Is there better than game dev tycoon?

[Boneduster]

Thanks

[semaj9001]

MGT offers a much more in-depth simulation of game development and company management. The building mechanics are a bit tedious but overall I think this game is superior.

[morph113]

It's easily better than any other game dev game at the moment. I have played all similar games such as game dev tycoon, gamersgomakers and software inc. and mad games tycoon is the best in my opinion.

[therulez]

it's much better and much more in-depth.

[Unconquered]

Isn't game dev tycoon a clone of Game Dev Story?

[kpetrmail]

Definitely better if you look past the early access issues (mostly game balance ones). It's more in-depth, and the interface isn't half the mess the GDT's one is.

[CondorDrake]

No, it's not better.

[Waschbär42]

My question regarding which one is better:
Game Dev Tycoon needed you to make your next game always a bit better than the last one
GamersGoMakers was about the slides, where you have to allocate focus on certain aspects
Mad Games Tycoon has the slides as well...

Does that mean, that in this game it's all about the slides again and there is little to no impact from your dev's skills to the actual game quality?

[GrenadesAndHamm]

Originally posted by waschbaer42:

My question regarding which one is better:
Game Dev Tycoon needed you to make your next game always a bit better than the last one
GamersGoMakers was about the slides, where you have to allocate focus on certain aspects
Mad Games Tycoon has the slides as well...

Does that mean, that in this game it's all about the slides again and there is little to no impact from your dev's skills to the actual game quality?

As soon as you figure out the slides, you're going to make good games. Although you do have to increase your personnel as you go on, as well as make sure everything you make is the "newest" with the newest rooms that have been added (Graphics, motion, sound, etc).

Game Dev Tycoon simply has too much replayability with the mods that are out for it, and given the balancing issues with this game, I'd say GDT is much better at this point. Maybe this game will get to that point once the game is balanced.

[semaj9001]

Originally posted by waschbaer42:

My question regarding which one is better:
Game Dev Tycoon needed you to make your next game always a bit better than the last one
GamersGoMakers was about the slides, where you have to allocate focus on certain aspects
Mad Games Tycoon has the slides as well...

Does that mean, that in this game it's all about the slides again and there is little to no impact from your dev's skills to the actual game quality?

IMO having the quality be based on slider settings is a much better system, because it allows you to consistently make good games. In GDT you can do everything perfectly and still get a game with straight sixes, to the point where is feels more like a random score than a score
based on your previous performance.

Someone on some forum somewhere said a long time ago that GDT is a game about calculated mediocrity, which definitely felt true the more I played it and learned the mechanics. It just ends up feeling like your decisions don't matter much in GDT, whereas in this game the systems and mechanics are clear and can be learned. Whether you will like this just depends on what kinds of management games you are into.

[Farsight]

In my own experience, Mad Games Tycoon takes the best elements from Game Dev Tycoon, Game Tycoon 1.5, and GamersGoMakers, and splices them together to create something that's very close to being the perfect Game Development Simulation game to date.

Game Corp DX is another game that did what Mad Games Tycoon has, but in my honest opinion, I don't think they really made it, not in the same way Mad Games Tycoon has at least.

[busby_96]

Its better in ways

[Waschbär42]

Thanks for your responses, guys. After I played MGT for a couple of hours, I have to second Farsight in that I like it the most. It still lacks in several aspects but all game tycoon games sadly do.
So to answer my own question: MGT is at least decent and the way game scores are determined takes sliders as well as the dev's skills into account.

[Farsight]

Originally posted by waschbaer42:

Thanks for your responses, guys. After I played MGT for a couple of hours, I have to second Farsight in that I like it the most. It still lacks in several aspects but all game tycoon games sadly do.
So to answer my own question: MGT is at least decent and the way game scores are determined takes sliders as well as the dev's skills into account.

True enough, but unlike the others this one is still in development and still has the potential to become something more, and given how close the Developer is with the Community, it's not at all an unlikely conclussion to arrive at.