How the hell did game with such mediocre sex scenes, shitty romance and decent at most combat get such a high rating? Don't get me wrong, music is decent, I guess, and they do try to fill the lore with comedy, but it just won't cut it.
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You do realize this game was made by one guy with no budget like a decade ago, right?
VAs and Animations alone are expensive, and even if they had the money, there were very few (if any) options for animators and VA work. Even the artwork had to be sourced to multiple people bc it was so stop-and-go. Context is fucking important my guy.
How far along did you even play, out of curiosity? Your review only mentioned sparing the villagers which is like 5 minutes in. I thought there was good variation between the heroines and their conversions.
Funnily enough, the one thing I thought was meh was the music, it's just generic cookie cutter royalty free music you hear everywhere when options definitely existed.
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Btw if anyone missed the livestreams with CZ on the Outbreak Discord where he did a full Overwhored playthrough, a few things worth noting.
-Overwhored is getting remade with new artists after the Snow Daze remake
-Remake will feature voice acting, now that he has the budget and connections to talent to do so
-He really wants to do it (or a sequel) in 3D. The models for the heroines already exist from several years ago.
-Several bits of the story will be redone because he was unhappy with them, for example Audr.
-He wants the final product to be the full story of Overwhored 1 + Overwhored 2 whose story was set up at the end of Overwhored 1, because it was always meant to be one grand overarching story.
-Overwhored is getting remade with new artists after the Snow Daze remake
-Remake will feature voice acting, now that he has the budget and connections to talent to do so
-He really wants to do it (or a sequel) in 3D. The models for the heroines already exist from several years ago.
-Several bits of the story will be redone because he was unhappy with them, for example Audr.
-He wants the final product to be the full story of Overwhored 1 + Overwhored 2 whose story was set up at the end of Overwhored 1, because it was always meant to be one grand overarching story.
I'm all for it so long as the game improves hahaha. As for the excuse of being made by only one guy, sure, it's tough as fuck, but at least Black Souls was also made by one guy and holy hell did I goon over 20 times to it. No comparison. Overwhored is just mid at best, at least based on the early showings and sex scenes.
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Uh huh. You're into what you're into I guess. Everyone has different tastes, I guess that'll answer your question as to why other people seem to think this game is higher rated than you perceive.
For what it's worth if you're asking in genuine good faith why others rate this game so highly, I do genuinely like the character building and lore of Overwhored. I like high fantasy mind controlled harems, and I think the writing is good and funny. I don't place as much emphasis on sex scene quality as you do, and I think they're fine for the most part. As I've said, I genuinely like the variance between the heroines and the forms of mind control they go under. If we're equating quality to goon count I'd say yeah *for me* Overwhored is better than Black Souls, especially when taking art into account.
Also fwiw, on the topic of personal tastes, the only other big high fantasy harem builder I'm super into is Tyrant Quest, which basically distills Overwhored's story formula into a visual novel format. And I like it enough to signature it on here. So yeah, Overwhored has a lot of stuff in it I like. Maybe if other people don't like it then I can see why they would perceive it as mid. I hope you can see why I perceive it differently from you though.
Anyway I have to ask again with the phrase "early showings" how far you got. Among the people I've spoken to, the most popular characters in the game are Nanshe and Branda, which are the first two of the seven heroines you encounter. If you find those "mid" then there's really nothing I can say to change your mind at this point. Enjoy gooning I guess.
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Oh uh also from a more personal point of view, this was the first game to properly get me into NSFW games, the Western indie 'eroge' market was virtually non-existent back in 2012. In the streams, CZ talked about how the only thing that was around at the time (from a Western point of view) was janky Newgrounds content. And yeah, compared to now those were very dark days.
So compared to those old Meet'N'Fuck games at the time, an RPG where you fight and enslave representations of the seven virtues was a massive step up in terms of presentation and storytelling. Plus as I've said I like mind control so wins all around.
I suppose to torture the analogy, this'd be like my personal equivalent to the gen 1 Pokemon games. Won't hold a candle to modern sensibilities gameplay wise but damn does it hold a place in my heart.
So compared to those old Meet'N'Fuck games at the time, an RPG where you fight and enslave representations of the seven virtues was a massive step up in terms of presentation and storytelling. Plus as I've said I like mind control so wins all around.
I suppose to torture the analogy, this'd be like my personal equivalent to the gen 1 Pokemon games. Won't hold a candle to modern sensibilities gameplay wise but damn does it hold a place in my heart.
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well i have no problems with the game it has every thing a game need's good story funny banter and i row up on graphics that are less to peoples likeings now day but bin old school is still fun even toplay old game to me. the question i would like to know is with out a good story to back stuff up grapnic's don't mean crap.
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tbh with you mordern game starting to piss me off AA triple A they all if not most focused on Game Grahpic but game has many bug some are worse (this apllied to all type of game) makes me like retro game more and more with those goofy ahh PS 1 graphic
As for porn game the thing I disliked bout some is not the art believe it or not is some of em make quick cash grab i.e : scummy way of saying oh look my game version is 1.0 with 10 min of game content some worse less than 5 min I can't list em but you can look at it yourself there's some on this site as well which is a red flag I pity those who paid money for them and thanks to them for sharing the game and thx to this F95 site appricate yall all before I actually support these "1.0" games!
