I mean ain't that in the core DNA of this game? Your character but molded for someone else's personality, wants and desires on a whim. The champ wants to do everything, with you being the only reason they aren't allowed to you monster! Don't you see? Your champ wanted to be a sub. You as the horrible player having to make decisions every once in a blue moon. Are the one dashing their dreams of being a bottom. And not even a power bottom. They just want to take it all!
TObs is one of those cases that just plain shows how absolutely incompetent Savin is as a project manager. When it comes down to it, as a leader, you need to put your foot down on some matters and very plainly set a few things in stone. The PC in this game is a mess that changes from writer to writer to the point where they look like a schizo when looking at it from the outside. They're either the world's greatest ace or a bumbling moron who can't do shit right.
Somehow the mc in this game is written less consistently than TiTS' eventho that game has 3 different personality scores.
Okay, those are valid points. I too liked the ship customization (but that's about it lol). Keep being an optimist, that's a good thing...
The kink section made me laugh. Very Oversimplified-esque, "You better believe there's a
I loved the game I was literally addicted to it a few years ago but it takes me having to have nothing else on my mind to really get into it. Compared to a lot of other games out there it's very limited. I have no issue with the writing like others, my issues with the game stem from it being so limited. I want to have unique and bountiful housing options, like the ability to live in a hut, cave, manor, castle. I want to be who I want to be, whether that is a price, king, general, or a random blacksmith, I want to build a family, recruit anybody as a follower, have anybody as a lover, etc.
Does the Wayfort and the people you can recruit there good base building for you? Are there other locations you want to settle?
Yeah it's pretty good & yeah, it would depend on the playthrough
Steele benefits from traits that help narrow down what should be done with them. They can sub to every kind of dick in existence, but the story still has to respect the fact they're a genetically engineered corporate heir motivated by family legacy, not some directionless nobody who wandered into a tavern one day. They've cultivated the image of a suave starship captain slutting it up across the stars that most people have in their heads -- with some variations here and there.
Wait wah? What you mean?? You don't like picking the choice to have sex. That leads to sex with the person, their family, the next door neighbors, becoming a dom chocking bitches, then a sub for little spoon when it's time to cuddle? Or getting a choice between left or right door. Either one leading to kicking it open, running upstairs, doing a barrel roll into the next building through a window, fighting a group of people, sparing one because reasons, then going to take a nap? And at the end of both scenarios, getting the option to leave, stay, or go back? There were TWO whole places to make a choice throughout those situations! The start and end! What more agency and freedom could you want???
The backstory of Steele helps sure. But it mostly helps by giving Steele something to pull from when the various denizens ask about their past.
Tobs is lost in their own writing talent. Ages ago I got a bit of pushback when I said that tobs is terrific and environments or setting a scene. I'm going to stand on that statement again.
I'll say the game gives players more freedom than 95% of games out there, but only after he/she gets past the linear-ness of the questing, and then like you said, even when you get to the content you we're looking for, sometimes the writers/dev self-inserts into the player's shoes and makes choices very A or B.
Good luck going through 2 million words of tobs slob.
"Not your power fantasy"©
"Power fantasy? In my fantasy porn game?? Absolutely not!"
Definitely just wind, blowing in one ear and out the other. I assume the natural variations in wind speed and direction are what imitate something approaching brain activity
While I can see where you're coming from and I do think he can create vivid imagery, I don't think that alone makes him a good writer. That scene is very nice but the issue is it's an oddity. There is a purpose in the descriptions and prose when in the vast majority of TOBS writing there just kind of isn't. Like what is the purpose of describing the lacquer of the wood on one of the priestess's fans? What is the point of writing an entire page describing a single tile of the fox den? And this isn't even mentioning how the flow of his scenes is fucking horrendous and he has george lucas-tier dialogue. Compound all that with the fact that none of his ideas are even very novel or interesting and I just really don't see it.
