Wow I leave for two days and it becomes pick-on-manco thread.
That being said now it's my turn
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That’s called marketing. You can’t sell a game by saying how “yeah we made it look this way because we couldn’t afford to do it better”, you have to sell how everything is a deliberate choice made to create the best possible experience.
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This is unfortunately true, but I wish they'd still just not bring it up then.
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I was just gonna reply with “technically it’s primarily an interactive medium”, but that got me thinking about the possibilities of games based purely on non-visual cues. I could see a game based entirely on audio, for example, although it would be tougher to sell to a wide audience.
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Like that blind guy who played through Abe's Oddysee audio.
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Filmmakers also use software nowadays – in fact there are even movies made entirely with CG, just like games! And just like games, a movie isn't made arbitrarily better or worse by how well its makers know the software.
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Unless it's a full CGI movie, you still have to purchase a camera, and even if it's CGI, you need actors.
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Intimate knowledge and ability to use software does not automatically make one capable of creating “fantastic looking and fantastic playing games”. It’s entirely possible for someone to have vast technical knowledge and zero creative skill.
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Then learn how to be creative. If you're gonna make a game learn basic art direction.
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Being able to find free tutorials and knowledgebases for software does not necessarily make one better at using them. Game development in particular is complicated as shit, and while good reference material will lower the barrier for entry it isn’t going to stop plenty of people simply finding it too hard, too stressful or too time-consuming.
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It being hard isn't an excuse for making something bad, it still coulda been done better with the available materials.
As far as anything varrok said, I think I'd need to make another thread for how much I wanna say so I'm just going to not.
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And you all made fun of my thread for not being active and having no content.