Re: Akabur - Magic Shop
Wow... that is definitely some hate. I must say, I have played it for a few hours and I think it is a fun, engaging game. But, I can see where complaints stem. I think we let the hype build a bit too high considering the game is primarily a single developer. The dialogue in particular is quite entertaining in my opinion.
[I'm speaking generally. I am NOT speaking of the person I quoted above.]
We pay him for his wit, for his style, and for his approach to game-making, NOT for each vapid ingrate's personal envisioning of a fictional character's puckered asshole.
The people giving him shit for this game are the same mediocre degenerates that are just smart enough to be distinct from the sweaty throng of "simple folk", but not smart enough to realize that they're not that fucking smart. These are the people that don't understand that producing art -- because even though ero has an ulterior motive in being sexually provocative, it is ultimately still derivative of our need as humans to express ourselves -- takes time. It's not the literal effort entailed by typing shit out or moving a stylus around on a tablet, but the creative pondering that so gluttonously feasts on the time you've allotted for other things.
For example: I'm supposed to be writing a 10 page paper right now. If I was just spewing bullshit to fill pages, I'd spend about 4 hours on this. Because I am a good writer, I'd probably still get an A.
I've spent over 100 hours writing this paper.
I've probably constructed, and then subsequently deleted, well over 50 times the content that I'd need to finish it. It doesn't matter. I want to express thoughts, and I want to express them well. Hell, I probably have spent 30 minutes writing this post. A post on an obscure porn forum, that probably like 15 people on Earth will ever read. The effort is clearly not worth the resultant production; so why do people like me do it?
To express ourselves.
Akabur doesn't want to produce a certain
quantity of entertainment for you. He wants to produce a certain
form of entertainment for you. It has to be just right, and if it isn't, the whole thing becomes meaningless.
People bitching about it taking as long as it did, or not being what they thought it would be, are idiots. I love the game. It's a shame he felt so much pressure to get it out there with so many bugs still in the game, but who gives a shit? Click on the thing twice or restart the game or go back a screen. Shut the fuck up and enjoy the fact that some dude 5000 miles away from you wrote AND drew AND programmed an elaborate, pornographic, Harry Potter themed videogame for you to play for 1 hour before whining about it on the internet.