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Lately I've gotten to the point where I mostly skip through the sex scenes just to get on with the story, leaving both my heads confused. This never happened in my teenage years, goshdarnit.
When I was in my teens, I tended to skip the story and try to go straight to the sex scenes. Unfortunately, I tended to get slapped alot. :sneaky:
 

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Question? I’m unable to open the save file I downloaded from others even though I replaced the old save file in . Is there like a tutorial on how to load the game with a save file that I want to?
If the save used a mod, you will need that mod to use that save, try getting Lane's mod, and see if that works.
Lately I've gotten to the point where I mostly skip through the sex scenes just to get on with the story, leaving both my heads confused. This never happened in my teenage years, goshdarnit.
Depends for me, lately, unless I am beta testing/proofreading for someone, I rarely have time to play for any other reason, so I tend to multitask as much as I can... XD
 

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Lately I've gotten to the point where I mostly skip through the sex scenes just to get on with the story, leaving both my heads confused. This never happened in my teenage years, goshdarnit.
I can't say I go that far, I still watch the sex scenes, I just don't do anything BUT watch them and move on as if they were a normal scene.
 

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I can't say I go that far, I still watch the sex scenes, I just don't do anything BUT watch them and move on as if they were a normal scene.
For me, it depends on the scene, who it is with, and how I feel at the time.
Some scenes I absolutely love, and will watch over and over, while others don't interest me in the slightest, and I just can't wait for them to end (though that last bit is rare here).
 
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I'm too much of a completionist so it's rare for me to skip scenes/dialogue in a game. One of the few exceptions is if I'm having to repeat something almost immediately after the first time (usually because of crashes or glitches).

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I guess I should clarify, I rarely straight up "skip" a scene, unless it is one of those rare ones that I don't unlock, like Ashley's Lust events, but there are some, (especially in some other games), that I just click through real fast, and don't really pay a lot of attention to certain parts of it.
 
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I guess I should clarify, I rarely straight up "skip" a scene, unless it is one of those rare ones that I don't unlock, like Ashley's Lust events, but there are some, (especially in some other games), that I just click through real fast, and don't really pay a lot of attention to certain parts of it.
I'll admit that there are times during the sex scenes where I'll go through them fairly quickly, but that's only because there are just so many times I can watch the animations loop over and over again before I get bored and need to move on. I don't know that I'd consider that actual skipping since it's not like I'm missing something that I didn't see just moments ago in the same loop.
 

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I'll admit that there are times during the sex scenes where I'll go through them fairly quickly, but that's only because there are just so many times I can watch the animations loop over and over again before I get bored and need to move on. I don't know that I'd consider that actual skipping since it's not like I'm missing something that I didn't see just moments ago in the same loop.
Yeah, I try to make sure I read any important dialogue here, because I love the lore and characters that much, but there are some games where the dialogue is so inane that I just can't bring myself to care. lol

I am glad Runey doesn't do that to us, if there is dialogue, then odds are it matters in some way... There is a fine like between realistic dialogue, and TMI. Unless it is brief, like the scene start with them talking about something boring, and them we move onto something more interesting, we don't need to know some things. I don't care what you had for breakfast, unless it matters to the plot, the lore, or ...something, like we want to know someone's favorite foods, or whatever...
The characters can make small talk, without boring the players with it.

And for me, some sex scenes can be the same way, if it is too vanilla, not with someone I like, or some other thing in there I don't care for, then I don't have a lot of interest in seeing it, and I want to get through it as quickly as possible, though I prefer it if all sex scenes are optional myself. We can't really choose what turns us on or off, so as long as there is no story development there, we should not have to sit through scenes we find too unpleasant, even if exceptions occasionally need to be made for plot reasons.

