- Not sure why, but fair enough.
Ren'Py is a Engine to make Visual Novels. And people do so. And I dont like reading a picture-Book. I want to play a game. Which means, I want to do more then just skipping endless texts (or hell, read them!). So I noticed, whenever something is made with Ren'Py, I dont like it. The only exception was a game named "Fallout Vault 007 by Taboo Games" which was very funny and realy good quality.
Quality is the next part why I dont like Ren'py. Until I saw this Fallout game, I was thinking that its not the Devs fault that all of these games look so dark, grainy and .. shitty. I thought that is the Engine what decrease the quality.
But the Fallout game makes me overthinking that.
I'd generally say that "atomic boobs" are ridiculously sized & shaped breasts that are really only possible with surgery.
Not sure what you mean by "Big brothers Mom have waaay to much", as in I'm not sure what you're referring to with her.
Well yes. Thats one kind of Atomic boobs. But I was meaning supersized breasts in general. BB Kira and Moms breasts are to big for my taste. Making these girls unattractive for me. While in "Men of the House" everyone but Sophia had Atomic Boobs. Making the whole game unattractive for me. I mean.. the worst thing that can happen is, if you play a porn game with girls that you dont like
And I understand why the dev from MotH hase done so. The game has a hugh variaty of different fetishism. So it can spread widely and reach more players. It dont have a small focus group of players. You like Strapons? You get it. You like 24/7 Bondage, you get it. Love Part-Time-Bondage? You get it, you like blackmailing? You get it. You like big boobs. Hell.. you get it. You like Maiden or slave dresses? you get it. This game fills almost every common fantasy.
I do have to ask though, what specifically about Big Brother do you like?
I guarantee it's not the game play, because this game is just a VN wearing a faux-sandbox-skin coat...
BigBrother is not a VN for me. Its more like Laisure Suite Larry in a Text-Adventure. I dont find myself in clicking endless text boxes away. The text in this game is well portioned and makes everytime sense to read.
But what I like the most is, that the girls comes with a character. So lets take Lisa for example.
Eric is no more and you start to give Lisa some Sex-education. You talk to her about it.
And she is lauging about you. Because she KNOW that you are a looser. You never had any women so she takes it with humor. And then you have to work your way around to get your tongue inside her mouth.
Even then she is taking it with humor. And you, the player, can feel exactly what a girl like Lisa would think in RL.
Even if you come up with "Do you want to be my girlfriend".. it takes month until she noticed that that is a serious request and not just fun. It fits perfectly in her character that she accepts, but more as a joke then a serious relationship.
So you can see that Lisa is written with her very own kind of psychology. Like everyone else in the BigBrother Family.
Convince Mom to do anything with you is a hugh effort. Because she acts more like a real mom then like a fictional porno-game mom.
And you dont need some Kind of "love meter" or similar. You can feel how close you are to the persons in your household. Wich leads to: No grinding, because it dont makes sense. And you always want to see: How far can I go before Person XY is freaking out..
Best example is Alice, she is thinking that you are a moron, but loves you as her brother. You can feel that. MotH Ashley, which is the mirrorpart of Alice hates you. Just for no reason. (the only reason is, that the developer hasnt spend that much efford in character developement). And in BB you can feel you come closer and closer to Alice.
In MotH you ... yeah.. she hates you. Then you spank her and she loves you.. that is.. not really realistic.
Thats what I like. The fact that I can feel like a kinky little idiot inside of a community of girls that have no clue what I am doing and what I am try to archive. And all of them act mostly like real people. (I mean, yeah.. at least at the point where Kira convince everyone to stay topless around the pool area you will noticed that you are just playing a adult game. But since then, it was exciting to try everything out, brew my own soup etc..)
And as I mentioned befor. A visual novel is: Clicking through text. The pictures change with time, and there is more and more text. Sometimes you can choose between to options or having something like a dialogue. But is is just text over text.
Big brother has gameplay. Thats the difference. I can decide when I am where I am and what I wanna to do next, at any time. And I HAVE to do something, because the game will not progress until I did it. A Visual novel is a autoprogress game, you just need to continue skipping text.
And that is what I am looking for. A real Game, that says: "Play me!", not "Read me!".
As I mentioned, Torid Affairs was very promising. But on hold.
And Men of the House has some great basic approaches but with girls I dont like and way to much grinding.
The Idea in "Hack'n Stalk" was Super. But minigames. And it also was going not the way I was hoping for. He uses the data he collects to flirt on the girls, not to ruin there lifes and come as an angel to fix all problems (I see my english is not good enough to descripe what I mean...)...
But well.. thats what I would like to play.
A Game. Not a book.