i just played it and he just meet the girl in the store and go home what you people is talking about ?
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if in the previous update you had 11 charisma, you could have used "secret whisper' on her
My meager two cents on animations is that I actually have never seen yet the kind of cool animation I would like to see more often. For example, some animations that are sex scenes are great, and they can make a game better sometimes, but I think it's kind of rare. It's just really hard to do well.
But the type of animation I don't think I have seen once in a game on this site is a very impactful story moment that you can't forget after playing it. As a random example, in Pretend Story A there is some kind of special scene where Guy A is in the rain, and Girl A has tears in her eyes mixing with the rain and it's a powerful emotional scene. The animation has them slowly hug each other, look into each others' eyes, kiss deeply, lightning flashes around them as they kiss, and the music in the background is playing, etc. I might be in the minority here, but I'd love to see animations for powerful narrative key moments in a story if it can be done well.
But the type of animation I don't think I have seen once in a game on this site is a very impactful story moment that you can't forget after playing it. As a random example, in Pretend Story A there is some kind of special scene where Guy A is in the rain, and Girl A has tears in her eyes mixing with the rain and it's a powerful emotional scene. The animation has them slowly hug each other, look into each others' eyes, kiss deeply, lightning flashes around them as they kiss, and the music in the background is playing, etc. I might be in the minority here, but I'd love to see animations for powerful narrative key moments in a story if it can be done well.
i try to start over since i have 5 carisma but the game just load from another save
hehehehe theres no way to play episode 1 again there is ? someone can upload a save ?
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Yeah, I don't quite get the fixation on animations so many people seem to have.
Like you wrote, the animations in many games are bad, short, clunky loops and even if they are better, for me they are hardly worth the effort most of the time.
I'd rather have a sex scene with many pictures and good writing then one with three short loops of different positions with each one being accompanied by one line of text.
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I wish MC would give Laurie some fucking love. It's so agravating at times
Since its obvious she was into him and not just some magic shit the blood just make she show how she felt
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Gotta agree. I used whispers on her, but seeing how freaked out and shocked she was afterwards, I reloaded an earlier save game and decided not to do it.
I'd have preferred an option to actually seduce her, since she did seem interested, at least I didn't want to feel as if the MC raped her.
Of course it depends on the kind of MC you play as, but I try to be as human as possible in this one.
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that's what hopefully will happen in the next update...after almost losing her, MC will realize how much he cares about Laurie.
Ayhsel correct me if I am wrong... but drinking from a human and then giving her your blood... isn't that how the Embrace works? sure... Laurie wasn't fully drained but sill...
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All this I agree 30000000000000000000% ... and even if as as vampirc morality goes the "whisper" was acceptable, the way MC handled it afterwards was as shitty as the deed. How am I supposed to convince Carmen that I'm not a monster when I act like one? I reloaded as soon as I've seen the scene. In my main playthrough MC has yet to have sex, and it will stay that way till a better opportunity. Unless those 2 charisma points will be the difference between loosing or saving Laurie.
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100% this. This guy is really shitty towards her for whatever reason. She's always stuck by his side from what we've seen, so I'm confused at what his deal is.
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MC is going through a simp phase...and believes what his Queen told him about thralls being after the blood
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I actually believe that. Sharon is my favorite girl, but damn even I'm not that captivated by her. MC isn't street smart at all, everyone knows to always go for your day 1's.
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I have to admit it is a bit grating.
She's in that shitty situation because he fucked up majorly and he's still a dick to her.
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Well, that felt shorter than usual, also the sex scene with Miri is a mistake imo.
We have Laurie, Carmen and Sharon they are well established characters and better options than Miri, an uninteresting newcomer.
If the scene purpose was to add the soul stain variable there were better options for that.
Sharon is the obvious good path.
Laurie can go both ways, good if you don't feed her or bad if you go full enthralled sex slave on her.
Carmen was the best option for the scene, taking advantage of the mind power to break her ass.
> Forced to turn her into a Thrall
> Now your bff is your personal blood junkie
I treat her well anyway.
We have Laurie, Carmen and Sharon they are well established characters and better options than Miri, an uninteresting newcomer.
If the scene purpose was to add the soul stain variable there were better options for that.
Sharon is the obvious good path.
Laurie can go both ways, good if you don't feed her or bad if you go full enthralled sex slave on her.
Carmen was the best option for the scene, taking advantage of the mind power to break her ass.
> She spilled the beans with Astrid
> Forced to turn her into a Thrall
> Now your bff is your personal blood junkie
I treat her well anyway.
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First, cause sometimes it is good in this thread: I always took the discussion in a friendly way. When I want to be unfriendly I am anything but subtle.
I did understand your point. What I answered back was essentially a thought exercise, tied to my original comments that for transitions to be well executed you need as a necessary condition a lot of renders, but it is not even sufficient conditions as they need to be good renders.
In the end, it always boils down to a economic problem: I have x amount of money and y time to allocate to the game. If x and y are infinite, you can do whatever you want. But most of the time, most are finite and quite binding. So the rest of my argument, which was actually not an argument but a communication of my taste, was essentially the following thought comparison.
If you have the ability to render the rest of the game exactly, but you could chose either to animate a sex scene or a dance. At the end of the day, sex is executed is series of repetitive movements which are known to pretty much anyone, even virgins, provided you have access to internet. Yes, you can claim that there are some extremely exoteric positions, but it is not what usually happens that boils down to the most common: blowjob, cunninlingus, misionary, cowgirl, doggy, sixtynice, handjob. There are only so many variations you can have on each of those. Does it really matter if dicks goes a cm deeper or a second faster from the point of view of the animation?
The dance, on the other hand is different.
-First, it can but it need not be a sequence of repetitive movements.
-Second, they are extremely unique and speed is important: it is not the same to animate a ballerina dancing with a sequence of super fast movement as to do it with well executed movement that follow music.
-Third, variation is actually quite large, as different music makes for different dancing and animations: not the same thing to have said ballerina dancing to ballet than to make her rap while wearing a tutu.
-Fourth, most people are not as acquainted with ballet or different types of dancing that they are with sex. Obviously, if the reader is a ballerina just describing the scene with a few renders can be enough for her to use her imagination and understand what is going on in terms of movement: just mention her that they are doing an Arabesque with two renders, one in the beginning one at the end and you are done. But this is not the same for most readers that are not into the subject. Sex, on the contrary, if you say doggy style, just a render of the position and a render of the guy cumming inside the girl is enough for pretty much everybody to understand: dick goes in, dick goes out.
There are obvious other reasons, but I think that is enough to boils down my idea. No only it is better for me to use those extra renders for the rest of the game but even if the rest of the game could not be further improved by improving or augmenting renders, I would not focus on sex scenes but rather more unique scenes to animate.