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Look, I have no problem saying Malachi is a great D-Mod, better than any of mine. I'd also have no problem saying you made an Epic... if you had made one. But you haven't, which I don't have a problem saying out loud either. Malachi just doesn't come anywhere near the requirements of one. It looks like you, along with a lot of other people, see their own D-Mods triple the size that they actually are. I've seen some D-Mods currently in development that claim to be Epics, yet from what I've seen clearly aren't.
I never said the categories are a badge of honour. However, they are there for the authors in the sense that they can tell how big of a D-Mod they've created compared to other D-Mods currently out. If Malachi was categorized as an Epic, that'd mean so could D-Mods like CC1, Dinky Dimensions 2 and Fall of Tahmar, because they offer as much of an adventure as Malachi. That'd just throw things off-balance. Soon we'd have the site filled with Epics that don't truly qualify as ones.
I never compared NPC conversations with teleporters. I used that to compare to Meta's maze argument. I'm not discounting dialogue in a D-Mod. It certainly adds to a D-Mod. But when you're using the length of the D-Mod as an excuse to categorize the D-Mod as Epic, when in reality half of that time is built from NPC dialogue that nohow progresses things, it shouldn't be counted. As I said, that'd be like putting two screens in a D-Mod and adding one NPC with eight hours worth of dialogue, and then the other screen would end the game. Once it ends, sure you can say the D-Mod took eight hours to complete, but was it really an eight hour long adventure? No.
I'm not singling out Malachi. I've used lots of other D-Mods as example, too. But quite frankly, you're the one who brought the topic up, saying that Malachi should be an Epic. Furthermore, Malachi is a good example to use. Also, most of my favourite D-Mods aren't Epics (except for CC2), so I completely agree with your statement about Lyna's Story. A D-Mod doesn't have to be Epic to be great (and quite frankly, many of them are not that great), but they do have to fill certain requirements, which in my opionion, Malachi, for example, doesn't.
And no. This isn't some "wounded pride" or a vendetta against Malachi itself, as you put it. I'm just saying what I think about this whole thing. I'm not even pissed off, which is rare for me when it comes to passionate debates like this.
I never said the categories are a badge of honour. However, they are there for the authors in the sense that they can tell how big of a D-Mod they've created compared to other D-Mods currently out. If Malachi was categorized as an Epic, that'd mean so could D-Mods like CC1, Dinky Dimensions 2 and Fall of Tahmar, because they offer as much of an adventure as Malachi. That'd just throw things off-balance. Soon we'd have the site filled with Epics that don't truly qualify as ones.
I never compared NPC conversations with teleporters. I used that to compare to Meta's maze argument. I'm not discounting dialogue in a D-Mod. It certainly adds to a D-Mod. But when you're using the length of the D-Mod as an excuse to categorize the D-Mod as Epic, when in reality half of that time is built from NPC dialogue that nohow progresses things, it shouldn't be counted. As I said, that'd be like putting two screens in a D-Mod and adding one NPC with eight hours worth of dialogue, and then the other screen would end the game. Once it ends, sure you can say the D-Mod took eight hours to complete, but was it really an eight hour long adventure? No.
I'm not singling out Malachi. I've used lots of other D-Mods as example, too. But quite frankly, you're the one who brought the topic up, saying that Malachi should be an Epic. Furthermore, Malachi is a good example to use. Also, most of my favourite D-Mods aren't Epics (except for CC2), so I completely agree with your statement about Lyna's Story. A D-Mod doesn't have to be Epic to be great (and quite frankly, many of them are not that great), but they do have to fill certain requirements, which in my opionion, Malachi, for example, doesn't.
And no. This isn't some "wounded pride" or a vendetta against Malachi itself, as you put it. I'm just saying what I think about this whole thing. I'm not even pissed off, which is rare for me when it comes to passionate debates like this.
