Comment by dwild
6 years ago
> Why is it ok for games to lack a good story but not ok for them to lack good art?
Personally I think that both are okay. Even more so when someone seems to be doing such a good job on one of the aspect.
What's not okay is going around and arguing that you just can't do better than that. He could do better, he just don't care and I repeat, it's alright to not care.
His older post was disrespectful to all people that do take pride in what they do and want to improve it.
> What's not okay is going around and arguing that you just can't do better than that. He could do better
Maybe he can't do better than that? Maybe not everyone can get good enough at art to make decent looking modern games on a tight budget? Using contractors well requires artistic skills so that doesn't solve the problem.
And don't come with the bullshit "Everyone can become great at X, it just takes practice, see I sucked once and now I'm great!". Sure you will never be great at something without practice, but it doesn't just take practice it takes a level of talent as well. Some people are just doomed to be mediocre at some things.
> His older post was disrespectful to all people that do take pride in what they do and want to improve it.
No it wasn't. It was about him not being able to make better art on his budget. Not about others not being able to make better art with similar budgets.
> Using contractors well requires artistic skills so that doesn't solve the problem.
That's absurd. It doesn't require artistic skills, all it require is trusting them to do a good job. There's plenty of ways to confirms they are good at what they do.
> It was about him not being able to make better art on his budget.
The thing is, he can do better art with his budget, he just don't want to and don't need to.
He said it himself multiple time that he don't want to invest time in that. He said it himself in this new post that his latest game was much longer to complete because he invested MONTHS in a new engine.
He can do it, he just won't.
> That's absurd. It doesn't require artistic skills, all it require is trusting them to do a good job. There's plenty of ways to confirms they are good at what they do.
He currently uses contractors. What exactly are you arguing? That he is bad at using contractors, but that lack of skill is separate from his lack of skill in art?
> The thing is, he can do better art with his budget,
How? I am sure he would love to have better art at no cost, so please explain these mysterious methods.
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