Trope95

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Today I received an article in my Google Feed news about the longest videogame script record, currently held BG3 at 2,000,000 words. The article was about the upcoming Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 surpassing BG3 in around 200,000 words.

It piqued my curiosity and I looked at historical games I played to see how My Dorm, at 523,000 words, and other AVNs compare to them. Looked at them on :
Dragon Age Origins: 740,000 words
Icewind Dale II: 730,000
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: 600,000
Mass Effect 2: 450,000
Baldur's Gate: 434,000
Mass Effect 3: 430,000
Metal Gear Solid: 370,000
Shenmue: 330,000
Mass Effect: 300,000

Good job, Trope95! You surpassed story-heavy games that had whole screenwriter teams in just over 2 years of development.
Wow! Those are big numbers from big games, but they aren't comparable, though. I guess most of those games' dialogue (I played 7 of them) is optimized to the max, and My Dorm isn't. Due to branching, there are a few repeated sentences in different branches so the 523,000 words aren't 100% real.

I doubt Trop has any intention of racing anyone. Especially with words. Unfortunately, the number of words does not guarantee the quality of the game. I'll tell you more. This may indicate that the game is long-winded.
No, I'm not racing anyone. My references are books, not games. I didn't even know there was a list of words per game, although it makes sense. If there are lists about book length, why not video games?

Only thing that would make me hunt him down is if Martha would be removed as a LI.......my wrath would know NO bounds!
That won't happen. In this game. In the next one... I won't spoil it.

Honestly she just looks too thin. She's probably a high risk pregnancy due to insufficient calories. Pump some sammiches into her and get her to a healthy weight and she'd be fine, imo.
I got the ugliest model I had and applied the ugliest morphs (and one of the ugliest hairstyles). I don't think getting her into a healthy weight will solve all her issues.
 

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Wow! Those are big numbers from big games, but they aren't comparable, though. I guess most of those games' dialogue (I played 7 of them) is optimized to the max, and My Dorm isn't. Due to branching, there are a few repeated sentences in different branches so the 523,000 words aren't 100% real.
Just take the compliment man ;)

That won't happen. In this game. In the next one... I won't spoil it.
Ok, now I'm intrigued........and a little turned on!
 
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Ok, now I'm intrigued........and a little turned on!
The intrigue will be over soon ;)

She's better looking than these monstrosities:
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What game are they from?
Because of the framing, I guess they are LIs.

I have seen this girl at the airport. It is hard for her to get pregnant since she is so thin. This picture is so weird, it looks like the zombie bride is pregnant.
It's hard for her to get pregnant because there are no other orcs around. :D
The pregnant image was done in a couple of minutes using the worst-looking dress possible for her build and skin color.
I love provoking nightmares. Perhaps my next game should be a horror one! ;)
 

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I love provoking nightmares. Perhaps my next game should be a horror one! ;)
Where, no matter what you do, all of the potential LIs always reject you. You keep accidentally walking in on them in the bathroom in uncompromising positions, as they're fully clothed having just finished getting dressed. Your hot sister has a nightmare and wants to sleep in your bed, but she sleeps in an unsexy onesie and snores and drools on you all night, leaving you tired and achy the next day so you get a massage and it's a scrawny kid called Leroy on his first solo massage, so he can't even do a good job of it...
 

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I got the ugliest model I had and applied the ugliest morphs (and one of the ugliest hairstyles). I don't think getting her into a healthy weight will solve all her issues.
All sure, but decent enough I'd say. There are plenty of people I've met Irl that were woefully unattractive, DAZ just doesn't really seem well designed to emulate the ways that nature and nurture can truly beat a poor soul with the ugly stick.
 

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Wow! Those are big numbers from big games, but they aren't comparable, though. I guess most of those games' dialogue (I played 7 of them) is optimized to the max, and My Dorm isn't. Due to branching, there are a few repeated sentences in different branches so the 523,000 words aren't 100% real.
I read enough of your posts to know you always say different games aren't comparable. But even if 10% of those 523K words are repeated, and it would be a lot, you would still be above most of those games.
You have compared your word count to some books previously, so why not to other games outside the AVN universe?
Keep up the good work!
 
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