It depends what sort of game you're making, If you're going to make a complicated, fast action game then you want C++, but a different sort of game, some sort of strategy game, or anything that doesn't rely of computing very complicated grephics at blinding speed, even if you do you could write the graphics in C++ and some logic or other parts in VB.


Unless you have a team of people to work with you it's probably not a particularly good Idea to try to write a comercial standard game that relys on its graphics. If you're on your own then need a good idea to make a good game, you're not going to make anything wonderful if you just decide to make a game and don't have the great ideas to make it good without the graphics.