VN Ren'Py Repurpose [v1.017 Part1] [Eros]

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SuperJChaos

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Tried playing for a bit, didn't get very far. The voice acting is a nice touch but I had to turn it off due to cringe.

It's really just "representation the game" characters wear their identities and ideologies on their sleeves, as soon as you meet them you basically know everything about them. This isn't a bad thing, and we need more games with decent representation... I was just bored very quickly and apparently there is no sexual content, which again is fine but like... just kinda felt like I was wasting my time with it.

Pros:
1. Nice art
2. Voice acting
3. Representation

Cons:
1. no sexual content
2. Voice acting
3. Characters are very transparent and don't appear to have complexity, just identity

I'm not gonna say there is nothing here, and I didn't get THAT far, but if you want something to fap to just avoid
 
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OmniCatastrophe said:
I was curious until I saw the whole, "The cast of REP are all in some capacity queer from their sexuality and/or gender!"

Is it just me or are games that use, "all the characters are queer", as a main selling point, generally of lower quality? Compare that to stuff like Corruption of Champions, Trials in Tainted Space, it doesn't feel forced at all to me and the games are just better for it. Like I'm a bisexual guy who enjoys his dicks, boobs, and butts, but it's hard for me to keep any interest in games/stories that go the, "oops, all queers, look at me" route.

Maybe it has to do with my suspension of disbelief? It also feels bandwagon-y to some extent I suppose.

Anyways, I guess I may as well check it out, but it's like I walked into a sign that says "Warning, probably bad."
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That's kind of an unfair standard. You can't take games that are the kingpins of the genre (and making over 40K a month on patreon EACH) and then insult other games for being worse than it.

Games that make a big deal about identities aren't for everyone. That's fine. It's a specific writing choice that a smaller market really enjoys, and you cannot just say "It's worse than TiTS" and act like that's valid criticism.
 
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Mistress Elizabeth

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I'm queer myself and I'm all for queer-positive stories, I just hope their whole personality and background are not just... being queer, that would be so lame, lol. I guess I'll try it and see. The art is nice.

A good example of a good story with good queer characters would be She-Ra, because those characters are far more than that.
 
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OmniCatastrophe

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I feel like you didn't actually read what I said in comparing CoC and TiTs to this, spam. As other people pointed out, when you make that the focal point of the game, it is expected for your characters and story quality to just plummet. Stories shouldn't exist just to appease people's need for representation. I'm not going around complaining that there aren't enough stories about bisexual people, or about all of the stories where bisexuals are just hypersexual, non-committal stereotypes.

Does it bother me that so much media treats bisexuals like they don't exist? Does it bother me how I've had to explain in person to people that just because I'm bi, doesn't mean I'm not going to be happy if I'm only with you, or that I don't want to fuck 150% of the time? Of course it does.

With pretty much all of the stories that I've read that use inclusivity as their focus, they tend to fall victim to relying too hard on stereotypes, and not contributing anything meaningful to the conversation. I'm not asking for more games to be as good as CoC/TiTs, just that they focus on their characters and writing first and foremost, instead of what they identify as or who they want to fuck. When I first got into CoC way back in the day, all that was there was a basic, you're a random person in some new world, create your character, you can be whatever you want and fuck whoever you want, have fun. Skipping through scenes you accidentally stumble into that you didn't want to partake in could also be done easily.

Do I really need to bring up something like Velma? A very recent example of what I'm talking about?

Personally I like a little realism in that, I accept that the actual queer to straight person ratio is heavily skewed towards male+female interaction. When games/stories try to push 100% queer, it's hard for me to immerse myself in said stories, unless it's strictly a smaller scale romance focused on two, maybe three characters. I'll admit it is a personal preference.
 
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danielwain

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OmniCatastrophe said:
I was curious until I saw the whole, "The cast of REP are all in some capacity queer from their sexuality and/or gender!"

