loco264899
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If I knew how to draw I would already be doing nonsense like fanarts or maybe creating my own game, unfortunately I have no talent for drawing
RPGM Bones' Tales: The Manor [v0.30.3 Hotfix] [Dr Bones]
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never say doc again his name is BANANA ...... SPREAD THE WORD
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Try extracting the files again, and make sure they're not inside a folder (or a directory path) that includes special characters like "#$%&/()= as these sometimes mess things up with certain applications.
Also a question, does this happen when you launch the game or when does it happen?
Banality
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the thing is as stated before: even if someone clones the game or make an MV version of it.... there is still the Artwork that's missing. You'd have the same content. Maybe you should commision an artist with a similar style and get it on yourself
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Oops sorry I accidentally dropped this here..
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Why does every RPGM game that has a free roam part thinks it's a good idea to make you repeat the same actions over and over again at the beginning to slowly grind arbitrarily high stats ?
Do people enjoy that ?
Genuinely asking because if nearly every game does that there must be a good reason.
I personnally find it frustrating and boring, but maybe I'm missing something
At least this game here avoids the other very annoying trope of RPGM games: overly big map sizes, which is a big plus already.
But I've been playing for close to 2h now, and all I've achieved is a bit of groping (that fails the stat check), the beginning of the bestiality scene and peeking.
Do people enjoy that ?
Genuinely asking because if nearly every game does that there must be a good reason.
I personnally find it frustrating and boring, but maybe I'm missing something
At least this game here avoids the other very annoying trope of RPGM games: overly big map sizes, which is a big plus already.
But I've been playing for close to 2h now, and all I've achieved is a bit of groping (that fails the stat check), the beginning of the bestiality scene and peeking.
loco264899
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1- the statistics system serves to cover the little content that there is.
2-I think that very few people enjoy that maximum between 10 and 15 percent.
3- the size of the map serves to keep you entertained giving you the false feeling that the game has a lot of content since it takes you a long time to do the quests and some games are very ambiguous making you talk to every fucking npc in the game to find the damn item what do you need
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You can use these saves to skip the points grinding. Ain't a solution to the game's mechanics but it'll help you see everything a bit quicker.
Download, drag and drop the extracted files in the root folder (where the .exe file is located). Make a backup of your own, if the names are the same, you could overwrite your saves (in case you want to keep them).
curilho
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You have to find the right level of grind. Grind is used to get players attached to a game. If you invest time, you getting attached to the game, because your mind tells you "I played for so many hours, I can't give up now else everything would be wasted!". And every now and then you get a reward of a new scene and this triggers other levels in your brain. Boom, more attachment.
The grind in this game is okish, but not to much. Also this is a incest theme. Convincing a family to have sex and feel good with it needs some time. If it would be a go to the club and bang some random girl game, then yes the grind would be to much.
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It's the new way of making games, this happens in the big industry too, like in the gatcha games where you kind of gamble to get a character of your like but then you gotta lvl up by doing the same shit over and over again. You got achievements too, like shoot players in the dick 1 million times to get the gold dicke and balls. Almost every game has his grind in a way or another and you know what, it's not bad as long it's not the example i gave you before.
Maybe he'll drop it on April "Fools", honoring his patreon (or whatever he's using) fanbase
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What you're highlighting is exactly my issue: sunk-cost fallacy is a lazy way to drive player engagement (and a boring way for me as a player). It always leads to unnecessarily bloated experiences that could easily be trimmed down and be better as a result because the experience would become more focused on the core aspects.
I don't mind games that take their time if the writing and developments justify the time it takes. One I love like that is Long Live the Princess where getting to the sister character is very long and tricky, BUT ! Along the way you get an engaging magic-murder-mystery story and get to uncover more about that sister. There's also a lesbian you can turn Bi or straight if you want, entirely as side content, and it also takes time to develop, but each scene tends to be different, you're progressing a storyline, not repeating an action for a nebulous stat increase.
There's stats grind, and it takes a while to get them to the max and unlock everything, but it doesn't matter because you're experiencing scenes and story-moments along the way. This games strikes the right balance of porn and compelling storytelling for me. Nothing too fancy, but still some nice twists and layered characters to learn about (like I said, nothing too fancy, but it's miles above most of the competition)
Here in The Manor, all I'm doing is spying on characters, perving a bit on them and playing tag all to raise the stats and unlock the scenes.
There's not really any engaging story going on in this phase, it's mindless grind. And even when I unlock scenes, it doesn't feel earned (neither from a narrative standpoint, nor from a gameplay standpoint).
EDIT: To further explain the previous point in less words: There's no "AH HA !" moment, it's all "FINALLY.", if that makes sense
My go-to example for a well balanced game with this kind of grind is Summer Memories. The story is nothing special, in fact it has a lot in common with the setup from Bones' Tales: The Manor: "Young man gets in house with 3 women, 2 young, 1 older, sexy time ensues".
But the unlocks are constant, you always have something new gameplay-wise to build towards with the currency you get, and by upgrading the character, you unlock new scenes because the way you get currency is through interaction with the family members.
Even without talking about the porn content itself (which I find excellent), the core gameplay loop is something you could release as a full indie game without the porn and I wouldn't bat an eye, it's very solid and well balanced with a variety of ways to progress.
That's not something I would say of The Manor unfortunately.
There's no decision making when you're grinding in this game, it's a very rigid set of things you have to do to raise the stats and that's it.
I'm sure the H-scenes in The Manor are good, but the game as a package I find lacking unfortunately.
And it's made worse by the fact that I have to wait so long to get to the H-scenes for no good reason (because nothing changes between my actions that raise Lust/Guilt/Trust, I'm just repeating the same think until it unlocks the new part, after which I'll repeat the process)
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