Reaurt

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Depends if this was Eva aimed when she created him. Particularly, Axel and Seymour are the testament of Eva's great writing in this game for: both are haterful af (and i know this because i hate both so much), but also intriguing.
EDIT: I also put Ivy with them. How we can't wrap our minds if she is a total snake bitch or just a free spirit with her own and strong views really show how deeper and complex she can be.
Good thoughts.

Not sure I want to go out and try to dig up the relevant Patreon post, but if memory serves me, Robert was initially intended to be 1. An early sexual partner for Lena, much in the way that Cherry and Allison were for Ian, and 2. A deliberately sub-standard version of Ian, personality-wise. Ian starts out the game with more depth to him, with his writing focus, relationship woes, his aspirational struggles at work, and prior experience with art and music.

Robert as a character might have shifted over time, after those initial settings. Also, I'll speculate that it's probably easier and fun for Eva to write sexy scenes for Robert with Lena, because he's not very deep, whereas Ian brings more complexity to the table and writing Ian/Lena scenes might be comparatively more of an intellectual exercise.
 

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Not yet played the new update (actually haven't played since the revamp), have the next 3-4 days completely free & planning to go on a marathon run exploring all possibilities...Before I do, my two cents about Holly (based on what I've read on the thread)...

- Ian-Holly-Lena throuple will most likely occur & would be on the path where Ian-Lena are in love/relationship while also harboring feelings for Holly
- Holly & Mark scene on Ian-Holly love path is most likely a bug, as that would drastically contradict the character
- Mark as the option on holly corruption path seems an underwhelming choice, he's a minor character in ORS as well as GGGB, would have preferred a more fleshed out character like Dave or Jack or building on the interaction with Marcel (bouncer) would also have been interesting.
Is it possible that the whole Holly & Mark on Holly love path is deliberately made a bug by the author to mess and confuse players, which will be 'fixed' in the next update?
 

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Honestly, I hope that Gillian's paramour isn't Mike. It seems like a super obvious twist, since everyone is guessing at the possibility. Do the ORS cast live in a rural mountain town of 50 people where that sort of coincidence is plausible?
That's what it feels like. But then you have the implausible situation where 20-somethings running in the same circles for at least half their lives in a town of several hundred inhabitants haven't already met each other up till now.

I used to joke "oh, hey. Do you know Greg?" when meeting some random stranger from a state I used to live in. In Ian-ville though, it seems like a natural question. :unsure:
 
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Honestly, I hope that Gillian's paramour isn't Mike. It seems like a super obvious twist, since everyone is guessing at the possibility. Do the ORS cast live in a rural mountain town of 50 people where that sort of coincidence is plausible?
Agree, I'm hoping Gillian's boyfriend will be a new charismatic character. Perhaps even strongly appeal to Lena and create a challenge to the whole dynamic between Lena/Ian/Gillian.
 

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I've got it! Ian is all pumped up, ready to fight. That mixed martial arts training finally about to pay off! And then you hear a "vvvvrrrrrr" and Gillian's boyfriend rolls jaggedly around the corner in an electric wheelchair, speaking through a motorized straw set-up like Steven Hawking.... (Tho depending on your Ian, you can still kick his ass).

The real twist is he's got a dick bigger than Jeremy's (and it works).
 

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I've got it! Ian is all pumped up, ready to fight. That mixed martial arts training finally about to pay off! And then you hear a "vvvvrrrrrr" and Gillian's boyfriend rolls jaggedly around the corner in an electric wheelchair, speaking through a motorized straw set-up like Steven Hawking.... (Tho depending on your Ian, you can still kick his ass).

The real twist is he's got a dick bigger than Jeremy's (and it works).
How much blow did you take when constructing this theory?
 

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Honestly, I hope that Gillian's paramour isn't Mike. It seems like a super obvious twist, since everyone is guessing at the possibility. Do the ORS cast live in a rural mountain town of 50 people where that sort of coincidence is plausible?
Don't turn this into GOT S8 where it's all about "subverting expectations". Mike fits Gillian's boyfriend so well from all the details in the game. It also make sense from a narrative point of view and is more interesting this way given the possible decisions we can do in the game. Changing this because "audience already knows the twist" just screams that the author just wants to feel smart by proving people wrong and inadvertently ruining the established hints and narrative potential for a cheap "plot twist".
 

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i've been looking too and i can't find any AVN games that are one, as erotic as this, but two, also has many paths that makes it actually interesting to play
College Craze is a good option, similar to Our Red String in the tons of paths you can take, has pretty good writing, and multi-stat gamification like ORS. It's a fem protag game set in college.

Our Red String has cleaner art, is a little more straightforward in the paths you can follow, and has a more mature post-college age cohort that's still slice of life in its storyline, so it's pretty unique. It's also hard to find any games (or stories in general) with dual protagonists like ORS, for better or worse.
 

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Don't turn this into GOT S8 where it's all about "subverting expectations". Mike fits Gillian's boyfriend so well from all the details in the game. It also make sense from a narrative point of view and is more interesting this way given the possible decisions we can do in the game. Changing this because "audience already knows the twist" just screams that the author just wants to feel smart by proving people wrong and inadvertently ruining the established hints and narrative potential for a cheap "plot twist".
Yeah. But that's like Eva's been making us all a shit sandwich all this time. We see her getting a few loaves together. Downing some Exlax. Cutting the bread subway style. Pulling her pants down. Then in the last second ruffling through her pockets for her cell-phone and ordering us up a fillet mignon via door dash. You can stay in line for the shit sandwich. I'll take the steak. :D

(Basically, Mike/Gillian was a bad set-up to begin with).

