I respect your opinion but its not like we can't have both, right? I just feel those type of harem you speak of tend to easily become "catch'em all" like Pokemon for waifu's and I really like have my RPG AVNs games being a lil bit more than that. Still, we're just 2 updates into the story, maybe further in it will be more complex than press A for "yay", press B for "no"
I believe you have a point here. And some game suffer from it even more. It's more general then "fuck around zero consequences" it's more a "right choice/wrong choice" scheme that means no actual choice at all. But since rendering pictures is the critical time impacting activity of this games development and too alternative paths mean an exponential increase of the number of images and animation, i can see why. I really believe that we should revert to some extent to the eroge scheme of static backround and partially anymated jumping overlapped character on dialogues and then ful scenes resticted to story events. Lamish but more feasable.
I think it just comes down to the dev's abilility. Who here can write an interesting story with good characters, dialogue, and impactful choices that matter? Triple A game studios with millions of dollars of budget can hardly even manage that let alone one guy making a porno game. Writing is really hard. Not to mention the rendering and coding. Even in someting simple like renpy, how many times have you gotten an update of a game only for it to have bricked your saves because a variable has been retroactivly added?
). Based on playing Once In A Lifetime, player choice matter most of the time, either increase or decrease relationship points, and in other cases it just change the dialogues/texts. and the side quests would be the non-LI NPCs.
Indeed. And i never made a mystery that i really admire Caribdis work. He handles characters writing, comedy, rithm and tone masterfully. No, i don't know what kind of studies he went through, if he has a solid foundation on creative writing or if it's all raw talent, but he sure is a gifted writer.
Out of curiosity, I thought an RPG contains by some definition I wouldn‘t know, stats to level up, items to collect and equip or quests to fulfill. If you consider Eternum an RPG AVN, wouldn‘t every AVN then be an RPG and thus many would fall short for you? I respect your opinion about Eternum of course, but I can‘t help feeling that it‘s a bit misguided, since I myself don‘t consider it as an RPG at all.
I think Caribdis has it in him to pull off a story with many branches and ending up with different girls. Thinking about, I would like to see him doing something similar, like Where the Heart is, with different groupings of girls you can end up with. But all of that should be considered for a new game from which we are years away, hopefully. I don‘t think too much branching would fit into Eternum the way it is set up now.
It can also very easily overload the dev. Scope creep is a very real thing and can easily blow up in your face. Choices and forked routes are great but it is a one person dev team.
"Role-playing" doesnt have to be your usual level up exploration JRPG like lets say Final Fantasy, which is probably what you're talking about, but I am not sure you got the idea thats where I was going with this. Although I do think that Eternum bases itself on a story that you are, indeed, playing a RPG, and I pretty sure if Caribdis realistically create it as such, he would turn Eternum into a Bioware RPG.
i'd debate that Aphordite's is the most "role-playing" choice in the game so far. Since it doesn't affect any main girl it is completely how your idea of the mc acts. Is he a good boy who waits patiently for Annie? Or does he go for the expierience and end up getting his initial investment back. You don't know initially that eva will give you the money back you only find out in hindsight, by reloading or an outside resource. I mean ive played fallout games, theres a bunch of quests where you pay a little up front and get out with more than your initial investment. If you want more heavy consequences by getting locked out of girls, probably not gonna happen here. However, there could be some story choices that affect endings later down the line. Its still pretty early in development.
Have you tried reporting your post? Mods don't go around reading posts, they work with the users' reports. Anyway I already reported it.
Of course, with this and many other of my unlisted mods. This is not a wet behind the ears issue, I'm keenly aware of procedures. This is a site politics and discrimination issue instigated by a select few (and disregarded by some others) that's been around for quite some time. But this isn't the thread for that topic discussion so I'll leave it at that.
In HS2 there are tons of mods included in the DX R7 Base Game Repack. The Mod-pack alone is larger than the actual game so first you better check that out. If you want to know it exactly for Eternum, the dev may help you with that. Good Luck!
