Tenebris Lake Full Conversion

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Spoiler below!

what happened to the prison keep?
why the hell would a mother abandon her children and randomly take off to live in France for the rest of her life?

Because she fucking felt like it.


whats up with the monsters? i don't understand who they are, what they are, why they are and how they came to be the way they are!

Did you pay any attention at all to the flashbacks? They're slaves, puppets, dolls.


to be honest, its a little unfair to do this to you guys. you did put a good amount of work into this custom story/full conversion; but QUANTITY =/= QUALITY

Quality > quantity.

examples of this:

1. i could see clipping issues every 20 seconds or so.


WHAT? I'm sorry, it's just that I spent about 10 hours scouring the map for the most obvious clipping/flickering issues and having them removed. Do you think YOU could document the problems you experienced, rather than just writing this negative report?


2. the amount of maps and the little amount of story made me think that you guys didn't really head for the "story based custom story/full conversion". this is a big issue. the story made me go "what the flying f***?" at the end, and to be honest, it wasn't really thought through very well.




why are there monsters in the first place?
why are there miners randomly out to kill me when they see me?
why would anyone not leave this castle when he saw the things he saw? according to this story the guy didnt even know he had a family, so why the hell would he continue into this godforsaken empty weird unorganized castle?

According to the story, the guy knew he had a past last that he had forgotten, and wants to find more of it. He knows a part of his memory has been wiped away, and he wants to find out why.


overall:

bad:


- the story made little or no sense.

- the environment and events were very very very badly explained.. if ever explained at all.

- the mapping could have been a lot better. like i said, quantity =/= quality. i found myself stuck in it numerous times.

- the monsters and custom content could have been made better. (the weight painting on the monsters were horribly done, i must say. no offense. the skin underneath their arms followed its hand when it struck, and overall the animations were done poorly. on the slender man statue, the chains also moved along with the skin. it really broke the immersion..)

- i was LITERALLY lost for 3 hours wondering what the f*** i was supposed to do. half the time i spent just wandering about, waiting for SOME SORT of hint as for what to do; though i NEVER received a single one..

- the lighting job on the maps were poor. I could literally not see anything when playing through the first maps.. a box light or two on 0.2 on its settings, all over each map would've helped greatly.

- there were misplaced particle systems everywhere.

- i always felt like i was missing something of the story every time i was forced to continue without me wanting to.

- realism was really absent here. you guys really couldve done that bit better. i really don't see how random enemies can come out of nowhere, and just poof..

You're complaining about realism here? I think I should direct you towards The Small Horse, or perhaps House of Creep?


"but the guy is crazy!" yeah, i get it. but im crazier than most people i know, and I really don't think im gonna see random poofing monsters any time soon. and by the way, how the hell can a guy get a seizure entering a black section, when in this story im not supposed to fear the dark.

- the voice acting on the flashbacks were so abstract and weird.. i literally couldn't understand what they were saying half the time i was listening (except for traggey's loud voice (thank heavens)). they were so mute.. so quiet.. *sigh*


That's why there are subtitles.


- i never really understood the point of this goo in the story.. there was no explanation of it, nor was there any hints and pointers on what its purpose really was (other than annoyingly blocking your way, and sometimes glitching you into the game without any other way out than to exit, and re enter the conversion...)
my guesses would be to try to at least make a scare factor, but it really didn't function...

- how come the story is named "tenebris lake", though you only spend about 2 minutes in it overall?..

i could go on for hours ranting about this, but im sure you see my point..

I'm sure you could....

good:

- importing animations into the game, and actually making them function is something i still struggle with. its nice to see that you guys managed to do this, and at least tried to make this as unique as possible.

- the mapping had its basic principles alright. you did pull of the part of tenebris lake really well.

- there were some creative parts in there that i absolutely loved, and the way you used the amnesia items was well done.

Not worth any more of my time.

I'm sorry Summer but stop acting like such a spoilt brat. You want to work in the community for bug testing and such learn to accept criticism just like your clients do. Also if you WATCHED crys play through you missed a few clipping textures..