@Lacoste  Were they working round the clock or 7 hours a day(9 to 5)? Were they not constantly prototyping, changing, and tweaking over and over? Did they create all the resources from scratch or did they salvage some content from older games? They must have also travelled collecting data, photographing scenery streets, landmarks etc. They also were searching for copyright owners of the songs to be added, scheduling sessions etc, and they must have had other projects alongside.

What do you say here, at this point?

Your ambitions are unrealistic. You refuse to take the vast wisdom of this forum into account, which is terribly naive. You will have to learn the hard way that your ambitions will be your downfall.

I don't know if this is too harsh to say, but everything you've written so far tells me that you're grasping at straws. You ask for advice and then tell people they're wrong. So, maybe the solution, if you think you know more, is to stop asking for advice from us mere mortals?

17 minutes ago, sprotz said:

Were they working round the clock or 7 hours a day(9 to 5)? Were they not constantly prototyping, changing, and tweaking over and over? Did they create all the resources from scratch or did they salvage some content from older games? They must have also travelled collecting data, photographing scenery streets, landmarks etc. They also were searching for copyright owners of the songs to be added, scheduling sessions etc, and they must have had other projects alongside.

No, obviously, employees for a large-scale company never work 9 to 5 jobs, only hobbyists are capable of doing that.

17 minutes ago, sprotz said:

Were they not constantly prototyping, changing, and tweaking over and over? Did they create all the resources from scratch or did they salvage some content from older games? They must have also travelled collecting data, photographing scenery streets, landmarks etc. They also were searching for copyright owners of the songs to be added, scheduling sessions etc, and they must have had other projects alongside.

That what they call Separation of Duties. While say, 250 people were doing mundean research tasks, the other 750 can still be productive.

And you are going to be prototyping, changing and tweaking as well, no?

41 minutes ago, sprotz said:

Crimelife 3, had it been made in Unity and was longer in a bigger world, would be on par with GTA 3. In fact, time is the only constraint

Unity is no quarantee for anything. Its capable, but its not gonna do the work for you. Its also a constraint in and off itself - working professionally in a company that uses Unity for > 5 years, we all agree that its both a blessing and a curse.. and will definately limit you there and again, as well as cost you time on its own; especially the more you move from "indie game" to "AAA".

3 minutes ago, Lactose said:

Secondly... actually, this is not worth it. You are beyond reasoning and help. You are clueless, and refuse to take any sort of advice or reality-check. You will not go far in your game development career, because you are sticking your head in the sand with your fingers in your ears going LALALALALA.

^This

@Lactose  This is why there are few gems in the android app store and indie game sites. Because people of your calibre think that it needs a big studio to develop a decent 3d game so they don't bother and  just keep dishing out rubbish to those sites.

2 minutes ago, sprotz said:

@Lactose  This is why there are few gems in the android app store and indie game sites. Because people of your calibre think that it needs a big studio to develop a decent 3d game so they don't bother and  just keep dishing out rubbish to those sites.

So, here's the problem with what you are saying...

If you know so much and are so much better than us, why do you care what we think or what feedback/advice we can give you, especially since you clearly don't want it?

@EmmersionStudios I never claimed to know so much or be better than anyone, I was trying to make the community know that they are falling short and can do much better than they realize.