Is it just me or are games that use, "all the characters are queer", as a main selling point, generally of lower quality? Compare that to stuff like Corruption of Champions, Trials in Tainted Space, it doesn't feel forced at all to me and the games are just better for it. Like I'm a bisexual guy who enjoys his dicks, boobs, and butts, but it's hard for me to keep any interest in games/stories that go the, "oops, all queers, look at me" route.

Maybe it has to do with my suspension of disbelief? It also feels bandwagon-y to some extent I suppose.

Anyways, I guess I may as well check it out, but it's like I walked into a sign that says "Warning, probably bad."
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CoC and TiTS are also in the same vein, just more focused on the sex stuff than the gender inclusivity nonsense. There are very few purely straight/gay/lesbian characters, only scene variation depending on the MC. It's just that those games aren't really focused on the queerness, they're focused on porn and do it well enough to appeal to certain fetish-oriented audiences. If you're not into the whole queer gender identity stuff to begin with, games advertising for it won't be your cup of tea. Outside of that, they're usually also of lower quality because the author often just wants to sell their opinion, but knows on some level that next to no one really cares that much about their opinion, so they slap on a game with some ideally mediocre art they managed to draw (or got some friend to draw for them) in the hopes of getting the desperately horny to buy it without checking.

Suspension of disbelief also plays a role, but most games that only focus on one thing in the story fall flat, with porn games being a bit of an exception due to not really being about the story, most of the time. I'd compare it to seasoning, eating pure salt, pepper etc. would be pretty disgusting to most people. You only get something tasty when you combine a bunch of different spices and ingredients into a meal. Games like this usually can't have a lot of conflict either, they focus on "the evil oppressive outside world/past!" for any sort of conflict instead of having actual conflict between characters because queer people with actual individuality and problems with each other would be offensive, so the resolution of the conflict is all too often "You were fine as you were all along, it's always everyone but you that's the problem!", so you get something even worse than too spicy, you get something bland and forgettable.
 
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felixhunt

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OmniCatastrophe said:
I was curious until I saw the whole, "The cast of REP are all in some capacity queer from their sexuality and/or gender!"

Is it just me or are games that use, "all the characters are queer", as a main selling point, generally of lower quality? Compare that to stuff like Corruption of Champions, Trials in Tainted Space, it doesn't feel forced at all to me and the games are just better for it. Like I'm a bisexual guy who enjoys his dicks, boobs, and butts, but it's hard for me to keep any interest in games/stories that go the, "oops, all queers, look at me" route.

Maybe it has to do with my suspension of disbelief? It also feels bandwagon-y to some extent I suppose.

Anyways, I guess I may as well check it out, but it's like I walked into a sign that says "Warning, probably bad."
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Yeah As a bisexual guy whenever I pick up on genuine pride about any sexuality in a product (straight/bi/gay) I just turn off. I feel like it's used as a crutch so the creator gets funded by ideologue brainlets and that the whole practice drives rifts between people of every single orientation, even if they're the same one.

It's like I get it Gays & Bisexuals had it pretty rough at times in history especially if they weren't smart enough to camouflage, but people forget that PRIDE was seen as a great sin also. The Narcissism the small and extremely vocal LGBT activists exhibit is foul and disgusting and the guys I've been with thought the same as it just alienates us from society in order to create genuine hemophobia so that LGBT can scream injustice and get attention.

Anyway off I fuck, enjoy being of the same superior sexuality MUAHAHAH
 
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PrayingManta

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Taste in media is pretty subjective so this isn't me saying you're wrong, but at least for me i think the vast majority of adult games fail to thread the needle of interesting characters, plot development and romantic/erotic experiences, regardless of how they advertise themselves.

Most are so sex focused that they might as well be a CG gallery, the amount of games i've played that succeed on all fronts i can count with one hand.

I played the demo a while back and really liked how this game has an actual mystery hanging over it and i think it sets the characters up a lot better than a, "I'm a freshman in college, i wonder what will happen next ;);););)" type plot. Looking forward to playing more.
 
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