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Bingo. Anyone can dump a 3D model into a game engine cough cough
It is the game behind the art that is important (well to me anyway
->> Character creation, options, how the combat works, the turn based system.
Art sells the deal and the gameplay seals the deal.
You're right, this shit sucks too. 6 separate skills for shooting guns, really?
Is this some kind of meta-trolling?
I wasn't really approaching it from the position of a game maker. I really don't care if images of my game leak because I think the potential for speculation and misinformation can be very funny and fun. I was contrasting the value of the image - virtually nothing - with the damage it could cause to RPG Codex's relationship with developers. If this had been a substantial piece of information like mechanical details or class information or a world map or pictures of combat, then yes, that would warrant a news article. This is possibly the most boring Wasteland picture we will see, though, and to say we have the exclusive scoop on some worthless picture is a tremendous display of hubris. Every time journalists reveal something that is not ready to be revealed, it is a slap in the face. To slap inXile in the face over something so trivial I think exacerbates any damage it might have done. Maybe they will never know, which I am hoping, but it really seems like something that has the potential to have repercussions.
A lot of times splitting weapon skills like that is pointless. What was stupid about Oblivion was that it considered axes "blunt" weapons (spears don't exist in the game).
Far from it. You're really being very silly about this.
In time, you'll understand that this den of scum just doesn't care. With patience, it'll even become natural for you to react accordingly.
Depends on how the skills are implemented, really. Simply hitting a target the size of a human with a rifle or a shotgun is pretty easy in real life regardless of your experience, so a master sniper probably wouldn't shoot himself if a knee if you handed him a shotgun. Still, being a master of a weapon entails many other aspects, like the ability to control the recoil, disassemble, assemble and maintain the weapon, reload it swiftly, fire accurate shots in rapid succession even from suboptimal positions or when moving, hit mobile targets and so on. Although some synergy between sniper and shotgun skills would make sense since being an expert with a weapon would probably let you grasp the basics of another weapon pretty quickly, they're still weapons that function very differently and are suited for completely different situations. The sniper will generally take single, composed shots from a mile away whereas shotgun combat is usually at a close range and favors good moblity and reactions rather than plain accuracy. They definitely should be split into separate skills.
