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The 19.0 Alpha requires launching via SmartSteamLoader_x64.exe (for 64 bit systems), and needs to be run with administrator permissions. Once loaded, let the stories download before you start, or your house will be empty.
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Frank update?
I am always amazed at how much dirt the devs throw into a very obvious gold mine.
Like damn, if you actually want to jack it off to this game, when was the last update made that actually made the game better for straight male players?
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So they shouldn't focus on minorities and only pander to straight males? I think being a majority female house party does that already. The female stories have a lot more content than the very basic male character interactions. Derek is super easy, Frank and Patrick aren't that likeable, and there's only a single interaction with them at the end of their quests.
As for Frank, he is an important character, as he is the main/only antagonist; someone you're supposed to dislike early on, and makes the game challenging. Without him being updated as the rest of the game progresses, such as stories for the females, then you'd reach a point where the game is no longer challenging or rewarding, because Frank hasn't been brought up to date.
I think we're reaching peak levels of female characters in that tiny house. If the house was a mansion, it might not be so bad, but there's already problems with having so many NPCs on the map. 10 females, compared to 5 males.
Sure, some people just want to jump in, remove any challenge, and just have an orgy. The good thing about modding support, is those people can get that too.
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I mean, I'm fine with there being options for gay stuff. My problem is that the sexual stuff itself is pretty damn boring. All of the women basically look the same naked, turn into lifeless dolls during sex, and there's a very limited amount of positions. And unless I'm remembering things wrong, sex ends pretty abruptly after the climax meter fills. Their updates seem more focused around making slow paced gameplay, based on limited narrow-timed obscure events that are easy to miss.
I haven't played the game in like a year, and based on the Changelog, I'm pretty sure all I've missed is new clothes for the girls, and maybe a few nonsensical quests that have no real pay off. The game has some funny moments, but the sexy stuff is pretty bland, and requires literal house of dumb crap to get to.
Are you presenting that as a real question, or just something more along the lines of the typical "look at me. I'm more PC then the next guy" fishing for like approval variety? Because real and straight up answer....yeah, pretty much. For a lot of the underlying aspects you went on to highlight in the rest of that post.
This game had already reached a reasonable content point a long while back that I think one can view *that* effort game, and the many years of it's designed content specifically targeting *that* straight male interest crowd, as being mostly done minus polish. *That* was a good overall effort game I've already spent many post her praising in the past.
Since that cut off point and once it decided to go completely off the rails of what made it popular in the first place? Meh. I personally don't see as much of a legitimate effort to "pander to minorities" being made here as I see an overall "it isn't over yet as long as we can keep reusing assets to keep this train going" throwing stuff at the wall approach playing itself out. Heck, once you get past the surface nod of including such, I'm even guessing more then half the people who legitimately desire that minority content are probably more generally insulted by the throw in and edit over effort going in to it. "Let's suddenly turn this character with a development foundation of being straight gay, or let you fuck drunk Partrick!" Yeah, real quality chase the carrot stuff right there.
Dollars to cents Office Party ends up being vaporware at this point btw
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I bought this game on steam, but since I can't buy the DLCs cause my stupid country banned untested sex games I feel no remorse getting it here
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I think overall, game progress is moving slowly, for the amount of time it's been in development. I've only just picked it up again after a couple of years, the characters have barely progressed their events. The game looks much better though. I think this is probably why a Frank update might seem like a waste of time, as it's all very slow, and we're itching for something more.
I get your point regarding the token effort of, as it also comes across to me as an after-thought, and most the characters seem to be fairly universal in their sexuality, moulding to the players desires, which kinda makes sense from a gameplay perspective, as it's a developmentally cheap way to maximise the sex.
Unfortunately, I've seen far too many of these games with high Patreon numbers, and loads of backing, end up getting finished prematurely. Insexity, Big Brother, are a couple that come to mind. House Party has been in dev for years, has over 1000 patreons, which even at the base value, is quite a bit of money. That's before Steam and other platform sales.
It comes across now like they're about to mark it done, even though most the character stories are underdeveloped, and don't feel finished. We will probably get some minor updates, before HP2 is announced.
This is still the easy #1 on my most jerks out of a single game list, but yeah.....v12 maybe was the last time?
Leah was a complete "let's make her persona as non-sexy as we possibly can" miss for me, and I remember flipping over to pornhub after playing through Lety.
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I've never heard of Insexity, but it was my understand that Big Brother didn't entirely choose to end it's game abruptly. It was more or less forced to end, due to Patreon putting it's foot down those years back, when they decided to be more strict about their sexual content, and the developer basically couldn't wiggle around all their new rules or something. I think they tried removing all the incest content from the game, with an optional patch to add it back in, but they gave up in the end, because it was risking losing their account, which is where their fanbase/money was.
I know they went on to make another very similar game, although I don't recall which, because I wasn't interested enough in it to play it.
Like....what about anything they have done or have been doing genuinely comes across as them being anywhere near to marking House Party as being close to done. Other then them simply making random comments like that for going on years now, and while occasionally hyping up a piece of vaporware that likely is more rooted in a need to string along that support money then anything else?
I mean here, this is direct from their website:
*And here is a loose roadmap of what we're working on for House Party. Note that this list is NOT exhaustive/all inclusive, and is NOT representative of order of update delivery:
- Expanded content for Frank (update size TBD)
- Expanded content for Vickie (tie-in of other stories, then add enough content to wrap up her post-hut tub "finale")
- At least one technical/bug fix/polish update prior to jumping into female playthrough. Need to greatly improve controller support, add more intimacy positions, continue polishing existing positions, etc.
- Female playthrough (large update, possibly more than one required)
- Expanded content for Brittney (update size TBD)
- Minor supporting content additions for various NPCs as necessary to tie off and complete the above
- Tie off plot holes, interconnect as much content as is reasonable to further enhance the "sandbox" feel of the game, make sure UI, animations, etc. are what we want them to be
- Reassess whether all misc. mechanics like mini-games, etc. that we like or that have been in "high demand" are in place
- Reassess if we've got enough tools available for modders/custom story creators
- Polish, QA, polish, QA
- Review translation requests and requisition additional translations based on volume of requests and impacted users
- ...Profit???
- Do a thing in VR
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As for your point on other games, I've never got why people get so caught up in this idea concept that they absolutely need to see some elaborate and "finalized ending conclusion" in every game. As all you are really doing there is feeding the standard milk beast potential the dev then turns around and uses to his advantage by basically just never giving it to you. For all intents in purposes the original and pre-Grumps type crap content already had that ending to reach after a fairly hefty amount of invested playtime hours to get there. Which was you "beating the game" after you already screwed every girl you could in it.
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So they remade BB inside Glamour. There were plenty of ways they could have done it. They just did it the smart way, maximising profits. Not saying that's a bad thing, just a disappointment.
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I prefer open sandbox to an actual ending, but it just doesn't feel their story is progressing. The walkthrough has barely changed since I last tried playing it. Could be right, that they are working on the female play-through, and that's where all the effort is going. That might be interesting. That list is definitely right about needing to tie off lose ends.
it says this is cracked but it opened my steam app and then closed the game down? saw a box that said updating ticket......what just happened?
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Use one of the other .exe files, which emulate steam.it says this is cracked but it opened my steam app and then closed the game down? saw a box that said updating ticket......what just happened?
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