Anyone can write (what is considered as) a relatively decent story, millions of people write and sell books and hundreds of millions of people write stuff. As for gameplay, it should be obvious enough by the number of indie games developed by a few folks or even solo in some cases that copypasting a generic statbased system isn’t exactly hard.

On the other hand, FPSs these days need teams of dozens of people if not hundreds, talented programmers, artists, modelers, scripters, even mapping isn’t so easy in a 3D environment.

I’ll tell you what, don’t take my word for it. Instead, I will believe you ; and now I expect whatever game you’re making to look as good as Crysis, because surely if it doesn’t take that much effort to design a FPS it shouldn’t be a problem for you guys to whip up something as good visually speaking as a 2 years old engine.

Turnbased gameplay being inherently harder than realtime ? RPGs being inherently harder than FPSs ? Face, meets palm again.

The method you choose to use, the kind of game you’re making are completely irrelevant to the difficulty of your game. Look at Final Fantasy for example – turnbased RPG, yet easy enough for any teenager to pick up the pad and get through the games without trouble.

Now, pick Far Cry (1), as you seem to like that one. FPS, but claim you’re getting through this on the hardest difficulty mode by simply “aiming a gun at a guy”, without dying, on your first playthrough and I don’t think anyone who played that game will believe you for a second.

In short, shaking your fist and insulting people and better games won’t make your own game any better ; of course, it *will* generate interest and possibly sales from a number of gamers who pick games not for their fun value but for the controversy they generate. Your commercial background is definitely showing.

But which year!

RPS staff better check the emails.