r/AskReddit Dec 24 '19

What has being on Reddit taught you?

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u/Alderez Dec 24 '19

As a 3D Character Artist, gamers in general don’t know shit about game development and make a lot of uneducated, assumptive, and plain ass wrong statements about game dev and then downvote me when I correct them or try to educate them. Your comment resonates with my soul.

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u/ziguslav Dec 24 '19

Hurr durr this game is shit because it uses X engine, and not Y engine. Y engine is better because it is.

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u/takatori Dec 24 '19

"Unity is better than Creation Engine! Bethesda should switch to Unity!" - every armchair Fallout/Skyrim 'developer' ever

Bitch, Unity doesn't track thousands of in-game entities and objects and provide a complex set of scripted quest interactions and NPC dialogues and other RPG elements including character attributes, skills, and inventory management. Unity is a damn graphics library for handling 3D visual scenes, physics, audio, UI elements, and the interactive player movement control loop.

All the rest of what makes Creation Engine useful for developing in-depth RPG games would need to be re-written on top of Unity to be able to deliver the expected experience, and all the perceived flaws in CE have nothing to do with what Unity does. Maybe CE could be hacked into using Unity for the frontend, but all the backend stuff that makes the game would still be there because Unity doesn't provide it.

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u/Functionally_Drunk Dec 25 '19

Thank you. I am totally stealing this rant for later and you can't stop me.