MasterTaffer

Me too though. Except when it's something I actually require for school.

I vote no. The text is not being used as text, it's being used as graphics.

May i point you both to the game rougelike?

I know about roguelikes in general and that game as well as dwarf fortress. Not my thing.

The reviews don't always match the score. Not much reason to pay attention to these "professionals."

RPG enthusiasts paying attention to professional reviews/scores in this day and age? From what I've seen only action/adventure games with light to almost no actual rpg elements stand a chance to see a decent score by 'professionals' anyway. Being a preferred genre of mine I had to stop paying attention to them, refuse to believe that Fallout 4 Farcry: Wasteland is among the best rpgs can do in 2016.


When it gets to the point where you're actively seeking out games with the worst scores you can find because you find yourself enjoying them more than anything with an 8+ score you kind of realize that there aren't really very many professionals out their representing your particular tastes anymore. Much better to seek out lets plays and judge for yourself based on the game itself rather than rely on opinions that may or may not even consider the aspects of the genre that are actually important to you.

and oh, most of them are graphic enthusiasts too.. Anything not super eye-candy gets insta low scores.

When I was 12 I made a short game using DBGames (I think that was the name of the engine?). It was an old dos engine that was around from 91 - 95. Anyways, it only took a week, but it was done. Sure, the game was terrible, but I had a game done.


Then I went in and made a sequel using what I learned, and it was much better (at least for a 12 year old who had played like 3 RPG's so far, so the bar is still pretty low!)

I will make a game one day, but right now my main focus is honeing my pixel art skill. I love the art aspect of Game Dev. Also, note that it's possible to make a game all on your own (note: undertale, cave story, stardew valley...all were made by only one person.), but it took quite a bit of time...rpg maker is easy enough for a kid to understand, but it won't shave any time off the process. Just don't give up  . Maybe find an area of game dev and (coding, art, writing, audio...) and study that a whole. 

..a while.