Son of Durin

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It took me a long time to get that that girl is Nova cosplaying. The freckles and the blue eye checks out.
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It will most probably release for christmas like last year. His pace is roughly 1% per day and christmas is in 96 day away so it kinda checks out.
I don't know that the game will go anywhere close to this (I rather doubt it), but all the other LIs need to start talking about their spicy tacos and then Nova needs to eat them. Make it a 7 way on the "porn" server that Nova talked about; or invite Calypso and make it an 8 way. ;)
 

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Love the writing and I can't wait to see where you go with the story! I love the other references to games, popculture and movies and really digging the 'Ready Player One' vibes!
funny cuz that was the only one i didnt see.. rip..
 

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This game is nuts. I've been exclusively playing 2dcg games all this time, but since I've read so many good things about this one I decided to give it a try. Oh boy... I'm absolutely hooked. Obviously, once I finished this one, I downloaded Once In a Lifetime too and thoroughly enjoyed it.

I tried to give other 3dcg games a try, starting from the most liked ones in this site, but most of them try to go for this realistic look which gives them this uncanny valley feel that I can't get over. Do any of you experience this too, and which games would you recommend? Thanks!
 

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Since I like making fan arts, and some of you have tried to re-create Annie, I thought I'd give it a go as well.
If there is a Eternum card sources for HS2/AI I would appriciated if someone can give me the sauce...for now i made an Annie's card because i really like this character and u can use it if u like.
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Since I like making fan arts, and some of you have tried to re-create Annie, I thought I'd give it a go as well. The Annie above is already very close, but it's still not quite there. I tried to edit her a little bit to see if I can get a bit closer to the real Annie, but I'm not sure if I succeeded.

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I have also tried to make an Orion card, but I think this one is kinda a miss. Can't find his hair so I just used a different one, but I did try to follow the facial structure. The hair color is quite a bit off.

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And I made a test render with them

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Let me know what you think, how I can improve the characters to match the real ones more.
 
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I am admittedly not a fan of Honey Select... but I just started playing this game and once again, the HS games seem to be on a different level than DAZ3d Games with a few exceptions. It's the writing and the story telling. Three games in my top 5 are HS... Pink Carnation, Ripples and now Eternum.

It's like the storytellers can't be bothered to learn 3d rendering so they use HS which is a whole lot easier to create scenes and animation, while the 3d artist all use Daz/Blender et al and can't be bothered to learn how to fucking write a solid story.

Really nice job on this! I just wish it wasn't HS.
 

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I am admittedly not a fan of Honey Select... but I just started playing this game and once again, the HS games seem to be on a different level than DAZ3d Games with a few exceptions. It's the writing and the story telling. Three games in my top 5 are HS... Pink Carnation, Ripples and now Eternum.

It's like the storytellers can't be bothered to learn 3d rendering so they use HS which is a whole lot easier to create scenes and animation, while the 3d artist all use Daz/Blender et al and can't be bothered to learn how to fucking write a solid story.

Really nice job on this! I just wish it wasn't HS.
There's one game I've played that has a team with a good story teller and a top notch artist. Of course, they can't seem to get their act together because it just took them 14 months and change to produce an update that amounts to about 2 hours of play. Maybe two and a half or three if you do all three routes (Pure, Lust, Dark), and read slowly. That info will probably tell you exactly which AVN it is.
 
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which one is more hilarious, this one or my bully my lover? I'm considering which of the two i'm playing first
 

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which one is more hilarious, this one or my bully my lover? I'm considering which of the two i'm playing first
While I actually enjoy both I have to say that Eternum is a corner closer to my taste. But you absolutely can't go wrong with either.
 

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There's one game I've played that has a team with a good story teller and a top notch artist. Of course, they can't seem to get their act together because it just took them 14 months and change to produce an update that amounts to about 2 hours of play. Maybe two and a half or three if you do all three routes (Pure, Lust, Dark), and read slowly. That info will probably tell you exactly which AVN it is.
I know exactly which one you are talking about and yes, there are some good non-HS AVNs out there, especially the ones who have a different writer and an artist... and I know I am over simplifying things, because there are some crap HS games out there.
 

