VN Ren'Py Eternum [v0.8.5 Public] [Caribdis]

[hlfwaycrks]

Maybe if you didn't spend your time playing dogshit, AI generated trash, you'd move a little faster.

I'm being mean and making an assumption from your signature.

It's less about you, and more about society driving me towards misanthropy that I can't help but snap. AI could be a wonderful tool to help artists produce great work - instead we see shit like My New Girlfriend, that AI generates its art and writing to create a hollow, soulless experience, that somehow has almost as many people willing to pay for it is Pale Carnations.

Well... I get where you're coming from, to an extent. I'll let you in on a secret, though... I've been trying to beat Eternum so I can play the two games in my signature. I just really like the communities and the look of each of those games, and it's not like both devs haven't been hard at work trying to make something good (I promise you, they both are doing just that). I've heard all of the arguments six ways to Sunday, so I'm not looking to argue, but like I said, I can understand your point of view.

I've also been investing a lot of time just learning how both AI art and Daz art is made (and this new Passion Eye engine, but that's another story...) to see if I could learn either to make something of my own at some point. No matter how many ways I look at it and how many discussions I've had on this topic, I simply just don't agree that games with AI art lack soul or are necessarily worse because of the medium, and that's why I'm still considering it for my own use in the future.

For my own work, the main focus would be the writing, as that's what I've always cared about and has been a large part of my life for over half the time I've been alive, so I would hate to have people write off my work (should I go the AI route) just because of the art style when that's not even what I'd be most proud of...

 

[Mr_Mister]

My opinion on the scenes for 0.8 :

Annie and Dalia are 99% guaranteed (events, lot of sneek peaks with Dalia and Annie, current story, update render).
High probability for Calypso as well, the ongoing events and updated menu doesn't fool me.
The last could be Nancy because of the lack of scenes currently.

But there is very little to no surprise in this selection.

So i'm going too add a first threescene with eitheir Dalia/Alex or Annie/Nancy with the former having the best chances by far. I only thought of Annie/Nancy because it would be convenient LI-repartition-wise. I can't see how Annie would be confortable with multiple persons for her first time.

So for me, it would be : Dalia/Alex, Annie, Nancy, Calypso. But I actually think there would be one more "suprise" but i can't think of anything.

what if 1 or 2 of the scenes are with non li's? , Dalia and Annie are like a 80% to 90% guarantee and if Calypso is the third scene , the non li character for the 4th scene could it be "the Eternum Lady".
if Calypso is not on any scene we could be looking for a second non li character Maybe?
i don't believe a threesome will happen but it'll be heavily tease (like Nancy founding out that Mc is shagging all of them!)

 

[Finuee]

Calling it now. Dalia, Annie, Calypso and... Stabby Mike

I fully endorse this man!

 

[moonpartially]

Man, 10hrs in and I start to regret trying this game... because it eclipse all the rest.
Eternum is so great, I'm not sure I'm gonna have room in my heart for other characters now, other games gonna look really bad after this one.
The production value, the renderings, the musics, Eternum is just above the rest.
Congrats to the devs, can't wait to play it more. ❤

 

[Redd23]

Man, 10hrs in and I start to regret trying this game... because it eclipse all the rest.
Eternum is so great, I'm not sure I'm gonna have room in my heart for other characters now, other games gonna look really bad after this one.
The production value, the renderings, the musics, Eternum is just above the rest.
Congrats to the devs, can't wait to play it more. ❤

Just wait till you're done with the available content and eternum withdrawal kicks in...

 

[VaderExMachina]

When the new update is near and the Eternum withdrawal kicks into MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE:

 

[moonpartially]

Just wait till you're done with the available content and eternum withdrawal kicks in...

I guess I can try Once in a Lifetime if the withdraw is too hard.
Or maybe redo the game with my wife, even tho I'm not so sure that she can hold her suspension of disbelief for such a long game.
But mate, what a treat.


EDIT : Is there a way to know in which chapter I'm at, in any given time? I like to how where I'm at %wise in order to not rush the game when I'm in the last 33%. How ~long is the game in this current version?

 

[e6mill]

EDIT : Is there a way to know in which chapter I'm at, in any given time? I like to how where I'm at %wise in order to not rush the game when I like the last 33%. How ~long is the game in this current version?

The universal renpy mod has, in the last couple versions, added an option to show you a progress bar. But it's not really where you are between the beginning and end, but more what % of the screens/images you've seen across ALL playthroughs.

 

[moonpartially]

The universal renpy mod has, in the last couple versions, added an option to show you a progress bar. But it's not really where you are between the beginning and end, but more what % of the screens/images you've seen across ALL playthroughs.

Thanks good sir. I just find a way, by reading the summary of the Eternum Walkthrough I know figure I'm near the end of the V0.3. No quit time to slow down but I'm not in a hurry to finish it so soon.

 

[KanyeT]

what if 1 or 2 of the scenes are with non li's? , Dalia and Annie are like a 80% to 90% guarantee and if Calypso is the third scene , the non li character for the 4th scene could it be "the Eternum Lady".
if Calypso is not on any scene we could be looking for a second non li character Maybe?
i don't believe a threesome will happen but it'll be heavily tease (like Nancy founding out that Mc is shagging all of them!)

