Which is most important?

[SkriK]

I've been thinking about this for a while and got curious of other's opinions.
Atmosphere or Eye Candy.

Atmospherical
An engulfing environmental feeling that affects the gaming experience.

Eye Candy
Usage of fancy HQ doodads a so on just for the looks of it.

Myself, vote for atmosphere.

 

[Tawsix]

Horrible models can be countered with wonderful atmosphere, however really nice models can make a terrible atmosphere irrelevant. It's close, but I vote atmosphere.

 

[43berries]

both, well an equal balance of both

 

[Parkietje]

Well for non-playable terrain, the atmosphere does it all. Not some fancy doodads.

And in playable terrains it are most of the time the fancy models that cut it.

 

[~Void~]

I say it's the combination. Alone, atmosphere shows more prowess than shiny models, but models used in the right place is better. That's singularly though, just awesome model placement is worth much less than a bit of that and a bit of atmosphere.