Why not do an MMORPG as you first project?

[WILL]

As innovative as the genre can get, and there is lots of room for innovation, it's not one for the beginner. As a matter of fact a beginner trying to make an RPG would be lucky just to come up with a fraction of the content required to make the basic RPG it's self. Thinking on such a scale as a beginner is a sure way to crash and burn at the starting gate sadly.

Such innovation can be instead put into smaller more classic arcade style concepts and allow for a steadier progression in skills and knowledge and end up much more rewarding for the learning programmer who got into programming out of excitement for creating new things.

[pitfiend]

Well, the idea to create the next Skyrim is tempting, isn't it? and the false concept that it is an easy task comes from the various game creator engines focused on the creation of rpgs. It's true that build an engine from scratch is not so complicate, but the asset you need and the balance in the rules make it a titanic task. And don't forget you need a team of developers.