Yoyo games and it's 3D moistness.

Posted by abacus on Jan. 14, 2008, 4:35 p.m.

Warning: Rant ensures.

I fucking hate the yoyogames community. Most of the people there have no idea what the fuck they are talking about, especially when it comes to 3D. Being a 3D person, i can tell you, it's not hard to make fair graphics. And if you can't make good graphics, at least you can make stylized graphics (like Sapphire Tears- it's graphics wouldn't be good, but it has stylishness that makes it appealing.)

If you don't know, I've recently been knee-deep in a miniature flame war with Kamaga and his supporters over his recent game, The Black War.

for one thing, this game sucks. It tries too hard to emulate CoD, but does a horrible job of it. For one thing, it uses ironsights-only aiming, but half the guns dont even have ironsights, and have all very blocky. Secondly, the enemies seem to be able to shoot through the walls by sticking their guns through them. Then, the enemies and friendlies have horrible AI, it's just hard to tell over the eye-melting graphics.

I normally would just leave this be as another noob post. The issue is all the supporters Kamaga has gained from his past games, which also have bad AI and graphics. They won't back down and open u to the fact that it sucks underneath the… lack of anything good. But even Kamaga said that (true quote):

"Sadly, even if you want games here to be reviewed against other games on this site, it's not going to happen. 90% of the ratings games get are from this: Originality, and Effort. The more effort you put in a game, the lower the score (which is why tutorial edits have higher ratings than BG&1CC's games) The more originality in the game, the lower the score you get (which is why Halo and Sonic fangames have a lot higher ratings than original and once revolutionary games like Hover Tank 3D)"

If you don't believe me, he actually said that on what is currently page 6.

Also, below that he says:

"Yes, yes, we all know that the graphics in my game are just terrible. All of them being part of only 50 or so GM games that actually use 3D models, just terrible"

So he admits his game isn't that good, yet he still revels in the shallow '6/6's he gets. It's not his fault (other than creating a crappy game that shouldn't have gotten any attention), but i just hate the community for supporting stuff like this, when there is many better games on the site that dont get any attention.

Help me teach the Yoyogames community what a truly good game is! Make good games with good graphics (preferably 3D) and post them on Yoyogames. Advertise. Teach the community what good graphics and good gameplay truly are. Add a captivating storyline. Try re-inventing the traditional gameplay. Add humor. INNOVATE. But most of all, rate games. Downrate bad games. Uprate good ones. Downrating a bad game early can keep it off the first few pages, lost in the depths of all the other crappy games in Yoyogames archive. Uprating a good game early can secure it a high place, where it is likely to stay there. Short version: It's the first 10 votes that count most. So advertise. Tell your friends, write a blog, post on the GMC, advertise in your signature, anything to get the word out about your good games. Just please, help me reverse this mindset these people are afflicted by.

List of Mafia members:

-Abacus (coordinator)

-Mageknight23 (Loyalist)

-Sk8m8trix (Loyalist)

-Jaxx (Loyalist)

-Basil (Loyalist)

-Acid (Noob-pwner)

-vanhelsing (Loyalist)

Comments

FireflyX 16 years, 11 months ago

I made a blog ranting about yoyos game quality a while ago. This is what really gets to me: http://www.yoyogames.com/games/show/11389 people who edit the GM examples and actually make them worse!

LoserHands 16 years, 11 months ago

What a coincidence, I'm trying to make a godly looking game. I'll be sure to do what you say.

Acid 16 years, 11 months ago

Always here to help pwn noobs. And teach them once in a while if they aren't total douche bags.

V 16 years, 11 months ago

As if I hadn't already hated it. I just simply didn't want to ramble myself into a debate over something totally different, which I generally have a habit of doing. XD

As for changing the style there, I'm motherfucking in. Viva la Revolucion, anyone?

stampede 16 years, 11 months ago

Just ignore whole site?

Dom 16 years, 11 months ago

if you wan to do 3D do use GM. oh and long live abacus….

Shork 16 years, 11 months ago

Everyoneon YYG is a trol or a game player. lol. I am definatley in the troll category. Look at my shitty games that somehow avoid bad ratings.

PY 16 years, 11 months ago

I've always been a 2D fan.

3D can work, 3D GM can work, but 2D seems more… gamey to me.

Ah, super metroid, Final fantasy <=6, bionic commando, etc.

Also, Half life. *cough*

Shork 16 years, 11 months ago

Yeah, it's really hard to get 2D to emulate 3D though. I've been fooling around with some isometric grid based stuff, and I've managed to get a map that rotates and everything, but done with 2D.

SteveKB 16 years, 11 months ago

srry i had to leave during the conversation but anyways count me in