Recommending Story-first games

[Hildegardt]

What I mean is, I did play Defending Lydia Collier and honestly I absolutely hated it.. It was kinda like one of the worst games i've played on this side. In that game I took the sexy secretary route where you end up at her place later in the game and you can potentially bang her whole family. It was just so incredibly bad. I can't even put it in words... It just blew my mind... You also play like a pathetic, premature ejaculator in this game which I thought was hilarious . But that's beside the point. My point is that this game is on that list here. So the question is why?. Well, the answer should be pretty obvious. I highly doubt jufot played the route I did. So there have to be other routes in there who have like a completely different tone to it...

That game has a very overwhelming main fetish that's not quite bdsm and domming, but actual abuse, rapey vibes and general trashiness. I think the dev even openly admitted to only including vanilla paths for the potential of a wider audience and it shows imo. If you don't want to cheat, groom or abuse, you cut out most of the content and the romances are pretty bland and lack progression.
But I can see how an earlier version of the game would have left a different impression. Because it has an actual story and the romances seemed genuine in the beginning (the secretary path was honestly always creepy, though ). It just turned out that this was a weird porny progression system, where you have to buy your LI dinner first, before you can beat up the MIL and rape her in the mouth.

You mentioned a fake genuine MC earlier in your post and Lydia Collier suffers from something like this, too. It's obvious what the PC is actually capable of, because the game only offers a binary choice between being a normal human being and a psychopath, so even on the non-rapey romance paths you have to pretend to only ruin your chosen LI's life, because she's supposedly into it.

 

[boobsrcool]

But I can see how an earlier version of the game would have left a different impression. Because it has an actual story and the romances seemed genuine in the beginning (the secretary path was honestly always creepy, though ). It just turned out that this was a weird porny progression system, where you have to buy your LI dinner first, before you can beat up the MIL and rape her in the mouth.

I must've gotten the vanilla path never saw anything close to that in my playthrough

Like DLC just have a hard time getting back into it for updates due to the story being all over the place

 

[Vasin]

Steph's normal path is probably the lest offensive story-wise, and you can't do shit like trouple with Lydia, but it's also the path with the least content. And then you have bimbo surgery omegasub golddigger Steph that you can treat like dirt. Game tries to convince you that "she wants that lifestyle" and that path just by the virtue of existence makes the vanilla route a lesser one where you "deny" Steph her trophy wife potential.

Ironically it fits very well with the absolute cardboard of a protagonist the only draw of whom is his bank account. Forget about consistent characterization, you can confess your love to Vanessa and then bang her daughter not 5 minutes later with zero remorse, all I want is some kind of personality.

 

[jufot]

Alright, I caught up with Lydia Collier. While the story is still there, it seems character development has gone out the window and there is copious amounts of porn logic. Off the list it goes.

 

[boobsrcool]

Alright, I caught up with Lydia Collier. While the story is still there, it seems character development has gone out the window and there is copious amounts of porn logic. Off the list it goes.

Is there any way to easy create a list graveyard of sorts of games that got removed?

 

[jufot]

Is there any way to easy create a list graveyard of sorts of games that got removed?

I wouldn't want to add such a list to the OP, but from a quick search: Defending Lydia Collier, Leap of Faith, City of Broken Dreamers, The Seven Realms.

 

[realjitter]

I think we've all been there. You go outside just once and then....

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[jufot]

Price of Power's chapter 14 is out on

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I liked it! We learn a lot more about the history of... well, everything. The gang is given a massive reality check and their egos are kicked down a notch. It was long overdue and fun to read

 

[Raife]

Price of Power's chapter 14 is out on

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I liked it! We learn a lot more about the history of... well, everything. The gang is given a massive reality check and their egos are kicked down a notch. It was long overdue and fun to read

Yes, it was good. I'm still concerned about the harem-esque path we're on, but the story keeps taking interesting jags. It's always fun when the dev peels back layers of characters that we think we know, and we discover something new.

Speaking of layers, I'd like to see more layered MCs.

It would be nice to play a well-drawn antihero, for instance: I particularly enjoy 'bad' characters that have a strong impulse towards altruism, or occasional bright flash. The opposite side of the coin -- the deeply flawed hero -- is also fun. Conflicted MCs allow the player a feeling of choice even as we role-play a distinctive personality... we feel like we can nudge them in a meaningful way.

