along with my idea of that character's appearance.
Maybe this is one major reason why I appreciate games with sprite graphics, but find 3D semi-realistic graphics harder to swallow. I have a mental image, and that mental image is pretty much guaranteed to look "normal", like, in a normal human way. However, when computer graphics try to fill in those details for me, they take away my ability to make my own mental image, while simultaneously filling that image data with something that seems less realistic.
Case in point: I recently saw a picture in which I was like, "That looks like the xkcd girl." Despite no xkcd characters having faces at all, I somehow abstracted a sense from Munroe's drawings of the dark-haired girl, and made some sort of mental pattern data of it, and this picture I saw seemed to match it. Of course, the hair matched, but the face had a set of features that I somehow "expected" would go along with my idea of that character's appearance.
Maybe this is one major reason why I appreciate games with sprite graphics, but find 3D semi-realistic graphics harder to swallow. I have a mental image, and that mental image is pretty much guaranteed to look "normal", like, in a normal human way. However, when computer graphics try to fill in those details for me, they take away my ability to make my own mental image, while simultaneously filling that image data with something that seems less realistic.