Also, off topic, but Game of Thrones ending wasn't bad BECAUSE of the twist in Season 8. It was bad because it didn't earn it. GRR meant for that ending to happen. The show-runners had just been screwing the pooch since veering off the books in Seasons 5-6 and didn't set it up properly. Quality drop and crowd-pleasing bullshit starting in Season 5, with occassional moments of good until the downhill tumble of Season 7.
 
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Yeah. But that's like Eva's been making us all a shit sandwich all this time. We see her getting a few loaves together. Downing some Exlax. Cutting the bread subway style. Pulling her pants down. Then in the last second ruffling through her pockets for her cell-phone and ordering us up a fillet mignon via door dash. You can stay in line for the shit sandwich. I'll take the steak. :D

(Basically, Mike/Gillian was a bad set-up to begin with).

Also, off topic, but Game of Thrones ending wasn't bad BECAUSE of the twist in Season 8. It was bad because it didn't earn it. GRR meant for that ending to happen. The show-runners had just been screwing the pooch since veering off the books in Seasons 5-6 and didn't set it up properly. Quality drop and crowd-pleasing bullshit starting in Season 5, with occassional moments of good until the downhill tumble of Season 7.
GRRM never said he planned for Arya to kill the Night King. It was done by D&D to "subvert expectations" when people were expecting it to either be Dany or Jon in one way or another. When asked if the ending of ASOIAF would be the same, GRRM responded with 'yes and no and yes and no' and fans have speculated that Bran becoming king would still be an ending. Still, the whole "subverting expectations" that D&D pulled is still nonsense because of the story THEY made, not GRRM. People expected Dany or Jon to be king, based on the story that the showrunners created but instead, Bran was made king to "subvert expectations" even when it made no sense to the story.

Not sure what you're trying to say with your 'analogy' but Mike being Gillian's boyfriend is not a "shit sandwich". As I said before, it makes a lot sense both from a logical point of view based on the information in the game and the narrative point of view where his being the boyfriend adds more to the drama and the intricacies of the relationship that Ian, Lena, Mike, Gillian, and even Jeremy will have to weave through in future updates. If you consider what the author is doing is shit then I'd be curious why you're still sticking here, enjoying their story and game. I'm also not sure what your "FILET mignon" could be for Gillian's boyfriend. All other options would just suck and odd or out of place from the story so far. Billy? Spike? Are those supposed to be the steak?
 
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GRRM never said he planned for Arya to kill the Night King. It was done by D&D to "subvert expectations" when people were expecting it to either be Dany or Jon in one way or another. When asked if the ending of ASOIAF would be the same, GRRM responded with 'yes and no and yes and no' and fans have speculated that Bran becoming king would still be an ending. Still, the whole "subverting expectations" that D&D pulled is still nonsense because of the story THEY made, not GRRM. People expected Dany or Jon to be king, based on the story that the showrunners created but instead, Bran was made king to "subvert expectations" even when it made no sense to the story.
The Arya part was pure shit, yeah. Crowd-pleasing yass-queen nonsense that pleased no-one at all and made little sense. Painfully contrived crap. You hadn't stated that specifically so I thought you meant the Dany flip-out at the end with the burning and the killing and the rest.

On the other point: You're putting words in my mouth. "If you consider what the author is doing is shit." Nope. Just certain far-too-coincidental-to-be-plausible plot-turns like this one, which I and others have already stated in previous posts. Judging on the basis of porn-game writers, Eva's actually one of the best. I keep playing/following because the game is still good and she's a good dev.

The "Steak" would be to avoid yet another implausibly coincidental connection of a character we already know and just have a well-crafted new character applied in an interesting way. Spike would be more eye-rolling than Mike. Billy nearly as much.
 
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Wish there was more games like this. Although I don't care much for the multiple protagonists, I'd much rather play one character with more content driven towards that one, rather than swapping between the two. Still very good game and I hope we see more games from Eva Kiss. Been fun playing them and making my own choices, I like to play as the pure innocent type, but most games don't know how to flavor that up a bit. A lot of games are corrupt person, then have gangbangs lol. Like a bit extreme for a saint to go from angel to little devil in a week or two. Be cool if Eva could make more of an open world with dialogue choices based on discovery of the options and also a plot, for our inevitable climax.
 

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The Arya part was pure shit, yeah. Crowd-pleasing yass-queen nonsense that pleased no-one at all and made little sense. Painfully contrived crap. You hadn't stated that specifically so I thought you meant the Dany flip-out at the end with the burning and the killing and the rest.

On the other point: You're putting words in my mouth. "If you consider what the author is doing is shit." Nope. Just certain far-too-coincidental-to-be-plausible plot-turns like this one, which I and others have already stated in previous posts. Judging on the basis of porn-game writers, Eva's actually one of the best. I keep playing/following because the game is still good and she's a good dev.

The "Steak" would be to avoid the implausibly coincidental turn of yet another character we already know of to begin with and just have a well-crafted new character applied in an interesting way. Billy or Spike would be as eye-rolling as Mike.
I don't think having Mike as the boyfriend is that implausible. It was stated early on in the game that he's recent to the city and Lena meeting Mike isn't far fetched either. His work as a DJ is pretty "public" where he can meet and be acquainted with a lot of people so meeting Lena is a possibility especially if you consider that Ivy also works there. There are a lot more bizzare events that happened to real people in their everyday lives. This also ties to the title and theme of the game where it talks about the red threads of fate where these 'coincidences' may not be so, especially if you consider the Seymour-Lena theory. I'm also playing and reading a story crafted by an author, and if I just want a mundane and not out-of-the-ordinary story then I'd just live my life. If Mike isn't going to be the boyfriend, then the author would miss out on a lot of good drama and more gripping story. It would be a shame if the "hints" are all just a red herring and they amount to nothing in the end.
 
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