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Speaking of sex scenes, I do hope Autumn gets another boobjob option soon, I just realized, it's been over 8 in game months since I unlocked it, and I am only up to 30. :eek::ROFLMAO:
 

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Yeah, I try to make sure I read any important dialogue here, because I love the lore and characters that much, but there are some games where the dialogue is so inane that I just can't bring myself to care. lol

I am glad Runey doesn't do that to us, if there is dialogue, then odds are it matters in some way... There is a fine like between realistic dialogue, and TMI. Unless it is brief, like the scene start with them talking about something boring, and them we move onto something more interesting, we don't need to know some things. I don't care what you had for breakfast, unless it matters to the plot, the lore, or ...something, like we want to know someone's favorite foods, or whatever...
The characters can make small talk, without boring the players with it.
I agree. Unless it's something key to the plot, I prefer lore and character backgrounds to be separate dialogue choices where it's optional whether or not the player has to read/listen to it. With the amount of lore Runey is putting into this, how long do you think it'll be before someone comes along and does for it what Fudgemuppet does for the lore of Elder Scrolls?
 

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I agree. Unless it's something key to the plot, I prefer lore and character backgrounds to be separate dialogue choices where it's optional whether or not the player has to read/listen to it. With the amount of lore Runey is putting into this, how long do you think it'll be before someone comes along and does for it what Fudgemuppet does for the lore of Elder Scrolls?
Well, they are at least getting the wikia done, and that is a really good place to start with that. Lore videos would make sense, one of these days, especially once he moves onto a sequel. XD
 

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Except I'm not, I've never been into games of any kind for sexual content, even ones whose main focus is sexual content. If I want sexual content, I'll go for actual porn I don't have to interact with. I wouldn't change my mind since the sounds would be generic porn sounds and probably from a porno that I could watch without having to interact if I wanted to hear them. If you're thinking it's going to be some voice acting specific to Harem Hotel, I would suggest forgetting that idea because this is a one man project and voice acting gets real expensive real fast.


Definitely, nothing kills the mood faster than useless noise drowning out important noise like in your example. You're right, they sound fake, they rarely fit with the imagery unless the game has audio specifically recorded for it, again very expensive and not feasible for one man projects, and they are distracting. They are actually a huge turn off for me when I'm gaming, I game to game, when I want to fap, I will choose something that doesn't require interaction so I actually have hands free to do so. When gaming, my hands are on the mouse and, out of habit, WASD.
Yeah I know it would be expensive as fk for Runey. Them girls aren't selling their voices for cheap but some do, and even some for free (they just want credits for). I just want the best for this game. I got a lot of respect for it and my eyes are in hearts every time i think of harem hotel (not only for the h-scenes, even if it's the only thing i wanted at first :LOL:). The characters are well constructed and brilliant personally-wise (really easy to get into the story). But there's that lil missing recipe, the sound (the game is too quiet man *crickets*). Doesn't need to be the whole game in voice lines (which would be massive and probably unnecessary work). Just some moments... Some like: "Hi master (in a sexy way)" or can i make you some breakfast (Autumn or Sylvia in her maid outfit *drooling *). Nothing too large or too difficult to implement "in-game". Put small voice lines every here and theres just to make the player familiar with the voices and when comes the H-Scenes, GO FULL FORCE, LET"S GOOOO: MOANS, SKIN CONTACT, IMPREGNATION SOUND, MAKE HER SAY SHE'S YOUR CUMDUMP AND THEN LEAVE TO FUCK ANOTHER GIRL (Just kidding OR AM I :devilish:). *Ahem* Harem hotel is my favorite visual novel game so far and it will be very difficult for me to replace it for another one but i recently found games like House party or AI Shoujo which offer roam type of playstyle which heavily increase the player's experience with sex sounds and more. It will be very difficult for me to return to a visual novel after those. Runey is the captain of the boat and he is the only one that can decide to step his game up (that was a play on words) or not. Either way, harem hotel stays in my heart.
 

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Please no, no, just no.

