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Two years?
That's optimistic!
Yah... sure it could be that long or longer
At this rate he won't even finish a game week in two years!
Unlike AWAM where it's a deliberate slow burn for the sake of it, the delays and slowness seem to reflect real life issues.
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There are a lot of issues up in the air. Many of them we don't even see coming. And it's not those issues of real-life work/family slowing down AMP, but the story itself that could drag things out 2+years. Part of AWAM's problems is all the paths and started subplots as well as side events. Now if AMP goes down that rabbit hole, 5 years would be generous estimation.
But Mr. Palmer seems to have motivations to move this game along and keep it good so he can start other projects. Sure, that all can change. L&P found himself with a hit... the f95 page has 8K+ worth of commentary... and people are itching for the fin al acts to start with that game. But it fair as it is unfair to say Mr. Palmer and L&P are the same... so I can't even guess how long or how fast things will unfold in AMP. The only certainty is MR. Palmer is working on quality.
But yes, the story of AMP could get lost with "little things" like AWAM has. Is the upcoming update going to be one of those rabbit holes? Maybe. The problem is what are the expectations and what is produced. Sometimes knowing "what should be coming out" does match with what does come out.
I am under the expectation it's a Marvin/Anna thing... the last update I thought it more plot build setting the stage for 2 more updates before things got really interesting. Then the update hit, and we got Timothy and Dale and a Chris BJ. All of it worked and worked wonders in that it was both interesting and more Anna character development that will make what comes next more logical.
Perhaps you can correct me where I am wrong but what is left to define as Anna's character are:
*Just what are Anna's daddy issues and how Hank will exploit them
*How much of Anna's sexual past would allow a Marvin thing to happen
*What is the thing that would turn Jake from being just attractive to a consideration for Anna
*With the limited time of events that are scheduled as we know them, does Grant and Anna reconcile
*last, just how Anna's own corruption and desires will whatever events come up, like Timothy/Dale, to occur
Now if Mr. Palmer just throws in a new character that is going to be a MC... sure 2 years would sound about right. The pace and time of AMP is everything to the story and Anna's character. There is going to be a point of no return where Anna gives it up... it's a matter of time, and with whom and those considerations have an impact on the rest of the characters
I don’t understand why everyone immediately runs to compare any project that is subject of "time criticism" with the LP project!
I'll get off topic right away, i was permanently banned in the AWAM thread for criticizing the project in a time frame of 7+ years! So I'm not defending it and my next words are just facts!
LP can be hated for many things, but no matter how strange it may sound, his game has sex scenes with Sophia, yes, flashbacks, yes, sex with her husband, there are also we didn’t see Sophia naked at the start, but we’ve seen her not only naked many times already, i agree that it took a lot of time to develop, but with each update she’s getting closer to the goal, yes, i’m also fed up with this teasing, but LP is constantly working on the project, improving the visuals (the only thing i don't understand is why he uses AI on faces), studies animation, i liked the old animations better, but he refused the services of an animator and started studying it himself. LP has a progress counter in percentage, gives a lot of teasers (although i am against spoilers and such a large number of teasers), he does a lot of work!
MP just codes and writes text!
He doesn't try to improve the game visually, he just goes forward along the beaten path like a snail!
I understand personal matters, family, etc., but let's be honest - when you came here, are you interested in someone's personal matters or did you come here to get distracted?
I don't care what anyone's business is, what matters to me is the result - which doesn't exist! It was already written above that the sidewalk with personal matters could be understood a couple of times, but now it has become a habit!
MP is not organized!
If he had devoted at least an hour of his time five days a week, progress would have been faster! Look, he doesn't even come here! Before, at least he wrote something here...
His project has long lost interest in my eyes, i don’t expect it, when it comes out i’ll play it and maybe not right away, and considering what stage the story is at, this update won’t be a "fireworks"!
And one more thing, as i said above - no one forced him to say that he would release this update faster and that he would no longer delay the release of updates like that 5-6 months, but we are approaching this mark again!
This project started out very promisingly, but then rolled into the middle segment of long-term construction projects.
