VN Ren'Py Isabella - Chasing Shadows [Ch. 4.3] [badtimetales]

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Pixillin'

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Ok, caught up again. Like I said I played through again from the beginning because it's been awhile for some of it and I've played a lot of things - so wanted a refresher before the update. I do really like the story, and most of the characters but really need Isa to take several large steps back. If she's still staying with MC that's fine but I want Alex to stop pushing her at me and don't want more massages, or private shows or ... anything really. Not into her at all, knowing more of her backstory isn't going to change that and because I'm not into her it gets a little creepy from her and from Alex.
 

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Ok, caught up again. Like I said I played through again from the beginning because it's been awhile for some of it and I've played a lot of things - so wanted a refresher before the update. I do really like the story, and most of the characters but really need Isa to take several large steps back. If she's still staying with MC that's fine but I want Alex to stop pushing her at me and don't want more massages, or private shows or ... anything really. Not into her at all, knowing more of her backstory isn't going to change that and because I'm not into her it gets a little creepy from her and from Alex.
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Cool. Like I said I just finished another playthrough and that's my only real problem with it, the story is good. The characters are mostly pretty good. The renders are fantastic but the Isa thing is becoming a pretty big problem (for me at least). Kinda need for MC to be able to say something - to Isa and Alex.
 

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Obviously if I want to keep playing I have no choice but to give her more time, but I knew early on that I was not interested in her (or the throuple path). As I said yesterday, even if Alex wasn't there I wouldn't be interested.

The needy bits though: You meet her in the bar because she is attacked, then give her a ride home, then rescue her again the following afternoon, then go back because of Zeuss, then she spends the night in your guest room, then play bodyguard at the dinner, etc – it’s a lot of time and energy for someone you’ve known a few days. And it seems like there should be some room in there to set some boundaries/expectations.

Like the night Zeuss threw up, if you had said you didn’t want to spend the night, you wouldn’t have missed anything in terms of the story. It could have just gone straight to “the following morning” and the scene at MC’s apartment.

Anyway, I don’t hate her or anything, I don’t think she’s evil but if you’re not on her path or interested in her she’s somewhat abusing MC’s hospitality and generosity. Like I was nice to her once and now she’s my new bestie and roommate whereas I’m more at the level of – if we hadn’t spoken for awhile maybe we could grab brunch or a coffee and catch up kinda friendship.
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Geez, man, that's pretty harsh, and absolutely unwarranted I'd say.
And here I thought I could be insensitive :rolleyes:
 
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Thought I'd leave some first impressions. Made it through bedtime the night Isa stays over, and it appears a Jen dream sequence is about to begin (basically, end of Day 2), and have enjoyed it so far.
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And, finally for now, I'm sorry, but...
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Will pick it back up in an hour or two. Looking forward to seeing what clicks with my preconceived notions and what doesn't. Really liking the way Alex is turning out.
 
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o shit Summer sale started thanks for the heads up thought wasn't till Monday or something. I saw a game mentioned something about a pre summer sale sale last night when I looked it up.

Time to give Gabe some money

Good luck, servers (web gui) had been down for hours.
Maybe I should offer them my service to expand the CDN for a few weeks... :rolleyes:

Really, Steam sales -> servers down.
That's not so difficult to address.
 
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Good luck, servers (web gui) had been down for hours.
Maybe I should offer them my service to expand the CDN for a few weeks... :rolleyes:

Really, Steam sales -> servers down.
That's not so difficult to address.
been working for me as far as adding things no idea about buying. I usually don't do that till later takes me awhile to decide on what not to buy :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
 
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Good luck, servers (web gui) had been down for hours.
Maybe I should offer them my service to expand the CDN for a few weeks... :rolleyes:

Really, Steam sales -> servers down.
That's not so difficult to address.
My wish list was down for what felt like forever but in reality was only a couple of hours probably. It was weird that I could go to the different pages of games, the front page of steam, and everything else but something that is localized to me was down.
 
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I’m not entirely evil. A bit too honest sometimes, but not evil. Honestly if you set this game aside, and 3 others (all of which I’ve abandoned at this point) my comments on this board have been about 95% positive and the things I’ve gotten really negative on were all games that (according to me) could have been really good but went off the rails.
 

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I’m not entirely evil. A bit too honest sometimes, but not evil. Honestly if you set this game aside, and 3 others (all of which I’ve abandoned at this point) my comments on this board have been about 95% positive and the things I’ve gotten really negative on were all games that (according to me) could have been really good but went off the rails.

Thanks for the DM, I'll answer it tomorrow.

Nobody, at least I, did say you are evil.

The problem for a dev is to tell the story he wants to tell (well, unless it's a fuck them all only story).
For this things need to be told and shown. And to prepare other relationships like the player wants, they have to be shown too.

The game is called Isa, enough people wonder why. So Isa's situation is the same like Alex. She will be there, if you like it or not.
Because she is a part of the story. An important one. If you are together with her or not.
The Alex pushing Isa will stop when the player made a decision, but for now we are not at this point.
And so I need it for both, Isa character building and pushing the throuple.

If you don't like her, no problem. But she's there, as a friend, to you, to Alex. That's like real life works.

"But I can choose the friends I have!".
Sure, pay me a writer and a render and animation guy and I can make the game exactly the way you want it.
:D

No offense, I get your point and I'll answer your PM tomorrow.
 
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