Harder Game to Create: Sports or Shooters?

[Namcinos]

This was debated in my family recently. The debate was over which genre of game is harder to design and create: A sports game (like NASCAR or Madden), or a shooter (Like Battlefield).

The claim for a sports game was that the physics and possibilities of a sport would be hard to program and account for respectively. It was also argued that a shooter just consists of people running and bullets.

I argued that a shooter, especially one as complex as Battlefield, might not take a lot of work to create the base game. The hard part is making the game responsive, balanced and fun. There are also a lot of technicalities that go into shooters, such as having different weapons with different damages and speed that all also need to be balanced.

What do you think?

 

[DjDafiDak]

I would say BF took much more then any sports games.( theres physics there too!).
and bioshock infinite for example obviously took much more then a simple fifa.
theres story, diffrent areas to create, and just flat out MUCH more content to work on.

and obivously theres open world games that took twice as that.