Topic on Talk:Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver

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I am the wrace. The creator and the owner of both (unique) mods which were shared here without asking my permissions for this at all. Moreover, I could easily deny to share these mods here at all after very bad behavior of the people like "if and while" and moderators who provided the ban for me here (look, for example, on the reaction of the author of "Soul Fixer" here for some small clarifications in the text about this one mod) by using the very strange reasons and the evident lie of "if and while", but I did not do this at all because I have no ambitions and the only reason for me to create any improvements - the duty about other fans (like I by myself). No, I do not need the presence of my mods here just because I asked never for any form of donate for me (like the authors of "Soul Fixer" for SR2 and "OpenGL wpapper" for BO1) and did not place any king of the advertisings (by myself) on my own site (like the owners of PCGamingWiki do now).

It is evident that I am the only one here who has full info about Soul Reaver (just because I made my mods and provided the appropriate info above). So anyone here (excepting me) is the "one who knows nothing" (while I did not explain something for this one directly). Moreover, the moderator above confirmed this fact explicitly (for example, by these words - "especially as I didn't know about how Defiance uses music from all the Legacy of Kain games"; fan communities of LOK in help to know about such things; I was the part of many of these communities from the start of this century).

About this: "I would also like to add that wrace and If and while have had quite the feud, both off and on PCGW regarding the Legacy of Kain series (with the exception of Defiance), and both have claimed their views are backed by the Legacy of Kain series when, as far as their interactions on this wiki in the past have demonstrated, they merely have a personal feud."

Look the log of edits of this article for SR1. I provided (and provide) every time the full explanation of my edits while "If and while" provided no explanations at all. So your words that "both have claimed their views" are the evident lie - "If and while" provided no words at all, so this one did not provide this one view at all. Moreover, I saw never this one in the known fan communities of LOK (and you too - I am about moderator here) and I saw never the products of this one while you try to compare my view / knowledge with the same of some unknown one who demonstrated exactly nothing real.

About this: "As a member of PCGamingWiki staff, I thus have to process what either of them say with a large amount of skepticism."

Because you are very unprofessional one as I said early already. The evident and simple fact - you compare the views of the one who is the creator of this one known products for LOK games (one of them was integrated into official distributive of the game in 2012 - I am about SR1 - and is used by several hundreds thousands fans only oficially; look this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DOKzTHaPfM - will million views which contains my credentials + address of my site), who provides the whole explanations of any thing and who provides tech support during many years (for example, in the section Comments of the linked Steam Guide with my product) with the "view" of the one who created nothing known and did not provide any explanations at all, just reverted back the changes time by time without any explanations at all or provided the edits of the description of the products which were created by something else + this one did not demonstrate at all that this one has any skill in programming or any other knowledge about LOK games. And you just ignore these simple things.

And about the edits with the reasoning that there are some people that want to play into the original (vanilla) game - where are all these people? I saw exactly about 0 complaints according to described moments in the communities of the SR1 on Steam and gog (the only two places which sell LOK games officially). So you provide sooner such adjusments by following some strange complaints of my own haters (very small amount of people). I think that it is useless and bad practice.

BTW: if one wants to play into the original (vanilla) game, this one should find the original CD with this game (PC version) with the original rpl movies on it and should not use even bink patch. In this case this one will play with outdated low quality video and with black stripes in addition (if this one will run the game at all). And, of course, this one should not use updated version of bink patch too - because it provides support of additional music tracks from PS, the correct realization of music playback (which is near to the one from PS, not to the bugged port on PC), support of XInput gamepads, mouse, and so on. And these moments were never the part of original game which was released in 1999 (when there are no even good mouses).

Shortly: the claim "I want to play like in vanilla" is the very unclever claim. Just because the main parts of any game are the gameplay and battle system. And these parts were not changed at all permanently. I saw the try of fans to recreate SR1 - they could not create even the same battle system as original SR1 has (the battle system in the game of fans was veeeery bad; yep, very good graphics and models, but with the ugly battle system it is the very bad game). Yes, I added the "New Game+" mode which allows to play in this game with already solved block puzzles (very annoying thing by the opinion of some players - I saw such claims in the Reviews on Steam), but: 1) it is the optional thing; 2) exactly, this thing was obtained using the existing features of the original game (it is just loading of the save which was created early using the hidden possibility of original game to "jump" by locations). So the claim here "no-no, it is not vanilla" will look very funny - yep, it is "not vanilla" for you just because you know nothing about hidden features of this game. And the same is about big amount of other features. And yes - it seems that you (moderator or anyone else) did not see at all the whole amount of likes / awards / thanks in my threads with my products (the TimeWayBack Machine in help). So: there is the opinion of very big amount of users that show it by themself explicitly (on Steam at most) and did not provide any complaints at all, and there is the opinion of some small amount of strange people who provided their claims for me explicitly NEVER. And you - moderators here - took into consideration the opinion of such strange people with the full ignorance of the explicit opinion of very big amount of other people. Is it very unclever behavior? Exactly.