After doing some research, which you should try sometime, I actually learned that Takis is in fact a character coming from another reference, just like Sonki. So, any statements i made about Takis are mostly invalid, and i apologise for the lack of understanding on my part
(Also you should try apologising for the mistakes you make as well!)
You predicted wrong what I was going to say. Instead, I am going to say something like:
What do you mean by "the concept"? Taking for example Takis since that's the most familiar example I have, what's wrong with its concept? You don't like Antonblast, or seeing games be recreated?
Please elaborate.
I honestly never heard of Antonblast, so i truly can't say how much i like or dislike the mod depending on it. I don't like it's concept because it's simply not that interesting. Though, this is probably due to my lack of knowledge. Instead, question me about any of the other mods that i listed.
See? Now we're getting somewhere. After being prompted to talk, you have started giving more useful feedback, like "the spritework is lazy" and "the overall concept isn't too interesting and unique".
That's mere inches better than "it's uncreative", but not particularly useful if the author were to look at it since you're still not going further than that.
Ugh.. I hate having to dumb it down.
So, i obviously stated that i don't like the sonic/tails recreations, right? We all read my first post (can't wait to be proven wrong) and we all know what my points are. "The overall concept isnt too interesting and unique" is quite literally just what i said in the TLDR, and how i stated to want more creative mods and looking for that "Creative spark". If that's not clear enough, then i've never shy'd away from explaining it further. I'm not expected to hold the mod creator's hands and tell them "You see, this is uncreative. You should do X instead!" Any competent reader should be able to understand that me saying that something is "Uncreative" means that they should put the work in to make it more creative. It's not creativity if im just spoonfeeding them ideas and over-explaining everything more than they need to be. I really didnt want to make a whole essay on the mods that i dont like, but here we are.
Creativity can come from rehashing or reinterpreting something. You don't need to make a whole character from scratch just to be able to use the "original" label.
Take for example fan art. Would you say Sonic fanart isn't original? After all, it grabs Sonic and turns it into something new.
Now take the same example, but instead of Sonic, it is his brother Coldsteel the Hedgeheg. Now it's Sonic, but purple. Still original fanart!
You're really good at putting words in my mouth that i never stated. I never said that they need to make a new character, and i even stated multuple mods (OVA, Hesse, and Speedster) that aren't a new character. I'm not looking for originality, i'm looking for creativity. A Tyson hesse rendition of sonic isn't original, but it's creative in the fact that it hasnt been done in the SRB2 modding scene before.
Despite you going crazy off-track with fanart, i dont think you actually understand the words you're reading or typing out.
Grabbing something and turning it into something new isn't what i'm looking for. If that were the case, i'd be gushing over soulles ripoffs. It doesent matter what the character is, as long as they do something innovative and new, then i think it's great.
I'M NOT ASKING FOR ORIGINALITY, I'M ASKING FOR CREATIVITY.
Read what i say before you barf whatever nonsense this is.
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Go ahead."
Woah!!! Who could have seen this coming!??
And that's particularly why calling a piece of food "bland" with no other descriptor can be useless. The chef has to guess or appraise whether it is because it lacks spices, lacks sauce, the sauce is awful, or some other component on it.
It is worthless to call food "uninspired" when the job of food is to fill you. Unless you go in some themed posh restaurant where the job is to be as visually appealing as possible, then okay lol I guess that's fair
God, this whole section is so flawed.
No matter what, calling the food bland is still advice. sure, they'd have to guess what they need to fix, but thats
1) Not the job of the consumer to point out
2) Actually very simple
Plus, even if they guessed wrong and it was actually the spice instead of the sauce, they're still imrpoving overall and learning new things about their cooking, or in this case, modding.
"I have looked at them. I have read your original post. That's why I'm here, repeatedly knocking on the points you make."
Im just going to put this whenever you start lying about viewing my original post.
"Which is why I can't understand what's "uncreative" by your own words. It makes no sense considering that at least a third of them do something unique with the game or have an interesting moveset. That's creative to me."
You dont understand? You dont UNDERSTAND??? I quite literally worded it out in the simplest way imaginable. I said they were Uncreative because they were remakes of the original cast,
which was in the original post btw.
You are constantly using the same circular feedback everytime I try to ask clarification from you.
And when you DO give me an answer, you sprinkle it with vitriol out of nowhere.
"What is uncreative?" "Low-effort remakes"
"What is low effort?" I haven't been given an answer to this yet.
"What is uninspired?" The answer I've been given was with an analogy about food, but not in the context of mods.
"What is low quality?" I haven't been given an answer to this yet.