Yeah I know it would be expensive as fk for Runey. Them girls aren't selling their voices for cheap but some do, and even some for free (they just want credits for). I just want the best for this game. I got a lot of respect for it and my eyes are in hearts every time i think of harem hotel (not only for the h-scenes, even if it's the only thing i wanted at first :LOL:). The characters are well constructed and brilliant personally-wise (really easy to get into the story). But there's that lil missing recipe, the sound (the game is too quiet man *crickets*). Doesn't need to be the whole game in voice lines (which would be massive and probably unnecessary work). Just some moments... Some like: "Hi master (in a sexy way)" or can i make you some breakfast (Autumn or Sylvia in her maid outfit *drooling *). Nothing too large or too difficult to implement "in-game". Put small voice lines every here and theres just to make the player familiar with the voices and when comes the H-Scenes, GO FULL FORCE, LET"S GOOOO: MOANS, SKIN CONTACT, IMPREGNATION SOUND, MAKE HER SAY SHE'S YOUR CUMDUMP AND THEN LEAVE TO FUCK ANOTHER GIRL (Just kidding OR AM I :devilish:). *Ahem* Harem hotel is my favorite visual novel game so far and it will be very difficult for me to replace it for another one but i recently found games like House party or AI Shoujo which offer roam type of playstyle which heavily increase the player's experience with sex sounds and more. It will be very difficult for me to return to a visual novel after those. Runey is the captain of the boat and he is the only one that can decide to step his game up (that was a play on words) or not. Either way, harem hotel stays in my heart.
The best for this game is what Runey wants. As for doing only partial voicing, that actually detracts from the game, it doesn't benefit it. People don't typically like things half done even if half done was unavoidable and that would be a situation where it would seem half done. It would have to be fully voiced or not at all because of this, it is VERY jarring for a character to speak a line just moments ago just to be rendered mute the next.

Also, as far as voiced sex scene lines, not a lot of people like that, Devian and myself are two examples. AI Shoujo and House Party are a different type of game where voiced lines are pretty much expected, Harem Hotel is a VN, a type of medium where voiced lines are nothing but a bonus that is rarely ever expected outside of the big VN developers that are known for almost always hiring voice actors, these companies being much bigger in scale and far more capable than a single person developer, no offense Runey.
 

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Yah.... think about a computer repair tech when they have to work on systems with sticky keyboards....
(oh, I must have spilled a soda ...... yeah right!! )

Nasty....
 
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Please no, no, just no.


The best for this game is what Runey wants. As for doing only partial voicing, that actually detracts from the game, it doesn't benefit it. People don't typically like things half done even if half done was unavoidable and that would be a situation where it would seem half done. It would have to be fully voiced or not at all because of this, it is VERY jarring for a character to speak a line just moments ago just to be rendered mute the next.

Also, as far as voiced sex scene lines, not a lot of people like that, Devian and myself are two examples. AI Shoujo and House Party are a different type of game where voiced lines are pretty much expected, Harem Hotel is a VN, a type of medium where voiced lines are nothing but a bonus that is rarely ever expected outside of the big VN developers that are known for almost always hiring voice actors, these companies being much bigger in scale and far more capable than a single person developer, no offense Runey.
You can't say it wouldn't be nice to have voice lines in that game, if you say so, this means your a straight up liar (or an anti-new technologies person which is not good for the game's health). You're probably scared you won't like the voice lines and probably think you will detest the game afterwords but you don't know if you don't try! Don't be scared of adaptation. There's always a way to make things great and better. First time you tried the game, did you expect anything? Would you speak the same if the sounds were already included? Probably not. Knowing how Runey did awesomely great in this game so far, i'm convinced it would be a great addition to the game no doubt. The guy is very knowledgeable and i know he would make the right choice whether it is to choose the girls to get the voice from or when to put them in game. Also when you say people, that doesn't include me because i would fucking like to hear some sounds when fucking Lin or Maria and i know i'm not the only one who thinks that way (sounds are what excites the most!). Images make you big, sounds make you cum never heard of that? You would be less happy if you were forced to watch porn without sounds than with them (it's just how it is *shrug*). Look, i'm just saying it would make the game more alive for porn game enthusiasts but as i said in my last comment, no matter what happens, this game will always be one of my top tiers.
 

