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Originally Posted by NonCon
Fan games, apart from being much easier to fuck up, always have to release a lot of hype building stuff, like the Youtube video of the "totally awesome fan game" I mentioned before. When you see art or a story, you are able to judge it then and there, and it is more readily apparent whether it is good or bad. Fan games you can't always tell based on a Youtube vid, and yet people get pulled into the hype of how wonderfully splendiforous it's going to be simply because it's based on something they liked. They have no way of knowing if it'll be any good, like they would with fan art or a fanfic someone posted online, but without any reason other than the source material they jump to the conclusion that it will be. This is why I said I would care less if people were more critical of fan games prior to release or if the people making them had released something original beforehand for me to judge.
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Yes because downloading a FREE fan made game and then playing it for a couple minutes won't give you a good feel on how good the game actually is and plays.
Just like looking at a picture for a few seconds on deviant art and being able to tell if it sucks ass or not... or reading the first paragraph of a fanfiction written on fanfiction.net.
Why can't people judge for themselves if something is good or not?
You don't have to get pulled into the hype and really these fan made game projects take an awful lot longer to make then just drawing up a picture or writing a few paragraphs of dialog and releasing your first chapter. Some youtube videos aren't there for hype at all, its to show ACTUAL progress is happening on the game itself and to show its not dead to all the people who are waiting for it.
I honestly wonder if we'd be having the same conversation here if the game wasn't a rom hack and instead made by itself... which Squenix has shown with Chrono Resurrection that they would STILL shut it down either way if they did all the programming or did not.
While there are a LOT of bad fan games out there, there are also a shitload of GREAT fangames out there that top even the actual companies attempts at making games...
Sonic Robo Blast 2 is possibly the greatest example of this... Hey! Its a Sonic game that actually plays AMAZINGLY WELL in 3D and plays just like the classics and its made in FREAKIN DOOM LEGACY.
And how about stuff like the Left 4 Dead demake that Valve themselves loved?
Finally, yes... lets be more critical of a game before its released and that we haven't played or experienced yet.
Judge a book by its cover much?