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author=Cozzer
But... getting good at programming or map building or whatever takes as much time as getting good at writing. And why do you assume "they" don't like writing? If they're creating RPGs instead of action games, chances are they have some kind of interest in creating a good story.

I'm saying that people who would rather do programming/writing and not focus on things they're not good at should do what they want. This is a hobby. If you establish that a person wants to/likes writing, then that person does not fit into the classification I was talking about.

author=Archeia_Nessiah
I have yet to see a stellar writer that NEVER read many books in some form. This is just bull. If you expect to be SUPER DUPER AWESOME in writing without exposing yourself to many different kinds of exposition, then that's just bullshit. Any decent indie or professional writer will tell you that.

let me rephrase that - I find writing a book myself boring, a lot of books are interesting

author=Deacon Batista
Stories are all the same. Gameplay and atmosphere is most important besides lookings.
If it was all about storie I would read a book.

Sorry, I don't agree. I can't give any arguments other than that for this.

author=Archeia_Nessiah
And writing is pretty subjective, people have different writing styles

As far as writing goes, of course there are different styles. But writing can be bad regardless of its style.

Art and visual appeal is also pretty subjective. For example, the graphics in my game are bad. Terribly inconsistent. There's no two ways about saying that. However, I can't just say "oh, it's not bad, it's just a different style. Mix match style. Look it up, it's in the dictionary." That would be total bull.

Chalking up dialogue/storytelling that someone finds bad to being "different" is horrible reasoning.

author=LockeZ
Regarding your other thread, you specified that you wanted people to give feedback about the "scene itself" which was pretty fucking vague and includes every aspect of the scene, but I think most people took as meaning the appearance. Did you want them to critique something else? The writing? The music? You didn't specify.

I asked if action scenes with low quality graphics were viable. Basically if it was worth the effort. I got my answer. No. It's not okay. I'm not lacking in effort. It's pretty much impossible to match all my facesets. It is possible for THIS scene, but not the rest of the game.

author=Archeia_Nessiah
There was a saying, "Just because nobody is doing it, doesn't mean it's not the right thing to do."

Just because a commercial game's writing is "horrible" by your standards doesn't mean that yours should be too.

it's the reason I want to make my own rpg - I think to myself - man, I could do better than that, what a waste of all that budget

author=Link_2112
That's the difference between another "lolRMgame" and a great game.

Sorry you feel that way. For me, FF13's multimillion dollar animations budget can't make up for it's pathetic cry-a-river cast. The same applies to beautifully constructed rm games with no life.

author=Nightowl
Nobody exactly said that you should make your custom graphics but rather avoid inconsistency. Those soldiers that are slaughtered all the time by some Jean Claude Van Damme-wannabes don't really go well with the RM2K3 RTP characters you use. If you take a close look, you'll see.

I could spend the next few months making 500 charasets/facesets that I need so they can match. And have 10 minutes of game done. Or I can keep writing and eventing my game with some graphical inconsistency, and not have to stop writing my story to make the next batch of matching graphics I need. - There are no existing matching sets that can satisfy the representations I want.