Just saying that we might see him get banned again. Not that he'll disappear completely.
Didn't you say that you grew up or something like that earlier? This is incredibly immature.
I know that Skip has a grudge against me that he won't let go, but what's your excuse for not dropping this when it's clear everybody is going to keep disagreeing?
Let me correct that: You want to see people make content that you like. That's it.
I personally don't care for playing with love mods, mods that make the game more difficult, mods that add new characters or whatnot, but I believe they're absolutely great types of modifications because the increase the amount of playability, interaction and possible engagement over the base game.
I think adding more variety to the pedestrians is just fine. I don't agree with the way they did it because it feels incredibly forced.
If everything that you say is stuff is objectively stuff according to your allegedly objective game design philosophy, then anyone who disagrees likes stuff and is either wrong or stupid.
We can't control the things we enjoy, but that doesn't mean that everything we like is actually quality. I enjoyed the Cat in The Hat movie, which is very clearly objectively stuff. At the end of the day, I'm trying to focus on objective qualities, but I'm not going to think anybody is a twat because they like something I don't (I used to, back when I got ridiculously aggressive towards FNAF fans, and I acted like a cunt then).
Nobody is stupid because of their preferences. What makes a person stupid is if they refuse to understand
why they like it, because that gets us nowhere to making stuff that everybody likes.
Having this sort of an attitude does nothing but instigate drama and hatred.
The only people who have "instigated drama and hatred" in this thread have been you and Skip. Everybody else is either making a post off of skimming the other comments or have been making genuinely polite debate (see: Sir Dooble + Conan).
You can think that the pride mod goes against your design philosophy, but that's that. It's not the equivalent to downloading child research, it's not harming anyone.
You're right, there's no physical harm done to anybody and as I admitted previously, I was wrong to make that brown townogy. That doesn't mean I'm not allowed to criticise what I feel could have been done better, and I feel throughout this thread I've provided valid arguments for my opinion.
The role of critique is to point out flaws so that in the future, we can do things better. Maybe my critique/opinion is wrong, but I still have the right to be open and honest. Shying away and not voicing your opinion is the easiest way to, from my point of view, let people keep producing crap.
If you don't enjoy it, it's not for you. If you expected something different, too bad, the universe doesn't revolve around you nor does it care about your expectations.
I'm allowed to post and voice my opinion on the forum. Nobody put up a sign and said "You can't talk about this here." Forums are about encouraging discussion.
I speak a lot from my own perspective and I use a lot of hyperbole. I take things more seriously than I should. I apologise, but that's just what happens when I first encounter something. I don't think that makes the core of my arguments invalid, and I don't think anybody here has convinced me that my arguments are invalid either.
In case you start saying "buh- I never said any of the claims are objective"
Why would I say that? I even directly pointed out what I felt were objective facts in one of my arguments to either Conan or Sir Dooble (can't remember which), because based on what I know and understand about games and mods, I feel there are some objective, factual problems with this mod and how players can interact with it.
Mods are mods. Modifications. They're not "improvements".
This is an extremely immature way of thinking. I guess you also think that "games are timewasters" and that "books are just stories"?
Maybe you don't, and I'm sorry for saying otherwise if that's the case, but what I'm on about is this; if you only ever think of a medium as "childish" or "unimportant" or "as-is", that's all it will ever be. In a sense, it's almost encouraging people to just keep producing crap because nobody will stop them.
You may not see mods as anything more than little tweaks to games, but personally I see huge intrinsic value; there's a lot of time, people and effort involved. That makes mods important, and so therefore I think we should start treating them seriously and hold modders to standards. Just recently, Bethesda attempted to start up a financial market for mods (the efforts fell flat ultimately for a number of reasons); that shows that the practice of modding is taking on the same pathways as video games.
I don't think people spending time sitting down and messing with mod tools means that they should instantly be given respect. Any one of us are capable of making mods; the difference is how we decide to spend our time and in what places. I think respect needs to be given to the modders who actually make substantial impacts on the core game that benefit the player. I want modders to see that success comes as much from the design/goal as the mod itself.
A modification can feel like an improvement to some and a regression to others.
I think that the idea of removing interactions that are core to the game is a pretty objective regression. I don't think anybody who actually wants to play the game is celebrating the fact they can't interact with these pedestrians.
Who is the authority who decides that mods are allegedly supposed to improve a game?
There doesn't need to be an authority, in the same way that "good" games aren't the judgement of just one person. There wasn't some king who demanded that everybody liked Portal 2; it had objectively good qualities that everybody recognised and praised it for.
This is the same in the modding world; the best mods that you see on the Nexus (or other mod site) have to do with increasing the playability of the game (and yes, texture mods achieve that too by making the game more clear and immersive). The large consensus of people know what they like; it's just that nobody has put on paper "this is why so many people like these kinds of mods".
I make the assumption that you're not a solipsist, because you reach out to "others".
Without other people, I wouldn't be making these arguments. I'd be off crying about how "CoD is gay" or some stupid stuff. People opened my mind to the idea that things are much deeper than they might appear, and that even content authors might not appreciate how important their stuff is.
To most people, games and mods
are just entertainment to knock away a few hours, and that's fine. Unfortunately, as far as I'm concerned as a creator, that kind of mindset is what could be holding back a lot of their true potential, in a sense. For the longest time, people thought that films and music couldn't have any effect on people and so they were treated as vapid timewasters, yet nowadays we have classic films responsible for inspiring people to go on and do great things. I think mods, while maybe not on that scale, as still capable of doing some cool stuff is we treat them a bit more seriously than we are now.
But I'm just a grumpy man arguing on a LEGO forum away from anybody who could actually use my opinion, so who gives a stuff?
