What's up, RMers?

[DerVVulfman]

When kyonides asked whether or not the Time Fantasy Steampunk asset was worth it, I first judged that he saw from images the style of graphics in which he was inquiring. He would have to have seen the style when he saw the advertisement for the asset package, else he would not have brought up the question on its value. And screenshots made the style of art quite clear. The images within the page did not contain NPCs, whether chibi-esque or not, as I do have a marked distain for that style.

I have learned that when one makes a judgment call, they must take themselves out of the equation. It is never fair to use your own personal tastes when making such, otherwise almost nothing would be graded properly. If one were to ask me if a Star Trek movie was worth it, I would try to consider the direction and acting, not flashy special effects or explosions that draw people into blockbusters. I would tend to question things like "wasn't the Klingon in the third movie just a generic villain?" or "the very first Trek movie was plodding along... the guy who directed it made musicals?" And I would ask them what type of films they preferred to view.

No. I attempted to take my preferences out and made critique about physical content. His query was whether it was worth purchasing recognizing that it could be "fixed / altered / improved easily" as he stated. I admit that I gave a disapproval towards the appearance of the Victorian house interior and made a light comment that the trains were fine, but that being the only unobjective comment based on personal taste.

Previous comments about purchased resources have pertained to overall content. Melana had made a statement about a purchase whereby the author merely made one of icons and mixed with one of five background objects and advertised hundreds of objects, something rather disingenuous. And kyonides noted displeasure in another resource advertised, though the content description was correct if poorly phrased and rather obscure. So I knew this was not about artwork style but content.

Had kyonides asked if they thought the art in this resource was good quality, then of course it would be about the style. Then I would note that this did not fit the RTP narrative for any of the engines, talk about whether anything was over-saturated or under-saturated, whether the characters or objects had used too vivid or dark an outline color, whether character faces had too much definition to make them appear aged or appeared to be MS-Paint derived. However, that was not the case.

I discussed the metal-reinforced wooden crates, Victorian styled railings and other objects that are not seen in most other tilesets. I also suggested that some content were novel, the actual appearance of street clocks, which still exist to this day, but are more used outside of some banks or schools in LED format as some today are now unable to understand an analog clock. I gave my critique on the fact there was indeed plenty of content, content and consistency of an art style which kyonides would have already seen.