author_of_dx_frozen_hell wrote:and to people like you i SAY THIS: did you create anything yourself? if not, watch what you're saying and keep listening to Bieber.
That's the equivalent of telling a reviewer that if they think they their opinion is so great why don't they make a film or video game.
It's a fallacious argument, that means it doesn't work. It doesn't work because a person does not have to be in an industry to know how that industry works. I do not need to make a game, write a movie or sing a song to give feedback on any of those things.
But please, the next time you accuse me of not creating anything you should consider simply looking up my username in Google. You would, of course, find
my blog and possibly even my
deviantART page.
It doesn't particularly bother me if you don't want to take any of that as me creating something, because ultimately, I've gotten paid for my work, did you get paid for this shit? I don't think so.
And since it's been quite a long time since I've been able to truly argue I'm now going to go through your rebuttals and tell you why I disagree (I'm also horrendously bored, but that's the primary reason I "debated" in the first place).
author_of_dx_frozen_hell wrote:Number one. You didn't expect I would give my songs for free download, did you? 70 cents is the minimal price on RouteNote, and it's not so much for my songs (which are awesome as heck, and anyone who doesn't agree is a Justin Bieber fan).
People have been doing this on MySpace for years. In fact, the internet is a good medium for advertising any of your work, no matter the industry.
author_of_dx_frozen_hell wrote:For that I tell you this: I've worked on this mod hard as heck and without a team. I was dedicated to the work I do and instead of focusing on lags, people should appreciate the work I've done for the best of it--the story, music and overall design.
That's fantastic. You managed to create your own work... should I be impressed? Thousands of people do that everyday on YouTube and deviantART.
I've created a lot of things and I've done a lot of things, not all of it good, and I was told very much so at the time. I learnt to take feedback like that because newsflash:
You'll be getting a lot more. Especially from employers or investors.
As for the rest of your crap: The Denton clones could theoretically work, this is true, but ask yourself why JC or Paul would be compelled to ever do that. It goes against the idea of the characters to begin with, since it's not like they were told they were clones, is it?
Aside from this, there'd be absolutely no need to have these clones in any of the endings presented to us at the ending of Deus Ex, unless you recreate it as some form of "alternate ending" (more on that in a moment), because in 2/3 endings he would hardly need the use of clones to help him, and in the last one he blows up the entire facility rendering the entire cloning lab useless.
The primary reason why your work is laughably bad (especially in a group setting) is because it's just nonsensical tripe made from a tween who seems to have far too big an opinion of himself (that's you, by the way).
The problem with your entire "mod", if you can even call it that, is it is completely
unplayable. Yes, I played it, so I know. I have absolutely no clue how even half of the "storyline" in the film even plays out in the actual game because it's impossible to actually do anything in the game since there's absolutely no direction. You start off stuck on a building, you jump off and... well, that's about it. What the fuck do I do now?
The problem with the film itself is that it literally just looks like some cheap excuse to advertise your own music rather than a mod for Deus Ex. It's so disjointed and hard to follow, there's so much dialogue, and half the characters don't even make any bloody sense what-so-ever.
I don't really care who told you your music was "good" because, as said, they're probably as tone deaf as you. You sing completely out of key and the music itself is as harmonious as a cat being raked against a goddamn wall. There is no rhythm, there is no melody, and the lyrics sound like something my little sister would write when she was 5.
So you want my advice? You want some "constructive" feedback?
Destroy all remnants of the crap you've made, learn how to actually compose a song, write a story or design a game, and then come back to me.
I'm not saying you can't do any of the things you want to do, I'm saying that in their current form nobody in their right mind would ever think about buying them except a very small, underground community who probably hates anything that is "too mainstream" for them anyway.
@Kaiden: Also completely agree, the first comment completely threw me off, for example (I thought it was Dae just copying and pasting something he said).
And now, my friends, I bid you adieu. I'm going to buy myself a goddamn burger.
"You either die a lurker, or you live long enough to see yourself become a troll."