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I know exactly which one you are talking about and yes, there are some good non-HS AVNs out there, especially the ones who have a different writer and an artist... and I know I am over simplifying things, because there are some crap HS games out there.
This may also be a bit of oversimplification, but I think a top notch writer can become a great illustrator, but it may be more difficult for someone that is a pure illustrator to become a great storyteller.

Illustration is primarily a so-called "right brain" activity and you don't necessarily have to have a lot of "left brain" prowess to be a great artist (I spent years in the local art community, so I've seen this first hand ;) - no offense to my artist friends whose works hang all over my house); however, as someone that has a lot of writing experience (from creative to dull, boring legalistic - which, honestly, can get very creative...), I think the best writers have strong left/right communication.

It takes great organization and analytic skills to construct and storyboard a cohesive story, and plan all of the alternate paths without completely getting lost. It then takes equal skill to make the written dialogue interesting, engaging and not overly repetitive. Sure - some cliches and catch phrases will be part of it, but you can't have an entire AVN using the same dialogue over and over and keep most people engaged (except for the ones that don't read because they're just there to fap to the lewds).

I expect that Caribdis will make the move to DAZ3D, because his skill with HS has seemed to develop over the course of his work and he seems dedicated to making the best AVN possible. I think the only thing that could stand in the way of that will be whether he gets the funding he needs for the right hardware, and to license all of the assets he'd want to incorporate into his games. One game I play seems to use the same two feminine DAZ3D models for close to 10 female characters, and that gets a little boring, so being able to afford a decent range of assets is important to having a truly great game.

My $0.02; your mileage may vary.
 
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This may also be a bit of oversimplification, but I think a top notch writer can become a great illustrator, but it may be more difficult for someone that is a pure illustrator to become a great storyteller.

Illustration is primarily a so-called "right brain" activity and you don't necessarily have to have a lot of "left brain" prowess to be a great artist (I spent years in the local art community, so I've seen this first hand ;) - no offense to my artist friends whose works hang all over my house); however, as someone that has a lot of writing experience (from creative to dull, boring legalistic - which, honestly, can get very creative...), I think the best writers have strong left/right communication.

It takes great organization and analytic skills to construct and storyboard a cohesive story, and plan all of the alternate paths without completely getting lost. It then takes equal skill to make the written dialogue interesting, engaging and not overly repetitive. Sure - some cliches and catch phrases will be part of it, but you can't have an entire AVN using the same dialogue over and over and keep most people engaged (except for the ones that don't read because they're just there to fap to the lewds).

I expect that Caribdis will make the move to DAZ3D, because his skill with the HS has seemed to develop over the course of his work. I think the only thing that could stand in the way of that will be whether he gets the funding he needs for the right hardware, and to license all of the assets he'd want to incorporate into his games. One game I play seems to use the same two feminine DAZ3D models for close to 10 female characters, and that gets a little boring.
The other problem with HS is that Patreon usually does not allow HS games because it is technically all copywrited.
 
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I expect that Caribdis will make the move to DAZ3D, because his skill with HS has seemed to develop over the course of his work and he seems dedicated to making the best AVN possible. I think the only thing that could stand in the way of that will be whether he gets the funding he needs for the right hardware, and to license all of the assets he'd want to incorporate into his games. One game I play seems to use the same two feminine DAZ3D models for close to 10 female characters, and that gets a little boring, so being able to afford a decent range of assets is important to having a truly great game.
Oh there's no doubt this is going to be an inevitability. HS1/2 are fine, but you can only do so much with them until you inevitably run out of assets and material to work with. Not to mention the limitations you have to work with in the male character creator...igh.

My only hope though is that he changes settings when he does make the jump because nothing irks me more than seeing IPs that are supposedly set in the same universe but have wildly different art styles that feel like they clash with one another instead of meshing or complimenting one another. Kinda feels like that Original-to-Netflix adaptation meme at work.
 
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