I loved this so much, i've seen so many developers get a new GPU and decide for more ambitious rendering slowing the development proccess and remaking!I won't be changing the style of the game midway to the "classic" photo realistic Daz3d style, that would be crazy!
And remaking the whole thing is also crazy. It's not just loading the old scenes and render again. The lighting wasn't made for realistic skins. It's very different to light a scene with the cartoonish style I have or the trans-lucid realistic skins Daz games usually have. If I just changed the skins and render everything again, it'd look like crap. I would have to light every scene again, but I have zero experience with that kind of lighting... it'd would take a huge amount of work to probably look worse than your average Daz VN.
Just having a new GPU doesn't make renders look great automatically. It just makes it faster to render shitty renders
For better or worse, we have to stick with the original style.
Also, don't expect to see much of a difference in the next chapter... on one hand, I only had the new desktop at the last week of January. On the other, sure, it'll help to have more itenerations in some renders to make them not look noisy and shitty. And I can now easily have more characters in the same scene if I want to. So, that helps.
But I don't think that'll be very apparent - the lighting, style, render resolution and overall look will still be the same. Again: a faster GPU just means the same scenes are rendered faster. It doesn't magically make them look better.
So: the new renders will look very similar to the best renders already in the game because that's what this style, plus my ability to pose characters, light and compose scenes, allows for. Hopefully, there will just be less to none shitty renders that look bad because, in the past, it'd take too long to render for the required amount of time for them to not look noisy and grainy. And now I can do that easily.
The biggest difference is that I can now render at a good quality faster. And make animations. This is where the improvements will be seen.
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From my point of view, I think the story is very good and cool MrsilverLust
He has made a special game
Aside from everything, am i the only one who loves chess replays and commentary? That last one with jen and grand master was so fun to watch! I am not a chess player or anything but this is such a unique feature in a VN and i dont see anyone talking about it. Thanks MrSilverLust and keep up the good work!
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It made me back to chess tbh, playing at least hour daily since I saw Jen's plays so yeah, great job with that MrSilverLust
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Bro I love everything about this game. Cool story, relatable MC and realistic characters, lots of fetish, CHESS, different game system and everything is optional. One of my favorite games since version 0.1
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This site really need a chess tag.
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I can hear the arguments over what qualifies as 'real' chess already.This site really need a chess tag.
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If your opponent takes your queen, is that NTR?
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Can you believe I learned something new in a somewhat NTR discussion?
First time I've heard of chess bars. I'm checking the recipe...
no offense but i dont like ntr or any thin has somethin to do with see girl get fk soo can you add plz to turn it off from the intro of the game thx
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Just read the post you quoted from the Dev again - it literally says that such content only is shown by your explicit choices. If you make player choices and kink selections (and they are quite obvious) that keep you away from any sort of sharing path, you simply will not encounter that sort of content.
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Exactly the same, I had to search for it too. Some sort of regional US dessert food it seems.Can you believe I learned something new in a somewhat NTR discussion?
First time I've heard of chess bars. I'm checking the recipe...
Ugh, now I'm hungry
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Definitely! I always meant to try to keep this worthy conversation going with a reply, but time got away from me a bit. At least now that a month has gone by we've hopefully both had a chance to recharge our rhetorical batteries and I'll be able to rehash the same tired, old arguments all over again without anyone noticing their staleness. Uh oh, I may have just revealed too much...
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To my mind the mark of a good RPG is that the options you can pick have applications in numerous different situations. Sure, some locks might be unpickable and some encounters might not permit negotiation, but that's a far cry from, say, only having a single NPC you could seduce or a single computer to hack. To me, NIF feels a lot more like the latter because most of the skills seem to map pretty tightly to specific girls. Yes, there's some overlap on the baseline skills but those are extremely simple skills and there's still only a limited application for them.
Conceptually, I understand why that's the case; it makes perfect sense that each girl will have their own tastes no matter how much *we* might be into something else. But in the end it still leaves me with the feeling that the skill system is effectively a form we fill out to unlock the girl(s) of our choice - in which case why not skip the form and interact with the girls as we see fit? The skill tree's only mechanical function, I think, is to restrict access to some content based on our available points. That's a potentially important role, but it's a really hard one to 'play balance' because there's such a wide variety of possible point scores.
