@Firoball

I totally agree with you. I got a good book about game dev with quotes and explanations of a couple of game devs from big companies like blizzard. Somewhere they say that you first x games are crap and after thinking about it, I saw it was true (looking at all of my first games). It just takes some time to get a feeling for
- gameplay / controls
- design
- what you are able to do from a technical point of view
- how everything works together (being able to see how things will turn out)

You could add the story, but not every game needs one and most are not finished that far but the game itself is functional on a certain degree. :-P