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You can't say it wouldn't be nice to have voice lines in that game, if you say so, this means your a straight up liar (or an anti-new technologies person which is not good for the game's health). You're probably scared you won't like the voice lines and probably think you will detest the game afterwords but you don't know if you don't try! Don't be scared of adaptation. There's always a way to make things great and better. First time you tried the game, did you expect anything? Would you speak the same if the sounds were already included? Probably not. Knowing how Runey did awesomely great in this game so far, i'm convinced it would be a great addition to the game no doubt. The guy is very knowledgeable and i know he would make the right choice whether it is to choose the girls to get the voice from or when to put them in game. Also when you say people, that doesn't include me because i would fucking like to hear some sounds when fucking Lin or Maria and i know i'm not the only one who thinks that way (sounds are what excites the most!). Images make you big, sounds make you cum never heard of that? You would be less happy if you were forced to watch porn without sounds than with them (it's just how it is *shrug*). Look, i'm just saying it would make the game more alive for porn game enthusiasts but as i said in my last comment, no matter what happens, this game will always be one of my top tiers.
Not me, I absolutely hate most game voices in these games, and mute them right after the music (which is always the first thing I do, because I also hate that in most games, and many times they start blasting it before I can even get to the volume options, so my whole neighborhood gets to hear it before I can turn it down). It's just annoying at best, even when well done, and embarrassing as fuck at worst.

Visuals and story are what excite me the most, the last thing I want is audio.

Just imagine you have a voiced character, and it doesn't match what you have in your mind, or worse, you can't stand it...

Though, few things are worse than a voiced MC...
 

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Not me, I absolutely hate most game voices in these games, and mute them right after the music (which is always the first thing I do, because I also hate that in most games, and many times they start blasting it before I can even get to the volume options, so my whole neighborhood gets to hear it before I can turn it down). It's just annoying at best, even when well done, and embarrassing as fuck at worst.

Visuals and story are what excite me the most, the last thing I want is audio.

Just imagine you have a voiced character, and it doesn't match what you have in your mind, or worse, you can't stand it...

Though, few things are worse than a voiced MC...
A lot of people lose their shit when an anime is dubbed, and insist that they watch the subbed version. They're many many reasons for this im sure, the voice not matching up with what you thought of in your head is probably one of them. I don't think it's needed at all honestly, I don't think it is worth the effort to get voice acting. Maybe if he does a kickstarter to finish the game and it gets overly supported then he could but, otherwise meh.

Plus having voice files would add tons of file space and the game size would likely triple in size and people will complain that much more about it.
 
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You can't say it wouldn't be nice to have voice lines in that game, if you say so, this means your a straight up liar (or an anti-new technologies person which is not good for the game's health). You're probably scared you won't like the voice lines and probably think you will detest the game afterwords but you don't know if you don't try! Don't be scared of adaptation. There's always a way to make things great and better. First time you tried the game, did you expect anything? Would you speak the same if the sounds were already included? Probably not. Knowing how Runey did awesomely great in this game so far, i'm convinced it would be a great addition to the game no doubt. The guy is very knowledgeable and i know he would make the right choice whether it is to choose the girls to get the voice from or when to put them in game. Also when you say people, that doesn't include me because i would fucking like to hear some sounds when fucking Lin or Maria and i know i'm not the only one who thinks that way (sounds are what excites the most!). Images make you big, sounds make you cum never heard of that? You would be less happy if you were forced to watch porn without sounds than with them (it's just how it is *shrug*). Look, i'm just saying it would make the game more alive for porn game enthusiasts but as i said in my last comment, no matter what happens, this game will always be one of my top tiers.
I never said it wouldn't be nice to have voiced lines in general, what I said was I don't enjoy voiced sex lines because it's always the generic porn moans and lines that get used in literally everything that gets audio except the occasional voiced VN. I am not against new tech, but you would be wrong about whether being against new tech is bad for the game's health, it isn't because I am only a player and even if Runey was, it still wouldn't be bad. You don't need new tech in everything.

No, I'm not scared I won't like the voice lines, that would be a silly thing to be afraid of, but I already know I won't like it. What I AM scared of is the game taking hits because Runey tried to do something that we all know isn't feasible on a one person project because someone asked. I won't detest the game, Runey couldn't pay me enough to detest this game, not even Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk combined could pay me enough to detest this game.

