Oro ;~;

My main gripe is that they’re charging $60 for something – a game design toolkit – that I can in effect get off the Internet for free. This is more of a personal gripe than anything else – I am a programmer, and if I wanted to create my own version of Tetris (or any other game for that matter), I’d grab my C++ compiler and go to town.

And even considering that personal bias, much more full-featured game design tools for non-programmers have been available for much longer – tons of Sonic fangames are created using them. They don’t have a realistic physics engine, but otherwise they arguably offer you more creative leeway.

As for limited, I see a lot of people doing pretty spectacular things with the tools. Someone even made Tetris, not sure if you saw it, but it was quite impressive. On the other end of the spectrum, someone made a level that consisted of a penis flying into a vagina, and ended when you brought the two genitals to climax. Everyone I know in the beta says possibilities are limitless. For me, most games should be a social aspect, even fighting games, if I didn’t have people to play, I wouldn’t even bother gaming in the first place (yes, exceptions abound).

As for everything else, dunno, seems like you’re being skeptical for the sake of being skeptical.

The social aspect to it is somewhat novel, but I’d much rather be sharing something that I had complete control over than something I constructed using a limited toolbox.

If anything, that should nuke the validity of your preconceived notions, but however, it shouldn’t psych you up about playing it. Regardless, people are getting way to skeptical about hype, the only games I ever see that never live up to hype are fps and 3rd person action/platformers. Everything else usually manages to stay in their ballpark.