Eh, there's an obvious difference in the quality in his writing compared to many of these other text-based games. I'd say the best ongoing text-based game right now is Inner Empire. And it's not really like Newlife. Many games are clearly Newlife-inspired with the sex scene mechanics including Course of Temptation but are even more generic and less descriptive. There's more content on the surface but the writing isn't as good. Sure, he's lazy, greedy, etc. but for all of that his writing is still better.
Maybe because I treat text-based games as less straightforward games and more like erotica/books. I played adult interactive fiction or AIF for many years on platforms like TADS. Creators had to actually put in effort back then since the mechanics were very simple and it could barely handle images. Newlife doesn't hold a candle to the best works but his writing reminds me of that time.
Now it's either unedited slop that's just an excuse to caption porn gifs, or too verbose and pretentious that it'll kill your boner. For the latter, just look up that one author's scenes from Corruption of Champions 2 (I think The Observer?). Everything reads like a weird creative writing assignment.
Maybe because I treat text-based games as less straightforward games and more like erotica/books. I played adult interactive fiction or AIF for many years on platforms like TADS. Creators had to actually put in effort back then since the mechanics were very simple and it could barely handle images. Newlife doesn't hold a candle to the best works but his writing reminds me of that time.
Now it's either unedited slop that's just an excuse to caption porn gifs, or too verbose and pretentious that it'll kill your boner. For the latter, just look up that one author's scenes from Corruption of Champions 2 (I think The Observer?). Everything reads like a weird creative writing assignment.
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Dahakma, the developer of the pretty cool lifesim Fake AI, confirmed how difficult it was to incorporate all the various different permutations of the same scene. I don't agree with him that it's not worth it, but I will certainly take his word for how much of a hassle it can be. He's no slouch of a developer either, so when I see how Fake AI is kinda stalling in development I can understand that it's more of the technical complexities of the game as opposed to a lack of effort.
It's a good example of game design beating out game development/programming.
Newlife having each turn being a week with various planned and random events interspersed throughout is vastly superior to the day-by-day grindfest most lifesims end up being. The relative lack of customization options and diverging narratives in Newlife made it easier for the dev to incorporate various permutations of the same scene. With other lifesims you can tell the devs came up with the customization options before the gameplay systems and narratives.
Newlife is at its best when it manages to function as a sandbox story creator instead of a life sim game. Unfortunately it's just lacks the content and tools to add content to be a better story creation tool.
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I played the games you mentioned and they really suit my taste, especially inner empire. I hadn't seen this game on other platforms before you recommended it, and it's really high quality. Do you have any other games you recommend?
eragames from their wiki. EraTohoTW, more specifically, it has the gimmick of timestop, but you can ignore it and just romance tohou characters. There's eraMegaten, it's a megami tensei/persona fan game. There're at least two versions of succubus game, kaguya/princess trainer, and a bunch of -K strategy fan games
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If you set up Linux Virtual Machine on Android, inside of it you could play NL. But this is pretty involved.
i like this game a lot honestly. i think it's the best use of traits i have seen till now
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it is really funny when people say "the content in this game has to be mostly consensual because the dev is from britan" when Degrees of Lewdity is made by a british guy And that game is . Yeah . if you know you know lol
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It's insane lol. It's bad enough that it feels like 90% of all sentient beings want the player character's booty, but the encounters all being done through an incredibly tedious sex system where you move individual body parts every turn just turns me off completely. The game just turns noncon events into an inconvenience.
Speaking of the sex system I think there's probably a lot more value into making custom sex scenes for events being more specialized and narrative focused. The few specific sex scenes that Newlife has are pretty good I'd say, and I think they're more worthwhile than the generic sex action scene we get at the end of most encounters. I don't think it'd be a hard idea to implement considering that it would involve fewer options with more flavor text and dialogue on already existing events.
FFFFFuuuck brother, yes you nailed it. I really really miss the old writing in those ancient sites and programs. Nothing modern scratches the itch of wondering what's around the literary corner of those old reads; that mood is the spirit animal the original Coc was born from.
Everything i read for the past 15 years feels like it was written by AI. It's like people are either to dumb to use advanced English and and poetic description, or they go into literary psychosis becoming verbose and structured to the point of any feeling or meaning being minimized and simplified as the verbose writers write the maximum application of the same words everyone uses assembled the same way like they were solving a puzzle not creating literotica.
Made worse that AI now is being used to repeat these repetitive snooty or idiotic writers, it leaves us suckling at the trickle of this writer because he feels like a broken fragment of a old world. God i miss the infinite internet and when normal people posted thought out creativity and you'd never find all there was or run out of places to look.