RPGM Legend of Queen Opala: Origin [v3.26] [SweGabe]
I like the story. Lore is good as well. It just not even drip fed for 4 years. Creator is more interested in milking money than actually doing anything worth a damn. Most of the "features" over the last 4 years have been stuff that would have been added in the "golden" versions of the previous games.
I still have hope... She already completed two games it's no small feat
yeah, but remember, Legend of Queen Opala released in 2008
Legend of Queen Opala II came in 2011
with some extra time for the golden editions
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And Origin had its first episode come out in 2015. This year it will be an rpg maker game that's been developing for a decade in a time that's easier to release nsfw indie games than ever before.
I wouldn't dismiss Gabe's ability to release a game, but i will say it seems likely she is not in any hurry to finish it anytime soon and might just be stalling a bit and taking things waaaaaay too calmly. If I am not mistaken she complained in her blog that she couldn't work much on the game because her neighbors had a baby or there was constructions around, or she wanted to remake the assets, or she just HAD to re-write some stuff in the early game because she had to add optional npcs to meet in Colussia that would later be relevant... The last two blogs she gets a pass because apparently she had the flu and maybe covid, that's not her fault, but as time goes on and on it seems to me like she is looking for any excuse to NOT have to advance the story so she can reliably keep the people who are interested in this game paying...
"Release two actual story updates of less than an hour of gameplay between the two, focus the rest of the year on assets or side-stuff or minigames to make people believe the game is advancing when in reality it's not"
A true shame, because I am actually engaged in the story and characters, but i fear that the only thing that will give this game a proper ending would be for Gabe to suddenly lose subs and money so she panics and tries to actually lure people in with proper work and what people asked for (remember when almost six years ago she asked the community what they wanted, and they said 'more scenes of the girl with the MC' and Gabe gave them like... the same rate she was giving as before? it's a 'why do you even ask' move.)
Gabe is not the worst developer in this 'forever production' mode, but she does get a lot less empathy from me than others because she keeps trying to deflect on the blog not even mentioning why she is not focusing on story, or making false promises on when it will come out... Fun fact, in November of 2022 she said the game would be done in December... of 2023. So either she KNOWS the story left to tell should take a year to finish if she really tried, or she was straight up lying to keep people in.
I REALLY like the game, but the production feels like a hellish time-loop and it's mostly Gabe's shortcomings, intentional or not.
... aaand three weeks of no work for a flu.
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but with losing artist there is no more of those pictures are they will have to change it some how.
That sounds like a problem that could have been avoided if the game had been finished in less time than it would have taken for an elementary schooler to become old enough to join the military.
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Such slow development, GTA 6 will be released and the game is still not complete.
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I highly doubt it's for economic reasons, I'm sure he earns more than 3000 euros a month, the community likes to give away money for free. I mean, it's a game made in RPG Maker, the only thing that could delay it is the art.
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well there is alot going on but there not working on the story are the lore. i wounder there has to be a give and take on both artist and dev. but we do not know what's going on two artist have quite that's all we know
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13 years in development, incredibly slow, for example, Stardew Valley was made with much less (4 years). It smells to me like it's only surviving on Patreon and it's dragging on, I’ll stop supporting it. Opala 2 and 1 didn't take long to create, it has proven to have talent, it's impossible for it to have complications.
So, She/He is back now. And continue to make her/him work.
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I wonder when Tamada Heijun can replace all SethXZoe arts and what will happen with SethXZoe arts before this? (maybe i'm missing something)
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Which other opala games should i play first? I just want better art of the 3 girls dont really care much about the story