this was incredibly well timed, actually. good job on that.
Really?
Maybe before, when I was making pointlessly intricate eyesores that clashed with literally the entirety of the game and had nothing unique about the way they functioned, but now? You really think I haven't gained a shred of maturity as an artist? The last three weapons I've worked on have had more effort put into them than almost all of my previous work combined. I've seriously put over 72 hours of work into the new model for the Shining Laser, I've been working on it for weeks, constantly rethinking and reworking the design and execution, trying to get its as absolutely perfect as possible without making it a clusterforget of ugly intricacy. I've never worked on something so hard in my entire life, and I'm still less than halfway done with the damn thing.
Before I used to deny the existence of those stylistic boundaries you mentioned and just model whatever loving way I felt like, but it's been literally two years since I last did that, and I now realize how handicapped and stubborn that was. Games are not supposed to be a fragmented collection of out-of-place weapons and vehicles, they're one singular cohesive experience and should be entirely homogeneous, and I've been trying very hard to right the wrongs in my Add-Ons in hopes of achieving that sense of stylistic consistency.
Maybe I'm wrong; I literally just came back to the game and it's very plausible that you haven't even seen my most recent work, and in that case I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, but I won't just sit idly by and let you stuff all over my hard work. It is the very antithesis of "half-assed", and you sir, are an starfish for suggesting such a thing.
ok, first
no matter how long you polish it, stuff is stuff is stuff. if i were to spend a year making a building and then the building collapses in on itself the instant someone forgetin steps in the front door, it would be wrong for me to be proud of the forgetin building. there is nothing special about how much hard work you put into something if whatever you do doesn't end up
good. in fact, it should be more embarrassing, because you have spent a disproportionate amount of time doing something bad when you could have, in fact, spent very little time doing something equally bad and gotten the same net-bad-capital faster.
it's inefficient. it's
inefficient pretentiousness.
second, here is a picture i dug up of the original shining laser from a few years ago
i will outline each and every instance you have straight done away with blockland's overarcing design theme with the shining forgetin laser because clearly you have flown further off the forgetin mark over time. obviously you're making not even the slightest attempt to attempt to mesh with blockland and are, in fact, attempting to put yourself on as high of a pedestal as possible by 'going against the flow.'
quotes, because someone else (again, that midway sentinel guy) is going against the flow in the exact same way. clearly there is a counter-flow. this means not only do
i find this sickening but
you're still not accomplishing what you're trying to accomplish.
first is the name, which again sounds like some chump with MSS came up with it. it's actually step away from the 'bravado superlaser' which i personally made while i was a chump with MSS back in like 2008, which is why i know. most other items are minimalistic- the Rocket Launcher, the Guns Akimbo, the Revolver, the Homing Rocket, the Tank. you've got not only a forgetin adjective but the purplest forgetin last-minute-shonen-power-up adjective stapled to the front and the only thing it serves- because it certainly doesn't
sound cool, it's trying entirely too hard and nobody is shouting it out loud so there's no room for a memetic super robot style overwrite- is to make it stand out against all the minimalistic equipment everywhere else on the item list
which basically means that the name itself is symptomatic of the entire weapon's 'ooh, look at me! i'm special! look at how special i am!' syndrome.
even the forgetin ion cannon beats it out in this category, for forget's sake
second, blockland's entire schtick is that the art style mimics cheaply-produced toys that are implied to be used with children, probably ages 5 to 15, who are likely to accidentally hurt themselves while playing with sharp objects. at it's most detailed- and it
does get pretty detailed, there's nothing wrong with detail as long as you know what the forget you're doing- the items look more like professional hand-made models that some older fan of the toys made custom. things like guns with heat shields, the tank, intricate detail. maybe
one or two hanging wires, and even then they'd have to be really forgetin huge (like on ephialte's flak cannon). maybe with individual painted parts
look at the mouth of your gun
this is a mass of forgetin
barbs.
the entire front part of your gun is composed of forgetin knives.no other gun does this without being self-aware of how forgetin stupid it looks and going absolutely balls-to-the-wall with the concept or out-and-out parodying the subject and you're sitting here playing the trope not only completely straight but for all the unironic low-internet 'cool points' you can possibly forgetin get away with
the rest of the gun is ridiculously over-done with detail popping out of every goddamn orifice like the thing is leaking forgetin cliche and triteness all over the place like there's someone chasing it that it's trying to forgetin trip up. like the forgetin weapon design police are after it and are blaring "YOU'RE LITERALLY BREAKING EVERY LAW SIMULTANEOUSLY, WHY DID YOU THINK NOBODY WOULD forgetIN NOTICE, PULL OVER RIGHT NOW" over their own forgetin sirens
it's actually to the point that your original gun- as previously stated-
looks
more in line with the rest of the forgetin game
like, it's clear you knew even less of what you were doing and the blades are still there loving up everything but it's relatively minimalistic and the design isn't noisy and it looks like it could have been pressed and painted in a factory. the only issues soccer moms would write whatever company makes Blockland blocks in-universe would be that their children keep getting their mouths all cut up when they inevitably try to chew on them to figure out what they are and even
then that's a problem most people get away with. people are willing to accept minor forget-ups, even if there's no implication that going forward the person will fix them, as long as they're not frustratingly bad
what people don't get away with is offhandedly attempting to sate people who have objections with their choice of action by saying they are doing something else while
continuing to perform the thing that people are objecting towhich isn't even the case here!you're doing it
more, you stupid starfish! you're telling me you're not doing something
and turning right back around and finding way to make the thing i am objecting to more forgetin objectable!
