Unreal Engine Carnal Instinct [2024-06-01] [Team Carnal Instinct]

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MidnightKing

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sadge0 said:
Played this for like 2 hours.
60% of running around the big, boring map (but hey, at least it has nice UE5 graphics that didn't burn my mobile 1650 on silent mode somehow)
25% of talking to the generic NPCs and completing their generic boring quests (most of them were nicely voiced tho, it sounded REALLY GOOD for such game)
14.5% of fighting dumb AI enemies with the same combo over and over again
0.5% of actual H content

God I wish this game was actually unique and not the most generic RPG you can imagine with very little H content that is not even the part of the gameplay but just a scene after you choose certain dialogue option... Even tho the only H scene I've seen after playing for 2 hours was good, I didn't even get a boner because it took me so long to see it and I was very bored. Maybe I'd get to it a bit faster if I wasn't completing random quests along the way. I've been completing them because I thought I'll get some items/currency or at least H scenes as a reward but I'm not even sure if I got anything after completing them (at least I didn't see anything appear in my inventory). Honestly it was even more boring than latest AC games, which means IT'S VERY BORING. Idk if it's even worth playing tbh, if all H content it has atm are these 3 intimate encounters marked on the map. If so, then it's really sad that devs have put so much effort into nothing. This game does a bad job on everything except models and voicing (I'm not sure about H content because as I said, I've seen only 1 scene which is not enough to make a conclusion yet)
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I'm not going to tell you that you should enjoy the game despite you not liking it, but you're also comparing apples to oranges man. If you're expecting lewd Unreal games to match mainstream AAA games then I don't think you're ever going to be happy. As someone who's played a lot of Unreal h-game projects, there are incredibly few that are even close to being as developed as this one is. Yeah it's not the RPG of the century and I'm not going to pretend otherwise, but within the world of porn games there really isn't anything like this.

You probably didn't play the UE4 build, but some sex scenes were part of quests, you did get rewarded with new clothes/forms/weapons, and the map was a little more filled with fast travel points and general locations of interest. You're playing a relatively new build of an in-development RPG. This isn't a completed game. Keep in mind all content from the UE4 build is slated to move over to UE5 as well, so no the entire game does not amount to 3 intimate encounters. I for one am sick of Unreal games that amount to nothing more than being fancy galleries for scenes, so I'm glad the devs have been putting effort into making an actual game.
 
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MidnightKing said:
If you're expecting lewd Unreal games to match mainstream AAA games
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I don't. I hate most mainstream AAA games. You thought like that because of the comparison with AC? Modern AC games are some of the most boring AAA RPG games out there, that's why I've compared them, that doesn't mean that I expect Carnal Instinct to be as big and match their quality. I've simply said that this game is the most boring RPG in it's current state and it's not unique in any way when it comes to gameplay (well, again, I was talking about UE5 version, I didn't try UE4 version because I had no idea they were so different, thread creator should've mentioned this near the download links)
 
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Personally, I prefer the UE4 version. Some of that is the overly long intro section and the lack of immediate customization in the UE5 version, but the UE5 version also seems to have more of a focus on combat, and the world is much less traversable. The UE4 version doesn't make me go around to find the "correct" path to the top of something nearly as often. The story in the UE4 version is also much more in line with what I want from this sort of game.
 
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Jesus you made me remember the beginnings of UE4 version and that I had to enable cheatengine speedhack to not get fucking bored going from one POI to another as there was no fasttravel. UE5 travel is not ideal, climbing is hit or miss and boat while nice is a bit finicky to me atleast, you cannot mount the boat while swimming right ?.
 
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FurrBat said:
Jesus you made me remember the beginnings of UE4 version and that I had to enable cheatengine speedhack to not get fucking bored going from one POI to another as there was no fasttravel. UE5 travel is not ideal, climbing is hit or miss and boat while nice is a bit finicky to me atleast, you cannot mount the boat while swimming right ?.
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LOL thing I remember most was taking like 5 minutes of just running in a straight line and then i fell through the world and had to do it over again
 
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jayjaymax said:
They've just started with the UE5 version and I found it more playable and enjoyable because it's not just a bunch of erotic animations one after the other and the NPC interactions aren't all just H-Content. But I agree that some boss fights are unnecessarily complicated and difficult for a game that's supposed to be an adult RPG. I'm looking forward to the finished product.
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This is a porn game ffs, if I wanted interesting gameplay and soulful dialogue I'd play Witcher or something.
 
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mancuskaj said:
This is a porn game ffs, if I wanted interesting gameplay and soulful dialogue I'd play Witcher or something.
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I never really get this take, since at the same time I could just tell you to go watch porn then. Maybe because the sex content is a bit unique in comparison? But even then I'm sure you can find videos of the scenes if you look. Idk, I think the fun part about lewd games is that they can be both good in dialogue/gameplay AND lewd content.
 
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I never really get this take, since at the same time I could just tell you to go watch porn then. Maybe because the sex content is a bit unique in comparison? But even then I'm sure you can find videos of the scenes if you look. Idk, I think the fun part about lewd games is that they can be both good in dialogue/gameplay AND lewd content.
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Thank you for verbalizing my subconscious thoughts. Really, sites like rule34.xxx actually do have tags for hentai games that show in-game content and fan art, and a few additional tags will mostly ensure it's just the hentai parts of those games. So yes, for many hentai games out there you can truly skip the gameplay and find the video for just the hentai scene.

Yet the point of the game is the adventure. Lewd games are not so much a venue of porn as much as they are a flavor of game. For example, I went through the latest posted version of Carnal Instinct recently and experienced the gem of dialogue in the tutorial area that gave me the most ironic, heartful version of "go fuck yourself" I will ever witness in my entire life. The meaning in that context transformed the phrase beyond belief. If you want to find this scene yourself, find the frustrated cursed one and select the choice to keep the... "trinket".

That and the Romeo and Juliet style role-swapped lovers in town are some moments that can really only be experience in hentai games.
 
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ViviX12

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MyStupidPornAccount said:
ah yes genius take, play through the most jank bland rpg imaginable to get H-scenes. only a philistine couldnt want that
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Then go to a different game. Or wait until this one isn't early in development anymore, if you can comprehend the difference between work in progress and finished product. Really, you can do both. Nothing is chaining you to one game while it's being developed.
 
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MidnightKing said:
I never really get this take, since at the same time I could just tell you to go watch porn then. Maybe because the sex content is a bit unique in comparison? But even then I'm sure you can find videos of the scenes if you look. Idk, I think the fun part about lewd games is that they can be both good in dialogue/gameplay AND lewd content.
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"Just porn" isn't interactive. That is the main pull of porn games. Interactive sex. Combat gameplay is only ever just window dressing IMO.
 
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mancuskaj said:
"Just porn" isn't interactive. That is the main pull of porn games. Interactive sex. Combat gameplay is only ever just window dressing IMO.
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Think we are just going to disagree on a fundamental level in what we look for in porn games. I do agree the interactiveness is part of the draw, but I'm not rushing through everything to get to those scenes. It's the whole experience together I enjoy, as janky as it may be sometimes. And that's not even getting into things like VNs.
 
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