Adhdclassic
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shouldn't have added the dude at the end utilize the party crew. then you could end it but lets see what he does.
Filipis
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What's worse, is that a lot of these storylines will probably be hastily converged into 1 - 2 similar epilogue endings.
I once asked the dev if we would be getting proper endings and epilogues (including pregnancy), and he pretty much confirmed it.
Sucks to see something drastically change his perspective on things, because there's no way to make good on that "promise" in just one update.
I fear the dev maybe legitimately considering changing genres (after that 0.4 "fiasco" where the reception was mixed), because this game was nowhere near its natural end.
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Obviously I have no idea about the dev's plans for the game/story, but like several have already suggested, I don't feel like it's coming to its natural end at all. Like Dessolos says, it feels more like it's around the halfway stage to me. I guess maybe it's a case of "exploring" and once avenues have opened up and barriers have come down, things move into "business as usual" and that might be considered a different story. I don't see that we're anywhere near the "dragging things out" stage though.
On the plus side though, I'd much rather have a game come to a "natural" close at the dev's discretion than continuing but running out of steam and/or being abandoned.
From what the dev said in the patreon discussion, main point for the exhaustion was, that he didn't want to write all the parallel branches any more. Too much work and he said he didn't care himself so much for some of the branches (didn't explicitly say which), but did it to please the audience. So he wants to concentrate on his own prefered fetish more in the future (to stay engaged enough himself I understand).
Joshy92
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Anyone who's played his past games, doesn't take a Ph.D to suss that outlier out.
Indeed.Anyone who's played his past games, doesn't take a Ph.D to suss that outlier out.
I somewhat sympathize with him in this branches problem, even though it may be only half of the truth - as others have pointed out earlier, all of his games end at a certain threshold, and I would like him to be interested more in mid- and longterm developoments of the couples.
That the devs feel pressured into branching out has to do of course with the heigthened sensibilities of a lot of viewers who demand separate, carved out routes, where they don't want to be disturbed by anything on the way which they don't want to to accept. It is due to the battle of the narratives and it leads to this workload for the devs who don't want to be filtered out by one false tag.
Edit: I don't critizise those users per se, but it's just a sign of the times and attitudes.
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Dessolos
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Not gonna lie it does suck it's ending so soon but that's mostly because Emma is one of the better NTS wives ive seen. Truth be told if it wasn't for her I would of had a hard time getting into this game. I'm still on the fence if I consider this or PE better , I guess I will be able to make a decision come to final update.
Yeah, that is my main point in liking the game: I never feel with her, that the NTS is not plausible, that it is forced like with many female characters in other games. She has exactly the right mindset and attitude I would expect. Above all one senses a strong entitlement (in a good way), that her beauty and sensuality should be acknowledged actively, and that the one who does this most properly should take the prize. She doesn't come across as bratty or resentful or frustrated or angry. She is feminine as a character - whereas I often find other NTS/sharing-women portraied like action heroes of sex so to speak, like lara crofts with a male type of libido in overdrive. Not here. She has the aura of self-evidence. Her dominant behavior towards the bf doesn't come out of nowhere but out of this experience of being satisfied and appreciated by another male, by commanding that one's sexual interest and attention, by having reached another level of the play so to speak. And Martin I find also plausible as a partner in that - he is not necessarily likeable, but I don't need that. He is calm and sees his chance and takes it without having to brag about it. I can totally see what she sees in him for this type of relationship, it is what women IRL always say: the man who is experienced, confident and who knows what he does with them. No big cock nonsense and no expectations of kindness.
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Adhdclassic
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mistake was adding the last character it was the creation of a new path. There is no way that will have a satisfying ending.
I tend to agree. There are two or three possibilities to bring it to a sudden halt 1. Emma has a bad experience with the prof, breaks it off and pulls back from that lifestyle altogether 2. turbo escalation in the other direction of sluttyness, seduced by the prof. This can be shown only by summarizing, a kind of reel of sexual escapades. Open end or break up with bf. BOTH not good really, not in style with the game. 3. She gets pregnant by Martin and winds it down therefore with the prof and becomes more wholesome, settles into a life with two guys. This could be shown in one episode. And a pregnancy could function as a plausible motive to end the prof chapter.
(4. Martin and the prof meet and don't like each other. She is forced to choose and takes Martin of course)
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Filipis
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I played most of his games, but I am not aware of any new path present in EtBA - except maybe the MMF route?Anyone who's played his past games, doesn't take a Ph.D to suss that outlier out.
Adhdclassic
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Frankly they can stay together. Martin is just fucking creepy dude. I didn't like him. All the games this DEV has done for me Martin is horrible.
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I wish we don't get an unresolved pregnancy again, that we (Emma) know who the father is (on the cheating/cuckolding route). The only path where it might not matter would be the ending for the sharing route.
I agree. That's another reason I find much of the game to be implausible.
Emma goes from being ultra hesitant to want to stay as a couple in the same home as Martin and even denies the husband sex out of fear of being overheard by Martin, and then suddenly she is peeping on him while he masturbates in bed and is touching herself while he does it and seems all too comfortable with Martin having his dick out in multiple unexpected circumstances; and then within a matter of days after being given some initial encouragement by her husband concerning sexual exploration, she gives Martin an unplanned blowjob and jumps right into wanting full-blown sex with him both at his place (where she previously was afraid of him merely overhearing her having sex with her husband) and at their new residence before her and her husband have even spent a single night there together, which included unprepared anal penetration by Martin in the context of double penetration (something she neither previously experienced nor was discussed with anyone). And this is all coming from a woman who stated that she has never gone all the way (vanilla sex or otherwise) with anyone but her husband.
Other than that, there are a few hot sex scenes in the game, which are enjoyable to me when not imagining creepy Martin in the role. If that were not the case, this game would not interest me whatsoever. In fact, I did play it once before and deleted it out of disappointment because the vanilla sex scenes are so boring. They are a married couple, young and attractive, and they at least could have had one passionate sex scene together that includes animations. Instead it's only her having sex with Martin that includes animations, with no animations for the husband banging her even when it's the sharing route.
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Heh I never understand why Martin gets so much scorn.
Is he creepy? Absolutely. But no more so than Cordell in PE, or the bald guy in "Sharing my Fiancee". 'Good guy' male npcs are definitely the minority in dimaggio games... I guess there's the brother/uncle in 'Sharing my Fiancee', and the guy on the island in Lost In Paradise seems amicable enough.
Dessolos
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I think it's more of his appereance at least to me. I kind of labeled him / assumed he was as creep the first I saw him because of his appearance. tbh ive seen far worst creepy guys in AVN's , he feels mild for AVN standards.
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The ending is going to be unsatisfying to me, like in the rest of his games.
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But in Pineapple Express she was carrying his buddy's kid at the end? I thought you would have loved that one.