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That's fine, but eh, it's an ero game with mediocre sex scenes, so it's kind of a bummer. The issue isn't the graphics either. I have gooned to many RPGmaker games hahaha.
That's fine, I can understand the nostalgia. Tbh, mind control is indeed not my favorite genre. I much prefer either vanilla romance or blackmail/rapeish sex that leads to romance. If it's proper slavery, though, then just normal sex slaves such as those from Black Souls suffice to me.
And no, I didn't get to these other girls. After finding the sex scene with the first village knight girl to be painfully mediocre, I just decided to quit.
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My guy's really out here complaining about mediocre sex scenes and quit at literally THE FIRST ONE (discounting the starters.) Nanshe, the first heroine, isn't even a full half-hour into the game, though the graveyard where she's barricaded in is the first big difficulty spike in the game.
The village girl you're speaking of, Crystin, is just a tutorial of sorts. She isn't even a full heroine boss. Her whole thing is not being strong enough to face up against the Overmind.
To bring back the Pokemon analogy, you didn't even make it to Brock before finding it boring. There's like 6 or 7 chapters, like 4 or 5 hours of game left. I'm sorry if I'm being heavy handed here, but I'm trying to get across how little of the game you gave a chance before calling quits then having the chutzpah to question why everyone else here likes it more than you did.
does anyone know if there is a site like porn game hub or like it where you can play for free and look at my other comments first before saying download it?
Eh, Pokémon doesn't start to get fun after Brock. It begins being already fun hahaha. Finally, the initial sex scenes made me deduce how the future ones would look. No reason to assume they'd be better. That's just natural. Same with an anime with a terrible first episode, or terrible first two episodes. "But it gets better on episode 4" Meh. I guess? No way I could have known lmao.
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Sure, that's fine, but if you're tapping out less than 10% of the game, I really *really* need you to understand that this...
...is a question that makes me very upset in hindsight. If you had a bad first impression, sure you're entitled to that, but then trashing everyone else who liked it who played the other 90% of the game, as if we were the less knowledgeable ones, is just not a good look.
Further to the point, rather than ask that question, would it have really bothered you all that much to assume maybe it's your deductions and inferences about how the rest of the game *might* have been wrong instead of shooting the shot at everyone else who rated it highly?
After the Snow Daze remake, which is currently being worked on. Honestly we're probably still a couple of years away at this point.
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I'm actually so upset I ended up replaying the game because maybe, just maybe, I'm in the wrong.
So I thought the village where you can spare the children was right at the very very beginning of the game. My mistake, I forgot there's also the Skree dungeon that came before that. (Honestly I'm less generous on Skree as a character than most of the people I've met who like Overwhored.)
Anyway I got lost in the dungeon so this isn't a speedrun by any means, but I got to the point where my guy threw in the towel for "mediocre sex scenes" and "shitty romance" and there's been a grand total of 1 (ONE) scene if you're being generous. Not even properly introduced to Skree yet, you just have 1 battle with her, then boom village time. Getting to that point btw despite not being a speedrun took me 10 minutes at most. If this is what counts as "episode 1" then my fucking god.
Dental Planger. My guy. I assure you it *does* get better than this. Like, I get not liking that the pushovers you have to start with don't pack much of a punch in terms of steaminess, but the point was to depict the Overmind at his absolute rock bottom, fending on scraps before he can start taking revenge at the heroines who brought him to this point. I can't even call this mediocre for what it sets out to do.
So-- the good news for you, as I said, is that it does get better. I don't know if you've fully finished the Skree encounter but immediately after that is Nanshe's graveyard, and thus the actual capturing of the heroines begins. Don't get me wrong, the dialogue never really lets off on the jokey humorous side but I can 100% guarantee you both the character interactions with women AND the variety in sex scenes get better.
So I thought the village where you can spare the children was right at the very very beginning of the game. My mistake, I forgot there's also the Skree dungeon that came before that. (Honestly I'm less generous on Skree as a character than most of the people I've met who like Overwhored.)
Anyway I got lost in the dungeon so this isn't a speedrun by any means, but I got to the point where my guy threw in the towel for "mediocre sex scenes" and "shitty romance" and there's been a grand total of 1 (ONE) scene if you're being generous. Not even properly introduced to Skree yet, you just have 1 battle with her, then boom village time. Getting to that point btw despite not being a speedrun took me 10 minutes at most. If this is what counts as "episode 1" then my fucking god.
Dental Planger. My guy. I assure you it *does* get better than this. Like, I get not liking that the pushovers you have to start with don't pack much of a punch in terms of steaminess, but the point was to depict the Overmind at his absolute rock bottom, fending on scraps before he can start taking revenge at the heroines who brought him to this point. I can't even call this mediocre for what it sets out to do.
So-- the good news for you, as I said, is that it does get better. I don't know if you've fully finished the Skree encounter but immediately after that is Nanshe's graveyard, and thus the actual capturing of the heroines begins. Don't get me wrong, the dialogue never really lets off on the jokey humorous side but I can 100% guarantee you both the character interactions with women AND the variety in sex scenes get better.
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Huh. I came here for nostalgia and got good news in the form of CZ still planning on that sequel. Good stuff. Thanks for the update HiHoWolvo, you made my day.