Quote Originally Posted by Anarchy_Balsac View Post
Video Game Programming is NOT simple. You do not have to like it, but it is the truth. even a simple NES style game takes more lines of code than you will ever remember, and if it is an RPG or anything involving an inventory and a wide array of monsters and power ups, you can easily do 10's of 1000's of lines of code.

So yeah, you shouldn't be going for simplicity, but for what works.
And this is why I'm not a programmer. The simplest solution is always the preferred. That being said, how would you even code what you just suggested?