 

[bacienvu88]

I have been playing Pent Panda's games and I find them really funny and charming. I like all five of them, but I especially like Teen Alien in Your Closet because the girl there is just too adorable.

 

[boobsrcool]

Update for The Hellcat Lounge is live

 

[jufot]

I've caught up with City of Broken Dreamers and The Hellcat Lounge.

COBD continues its downward spiral at impressive speed and I can't look away. Each chapter is worse than the last. This latest one was pure porn, with no story development at all. I'm not sure the dev has any idea where he is going. The plot is littered with holes so big you could fit MC's entire harem through them. The gang have been getting ready to hit Baynard for several chapters now, but with every update the women keep finding even skimpier stripper outfits to try and MC's medical condition (he needs sex five times a day, otherwise his dick will fall off) takes a toll, making it very difficult to fight the baddies :/

Hellcat Lounge is doing better, but not by much. There are good bits, like George and Sandy's unexpectedly wholesome and endearing relationship, but the rest was excessively porny. A girl works in a library wearing a maid outfit that only partially covers her ass and two minutes after seeing MC she's asking him to fuck her ass in the special books room It's the most ridiculous sex scene yet, but the rest aren't much better in this chapter. Shame...

 

[bacienvu88]

I've caught up with City of Broken Dreamers and The Hellcat Lounge.

COBD continues its downward spiral at impressive speed and I can't look away. Each chapter is worse than the last. This latest one was pure porn, with no story development at all. I'm not sure the dev has any idea where he is going. The plot is littered with holes so big you could fit MC's entire harem through them. The gang have been getting ready to hit Baynard for several chapters now, but with every update the women keep finding even skimpier stripper outfits to try and MC's medical condition (he needs sex five times a day, otherwise his dick will fall off) takes a toll, making it very difficult to fight the baddies :/

Thanks for the heads up. I'll hold off on CoBD for a while longer then.

 

[realjitter]

COBD continues its downward spiral at impressive speed

(he needs sex five times a day, otherwise his dick will fall off)

Are you for real here?=) Last time i've played it was chapter 9 (Ellen solo route). The game was pretty damn awesome from what i remember. =(

 

[moskyx]

Are you for real here?=) Last time i've played it was chapter 9 (Ellen solo route). The game was pretty damn awesome from what i remember. =(

That's the thing. Back in chapter 9, and on a single-LI run, it still held its own as a story-based game. But it was also showing some bad symptoms already that just got worse in the following installments.

 

[jufot]

Are you for real here?=)

He's not officially diagnosed, no. Katie is the only doctor he knows, but he can't get an appointment nowadays because she's been skipping work and is busy

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[realjitter]

The doctor knows best!

 

[Hildegardt]

Hellcat Lounge is doing better, but not by much. There are good bits, like George and Sandy's unexpectedly wholesome and endearing relationship, but the rest was excessively porny. A girl works in a library wearing a maid outfit that only partially covers her ass and two minutes after seeing MC she's asking him to fuck her ass in the special books room It's the most ridiculous sex scene yet, but the rest aren't much better in this chapter. Shame...

The hamfisted child abuse story was the weirdest thing to me. I'm not sure something like that has a place in a game that's basically about "test driving" all the women. It's like the devs ran out of story after the first release and now they need a sob story to put the PC in a good light, because otherwise there's literally no reason for why every single woman he meets wants into his pants.
But that's only after it's already established that getting the girl is as easy as taking a walk to the library or simply working at your day job. In the end the PC's investigation solved itself, so it was nothing more than an excuse to meet up with different women. And it seems impossible to tell the difference between the MCs and side girls, because they all get treated the same anyway.

 

[Drankz]

Color of My Sound had a new update a few days ago and it's interesting, at least for now. A lot of things going on, you don't know about the girls' true motivations. I hope the developer already has the story ready and doesn't make it up during development.

 

[jufot]

A lot of things going on, you don't know about the girls' true motivations.

I don't think they have any interesting motivations because the dev said it's a classic anime harem. Since they are all LIs, they can't do anything underhanded or against MC's (read: the player's) wishes. It's yet another case where the mere presence of a harem undermines the whole premise.