- Jan 23, 2021
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I suppose it would mainly help a lot with save clutter. Instead of needing, say, 20 saves for certain variables/paths, you would only need 1 save that has all those variables already set. Save-based gallery seems like the best compromise imo, maybe the least headache too?
I'm not a coder, so I'm talking out of my ass. But, when it comes to games that have so many scene variations, I've always wondered if it'd be possible to have a gallery submenu that has starting default variables already set, but that lets you tweak everything (each variable having a pull-down menu or w/e that has all the possible acceptable values), then 'save' it and then any scene you replay has those variables set (sans variables that are required for the scene). Dunno how that'd work, whether it creates a separate save file that stores the replay gallery variables, or what.
Alternatively, selecting a scene from the gallery asks you any relevant questions to set variables for the scene, for example whether Ashe is afraid of you, or hates you, or whether you've already had sex with her or not, or blah blah, before proceeding.
I'd guess these latter two methods would just be a huge pain in the ass to do, though. Like I said, I think save-game based gallery seems like the best compromise between the dev's sanity & what the players want from a gallery.
If MC's gonna have an accomplice, it's probably going to be Isabella (Brit's mom) or Tessa (Jamie's little helper). They're both narcissists/psychos that don't care about anyone else. Only other thing I could imagine is corrupting/scaring one of the normal LIs so much that they reluctantly go along with it. Don't know who would fall under that; my 2c, definitely not Nicki or Risa, the others maybe can be controlled?
- Nov 9, 2023
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IDK, maybe if being bad was about money and influence that would make sense. But dark Guy is using his money to unleash his inner demon, a narcissist and or psycho doesnt fit as they dont see their actions as wrong. Those are conflicting types of dark behavior. We are looking for someone who finds an act of violence of Guy's as sexually arousing, or taking part in as an act of liberation. The crazy has to match, not necessarily as be the same but fit like a puzzle piece.
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Oh, yeah, Chesty Cheetahs.
But I think it would be much better if it had tables outside.
Somenthing like that:
The gallery for Our Red String seems to get around this by making you select from several options to determine which variation of the scene is played.
- Mar 20, 2019
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Good call!
(I went a bit more modest with the patio, but I think it's still an improvement.)
I guess I'm a little confused here. Who would be sexually aroused by assaulting other women except a narcissist/psychopath? That's how dark Guy's being written, isn't he? Maybe someone can clue me in if I'm not getting something?
And ofc I'm talking about in RL now... I play the dark path and can get aroused, but we all know they aren't real people with real feelings, just characters in fiction; and yet even then I can still feel bad and have my limits. But watching a real, living person suffer in RL and getting pleasure from that? It's completely and utterly different, which is what an accomplice character would be doing.
That's why I said an alternative would be a LI who reluctantly goes along with it, either because Guy scares them into silence or mayyyybe because he pays them into it, but I feel like that would work more for like 1 event rather than something that's reoccurring. So if not those, then I feel like it's gotta be a psycho who doesn't care about the suffering of others, just like Guy, and if you want them to be aroused by it on top of that, that's yet another layer. I'm convinced Tessa could maybe be both of those, we'll have to see, whereas Isabella doesn't seem like she'd be aroused by it, just wouldn't care.
But I don't know, maybe Isabella could get aroused by degrading and negative comparison or something? Where basically she's the center of the act? Age is the enemy of beauty after all, and that's her only quality, so.. she probably loves, loves, loves the idea of a rich, fairly handsome Guy telling other girls they're beneath Isabella, they're not as pretty, and punishing them for ever even entertaining the thought. I could see that.
- Nov 9, 2023
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That question was actually my point from the beginning. I really don't see any existing character fitting the bill, was why I started spewin about it. But like i originally submitted, MC's darkness can be genetic or related to childhood trauma, so his sister could have those same tendancies(not saying she does, saying it would work). For exisiting characters, Mason has suffered trauma and abuse, is deeply insecure and in some brances already appears to have a deepseated need to please the MC. Thats a possible foundation for an apprentice. I doubt the dev will write in a Dark Guy side kick regardless, but I still think her needs one.
Oh ok, gotcha now. You threw me when you mentioned Mason, and though I get where you're coming from with him now, I'm not sure I'm totally there, though I can kinda see it with his vulnerability and insecurity like you said. But yeah, Cassie could be like dark Guy in that sense as well.. I've also wondered if Cassie has ever been on the receiving end of Guy's uh.. 'antics' growing up, depending on how the player shapes him during play. Very interesting to think about regardless of how Neon chooses to do it.