Talk:Game Development Based on Experience/1.4.3/@comment-62.16.173.174-20130504014507/@comment-9088222-20130504042308

As long as you have steadily increase your Tech and Design scores and stick to good combos, you can go for quite a long time without any engine. The game engine options(from what I understand) give you a boost to your Tech and Design scores and the graphics don't effect anything really until Large and AAA games. It is definately a viable option if you are careful :)