Making your game general

ITT we discuss how to collaboratively design our games.

>>40

agreed, but who said that this is supposed to be an RPG or simulation? it's supposed to be a survival horror, which is generally a rather linear genre.

Too much linear gameplay will be boring, regardless of difficulty. Replay-ability and diversity of gameplay choices is more important: when a plot dictates something must happen it has to allow choices instead of forcing the player to be a pawn in a scenario.

but it did give us some interesting game series - things like Shenmue or Metal Gear Solid.

These are not realistic for an indie dev, both these games had a giant art budget.
Studios cranking out risky movie-like games are an anomaly, generally the more time is invested in linear elements(like cutscenes and one-way quests) the less there is gameplay content to replay.

there's place for games like that too

Yeah, and its called a 'Visual Novel'.