(07-03-2014, 02:18 PM)Robosprog Wrote: [ -> ]There's no need to be condescending, and if you wanted something unique to look at, you should have chosen a different environment. And incinerator has been done, can't recall exact story name, and hydrotheraphy is basically just a pool, which, has been done.
Again, your environment has been done to death. It's literally just Penumbra. As you said, it's been done before, you will not get a really unique environment out of it, and if you're only going to focus on how it looks, well, that will not bode well for the end result.
Never meant to sound condescending, sorry if I came off that way.
Obviously we will never see eye to eye about it, because you're obviously very tired with what people have been creating with HPL2. But there's only so much I can do to impress you, IF I can impress you at all.
Also, I know you're just stating your opinion, however, if you wanted to scare me away from working on my own stuff, for fear of it looking like just another Penumbra remake or because it might end up shitty, then well done. I'll be putting my mod on the back shelf for the next few weeks to rethink it's existence.
If you hate that everybody remakes the shit out of Penumbra and other story lines, then why do you still hopefully hang around? I assume for HPL3 and SOMA, but honestly. I didn't ask to be told that everything I'm putting my time and effort into is going to end up like crap because it resembles Penumbra. Draw your own conclusions if you will, criticize it all you want, but don't treat me like dirt. Give me something to work off of, not "Your mod sounds like Penumbra so it'll turn out like crap".
In this modern day world, pretty much EVERYthing has been done before. I can't claim any idea as my own because chances are, in some remote part of the world, it's been done before. I'm NOT just working with aesthetics in this mod of mine, there's a decent story line that, of course, has probably been done before and I'm not even going to waste your time, or my time outlining the details of that because I'm sure you'd have a lot to say about it.
I won't be scraping what I've made so far, I'm halfway done so there's no point. But I'd like to add that you shouldn't judge things as hard as you do. Yeah, I'm making something that's caused you to draw ties to Penumbra, yeah, some of the environments have been done before, but not every mod is created equal, and just because it SOUNDS like it's going to be too much like something else, doesn't mean it IS. Everybody should be given a fair chance to create something interesting, even if only a little interesting.