Hello,
I’ve been playing recently with the suggested mods from the list.
Expansion packs and blabla.
Just to say, it’s my 10th company or so and I’ve succeded in ending the game and test all features.
What happens is that the game seems a lot harder since I play with the mods. But are the mods really the problem?
Well, at first, difficulty seems nice because it’s fun to struggle. But… there is no logic in it.
The same pattern occurs every single game since the 1.5
The first 5/6 first games have 6/7/8 scores which leads to having enough money to make a correct first game engine.
The 5/6 following games make huge success. At least a 100k+ sales for at least one of them.
With the millions, you pass the second stage and hire an employee. When he is ready you almost double the points for your games and make 8+ games.
Meanwhile, you unlock tons of features but have not enough research points to do it. So, you make more games.
A few games later, scoring is sinking slowly.
7/8 scoring leading to barely sustain with one employee. And slowly, you lose money.
And then, it’s too late to do something because without money, no research, no game engine, no games.
Which is btw completely stupid. What do you have to pay except from salaries when you’re doing R&D?
And it looks like you gain R&D from making games and not making games from the R&D. Which is the opposite way of reality.
There is clearly a lot to do in Game Dev Tycoon’s gameplay.
If I had to sum up the game: Suceed early or die.
You have one way to find and mimic each game if you want to succeed. You can’t be a small studio forever, you can’t stay on little games with 100% of gameplay design as 80% of game industry does as I’m writing. You must grow and grow fast and never rest.
The gameplay makes you believe that it’s rich because you have all these parameters and topics, but it’s not.
Mod topics are really broken with some perspective. And if not broken, insanely stupid and redondant:
Athletics/Biathlon/Sports
Military/War
History/Medieval/Cavemen
City/Construction
Skiing/Bobsleigh
Why not add Curling guys?
Sliders seem broken too. They are not really logical because they only depend on the type of game. Which is broken too, because you miss so many types of games. Hundred of useless topics and 7 types? It’s facepalming, really.
The gameplay does not match reality at all.
Graphics not important in strategy games?
Gameplay, level design and sound not important in adventure games?
Consoles, same thing. Action, not very good on NES? You’re joking right?
I’ve been playing a lot because the topic of Game Dev is a lot of fun. But i’m really disappointed because I spent a lot of time to try to understand the game mechanics to conclude in the end that they seem all broken.
As I’m no going to play anymore, now maybe you can tell me in private: Why would you hide from players the algorithm of scoring? I can’t wait to see the answer.