| Viper1 said: I like their philosophy. Dream big and strive for it. Buck the trends, forget the haters, make your own path. If you listen to these people telling how you have to do it, it'll never happen or it'll never be the title you envisioned to start with or you'll be a console generation or two away working for someone else's studio making their game, not yours. If you try for your game the way you want it and fail....fine. But if you try it any other way, you'll never make your game as you want it anyway. |
Nothing in this article is about "doing it someone else's way".
It's about knowing your limitations and acting within them. Seriously, not every game has to be a colossal AAA blowout with 20 hours of gameplay, the most innovative controls ever and a storyline that rivals LOTR. There's absolutely no shame in starting small and working your way up.
Thinking your brand new dev house can make a AAA title is like taking a single karate lesson and then stepping into the ring with Bruce Lee. I don't care HOW much enthusiasm, passion or creativity you have: there are limits to your abilities and either you know these limits or they will destroy you like they destroyed Crossbeam.
And I just have to point out that...
"If you try for your game the way you want it and fail....fine. But if you try it any other way, you'll never make your game as you want it anyway."
...is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. I mean, apply this logic to other situations:
"I want to be an Olympic weight lifter, but I'm only 120 lbs., but I have passion, so I'm going to have 12 friends lift a piano over my head and drop it on me. If I die, fine, but I'd never be able to lift that piano any other way."
"I want to be a surgeon, but I haven't gone to medical school, but I have enthusiasm, so I'm going to dress up like a surgeon, sneak into an OR and perform a triple-bypass. If I'm caught and arrested, fine, but I wasn't going to get to perform that surgery any other way."
Can you perhaps see the fallacy in logic here? If you're REALLY passionate about making your game the best game it can be, you'll have the patience to build up your skills and resources before you try to make it.
The people who want it more will have the PATIENCE to do it properly, and that means starting with small, achievable goals and working your way to bigger goals, and then taking on goals which include 20 hour long epics like Sadness.
By trying to go all out right out of the gate, Nibris is not only destroying any chance Sadness has of being good but they're being greedy and impatient. Their current business plan isn't a "plan" at all: it's a "get rich quick" scheme and it's going to backfire and destroy any shreds of credibility they might have had before.
"I mean, c'mon, Viva Pinata, a game with massive marketing, didn't sell worth a damn to the "sophisticated" 360 audience, despite near-universal praise--is that a sign that 360 owners are a bunch of casual ignoramuses that can't get their heads around a 'gardening' sim? Of course not. So let's please stop trying to micro-analyze one game out of hundreds and using it as the poster child for why good, non-1st party, games can't sell on Wii. (Everyone frequenting this site knows this is nonsense, and yet some of you just can't let it go because it's the only scab you have left to pick at after all your other "Wii will phail1!!1" straw men arguments have been put to the torch.)" - exindguy on Boom Blocks
