Subject: Dude, this is concrit.
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Posted on: 2014-11-04 09:08:00 UTC

As a videogame enthusiast who tried making some stuff (I toyed around with RPGMaker 2000 and FPS Creator, but in the end I didn't manage to make a playable gane) and playing around with in-game editors like FarCry's Sandbox myself, this sounds good advice (And I don't see anything that can be considered an insult). While I don't agree with all that Ekyl said (for example, SMGs and PDWs taking the same slot is fine to me, as they're both compact rapid fire weapons), I don't see any flaming here and... well, most games that try to achieve too much like yours seems to be end up being outright terrible.

DOn't get me wrong here, I would love to play a game with all the things you mentioned inside, I'm not against multigenre games - I would love, for example, a anime-style modern day MMORPG in which you can do anything from going to battle with any weapon you like, be it guns or swords or magic, go car racing, manage a home, even be a farmer if you want. (And it to be an huge crossover between all the series I like, obviously)
But the point is, there's no way a game engine is going to be able to do all that stuff needed for either game idea properly today. It's more or less the reason why in FPS or TPS action games the driving is usually subpar or even terrible.

As impossible as it may seem, Ekyl was actually trying to make your game more appealing to developers. You can have the best game idea of the world in you mind, but if it's so complex that it would cost billions to make it... I don't think many developers would be interested.


That said, your attack on Ekyl was completely unjustified, and your behaviour on the IRC just inacceptable. You were given several chances to understand and apologize, but now I'm leaning towards a ban.

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