Camera control screen shots

Hey Monkfi5h, no not all, I didn't mean to come across as taking anything personally! Believe me , it takes quite a bit  more than that to make me take personal offense at something. I was just trying to explain it for everyone, and address your sentiment specifically of screenshots like these being "deception". I can understand if it wasn't your intent to do so, but with that expression you're saying that the Bloodstained team is willfully deceiving and lying to the fans / public. 

So all I was trying to point out was that aside from the fact that it's standard to pose / create "beauty shots" for promotional use like this, the game is also still very much WIP (things may/will change from what's shown), and on top of that we're talking about an assumed feature that may or may not exist, not anything that we have promised and then couldn't deliver. And even if it was something we promised and then couldn't deliver, calling it deception means that the team literally sat down and said "ok how can we trick people and lie to them for our benefit?". That's what I was pointing out as an exaggeration, at least in my humble opinion.

The cranking it to 11 thing is just to kind of communicate that if here we're talking about a promo shot that has all the circumstances described above, and we're already at "you lied and tricked us", what happens if, heaven forbid, we would have to cancel support of a specific platform? Or scale back the scope and remove a certain game mode? If a WIP beauty shot is deceiving the players, then something like these examples would see us all arrested and sentenced to a lifetime in the mines! (Jokes aside it has that effect of discounting future criticism I mentioned)

Basically, I was just trying to say that it's ok to give us a little benefit of the doubt, hopefully you all know us by now and you know that while we want to obviously make as much money as we can, we're fans and just like everyone else and aren't out to pull any mega-corp evil publisher shenanigans. The last line of defense for that promise is me! You can always reach out to me for anything at all, and you know my standing promise: "I may not be able to talk about something, but anything I do say, will be the truth."

Oh and it wasn't meant to single you out, this is a message that could be shared with anyone frankly about expectations, understanding and the culture we all live with this game. And I know you're a hardcore fan and you have only the best interests and desires for the game, otherwise you wouldn't be here! So really don't worry about me thinking you're trying to give me a hard time or offend anyone or anything, if anything, I apologize if it sounded like I was offended! Hopefully by now you all know that I want all the feedback, good, bad, up, down, etc etc

 

Unless screenshots are posted by you Angel-Corlux then I'm going to take them with a large pinch of salt. They were posted by XombieMike who cited his source as being IGN so at the time of writing anything about any kind of  "deception" I had no reason to believe the shots were Official and originated from the Bloodstained Team; as far as I was concerned these are just some images that Mike's found on the internet.  I believed that IGN had created the images themselves (i say as much earlier in the thread), primarily because the camera angles in them are so unusual.  This practice was very common in the 80's and 90's and that's what i thought was happening here (it lead to so much wasted pocket money).  I don't want your hard work to be misrepresented even if it is to publicise the game, turns out that this was some of your hard work, so that's my mistake.

It's not a deception if the images are there to showcase some mysterious assumed feature we're not aware of, nor is it a deception to simply show of the engine/models/lighting effects as long as people aren't expecting that to be in-game footage. From Galamoth 's response to me it seems that most people don't expect shots like this to be showing actual gameplay, unfortunately for me however I don't have such a modern outlook. Maybe I'm just getting too old for this.



When I post in a thread like this i'm speaking only for myself and giving my personal perspective on things. When i'm raising other concerns i'm doing so not just for myself but also on behalf of other people, to try and help both them and you Angel, so to brush concerns asside off the back of what's simply a misunderstanding on my part doesn't seem very fair to anyone.