Admittedly, it's possible the system will feel less idiosyncratic as time goes on and we get to explore a wider array of kinks with each girl. If that's the plan then I'm willing to wait and see how it works before passing judgement, though it will almost certainly be a massive undertaking for the dev. I suppose you could also argue the system helps train us to associate certain dialog options with the various skill groups; that can be a useful thing (but it depends heavily on the player conceptualizing the groups in a similar manner to the dev). And the skill tree does give us a handy roadmap of the sort of content likely to be encountered in the game. So I can see some appeal to the system, even if only as a security blanker. But to me the skills distract from the true strength of the game, which lies in the way we can explore relationships with interesting characters.
Interesting. I can't really agree; to me a lot of the girls seem pretty one-note in their desires, made all the more so thanks to the skill system emphasizing the way to their nethers. Emma, for example, feels very much like a game mechanic the way she oscillates between dom or sub with no option to just talk to her about our feelings in a neutral manner. And Deb is a pretty textbook domme in my book (all the more so since we never get to see her trying to accommodate Carl).
I'm not saying the characters themselves are flat; I think they're quite well written. But I do think the way the MC is allowed to interact with feels restrictive. Maybe that would ultimately be inevitable - there's only so much freedom a player can have in a computer game. But I still feel like the characters would benefit if they themselves had to explain to the MC (and us) why they weren't interested in doing something rather than leaning on the button notes to fill in the gaps.
Fair, but I consider most of those games dreck. Admittedly, I'm a strict egalitarian when it comes to sex so I almost never play that sort of game in the first place, but IMHO the 'evil domme who must enslave everyone' is more a cardboard cutout than a proper character. I'm all for NIF trying to view kinks through a more nuanced lens, I just don't think you need a skill tree to clear that rather low bar.
Having played through her path at least once, Lea is easily my favorite girl. So I understand her appeal and I agree she's intended to be willing partner rather than a pliable victim (unless you're the sort of monster who'd deliberately cheat on her
). But I really do have to close my eyes and hum loudly to get through some of the early interactions because they're so one sided - especially if you factor in the MC's history of abusing his role as a psychologist in the past.I can understand the MC wanting to leave psychology. That makes sense given the risk he's putting everyone else through, and if he'd gone for a job as a bartender I probably wouldn't have raised an eyebrow. But the game clearly shows he's trying to get back into sexology, and that's were it loses me. Even if he isn't going to be working with patients one on one anymore, the MC has less business in that field than he does in psychology. That's my hang-up and the game gives me very little to work with as an explanation.
It may be consistent with her personality, but it's hard to square with her being a successful attorney. Sure, we all have blind spots when it comes to assessing our own actions, but this is pushing it. If she'd been unwilling to try dominating the MC previously I don't see why she'd fling herself off the ledge so zealously just because he'd be in a slightly better position to harm her if the attempt fails. And frankly, the quality of her argument comparing blackmail to practicing law would give me pause me if I were her client.
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Part of the problem here, at least to me, is what happens when you don't go on Lea's path. Because then MC won't help Lea at all. So MC basically says that the only way he'll help her is for her to do this so called "exposure therapy".Having played through her path at least once, Lea is easily my favorite girl. So I understand her appeal and I agree she's intended to be willing partner rather than a pliable victim (unless you're the sort of monster who'd deliberately cheat on her
EDIT: Also, the setup reeks too much of the old porn game trope of "whatever an LI's problem is, it will be solved by having sex with her".
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Well the focus of the game is sexual. Hard to justify development time for a path where that wouldn't be the case.
Reading the other comments before it seems to me a major criticism were that the characters are well written, but are still not as multidimensional as real people. Also that some, especially Kim and also including the MC, have personality flaws, which we know real people don't have. Like a psychiatrist would surely never abuse his or her position, or even have sex with a patient and successful lawyers are flawless in their personal lives. Right?
I guess no choice, but for MrSilverLust to create some flawless AIs, who also pass the Turing test, to replace every character. The story writes itself too then. Problem(s) solved. ;P