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by Feralidragon » Mon Mar 01, 2010 1:18 pm
No, criticism is NOT ONLY merelly an opinion (and who does stuff bound to criticism and learns with it knows this very well).
When someone criticizes some other's work, part of it is it's own opinion, but another are indeed a little truth. There are the right and wrong way to do things, and style is something completelly different. While the style can be criticized being 80% merelly an opinion, other things like the editing itself, performance, etc, they all have always a better way to do things that can be comproved anywhere by solid evidence.
For instance, if I see someone adding a lot of deco into the same spot: is wrong. It's not only an opinion about the style, it's the wrong way to produce a map since it will lag as hell.
If someone doesn't align the texture: it's wrong. Although you might argue it's about style, I say it's indeed style, but the 20% of it that actually has that ABSOLUTE truth in it. Textures should always be aligned to look believable and make the map look like a map and not like a poly experiment.
If someone places 20 lights to bright a spot: it's wrong. It will overbright the place, crash some mods and renders and lag the hell out of the map, it's NOT JUST AN OPINION.
I could spend the whole day giving you enough criticism material which are NOT just OPINIONS. So keep this in mind:
CRITICISM =/= OPINION
You can include opinions inside a criticism, but your criticism is mostly based in true facts and the correct ways of doing things, and not in opinion. The opinion just complements the criticism given, as hints or final apreciations.
If someone wants to do something good (a map, mod, or even something not relative to the game itself), that someone should hear criticism and CONSIDER the opinions and do better BASED on what has been told to be the most correct way or the only correct way.
And believe me, it works this way.
EDIT: Btw, when someone gives "criticism" based only or mostly in it's own tastes, it's not a criticism at all, it's really an opinion.
hehe i hear endless "My Floors dont work :'( " and "My Map Makes FloorHax! :@" and other stuff like that haha its quite funny lol, but we've all been there, always just that once forget to rebuild it and wonder why its not working haha 