Here's the thing I HAVE tried voiced lines AND voiced sex lines, that's how I know I don't like voiced sex lines in games or half done voiced audio in anything. I've played the Neptunia games, games that are pretty well known for having unavoidable budget issues that resulted in some lines not being available in English audio, Japanese audio, or both audio languages. They couldn't avoid it, they funded as many voiced lines as they could and just didn't have enough for the whole game, but had already budgeted toward having voiced lines in the first place. Runey doesn't have to make that mistake. There is always a way to make things better, but voiced lines in a one person developed VN isn't it.

The first time I tried the game, I expected it to be just a typical porn game and was proven horribly wrong. No, I would not speak the same, I wouldn't be playing if sex sounds were included, it would have already failed to keep me playing a long time ago. If voice audio, not including sex sounds, was included, I would be praising Runey for his miraculous ability to have funded a fully voiced, one person developed VN on his own. That is an insane task for one person to take on alone financially speaking and we can't forget the effort of coordinating with all the voice actors. If the audio was only half done, meaning not every single line in the game was voiced outside of sex sounds, I would also have dropped the game very quickly.

It would be a great addition to have voices for the general speaking lines, but the effort and funding required is just not feasible for one person and threatens to drag the efforts he already puts in down the drain. He's better off focusing on what he has already been doing, making great visuals and writing a great story.

I know it doesn't include you when I say people, people just means more than one person whether you are counted or not. There are at least two of us who wouldn't want voiced sex lines, so people is the appropriate term there. Hate to break it to you, though, but sound is not always the thing that excites the most. It does to some people, including yourself, but not everyone. For me, granted I'm in it for the story alone, it would be a huge turn off to have sex audio. Now, great music, especially an original soundtrack, and general voices would be great, especially the music, but again, it is not feasible for one person. On that note, Runey, if you ever want original music, I'm open for it, no compensation and all rights to you, I would just ask to be credited and it would take a while as I would have to write it and record it first, of course. I would actually consider it a pretty big honor, if I'm being honest.

Both images and sound do nothing for me in that way, that's just how I am. I need an actual romantic attraction to be sexually attracted to anything and romantic attractions are reserved for real people with me. As for porn, it wouldn't matter to me, I don't use porn in the usual way, I just use it to kill time when I don't have anything better I feel like doing.

I get it, yes, it would make the game more alive, but at potentially fatal cost for the game as a whole. As a single person developer, Runey would have to devote time away from actual game development to coordinate with the voice actors, he would have to spend time implementing the voices. All this while no actual new content is getting done AND sent out to patrons and free players for potentially months while things are being recorded and gathered into one place for implementation. In a fully Patreon funded project, taking that long to get even a single update out CAN be a death sentence. I've seen people start complaining about how long an update is taking in less time than it would take to implement this, inside a normal release period even, for other games, of course. I can only imagine how bad the comments of 'it's dead,' 'it's abandoned,' or 'the dev is milking his patrons,' would get if Runey tried this. The risks are just not worth the reward.

A lot of people lose their shit when an anime is dubbed, and insist that they watch the subbed version. They're many many reasons for this im sure, the voice not matching up with what you thought of in your head is probably one of them. I don't think it's needed at all honestly, I don't think it is worth the effort to get voice acting. Maybe if he does a kickstarter to finish the game and it gets overly supported then he could but, otherwise meh.

Plus having voice files would add tons of file space and the game size would likely triple in size and people will complain that much more about it.
Oh boy, do they. You don't want to know how many times I've been on the dub side of that argument. Then again, I don't mind subbed if it is the only option. The mismatch of voice is definitely a big one and that is a concern I have with the voice idea in this game. Agreed, it isn't necessary, this IS a visual NOVEL after all. Definitely not worth the effort. Maybe if Runey had more hands working on the game, but not with one person. Very true on the space concerns, audio files can be massive compared to other file types and this game is already pretty big.
 
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