skyshark12
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I think because the game is an adaptation of the novels, there's a lot of knowledge that relies on that. Like Tracy is seen as a trophy because she comes from an upper-class family so you're "marrying up". The revenge against Jennifer in particular is personal, and there's a moment where you give her the choice to essentially AGATHA herself to erase her memories or to remember who she is but not be able to escape. Stuff that just doesn't necessarily make it over to the game, along with the game exclusive changes.Ok bear with me, because this will be somewhat lengthy.
I get that part, I really do. In fact I understand that this is part of the game mechanics in order to build your empire. I just can't accept some obvious lack of interaction between Hunter and some of the other females in Zenith.
We all know our MC is one hell of a horny guy, and he has no qualms in cucking people or he wouldn't sleep with the alpha trainer's wife otherwise. By plot design and characteristics of his personality, he would at least try to break secondary girls before sharing them with others, but the game dynamics says otherwise.
The very fact you can't even tame Jada or Carole when both are already eating out of your palm in HR way before you even call some other guy for it, don't even think in seducing Valerie Lyon prior to delivering her to Jackson, not messing with Cynthia further when she is pretty much throwing herself on you, by this point you could pretty much tell her to help you break Sydney and she would gladly do it, never touching Eryn when we see her as some easy target on same level as Amanda Ellsbach.
On both the Technology and Research Department, before you even hire the tech expert you pretty much have Jocelyn and Blair eating out of your hand too, besides Blair where you can obtain some sex and Bj's you never really touch Jocelyn same with Indira Patel, on first interaction in her introduction you pretty much describe her as "exotic and desirable" and don't make a single move.
Respecting Candance and not messing with her after she marries Donald, when we all know he would fool around with married women if given chance, all of this is pretty much uncharacteristic of the MC and that's what triggers me so much.
The game stops you from doing it because it already knows all those women belong to someone else. But by logic the MC doesn't know and he should attempt to get them and that's what pissed me off, if we at least got clear boundaries from the get go I would not be so affected by it, but the game makes you pursue those women in some level, flirt with them and even take some advantages but never allow you to go further then what it demands as necessary.
Gemma Hamilton and her daughter too, there's so much wasted potential on their arc, the fact that all it resumes is:
If you want is 20k of money (30k if you won't go horny for the daughter' virginity) or some Ego points if you let them go.
In all honesty I would love to marry her mother and adopt her as my step-daughter, just because I like how Holly interacted with the MC.
Another one I would love to make my step-daughter instead of Mackenzie would be Sydney, you hardly have any interactions with Mackenzie compared to Sydney. From game introduction you tried to insert yourself as a parental figure to her, which really made me wonder why did we even bother to have those interactions in the first place, if all we ever done in the end was deliver her as a prize for Mike.
Also I wonder why the heck they added Pomeroy's interactions with the female executives when in the end they are ultimately pointless, first time I played, I thought I found a nice way to grind Noriko's Ambition by meeting her here to lunch, but even if you completely deplete her ambition you still need to follow the game design and wait for the Golden Palace fortune cookie
And lastly this is more of a game question, since I was never able to trigger any other option. Can you only marry Tracy? I feel like we are led to have the option to marry Allison from Marketing too, but I never found the trigger option to make that final leap.
I don't disagree with you. I think Company Man is more of a 'pimp' game than a 'harem' game (or whatever you'd call turning girls into your slaves lol), unlike the previous Corporate Raider where most of the male NPCs are mostly an afterthought. It's funny, I think the Hamilton storyline could be fleshed out more too, but I like the Jennifer/MacKenzie pairing of the originals that is mostly lost here because the novel makes gives Jennifer the 'whore' ending. In the CR Dorm module, you make them be roommates and all that entails. I like the lesbian couple that you break up too, but after you dump one in the secretary pool that story basically ends.
But I think maybe it was a trend with the other games too, which shifted toward basically training property to be sold vs making your own harem. There's probably something to be said about actually having people who can run a company if you turn all the top employees into horny bimbos, so you would need to replace them with men who would be persuaded by their own prizes - this basically assumes all the men who work there are bastards just like the main character.
Despite the janky business presentation engine and the fact that you have to like use super old browsers to play the older games, I still revisit them from time to time because it's closer to what you describe as preferring because you are breaking the girls for your own use (for the most part). Singapore has some of that - at least you use the girls before you give them away, - but I'm not sure if Selectacorp will ever 'redo' the game to basically be more of a harem. That'd be something to ask them anyway.
Allison and Stephanie (or whoever the COO was named) are like the two female characters who get "good" endings and escape the fate of the others. It feels weird in the context of something like Dubai, where you basically are making breeding slaves, but probably within the original scope of the game it kind of made sense to have some women who could find ways out. Of course that makes me wish you could catch Stephanie and chip her with an AGATHA.Yep just her. She feels like such a random choice for the wife as well, since the only real interaction you have with her besides being introduced to the larger company is driving her insane. Plus the MC doesn't even seem to find her that attractive physically.
Allison's content basically hits a brick wall at a certain point. I definitely get what you mean about it seeming like the game was going somewhere with her, especially with her gaining more options based on you advancing with Debbie, but it just kinda stops. Plus, there actually is a man you replace her with like the other departments (handing over Jamie to him because of course you do) but I never realized this my first time playing because it requires you to pick the "leave game" option for Allison and, just... why would I do that when I basically own her now?
I agree with basically everything you said, and I think the main problems with this game lie in the difference in what the average player would want out of this game and what the dev wants, which seems to be:
1. Making women miserable
2. Simulating being a cool rich businessman
With any pornographic content being a distant third. And since I don't really care about the first two at all, the game ends up feeling really empty despite how big it is.
I think the Exec2Sec thing is so specific that for me it really is the situation that works for me and the guys who are really into this 'fetish'. I guess that falls under '1'? That is the 'porn' for me, rather than the actual sex if that makes sense. It's why I do like what they've done with Debbie and I assume it's why she has the most content of all the characters.
I do get the 'no porn' complaints though, but if you're into this oddly specific kink... well, it just works. But I do agree it'd work better if you could just keep all the prizes yourself.