Stop throwing random words and give me an answer.
Let me fix this for you
1) Remakes of the original cast that are lazy in terms of design and ideas.
2) Because they are lazy and lacking in designs, ideas, creativity, ect, they are in fact low effort.
3) Actually, i did reference the Tyson hesse mod, Speedster mod, and the OVA mod prior, but i guess you forgot to read that.
Just to clarify, i want a mod that is creative and/or unique, and adds something new to the experience.
4) Low quality and low effort are essentially the same. I personally can't see the effort that came into making most of these mods.
Bad advice can use useful. Useless advice, not so much.
"Add more flavor, like a Pokemart or something."
This feedback sucks a bit since I wouldn't know what the hell "flavor" is, but at least the entity "Pokemart" gives you an idea that the map is missing buildings.
Going back to what i said before, they're not required to tutor me on what to do. They tell me to find unique ways to make my town stand out, and i did. Sure it isn't the best advice but it helps me learn how to make my maps more notable and better without relying on a tutor.
If you don't know what flavor is, then thats your problem to fix because its YOUR work.
Just like with my argument, If they don't know what "uncreative" or "uninspired" really means, then maybe they should try working to fix that issue.
See, this is actually one of the best ways to learn because it not only teaches you how to learn without the reliance of others, but it also
gives you a motherload of experience via trial and error.
I didn't go super in-depth for a reason, and that's because having someone hold your hand and show you what to do is the worst way to learn, and i want the community to grow and become much better.
"Off-brand littleroot town"
This is useless feedback. How is it off-brand? Because it looks like littleroot?
OH MY GOD HE ACTUALLY USED HIS BRAIN!!! This is what i'm talking about. Even though the comment was overall vague, you still figured out what the issue was, and properly assesed it! Now with your newfound knowledge, you can make your town (or mod in this case) a lot more unique and better!
And sure, being specific is technically a lot easier than what i just did, but again, it's not mine- nor theirs- to point things out in a hyper-obvious manner.
You should also stop your shtick of giving me labels like "angry", or "offended", or "close-minded", or practically replying to me like I'm missing something that you find "obvious" when it's painfully obvious it is not, like with the quotes above. Really infuriating that one of the ways you choose to defend yourself is with ad-hominems when I have done nothing to warrant it.
Okay, then stop giving me labels of "Insulting", or "Attacking" lmao.
And yes, you are missing the obvious. When my statement is in the original post, then it's very obvious. In fact, i've been using my original post to make references and reasoning this whole time!
You REALLY need to stop with your shtick of using characters you don't like as examples of what you don't like and then apologizing for it. I would rather have you face your own opinions instead of backing down everytime, since you're clearly going to do it again, and in the same unelaborate way as before.
Okay.. so im not allowed to "attack" the mods... and i can't use them as references in order to prove a point... And i'm also not allowed to apologize for the things that i find either rude or wrong...
the hell do you want me to do???
"erm yes i dislike sonic reskins. which ones? uhhhh i cant say i dont wanna be mean"
The fact that you even suggest this is honestly proving to me how illiterate you are with writing in general. I'm allowed to use examples. That's how you make a point. And i apologised because i can see how someone would feel offended by me using their mod as an example. How does that make me a bad guy?
Jesus almighty, I know that I write things wrong sometimes, but you don't have to constantly assume bad faith and
TAKE ME OUT OF CONTEXT everytime you do. I hope it's you
misreading my message by rushing through it instead of maliciously doing what you do.
"If you don't like something, report it" was meant to be phrased in a way that if something is to be reported (flaming in general, off-topic things, spam, the works), then to just report it instead of saying it out loud.
The "do your research" part is the unintended way of interpreting my message.
I will make sure there's no more hyperbole from me going forward so this doesn't happen again, which means I will no longer engage in or make analogies, since that's clearly not working with you.
"I said this, but i actually meant something else"
My question is, how on earth was i supposed to infer that? You made no gestures to any of your examples. There really isn't much flaming, but if you want to count my sarcastic banter then
1) I'm sorry if it offended you, i do tend to be very competitive
2) You'd be just as faulty as me because we're both doing it at this point
Secondly, nothing stated here was "Off topic", so you can let me know how i was supposed to figure that out
Definetly no spam here either.
When you read 'If you don't like something, report it" with the amount of context you gave me, well then you read it as it's written.
And i countered your argument of silencing with my own opinion; to just ignore it.
Anyways, please re-read my original post before commenting more lousy paragraphs for me to read, because honestly my brain hurts from trying to understand where you got this from.