I think introducing non-LIs at the start of the game makes sense because you want to give sexy content to your audience and you don't want to rush the develop the LIs in the game. This is why we got Eva and Maat in the early chapters.

But I think after the LIs groundwork has been laid, pivoting from them to a non-LI will just waste time that could be spent elsewhere. No one will want to see a scene between MC and some random girl he just met - they will want a scene with a LI in its place.

if Carib does do that, I think a lot of people will just be disappointed.

I can see Idriel being chosen - although she is not technically a LI (like Calypso), she has been established as an important character with ties to the MC in some regard from the start.

 

[e6mill]

I can see Idriel being chosen - although she is not technically a LI (like Calypso), she has been established as an important character with ties to the MC in some regard from the start.

I suspect (for no real reason) that she's mom.

 

[Hara1234]

No Fap till 0.8. Day 1

 

[bo77om]

No Fap till 0.8. Day 1

that's some dedication right there man

 

[Cherubin25]

I think introducing non-LIs at the start of the game makes sense because you want to give sexy content to your audience and you don't want to rush the develop the LIs in the game. This is why we got Eva and Maat in the early chapters.

But I think after the LIs groundwork has been laid, pivoting from them to a non-LI will just waste time that could be spent elsewhere. No one will want to see a scene between MC and some random girl he just met - they will want a scene with a LI in its place.

if Carib does do that, I think a lot of people will just be disappointed.

I can see Idriel being chosen - although she is not technically a LI (like Calypso), she has been established as an important character with ties to the MC in some regard from the start.

100% this.

Side Characters are fine for early spicy Content. Which is the only reason why Eva and Maat exist. But now we are in the progress where the relationships and the sex scenes get more intense with the LIs and this would mean that a sex scene with a SIde Character would also need to be more intense.

And imagine some Side Character gets a fully fleshed out Sex Scene at this point instead of Dalia for example. Because the workload would probably be the same, just put into a different character. And just thinking about it sounds strange.

 

[Dunner]

Is there a way to know in which chapter I'm at, in any given time? I like to how where I'm at %wise in order to not rush the game when I'm in the last 33%. How ~long is the game in this current version?

So the funny thing is that I do know where each update ended and I'll tell you by describing the scenes without spoiling much...... and by using memes, obviously.

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P.S: IDK why but I think your wife will end up loving the game more that you do. I may have read too many wholesome gaming Reddit posts tho. Still, hope she likes it.

 

[moonpartially]

Thanks a lot to you for the cool summary. I know where I'm at now [right in the middle of Act 3] but it'll be usefull in the future.

P.S: IDK why but I think your wife will end up love the game more that you do. I may have read too many wholesome gaming Reddit posts tho. Still, hope she likes it.

I don't know for now, we're both way closer to Nancy age than to the age of MC, so it take some will to get in MC shoe at the start, but at least he's likable. And because she don't plays (at all) videogames, nor that she reads any SF, the dystopian MMO plot can be a turn off.

We both are really new to his genre of game, but the did "Hooked!" together and we had a wonderful time (a more "easy to imagine" plot).

But one thing is for sure this game is for all gender, I just feel that we won't have the patience to reach the 5/10hrs mark which could be the moment that she imerge herself in this wonderful game.

Anyway, thanks again for your time. (Sorry for/if broken english)

 

[e6mill]

I don't know for now, we're both way closer to Nancy age than to the age of MC, so it take some will to get in MC shoe at the start, but at least he's likable. And because she don't plays (at all) videogames, nor that she reads any SF, the dystopian MMO plot can be a turn off.

You and I have very different definitions of "dystopian".

 

[moonpartially]

You and I have very different definitions of "dystopian".

Remember that I'm only half thought the game, but I'm also a heavy SF reader. For me a world where a big corporation, worth XX trillion of dollar, can "read my mind / give signal to my body" is prettyyyyy dystopain. Getting laid or not

EDIT : If Eternum, as I understand it at this point in the story, was available IRL, I won't touch it of this exact reason (and I'll hate myself everyday for missing this experience, but you have to do what you have to do)

 

[e6mill]

Remember that I'm only half thought the game, but I'm also a heavy SF reader. For me a world where a big corporation, worth XX trillion of dollar, can "read my mind / give signal to my body" is prettyyyyy dystopain. Getting laid or not

Ulysses corp could be calling ALL the shots, but they're not. Real life today is worse. IRL they'd be using the implant to determine exactly what you want in order to sell that info, and how to get you to buy what you don't actually want besides - and they don't even provide an alternate universe to which you can temporarily escape.

 

[Redd23]

I don't know for now, we're both way closer to Nancy age than to the age of MC, so it take some will to get in MC shoe at the start, but at least he's likable. And because she don't plays (at all) videogames, nor that she reads any SF, the dystopian MMO plot can be a turn off.

Heh, same here, I'm playing this with my wife (who's not into AVN, but the plot here is so captivating that she immediately got hooked in) and we're also treat Nancy as somebody who could be our colleague, while the rest of the cast is like carefree children doing some wild shit xd

Kinda speaks volumes about the game itself when people outside AVN/gaming world can just jump in and be immersed into the story in a moment.